Price: To Be Announced in late September, 2011.

Online registration will be open in early October 2011.

The official registration fees for the conference will be posted in late September. Our goal is not to raise the registration fees from the fees charged for the February 2011 conference in Charlotte, NC. Those rates were as follows:

Full Conference (three days):

Public/Nonprofit Rate: $309
Private Sector Rate: $359
LGC Member Public/Nonprofit Rate: $289
See details below on LGC membership.
LGC Private Sector Rate: $339
Group Public/Nonprofit Rate: $289
See details below on qualifying for group rates.
Group Private Sector Rate $339
College Student Rate $219

Daily Registration Fees

Thursday Only Rate (does not include optional tours): $199
Friday Only Rate: $199
Saturday Only Rate: $199

The full (3-day) conference registration fee includes:

• Access to all plenaries, breakouts, workshops and trainings in the main conference program (February 2-4)
• Conference meals and refreshment breaks
• Name badge, conference attendees list, and printed program booklet

Meals and breaks provided during the conference include:

• Thursday (2/2) - Morning and afternoon coffee breaks, Hosted Evening Networking Reception (LUNCH & DINNER ARE NOT INCLUDED)
• Friday (2/3) - Continental breakfast, and morning and afternoon coffee breaks (LUNCH & DINNER ARE NOT INCLUDED)
• Saturday (2/4) - Continental breakfast, lunch, and morning and afternoon coffee breaks

Dates: February 2-4, 2012
Location: San Diego Sheraton Hotel & Marina - San Diego, CA

The conference will build on the first ten highly successful conferences in this series, which collectively brought together an audience of nearly 12,000 people from across the U.S. and several other countries. This conference is unique in that it focuses on a multi-disciplinary approach to implementing smart growth principles to help build safer, healthier, equitable, more economically viable, transit-oriented and pedestrian-friendly communities across the nation.

The main conference program will span three full days with optional pre-conference events scheduled for Wednesday, February 1st and Sunday February 5th. The main program will kick off on Thursday morning, February 2, and continue through Saturday afternoon. The schedule includes a dynamic mix of plenaries, breakouts, implementation workshops, specialized trainings, peer-to-peer learning opportunities, and coordinated networking activities. It will also feature exciting tours of local model projects in and around the San Diego region.

There will be something for everybody, from veteran experts to smart-growth novices, with over 95 sessions and workshops to choose from. Learn from hundreds of speakers who cross disciplines to share insights, and valuable tools and strategies for making smart growth a success in your community. The program will be infused with sessions and case studies focusing on important equity and environmental justice issues.

Register here: http://www.newpartners.org/registration.html

Presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Labor Studies
A reception, co-sponsored by Prevention Institute, Berkeley Media Studies Group, and The Praxis Project, will follow Friday night's keynote lecture.

To advance an equitable, sustainable, and just food system, addressing the health, rights, and well-being of laborers is critical. Yet, while the food system has become the focus of multi-disciplinary scholarly analysis, public policy making, and grass roots advocacy, food system workers are largely absent from the conversation.

The 2012 conference in Santa Cruz will bring together key scholars and activists from California and beyond to engage in critical discussions of the role of labor and social justice in reshaping the food system. Following a Friday night keynote lecture by local historian Frank Bardacke, the conference will highlight core issues in food labor with particular emphasis on farm labor, food processing, shipping and retail, and food service and restaurants.

The conference is free and open to the public. Click here for more information.

• Breastfeeding can protect against early obesity in a WIC population.
• New research has uncovered links between breastfeeding and lower SSB intake.
• What does this mean and how can it help public health efforts to turn the obesity tide?

Speakers:

Shannon Whaley, PhD, Director of Research and Evaluation, PHFE WIC Program, Los Angeles
Harold Goldstein, DrPH, Executive Director, California Center for Public Health Advocacy

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• Beyond Pregnancy: Optimal Postpartum Care
• Opportunities to Prevent Prematurity
• Findings from a WIC Interconception Health Pilot Project

Speakers:
Denise Gee, MPH, RD, Senior Nutritionist, PHFE WIC Program, Los Angeles
Sharen Anthony, RD, MFCC, Senior Nutritionist, PHFE WIC Program, Los Angeles

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• A "brief intervention" is effective in limiting drinking during pregnancy.
• This approach works in the busy WIC setting!
• Dramatic outcomes show how WIC can prevent alcohol-related infant mortality.

Speakers:
Shannon Whaley, PhD, Director of Research and Evaluation, PHFE WIC Program, Los Angeles
Samar MacGregor, MPH, RD, Senior Nutritionist, PHFE WIC Program, Los Angeles

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The Safety 2012 World Conference is the 11th biennial international conference on injury prevention and safety promotion, co-sponsored by the World Health Organization. The conference will bring together the world's leading injury prevention and safety researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and advocates, to debate, discuss, and share information and experience. The key theme of Safety 2012 is "Connecting pathways for a vibrant and safer future." This theme reflects the intellectual and philosophical approach towards injury prevention of the host country New Zealand's injury prevention sector. It's also consistent with the aspirations of the WHO Western-Pacific Region Framework for Action on Injury and Violence Prevention 2008-2013. Safety 2012 is organized by the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand (SCFNZ), and the University of Otago's Injury Prevention Research Unit (IPRU). Numerous partners and colleagues in New Zealand, Australia, and internationally will also contribute to the planning and success of the conference.

Learn more about Safety 2012 here.

Download the flyer  here .