BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20@oh.childrenshealthdefense.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220207T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220207T220000 DTSTAMP:20220207T202856Z URL:https://oh.childrenshealthdefense.org/events/addressing-school-board-m embers-local-health-departments-learn-crucial-information-beneficial-tools -the-potential-legal-recourse-to-be-an-effective-advocate-impact-much-ne/ SUMMARY:Addressing School Board Members &\; Local Health Departments – Learn Crucial Information\, Beneficial Tools &\; the Potential Legal R ecourse to be an Effective Advocate &\; Impact Much Needed Change DESCRIPTION:Children’s Health Defense Ohio is eager to present the highly informative online symposium\, “Addressing School Board Members and Loc al Health Departments – Learn Crucial Information\, Beneficial Tools and the Potential Legal Recourse to be an Effective Advocate and Impact Much Needed Change\,”  featuring guest speakers Dr. Elizabeth Laffay\, Heath er Boyer Younkin\, Micah Ray Aills\, Heather Chappell\, Chanel Davis\, Kat hryn Huwig and attorney Warner Mendenhall\, on Monday\, February 7\, 2022\ , at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.\n\nChildren are our most precious gi ft\, greatest blessing\, and most valuable contributors to the future of o ur society. Parents are and should remain at the forefront of decisions th at influence and enrich the foundations by which children flourish and bec ome fruitful contributors to society. Optimum health and education are fun damental in that respect and may be nurtured by a supportive community wit h parents who know what is best for their children. To further that necess ity\, it is imperative that parents effectively communicate with locally e lected officials and those who influence policy\, such as schoolboard memb ers\, superintendents\, and local health departments\, to ensure their chi ldren’s overall wellbeing and rights\, including but not limited to an e nriching educational experience\, are best met for the children’s sake a nd generations to come.\n\nBeing proactive in our children’s health and educational system has always been of utmost importance. However\, the add ed urgency stemming from decisions that have been made over the past few y ears\, which have unequivocally adversely impacted the overall wellbeing o f Ohio’s children\, has made it imperative for parents to take further a ction and become proactive in engaging their local officials.\n\nAll paren ts have the capability\, heart\, and passion to be proactive and effective in impacting much needed change by the mere fact that they know their chi ldren’s needs better than anyone else.\n\nWhether you are experienced in these areas of advocacy or not\, the experts and parents featured in this empowering online symposium will be sharing highly beneficial information and effective tools that may motivate parents to not only become proactiv e at the local level\, but gain further knowledge and acquire beneficial t ools that are key to understanding and effectively navigating these public arenas and engagements\, in addition to the potential legal recourse that can be taken to impact change.\nIf you are already active in this area\, or would like to learn details to become proactive\, you will not want to miss this FREE empowering and informative session! \nJoin us online on Mon day\, February 7th at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time to learn more!\nBe s ure to register below to reserve your seat and receive the online event lo gin credentials.\n\nClick here to download and share the online event flye r.\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Elizabeth Laffay\, DO\, Huron City School Board Member\n Dr. Elizabeth Laffay is a leader in the functional medicine movement.  Af ter graduating at the top of her class with a BS in Nutritional Sciences a t Michigan State University\, she went on to complete Osteopathic Medical School.  She continued her training in Detroit\, MI for Trauma and Emerge ncy Medicine which she practiced for close to twenty years.  During her p ractice\, she felt there was a disconnect with humanity that was pervasive in western medicine and sought out Functional Medicine through the Clevel and Clinic Institute.  She now co-owns Elite Wellness\n\nGroup\, LLC in d owntown Sandusky\, OH where she is helping people feel their best by addre ssing root cause of disease and cultivating sincere relationships with her patients.\n\nShe was recently elected to serve her community as a Huron C ity School Board Member in Erie County.\nDr. Elizabeth A. Laffay\, DO\nEli te Wellness Group\, LLC\, Functional Medicine\n133 E. Water Street\, Sandu sky\, OH 44839\nelitewellnessgroup.com\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather Boyer Younkin\n\ n\n\n\nHeather Boyer Younkin is a loving mom of three boys. Heather has ex tensive experience in fighting against Common Core. She took a bold stand and as a result her son was only child in his school district who was not subjected to take the common core tests. Heather ran for local school boar d and has a thorough understanding of how local school boards function\, i n addition to the legalities that are often overlooked and every parent sh ould know.\n\nHeather has extensive experience in advocating at the local level and has long been effective at engaging her local elected officials. She effectively challenged the mask\, quarantine and contact tracing poli cies in her school district utilizing her knowledge of ORC. The mask manda te orders were revoked. She has also been proactive in the medical freedom realm over the past two years\, meeting with elected officials\, particip ating in peaceful demonstrations and providing compelling testimony at the Ohio Statehouse.\n\nHeather recently joined the Children's Health Defense Ohio Board and is an ardent advocate for fundamental human rights and fre edoms\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\nMicah Ray Aills\nMicah Ray Aills is a singer\, songwriter\, musician\, photographer and an Operations Manager i n the supply chain industry. From the beginning of the pandemic Micah was considered part of the essential businesses. Realizing early on something was wrong with the official story\, he has spent many hours in the last tw o years researching all relating to the pandemic and the government’s re sponses.\n\nMicah went from an average citizen focused on everyday life\, to one who is willing to speak out against the mandates and draconian meas ures our institutions have imposed upon Ohioans. He has given testimony in support of House Bill 618\, spoke at the November 3rd Worldwide Walkout D ay and challenged his local school board when masks were mandated on buses . He is a great example of how average citizens can stand up\, educate the mselves and others.\n\nMicah recently joined the Children's Health Defense Ohio Board. He is a brilliant and passionate advocate for fundamental hum an rights and freedoms\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather Chappell\nHeather Chappell is a proud wife and mother of two beautiful children. She has spent the last eight years self-learning natural\, pharmaceutical free living. Heather is a firm believer in the importance of nutrition\, embracing the significan ce of “we are what we eat” and that health does not come effortlessly. The past two years have consisted of diving deeper into the political rea lm and learning that freedom too does not come effortlessly.\n\nHeather ha s been proactive at the local level in various realms\, including her loca l school district and health department for years. Her experience and tena city have afforded her the opportunity to learn how to successfully engage her elected officials and advocate on behalf of children at the local lev el.\n\nHeather ardently believes that we must keep our local government in check if we value our freedoms\, and that fear and sensitivity will not k eep us safe. We must stand strong and insist that we will continue to live in the United States of America – the land of the free and the home of the brave.\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\nChanel Davis\nChanel Davis i s a new homeschooling mother of two young daughters. She holds a bachelor ’s degree in Middle Childhood Education. Her active involvement at the l ocal level began shortly after the statewide shutdown. Chanel promptly bec ame proactive in fighting the school mask mandates. Since then\, Chanel ha s branched off Ohio Stands Up to form the Clark County Group that has effe ctively engaged local officials. Chanel has been proactive in her communit y and frequently attends numerous meetings throughout the county to spread the truth regarding masks\, vaccines\, and lock-downs\, with a primary fo cus on children and their overall well being.\n\nChanel is grateful for th e people who have come into her life throughout this process. She is dedic ated and passionate in continuing the fight for justice and is heart-drive n to advocate for her children's sake and generations to come.\n\n\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\nKathryn Huwig\n\n\n\nKathryn Huwig attended Case Western Reserve University and Stanford University\, double-majoring in Geology and Evolutionary Biology. Her focus was mainly in planetary geology\, and her evolutionary biology degree included course s mainly on human evolution and the history and philosophy of science (how we know what we know and how science succeeds and where it fails). It als o included graduate level courses on the epidemiology and evolution of hum an diseases\, which focused on the evolutionary principles involved in how infectious diseases and their hosts evolve together and because of each o ther. It encompassed much of the broader epidemiological concepts but none of the politics and psychology of public health.\n\nAfter leaving academi a\, Huwig had her first daughter\, who was vaccine-injured and through the course of trying to figure out how to help her daughter\, she spent a mas sive amount of time reading medical journals on her rare disease\, as well as learning that medical professionals do not always 'follow the science' but rather follow the procedure whether or not it is the best path forwar d for the patient. Something Kathryn asserts we are watching play out on a grand scale right now.\n\nHuwig gained notoriety worldwide after creating a group on Facebook titled 'Understanding Ohio COVID-19 Data' where she w ould break down many of the flaws in the official Ohio data\, created tuto rials on how others could download\, look at\, and understand the data so that they could take that knowledge onward to their friends\, family and r epresentatives.\n\nShe also created the Science History Book and produces a video show called “Beyond the Data” where she continues to show the flaws in Ohio's data\, as well as hosts expert guests and activists.\n\n\n \n\nWarner Mendenhall\, Esq.\nAttorney Warner Mendenhall has made it his m ission to fight corruption and the abuse of power throughout Ohio. From ma ndates to imposed vaccination requirements Warner has your rights and free doms in mind.\n\nWarner's practice\, Warner Mendenhall Law Group\, holds l ocal\, state government\, and corporations accountable. He is passionate a bout helping people stand up to government abuse\, corporate fraud\, and b ank malfeasance.\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oh.childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content /uploads/Feb-7-Event-Photo-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR