Summer is buzzing with activity here at Bogli Consulting headquarters!  Jess is facilitating all over (NYC, San Diego, and Boise have been highlights) and Maesie is developing an exciting new program with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.  Speaking of the Alliance, Maesie got to attend a day of their Youth Advisory Board empowerME4Life training, held here in Portland, OR.  Check it out:

Bogli Consulting Specialist Maesie Speer (far right) attended the Alliance's Youth Advisory Board training.

Below are some highlights of Jess’ upcoming facilitation work including Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American School Health Association conference.  Contact us if you are interested in bringing Bogli Consulting to your community

Idaho Coordinated School Health Institute | Boise, ID
We will be facilitating a two-day institute for the Idaho Coordinated School Health Program on August 2 and 3, 2010 that will including the Systems Thinking, Systems Changing simulation, school health advisory council training, using data to inform school health programs and policy work as a key infrastructure component to CSH.

Oregon Healthy Communities Institute | Bend, OR
We will be facilitating the Systems Thinking, Systems Changing simulation activity in Bend, Oregon on August 25 for the Oregon Department of Health’s Healthy Communities Institute.

CDC-DASH Professional Development Project | Washington, DC
Bogli Consulting, Inc and ETR Associates will be co-facilitating an event for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s NGO funded partners, called Moving Policy Forward: Beyond the Basics.  This training will prepare DASH-funded NGOs to build the capacity of education agencies to promote local policies that positively impact the health behaviors of youth.

American School Health Association Conference | Kansas City, MO
Jess Bogli will present the following sessions at the 84th annual ASHA Conference, October 13 – 16, 2010.

How to Take Districts and Schools Through a Mapping and Alignment Process Using the National Health Education Standards: Participants of this workshop will learn a process that will support the implementation of a well-developed K-12 health education scope and sequence process at their school, district and/or state level.

Working to Institutionalize Sex Education: A Framework for Advancement: An overview of the key components that are necessary to support and ultimately institutionalize sex education within public schools will be presented with some stories from the field.

Systems Thinking, Systems Changing: Implementing School Health Programs Effectively Within The System! (post-conference workshop): This interactive activity  is used by teams in workshop settings all over the country to experience what it takes to make effective systemic change in schools. It teaches educators, school boards and councils, leadership teams, school administrators, educational consultants and reformers about the structures and strategies that schools need to be continuously improving learning organizations that are the best they can be.

Bogli Consulting has facilitated this highly engaging activity to many organizations, partners of education and within schools, districts and state departments of education all over the country. We frame the activity by using school health examples and language.