Admission is just $1 a day.

This year's conference is in response to a recent survey by the Kansas Health Institute.  "When we became aware of a report that ranked the health of Kansas residents in all 105 counties, we were very disturbed to find that Wyandotte Country received the worst ranking (105th) for health care," said event director, Richard Mabion.

 

The conference will open with two performers on Friday night - story teller Molly Postlewait and poet laureate Lloyd Daniel. Roderick Bremby, the Secretary of Health and Environment for the state of Kansas, and Sarah O'Neal Rush, the great grand-daughter of Booker T. Washington, will deliver the keynote addresses on Saturday morning.  The conference will also feature more than a dozen breakout sessions and free health screenings for anyone who attends. These sessions will cover a wide variety of areas ranging from energy efficiency, health research, sustainable food production and environment law to prisoner's re-entry, No Child Left Inside, Job Core for Single Parents and Food, Not Lawns.

The conference will conclude with the showing of an award-winning documentary, "Taking Root," which tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, whose simple act of planning trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights and defend democracy.

Further conference details can be found on-line at www.breakingthesilence.us.