Podcast

How can we use health promotion to more effectively prepare for disasters and to respond when they occur? During this session, participants will examine ways to use health promotion to deal with disasters. How can we be better prepared for disasters, reducing the risks, and, after a disaster, move on from relief to recovery and rebuilding? How can the local community be involved?

Storying is a powerful way
to learn new ideas and pass them along to others. Stories impact lives and change behavior. Stories can be used for wholistic teaching, building physical and emotional health, and sharing biblical truths. Stories work effectively with people from all ages and all educational levels, and are a key strategy to work with oral learners. This session will illustrate the use of health stories and Bible storying, and will teach how to do storying. Participants will learn to ask thought-provoking questions that stimulate discussion. They will learn to use stories to multiply teaching to others. They will also learn where to find collections of stories that others have found effective.

The course will deal with poverty in the urban slum. Attention will be given
to a biblical framework
for development and a strategy for doing “Kingdom Development.” Illustrations will come from lessons being learned in Nairobi, Kenya; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and Bangkok, Thailand.

Tropical travel is frequently associated with concerns about being bitten or stung. Although most of these injuries are minor, some can be dangerous or even life threatening. The worst offenders are reviewed and practical strategies offered for bite/sting prevention and treatment.

This session provides an introduction to the topic of domestic minor sex trafficking by addressing the legal definition of domestic minor sex trafficking, prevalence, typical scenarios, recruiting techniques, and current methods to sell the girls online. The information will include recent numbers from the Department of Justice on prosecutions around the country. Finally, tips on identifying victims within the healthcare system will be discussed as well as definite steps to take in preparation of identifying victims of domestic minor sex trafficking.