[PNWHEALTH] Seeking Open Society Award Nominations

[Cezanne Garcia]

SOPHE OPEN SOCIETY AWARD
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Nomination Submissions Must Be Postmarked By:  Sunday, July 31, 2005
SOPHE will inaugurate the Open Society Award at SOPHE's 56th Annual
Meeting on
November 5th at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans, LA.

This new award seeks to recognize an individual or group who embodies and
promotes an Open Society, through research, practice, and/or teaching.
Award recipients will receive a $250 cash prize and one year SOPHE
membership (for non-member recipients).

	An open society is one where justice is the same for every man
[sic] (and woman); where dissent is taken seriously as an index of
something wrong or something needed; where diversity is respected; where
pressure groups cannot stifle and control the will of the majority or
castigate the individual; where education brings upward mobility to all;
where the best of health care is available to all; where poverty is a
community disgrace not an individual's weakness; where greed for
possessions and success is replaced by inner fires for excellence and
honor; where desires for power over men (and women) become satisfactions
with the use of power for men (and women).
 	~ Dorothy B. Nyswander, PhD
  							  	"Tenth
Dorothy B. Nyswander Lecture"
     								Berkeley,
California, 1966


Do you know someone that uses activism in institutionalizing an Open
Society by:

	Actively engaging in initiatives that promote equality and justice
for all, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation,
religion, or physical ability;
	Advocating for and initiating dialogue and action to address
health injustices affecting marginalized communities;
	Participating in activities that endorse education as a means of
individual and community advancement and growth and;
	Viewing poverty as a societal responsibility and from an
ecological perspective.

Then nominate them for the SOPHE Open Society Award !!

*This is one of several awards bestowed by SOPHE each year to recognize
outstanding professional contributions to health education and health
promotion.


Visit www.sophe.org/about/awards/awards.html for nomination instructions
and for information on other
Health Education and Health Promotion awards honoring colleagues,
programs, and chapters.


SOPHE Awards Committee Chair
National SOPHE Office Contact
Mary Cheryl B. Nacionales, MPH, CHES
Eleanor Dixon-Terry, MPH, CHES
maryhealthed at prodigy.net/(408)289-9260
edixon-terry at sophe.org /(202) 408-9804




"Change is inevitable, growth is optional."
__________________________________________________________________________
Cezanne Garcia, MPH, CHES
Associate Director, Patient and Family Centered Care and Education
Services
University of Washington Medical Center
1959 Pacific St. NE, Box 358126
Seattle Washington 98195
(206) 598-8424

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