CONFERENCES
• Panelists and speakers are being sought for the 6th National Mitigation Banking Conference April 23-25, 2003, in San Diego. The California venue will offer conference participants first-hand experience with conservation banking to protect endangered species and other natural resources in addition to mitigation banking for wetlands.
The hands-on conference for mitigation and conservation banking will concentrate on dual themes: practice and policy. Sessions will range from the primer for newcomers to banking to panels on emerging markets, technical banking issues, techniques used in banking and the newest information on legislation and current events in the industry.
Presentations, as well as ideas for sessions, are welcomed from experienced mitigation and conservation bankers, regulators, engineers, bank users, consultants, bonding firms, venture capitalists, nonprofits that maintain banks and public interest groups.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be tailored to one of the suggested topics listed at www.mitigationbankingconference.com (also available by calling (800) 726-4853) and submitted to cbahler@erols.com or faxed to (703) 548-6299 by Sept. 4. For a copy of the conference announcement or information about exhibiting at the conference, see www.mitigationbankingconference.com, e-mail cbahler@erols.com or call (703) 548-5473.
• More than 1,800 health care professionals working in correctional institutions from across the country will gather in Nashville, Tenn. Oct. 19–23 for the National Conference on Correctional Health Care. Sponsored by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, the conference brings together physicians, nurses, dentists, psychiatrists and psychologists, administrators and others working in the nation’s federal and state prisons, city and county jails, and juvenile detention and confinement facilities.
The five-day conference is for anyone interested in correctional health care issues. The conference will feature more than 90 educational programs. To start the programming, pre-conference seminars will provide a look at issues in correctional health care today. For more information, visit the NCCHC Web site at www.ncchc.org.
• The National Association of Development Organization (NADO) will hold its 35th Annual Training Conference, Promoting Regional Prosperity Sept. 28–Oct. 1 at the Reno Hilton in Reno, Nev. The brochure and registration form are available on NADO’s Web site (www.nado.org/meetings). For information about pre-conference workshops and conference sessions, visit the Web site or call (202) 624-7806.
