6/12/07 Northern CA SAW/RTW Summit - Maybe there's space for you

There may still be a few seats available at the Northern California Summit on Promoting Stay at Work and Return to Work next week.  It's on June 21 at a Safeway Stores facility in Pleasanton.  If you're from California, understand the stay-at-work and return-to-work process, and are interested in being part of this potentially history-making event, go to the GREAT Northern CA Summit website, read up, and then register. (Registering does not guarantee you a seat since space is limited -- the enrollment is capped -- and the planning committee is balancing representation among various stakeholder groups.)

People of good will who have been waiting for an opportunity to pitch in to improve "life outcomes" for injured / ill employees in health-related employment situations -- and their employers -- whether in the disability benefits or workers' compensation arena -- should try to attend.  (If you're tempted to come in order to complain or blame others, do us all a favor and stay home!)  With every additional committed and well-informed person there, the odds get better that this Northern California event will be a milestone of a meeting!   

At the Summit, you'll sit side by side with a powerhouse list of other stakeholders and work together to figure out how to make the recommendations made in ACOEM's latest Guideline on Preventing Needless Work Disability by Helping People Stay Employed come to life in California! 

If you come, I'll see you there.  As founder and chair of the North American 60 Summits Project, I'm keynoting the session, along with Herb Schultz, the senior advisor on health policy for the Governor of California.

JHC