The 2010 St Louis County Health & Human Service Conference will be held Monday and Tuesday, October 4th & 5th at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (DECC) map.
Our conference theme is "Conquering Fear - Living Boldly in an Uncertain World". The Health & Human Service Conference draws together 1800 health and human service practitioners and 130 exhibitors from the public and private sectors for two days of training and networking. 
2010 Conference Posting.pdf
Keynote: Harold S. Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, where he resides. He has been honored by the Christophers, a Roman Catholic organization, as one of the fifty people who have made the world a better place in the last half century, and by Religion in American Life as the clergyman of the year in 1999. He is the author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" and eight other books.
In his latest book "Conquering Fear", we are again inspired by Harold S. Kushner’s wisdom, at once deeply spiritual and eminently practical.
Drawing on the teachings of religious and secular literature and on the true stories of people who have faced their fears, Kushner helps us to see that fear can present us with extraordinary opportunities—to connect with our emotions, rethink our values, and change our lives, and the world, for the better. For those who fear helplessness, he suggests empowerment: through prayer, service, and education. For those who fear for mankind’s future, he insists on hope and pragmatic measures, such as working to protect the environment. For those who fear death, he proposes life—lived boldly and purposefully.