Below is a select listing of upcoming conferences. For a complete listing, go to the NCHPAD calendar at http://www.ncpad.org/events/index.php.

USTA Body/Mind Conference in Daytona Beach, FL, July 10-23, 2006

The TRAGER Southeast Region will host the 7th Annual United States TRAGER Association's Mind/Body Conference in Daytona Beach on July 19-23, 2006, bringing the TRAGER Approach's peaceful touch and ease-of-movement to your area and neighboring communities.

To learn more about The TRAGER Approach or the 7th Annual United States TRAGER Association's Mind/Body Conference, visit the TSE regional website at www.tragersoutheast.org or the USTA national website at www.trager-us.org, or call Beth Michelson at 352-376-5908 or Elizabeth Rohack at 561-369-2519.

Annual Conference of the National Consortium for Physical Education and Recreation for Individuals with Disabilities (NCPERID), Reston, VA, July 9-11, 2006

The theme of this year's Annual Meeting is "Making an Impact on the Health and Wellness of Persons with Disabilities through Personnel Preparation, Research, and Advocacy."

Registration and other information about the conference can be found at www.uwlax.edu/sah.


The Interagency Subcommittee on Disability Statistics (ISDS) State of the Art Conference, Washington, D.C., July 12-13, 2006

The conference, entitled "Developing Disability Data," will explore characteristics of an ideal national disability data collection effort across agencies, and how such an effort might be implemented. In particular, it will help to: (1) identify gaps in the availability and collection of disability data, particularly across agencies and as used by the federal government, (2) identify issues and problem areas of a potential National Survey on Disability, including discussion of factors in favor of a new separate survey versus implementing subsets of surveys already in place, (3) evaluate issues associated with setting up a National Survey on Disability in the ICF context, and (4) continue development and dissemination of best practices for including respondents with disabilities in surveys.

For more information, contact Barbara Rosen (brosen@cessi.net) or go to http://www.icdr.us/disabilitydata/index.htm.


National Health Promotion Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, September 12-14, 2006

The 2006 National Health Promotion Conference is the first joint conference presented by CDC's Coordinating Center for Health Promotion (CoCHP) and its constituent groups: the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), and the Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention (OGDP). With a conference theme of Innovations in Health Promotion: New Avenues for Collaboration, the conference will provide an unprecedented opportunity to create new partnerships and strengthen existing ones to move forward with a national health promotion and wellness agenda.

For more information, go to http://www.cdc.gov, or call 770-488-6509.