Seminars and Workshops that promote awareness and allows cultural residents, women, children and health care professionals to access knowledge of wellness and distribute services to hard to reach communities;

• Solicit city, state and national health related vendors that will assist the LFMF in researching and supplying holistic care for women and children in poor and underserved communities;
• Engage community, civic and faith based leadership to increase research and intervention into social issues concerning the effects of ill health in crime, incarceration, child and spousal abuse;
• Discover key drivers of healthy lifestyles by conducting in-person intercept surveys suggested by participants of the conference as to where the information is most needed in the high disparity zip codes identified in both states,
• Create access to wellness health care services by instituting community holistic care satellites throughout hospitals, clinics, churches and schools;
• Serve as a convener, conducting on-going networking meetings designed to spur providers to identifying methods for increasing wellness practices, education and service delivery for urban core women and children;

The Urban Wellness Institute will be a ”green” building which will utilize the latest in solar, water conservation, cleaning products and more. The institute will be a place for eastern and western medicine philosophies to gather and research the health and wealth of the urban dweller of all races, particularly those people with high disparities in health and the uninsured. It will also include a colonic center, health spa, research center, exercise as therapy center, serve as a place to study of holistic medicine, contain a shopping center for eclectic stores, “green clothiers”, natural products, fresh water location, birthing center, equipped with an international conference center with state of the art technology for communications, TV, radio and video conferencing, greenhouse and seed bank.

This is an economic development project with many arms and legs that can be instituted in programming. This project is projected to begin programming summer 2012.

Missouri and Kansas, or the Border States as we are known, share many things; good water, fresh air, and a HEARTLAND view of addressing health disparities globally.

All of our recommended travels members are prepared to address the special health, research and recreational needs of conventions and visitors with health related themes to their travel.

We boast many sites and attractions, big league football and baseball, cultural sites like the Underground Railroad site in Kansas and the Jazz District in Missouri but most of all; we have geared our states to make MOKAN your travel destination for health conventions, meetings and workshops affordable and unforgettable.

We can assist your organization or group with:

• Convention Planning
• Vendor Services Assistance
• Attendance Promotion
• Internet Links
• Registration Staff
• Visitor Information Booth
• Welcome Letters from local and national dignitaries that serve the states of Kansas and Missouri
• On line Meeting Planners Guide and much more!

We are proud of our eclectic mix of cultures that are the faces of health disparities and can open a world of opportunity for research projects and provide health care professionals who mirror those they serve. Just contact us and let us help you plan your next meeting or convention. Look forward to seeing you and as always, good health to all!

The Urban Wellness Campus is a 1900sq ft. facility that provides low income residents access to holistic practices that include:

• Massage Therapy
• Clinical for wellness practitioners
• Resource & Information Center for free healthcare services
• Physical Therapy
• Group classes for Pilates, Tai Chi, Yoga, and Zumba
• Healthy lifestyle cafeteria
• Workshops and Seminars
• Meeting space for healthcare organizations and professionals
• Health Disparity Speakers Bureau

Additionally, the Urban Wellness Campus provides membership opportunities for healthcare organization & professionals, along with healthy disparities convention meeting planners.