Direct Service Tribes Fifth Annual National Meeting

Red Lion Hotel at the Park
303 W. North River Drive
Spokane, Washington 99201
August 5-7, 2008

The DST Advisory Committee invites you to attend the DST Fifth Annual National Meeting. The Fifth Annual National Meeting will continue to focus on concerns identified by the Tribal Leaders and the Direct Service Tribes Advisory Committee. In partnership between Tribal Leaders and the IHS, this meeting provides a forum in which health issues that impact Indian people served directly by the federally operated health system may be discussed on a national level.

Agenda Topics & Breakout Sessions (tentative)

This year’s meeting will focus on the current state and future of DST, the IHS budget and contract health services. Open Space Technology, a group exercise that identifies issues, inspires solutions, improves communication and collabration, will also be used during this session.

Description of Open Space Technology [PDF-154KB]

Agenda
http://conferences.thehillgroup.com/directservicetribes/DST_Agenda072308.pdf

Lodging

Each individual guest must make their own reservations by calling the Red Lion Hotel at the Park at 1-800-RED-LION (1-800-733-5466) by Cut-off date of July 30, 2008. To ensure that you receive the group rate you need to identify yourself as participating in the IHS Direct Service Tribes Meeting. The group rate is $77.00 (single occupancy), $97 (double occupancy) + 10.6% and a County Tourism Promotion Assessment of $1.50 per guest room per night. Any reservation requests received after the cut off date will be subject to standard guestroom rates and room type availability. All reservations must have a credit card guarantee or first night’s deposit.

Registration

There is no registration fee to attend this meeting. However, you still need to register. To register online and for additional meeting information, please visit the General Information website at http://conferences.thehillgroup.com/directservicetribes/index.html.

For information, contact the IHS Office of Tribal Programs 301-443-1104 or Hannah Kim of The Hill Group at 301-897-2789 ext. 124 or hkim@thehillgroup.com.