March 3-5, 2005 -- Hyatt Regency -- Tampa, Florida Overview Keynote Sessions Concurrent Education Sessions Intensive Workshop Sessions Registration Sponsors & Participating Organizations Hotel & Travel About Tampa Intensive Workshop Sessions (Saturday, March 5, 11:45a - 2:30p) Take advantage of these optional, hands-on Intensive Workshop Sessions to acquire or sharpen skills you can take back home and use in your organization and your community. Each of these post-conference sessions will mix presentation with individual and group exercises, lots of discussion and - in some cases - even role playing. You must register in advance for these optional sessions. A separate $75 registration fee includes lunch and the two and one-half hour session. Improving Collaborative Leadership: Practical Tools from Turning Point Using the Collaborative Leadership Learning Modules as a guide, develop skills for building effective and successful coalitions-diverse partnerships for improving health, enhancing education, building healthy communities or advancing other organizational goals. Gain a foundation in collaborative leadership and practical ideas for improving your leadership abilities, through case studies, group discussion, self-assessment activities and games. (Sponsored by the Turning Point Leadership Development National Excellence Collaborative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.) Pacing Events: Mobilizing Effective Community Change Initiatives Pacing events are a powerful, high productivity tool for mobilizing large change initiatives involving many community stakeholders. They are useful for coalitions, collaboratives, campaigns and system transformations. Learn how to: a) be in conversations that generate commitments and action, b) have meetings that create energy and relationships, and c) design events that grow initiatives and accelerate progress. Practice designing and conducting pacing events focused on community health agendas. (Led by John Scanlon and Dennis Wagner.) The Power of Storytelling: Achieving Engagement in and Understanding of Your Community Health Programs Dr. Henry Russell of VHA Central Atlantic will lead an interactive workshop on storytelling as a leadership and management tool, to gain support for community health and community benefit programs. This workshop will provide an opportunity to learn the basics of effective storytelling, clarify your important goals and values, actually create the core of your influential story, and "road-test" some stories with your peers. (Sponsored by VHA and the Catholic Health Association of the U.S.) Return on Community Investment: Building Financially Sustainable Health Care Systems for the Uninsured and Underserved Achieving success at delivering "better health for more people at less cost" requires strategic management of a community health network with multiple levels of performance and many organizations and sectors. This new social entrepreneurship role calls for innovative delivery system design and organization, financial restructuring and negotiation, and coalition formation and facilitation. Participants will learn how Return on Community Investment tools help deliver a well-defined, risk adjusted value in exchange for the community's investment and help demonstrate this value to key stakeholders. (Led by Kristen West and sponsored by Communities Joined in Action.)