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The World Chiropractic Alliance is hosting a World Chiropractic Humanitarian forum on Saturday October 2, 2010 at the New Beginnings 20^th anniversary chiropractic celebration Ocean Place resort and Spa, Long Branch, New Jersey

The Purpose of the forum is to discuss chiropractic humanitarian efforts that are taking place and to coordinate efforts among the chiropractic mission organizations from around the world. The forum will be a strategic planning session. The emphasis is our communication with the United Nations regarding Chiropractic Humanitarian efforts. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) seek to end poverty and hunger, provide universal education, foster gender equality, ensure child and maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, create environmental sustainability, and produce global partnerships by 2015. Our goal is to enlighten the United Nations about chiropractic.

Timothy Merrick, DC, is the chiropractic NGO (non-governmental organization) representative to the United Nations' Department of Public Information. Dr. Merrick has been attending weekly briefings at the UN headquarters in New York and meeting with representatives from other NGOs from around the world. He will share information about chiropractic and the role chiropractors can play in addressing health concerns in developing nations as well as in first-world countries.

Dr. Merrick will be the forums premier speaker. A representative from each chiropractic mission group will be providing 4-6 power point slides highlighting the mission of their trips, locations, and vision for the future. The mission groups will also have a reunion of past missionaries. The vision is to coordinate all the efforts of the different chiropractic mission groups around the world. The Chiropractic Council on Humanitarian Efforts will be hosting the event. Organizations such as Mission Life International, Mission-Chiropractic, Spinal Missions, ChiroMission, The “Best Mission Trip Ever”, AdJust World and many other mission groups are already coordinating their efforts to provide chiropractic around the world. The World Council on Chiropractic Humanitarian Efforts would like to be the umbrella organization under which Chiropractic Mission organizations will coordinate their efforts to provide chiropractic around the world. All chiropractic mission groups will maintain their own autonomy. Under the umbrella organization we will be able to tap into sponsorships and many other financial resources. We will be able to provide scholarships to students. Articles regarding our humanitarian efforts will be published in the WCA journal. Most importantly, as a group we can truly help the United Nations accomplish the Millennium Development Goals. The forum is open to any chiropractor or chiropractic advocate that has attended a chiropractic mission trip. The forum is also open to any chiropractor or advocate that would like to be involved in the future.

Mission

We know that many chiropractors engage in humanitarian efforts. A humanitarian is one who charitably lays down his life for others in need (i.e. his professional skills, his time, his physical efforts, his spiritual commitment and his financial resources). The World Chiropractic Council on Humanitarian Efforts mission as an organization is to serve mankind's needs throughout the world in this area. Our goal is achieved through domestic and international patient care, chiropractic wellness, and education.

The Council on Humanitarian Efforts mission is to promote chiropractic and adjust all those who are subluxated throughout the world, especially in 3rd world countries where resources are so terribly limited. We intend to cultivate students of chiropractic from those deprived areas so they may return to their beloved countries and work as chiropractors. The Council will work to raise funds for charitable organizations in these countries which provide food, clothing and shelter to those in need!

The World Chiropractic Alliance Council on Humanitarian Efforts recognizes the enormous advancement of the Chiropractor's role in the Wellness Revolution and we feel that millions of human beings do not have the luxury to experience the power of a chiropractic adjustment. We would ask that organizations will adopt and utilize the CCP guidelines in their mission efforts. This would enable the world to see that chiropractic humanitarian efforts will change the world.

VISION

Our vision is that through the combined efforts of all chiropractic mission organizations around the world we will be able:

To provide global access to Chiropractic for patients by the year 2095 - Chiropractic's Bi-Centennial Year.

To provide humanitarian service programs compatible with chiropractic vitalistic philosophy and to provide humanitarian aid to poor communities.

To include spinal health education efforts such as “Straighten up America” in communities where we provide humanitarian work.

To include natural hygiene education efforts and to establish public health programs in communities where we provide humanitarian work.

To provide Community Education Programs that teaches the public about the benefits of chiropractic care and the detrimental effects of the vertebral subluxation.

To recruit, encourage and coach chiropractors who can pioneer the Chiropractic profession in countries with little or no Chiropractors.

To recruit some of the brightest minds as team players who can contribute to the overall efforts of The World Chiropractic Alliance Council on Humanitarian Efforts.

To recruit chiropractors who wish to open their practices in under served countries.

To provide a placement service for chiropractors interested in practicing in third world countries.

To maintain a website for the purposes of providing information on the availability of Chiropractic Mission Trips around the world and for recruiting purposes.

To solicit moneys for Chiropractic Scholarships which are awarded to students in third world and developing countries.

To seek funding for the establishment of humanitarian chiropractic centers in third world and developing countries. We have already established a center in Port Au Prince, Haiti.

To recommend to the United Nations that governments offer funding for the education of their own citizens to obtain a DC degree with the agreement of returning to their homeland and establish a practice or work in government hospitals in cases when they are educated abroad. We have already approached the President and cabinet of the Dominican Republic and the Minister of Health and education in Trinidad on this issue. Haiti will be next.

To encourage institutions of higher learning in third world countries to establish Chiropractic College’s in their countries. This will permit the training of a greater number of new chiropractors within their own language and culture and at a lower, more affordable cost for the indigenous population.

To recruit Chiropractic Educators who wish to participate in the development of new Chiropractic Schools in foreign countries.

To consult with Educational Institutions interested in adding a chiropractic department that will provide an education compatible with the CCP Guidelines.

To partner with universities within third world countries in establishing chiropractic training programs that will provide an education compatible with the CCP Guidelines. We have proposed this in the Dominican Republic and Trinidad.

To participate with International Chiropractic organizations to help with the delivery of Chiropractic care.

To establish cooperative alliances with Chiropractic Organizations in nations already involved in the development and delivery of Chiropractic care.

To support the development of WCA affiliate Associations in each country.

To support the legalization efforts by Chiropractors in every country that establish CCP legislated standards for DC registration in their country and which have provisions that ensure public safety by utilizing guidelines such as the CCP guidelines.

To monitor the efforts of the different entities who also are involved in the introduction of Chiropractic in countries with few or no chiropractors.

To provide Chiropractic Mission Trips and Community Education programs that teach people with the benefits of drugless chiropractic care in countries where Chiropractic is relatively unknown

The Council will award Grants and Financial Aid to students or new graduates who would like to participate in humanitarian service in third world countries. The following would be distributed to all members.

Peter H. Morgan, DC

Chairman World Chiropractic Alliance Council on Humanitarian Efforts.

Speakers at the New Beginnings 20^th anniversary chiropractic celebration.

Reggie Gold, Arno Burnier, Chuck Ribley , Jon Schwartzbauer, Fred Schofield, Kevin Donka , Jeanne Ohm, Liam Schubel, Jay Handt, Bob Braile, Brian Solofsky, Gary Deutchman, Anthony Piana, Brian Capra, Gary Street, Skip George, Kevin Fogarty, Tony Demarco, Jason Dietch, Kelly Hayford, Nayln Marcus, Mike LaRocca, Bill Decken, Patti Guiliano, Gary Walsemann, Bob Tarantino, Phyllis Frase, Mike Doraush, Erni Landi, Sharon Gorman, Phil Yamamoto, Billy DeMoss, Karen Hayhurst, Alan Lovejoy, Andrew DeSaro, Dave Mager, Sam Selimo, Bob Crystal, Kevin Jackson and Jim Dubel