Offering everything from options in cosmetic surgery to tips onhow to outlive your teen-agers, a massive two-day women's healthconference being presented by Western New York Catholic HealthProviders is trying to cover all the bases.
Total Woman 2000 is a package of 65 workshops conducted by 75experts and four distinguished speakers that will be presented Nov.12 and 13 in the Buffalo Convention Center.
Sounding the keynote will be Dr. Nancy Snyderman, medicalcorrespondent for ABC's "Good Morning America," who will speak Nov.12 after a 12:30 p.m. luncheon. Earlier that day, Dr. BarbaraDeBuono, commissioner of the New York State Department of Health,will conduct a plenary session.On Nov. 13, Sheila Mahoney, anchor and news reporter on Channel7, will conduct a plenary session at which Cindy Vastola-Lancaster,businesswoman and community activist, will speak.The 1997 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Award will be presented at anetworking social to be sponsored by Greater Buffalo Partnership'sEnterprising Women from 4 to 6 p.m. Nov. 12.The award recognizes a woman whose life exemplifies thecompassion, perseverance and service associated with the founder ofthe Daughters of Charity in the United States and the country'sfirst saint.Six clusters of clinical and psychosocial workshops will beoffered on Nov. 12. Consumer workshops, in two clusters, arescheduled for Nov. 13. Clinical sessions will deal with illnessessuch as osteoporosis and breast cancer; treatments such as hormonereplacement and integrative medicine; social issues such asdomestic violence and empowerment.Consumer sessions will include selecting health care providers,parenting, stress, elder care, relationships and emotional problems.Participants can mix and match at will, as long as theyregister their preferences by fax, mail, phone or Internet. Forstarters, call 645-3705.Jenny T. Bagen, director of women's services at SistersHospital, is putting it all together with the help of a committeerepresenting 13 organizations related to women's health in additionto the Catholic health providers.Buffalo's shelter for victims of family violence, Haven House,will benefit from a rock concert Thursday at 8 p.m. at Nietzsche's.The Women of Lower Bohemia will perform and Bob Stalder will bemaster of ceremonies. The program is being presented by HannahJanney and the Buffalo Song Project.The moral and theological aspects of society's approach towelfare will be explored by James Hillman, a nationally knownpsychoanalyst, author and teacher, at a civic forum Thursday at7:30 p.m. at Kleinhans Music Hall.No stranger to Buffalo, Hillman gave the keynote address at theSpirit of the City conference in 1983.A Jungian psychologist, Hillman believes the emphasis oneconomics in welfare reform has distorted the debate. He arguesthat citizens need to look at how welfare relates to urbancommunities' efforts to deal with the homeless, racism and ghettosin an effort to "re-vision" the standards underlining social policy.Thursday's forum is being sponsored by the AnalyticalPsychology Society of Western New York. Community leaders will meetwith the speaker at a breakfast Nov. 7.Peggy Yehl Burke, assistant professor in the School ofEducation at St. Bonaventure University, will look at how girlslose or keep self-confidence and self-esteem in their adolescentyears on Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. in the YWCA of the Tonawandas andNiagara Frontier, 49 Tremont St., North Tonawanda. "HazardousPassage: A Girl's Journey From Childhood to Adolescence" is thetopic of the program, sponsored by the YW and the Commission onWomen in Church and Society of the Buffalo Diocese.Ms. Burke has written articles on equity in science and matheducation and sex role stereotyping in schools.Marian Wright Edelman, founder and director of the Children'sDefense Fund, will speak at the University at Buffalo on Nov. 20 at8 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Mainstage Theater, as part of theDistinguished Speakers Series. The series also will bring poet MayaAngelou here on April 23.
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