Meeting

Saturday, October 20, 7:30am-3:30pm, Columbus Downtown High School, 364 S. Fourth St.

Join the City of Columbus and United Way of Central Ohio for the Ninth Annual Neighborhood Best Practices Conference, “where neighborhoods come and share best practices in building healthy communities.”

The keynote address, “Will You Be My Neighbor? Building Bridges Across Communities,” will be presented by inspirational speaker, children’s advocate, former foster youth, and professional international model MelRo [Melissa Roshan].

Thursday, October 18, 7:30am-6:30pm; Friday, October 19, 7:30am-5:30pm; Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Rd.

The Equitas Health Institute for LGBTQ Health Equity is hosting the 2018 Transforming Care: LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS Health Equity Conference, October 18-19, at The Ohio State University Fawcett Center. Activists, academics, community members, and health and social service professionals are encouraged to attend this two-day conference that addresses health disparities that affect the LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS community.

Thursday, October 18, 7:30am-6:30pm; Friday, October 19, 7:30am-5:30pm; Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Rd.

The Equitas Health Institute for LGBTQ Health Equity is hosting the 2018 Transforming Care: LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS Health Equity Conference, October 18-19, at The Ohio State University Fawcett Center. Activists, academics, community members, and health and social service professionals are encouraged to attend this two-day conference that addresses health disparities that affect the LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS community.

Thursday, October 18, 6:30-8pm, South High Branch Library, 3540 S. High St.

A panel of local activists will address the following questions.

• Is participation in elections important?

• What is the role of leftists/socialists/labor in the upcoming elections?

• What post-election strategies will we pursue?

Hosted by Columbus Club, Communist Party USA, The Anna Hass Morgan Club.

Wednesday, October 17, 7-9pm, Upper Arlington Public Library [basement room B], 2800 Tremont Rd.

Join Equal UA in promoting an inclusive climate that encourages all people to feel welcome and participate fully within our community.

We will be discussing Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, August 18, 2015, by Bryan Stevenson (366 pages). The Upper Arlington Public Library [including the consortium with which the Upper Arlington Public Library shares books] owns 98 copies of this book.

Wednesday, October 17, 9am-3pm, Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Rd.

The Ohio Center for Sex Education and Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio will host the inaugural Ohio Sex Education Summit on Wednesday, October 17 at The Fawcett Center at The Ohio State University. Experts from across Ohio and across the country will come together, learn from each other, and explore ways to ensure that every young person in Ohio receives the fact-based, comprehensive sex education that they need to keep themselves healthy.

Sunday, October 14, 10am-2pm, The Childhood League Center, 674 Cleveland Ave.

Program Details

8:30-9am:

• Check-in and registration

9am-12noon:

• “Pathway to Parenthood” learning track for prospective parents. Thinking of starting or adding to your family? Come learn from experts in adoption, foster parenting, assisted reproduction, and more.

• Interpreter(s) will be available for the hearing-impaired. Please make this request on your registration.

12noon-1:30pm:

Saturday, October 13, 11:30am-2:30pm, The Hub on Kenny, 4510 Kenny Rd.

Don’t believe in God? You are not alone! Join the Humanist Community of Central Ohio [HCCO], a community that values people, emphasizes reason, and focuses on this world.

This month’s program: “Humanism and Chaplaincy”

Thursday, October 11, 7-9pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Free parking is available in the “R” spaces — “R” for “Rardin Clinic” — behind the building.

Contact: Simone Morgen, smorgen@juno.com

Tuesday, October 9, 6pm (business meeting); 7pm (general meeting); Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Join the Franklin County Greens. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month. Free parking is available in the “R” spaces — “R” for “Rardin Clinic” — behind the building.

Contact: fcgreenparty@gmail.com