Women Striding Forward: The incredible, true story of what the Affordable Care Act is doing for women and families

Michigan Consumers for Healthcare and Raising Women’s Voices plan a statewide series of “Women Striding Forward” Community Conversations

What the Affordable Care Act is doing for women and families in Michigan, Featuring Lois Uttley, co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices.

A series of eight community conversations will be held throughout the state to discuss the impact of healthcare reform on women.  Special guest speaker, Lois Uttley, MPP, is co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices and is active in working to ensure women’s health needs will be met in health reform. She serves on the steering committee of Health Care for All New York, chairs the Universal Health Task Force of the New York Alliance for Women’s Health and is chair of the Policy and Legislative Committee of the Public Health Association of New York City.

Monday, March 12, 12pm-2pm

Sanitas Conference Center of the Family Health Center of Battle Creek

181 W Emmett St.

Battle Creek, MI 49037

Tuesday March 13, 8:30-10am

SE Michigan Community Task Force for the ACA

Rosedale Park Baptist Church

14179 Evergreen

Detroit, MI 48223

Tuesday, March 13, 12pm -1:30pm

East Lansing Public Library

950 Abbott Rd

East Lansing, MI 48823

Wednesday, March 14, 8am-10am

Grand Rapids YWCA

25 Sheldon Blvd. SE

Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Wednesday March 14, 12:00pm-1:30pm

YWCA of Kalamazoo

353 E. Michigan Avenue

Kalamazoo, MI  49007

Thursday March 15, 2012, 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.

University of Michigan – Dearborn,

Fairlane Center Campus

19000 Hubbard Drive,

Dearborn, MI 48126

Michigan Consumers for Healthcare is a nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition that serves to address, from a consumer perspective, the opportunities that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care presents for Michigan citizens.