Brooklyn, NY— Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center and Millenium Sistahs, Inc., join forces to present their 1st Annual Health & Spirituality Summit for Women on Friday, September 18th at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center’s Lillian Minkin Ballroom from 10:00am-3:00pm. Designed to address spiritual and health issues that impact the ultimate well-being of our community’s women, this event will expose issues that are most pervasive to a woman’s emotional, spiritual and physical health. Issues such as HIV/AIDS, the church’s response to domestic violence, depression, breast health education and finding your spiritual self are among the key topics to be featured.
Key Speakers include: Professor Safiya Bendele, Medgar Evers College who will present “HIV & the Mature Woman” as well as Michelle Lopez, who will present HIV –The younger women’s. perspective: these presentations address the staggering percentage of HIV/AIDS cases in Central Brooklyn affecting women, including elderly women over the age of 50.
Rev. Ken Bogan, Greater Restoration Baptist Church will present a riveting account of the Church’s neglect when it comes to domestic violence, Kathleen Roberts, KJMC Breast Health Educator will present Breast health Education facts as well as demonstrations on self examination, addressing the high incidence of breast cancer in our region. Addressing the issue of depression which affects 5% of our population is Social Worker/Therapist Birdette Gardner and Finding Your Spiritual Self will be presented by Claudette Spence, author of Nurturing the Garden of Joy: Provocative Essays on Relationships.
“Women in our community deal with incredible stresses. Financial, emotional and physical,” states Glenda Hills, President & CEO of Millennium Sisters. Millennium Sistahs, Inc. is a not-for-profit community organization that provides services for women, children and their families. Their mission is to enhance life, sustain visibility and provide services for a young women and adults worldwide. “This summit is an opportunity to address how we can better care for ourselves while nurturing our spiritual side,” said Ms. Hills.
“It’s our pleasure to host this valuable effort for women in our community and we are committed to hosting this event annually” said Enid Dillard, Director of Marketing & Public Affairs at Kingsbrook, “Good health is a combination of the physical, spiritual and emotional well-being and we intend to encourage that synergy among our female residents however possible.”
To RSVP for this event or for more information, please call 718-604-5062 or email: millenniumsistahs@gmail.com.
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, celebrating its 84th year, is an 864-bed teaching Medical Center, dedicated to meeting the health needs of one of Brooklyn’s most culturally diverse communities. Kingsbrook continues to implement programs and services that respond to the vital health needs and concerns of the community at large. Centers of Excellence Include: Kingsbrook Rehabilitation Institute offering Physical & Rehabilitative Medicine, including Brooklyn’s only New York State approved Traumatic Brain Injury & Coma Recovery Unit, an inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Program, the Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center, Orthopedic Surgery, a Women’s Wellness Center featuring Minimally- Invasive Gynecological Surgery and state of the art Digital Mammography. Other specialty areas include: Emergency Services, Ambulatory Surgery and a Certified Non-Invasive Vascular Laboratory, as well as a 538-bed Adult and Pediatric long term care facility. Kingsbrook and Rutland Nursing Home are JCAHO certified and not-for-profit members of the Greater New York Hospital Association and the Healthcare Association of New York State.
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