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Schedule At-A-Glance 

Thursday, May 5, 2016 

9:00am—12:00pm 

New Health Manager Pre-Instute 

In this session parcipants will be introduced to health services management in Head Start. This session will provide

you with starng point tools, resources, and informaon to help you determine how to priorize your work and plan

for connued growth and learning. This training will be useful for health managers looking to learn specic strategiesand resources in their role as well as deepen the understanding of the various ways they can impact the health and

well being of children and families. Time will be provided for networking, and best pracce sharing.  No charge for pre-

instute if you are aending the Health Instute. $75.00 stand alone fee.  

1:00 —1:15pm / Welcome 

1:15—2:15 / Opening Keynote, Zoe Sameth “Mindfulness and Self -Care: Key Developmental Building Blocks

2:15—2:30pm—Aernoon Break

2:30—4:00pm—Workshops: Become Trauma-Informed Through Systems Change / Helping Classroom Pro-

mote Nutrion and Physical Acvity 

4:00 —5:00pm / Closing General Session by Zoe Sameth “"Have Fun while Forming Relaonships! Commu-

nicaon, Teambuilding and Centering Skills for Healthy Individuals and Healthy Programs"

Friday, May 6, 2016 

7:45—8:30 / Connental Breakfast 

8:30—10:00 / Workshops: Children Need a Sound Start, Illinois Early Hearing Detecon and Intervenon /

Taking Care of Ourselves: Stress Reducon Workshop 

10:15—11:45am / Workshops: How Can I Learn if I Can’t See? Prevent Blindness / Shriver Center's HelpHub:

Linking Professionals with Experts on Health Care and Public Benets

12:00—1:00pm / Lunch 

1:00—2:30pm / Closing Keynote, Colleen Kra, M.D. “Developmental Science and Building Health in Head

Start 

2:30—3:00 / Wrap Up and Closing Comments 

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Meet Our Keynote Speakers! Opening Keynote: Zoe

Sameth, Bilingual

Educator, Trainer and

Speaker

Thursday, May 5th 

Opening Keynote:

Colleen Kra, M.D.

Health Network by

Cincinna’sChildren

Friday, May 6th

Zoe Sameth is a bilingual (Spanish/English) educator,

trainer, speaker and consultant working with students of

all ages to raise well-being and culvate more awareness,

connecon, resilience and joy. Through these expanded

capacies, individuals and organizaons are able to navi-

gate challenges and achieve their desired results with

more ease and sasfacon. Zoe has a Master’s degree in

Experienal Educaon and over thirty years’ experience in

the eld. She has provided support to many Head Start

and Early Head Start programs naonally and throughout

California. Zoe came to her work in part through her expe-

riences living in Sri Lanka in 1983, where she was rst ex-

posed to mindfulness pracces, and where she was also

caught in the beginning of the Sri Lankan civil war. Her

experiences in Sri Lanka led Zoe to adapt and teach a di-

versity of powerful and easily accessible techniques and

strategies for managing trauma and stress. In addion to

her work locally and naonally, in 2011 Zoe returned to

Asia, where she taught these skills to sex-tracked wom-

en and their children, and to girls at risk in India and Ne-

pal. Zoe’s “Deep Relaxaon” and “Calm Your Mind, Li

Your Spirit” audio programs are available in English and

Spanish and are used by adults, youth and children

around the world. Visit www.zoesameth.com for addion-

al informaon. KEYNOTE TOPIC: Mindfulness and Self -

Care: Key developmental building blocks Mindfulness – a

special way of paying aenon – is being used with great

success in the elds of educaon and health. Mindful-

ness develops the capacity for self -regulaon, aenon

and awareness, which creates opmal condions for

teaching and learning. This presentaon also explores

how the way in which we take care of ourselves aects

not only our own wellbeing, but the well-being of those

around us including the children and families we serve.

Keynote aendees will learn, experience and reect on

mulple mindfulness and self -care pracces and ideas to

help adults and children develop greater focus, balance,

and well-being. They will leave with tools and techniques

that can be applied immediately!

Colleen A. Kra, MD, is a graduate of the rst Head Start

class in 1965. She went on to receive her undergraduate

degree at Virginia Tech and her M.D. from Virginia Com-

monwealth University. She completed her residency in

Pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Kra

is currently the medical director for Health Network byCincinna Children’s (HNCC). HNCC is a community-based

network of providers in and outside of the Cincinna Chil-

dren’s family whose mission is to improve the system of

healthcare for kids in the Cincinna community. Dr. Kra

is the co-author of the book Managing Chronic Health

Condions in Child Care and Schools. She has been ac-

vely involved in pediatric engagement in school and

child care for children with special health care needs. She

serves on the Naonal Medical Home Project Advisory

Commiee at the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is

a content expert for Text4Baby and chairs the Naonal

Health in Head Start Advisory Commiee. KEYNOTE TOP-

IC: Developmental Science and Building Health in Head

Start The science of early brain development oers

greater understanding into how poverty, food/housing

insecurity, and poor social-emoonal buering of adver-

sity aect the development of our children in Head

Start. This presentaon will discuss aspects of early

brain development, toxic stress, acvies to support the

developing brain, and the importance of parent/

caregiver support. Head Start is a strategy to improvehealth and brain development, and those aending the

session will understand how Head Start can help pre-

vent the intergeneraonal transfer of health disparies.

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