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Toronto, Ontario (PRWEB) December 08, 2011

In an innovative new collaboration, Roots Canada and two leading Toronto-based organizations are raising funds to provide education for youth in Africa. On Thursday, December 8, Roots Canada will begin selling specially designed T-shirts to support the official launch of the ?This Shirt Built a School in Africa? initiative. In a three-way partnership involving Roots, the Michael ?Pinball? Clemons Foundation (MPCF) and the Academy of Lions, the project focuses on raising funds to support the building of schools in Sierra Leone and Kenya, providing marginalized youth with much-needed educational opportunities.

Dubbing the day of the launch as ?Build A School Day,? the aim is to sell at least 500 shirts on the first day, the proceeds of which represent the amount needed to build one school. To help achieve this goal, Toronto Argonauts Vice-Chair and MPCF Co-Founder Michael ?Pinball? Clemons has enlisted the involvement of media and sports organizations and plans to have various prominent figures wear This Shirt in public in support of the cause.

?The commitment to build schools in Africa is only possible through the bounty of great, caring, compassionate Canadians,? says ?Pinball.? ?We hope many people will wear ?This Shirt? because it can help change lives forever in such a positive way. We owe special thanks to community builder and visionary of ?This Shirt? The Academy of Lions and to our friend and champion, the incomparable Bob McCown of Fan 590 Radio, for using his platform to ultimately give birth to This Shirt.?

Supporters are asked to direct all social media activities toward the project by changing their Facebook profile pictures to the image of This Shirt, and using the #ThisShirtBuildASchool hashtag on Twitter.

To track the initiative?s progress, ThisShirt.com will be updated regularly to provide information on where schools are being built, and how many have been constructed to date.

Retailing at $ 29.95 each, the 100% cotton T-shirts are designed by The Academy of Lions and made in Canada. They will be available in both men and women?s styles, and are offered in black with the project name printed in large white lettering. The shirts can be purchased online at roots.com with free shipping across Canada and the United States and at select Roots locations in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa. All net proceeds will be donated to the MPCF.

The MPCF has committed to building 131 schools in seven countries in Africa through Free The Children?s Adopt A Village program for which it has raised two-thirds of the funding. Proceeds from ?This Shirt Built A School in Africa? will go toward creating schools specifically in Sierra Leone and Kenya.

About MPCF

The mission of the Michael ?Pinball? Clemons Foundation is to inspire hope through philanthropy and to empower the disengaged while being a conduit for accountability. The MPCF aims to develop academic excellence, infuse depth of character, promote health and vitality, and inspire generosity in our youth.

The MPCF believes that character is the foundation of good citizenship, education is the catalyst of success and progress, and health is the foundation of vitality.

About The Academy of Lions

As a collective of organizations and projects, The Academy of Lions builds functional communities locally and beyond. Located in downtown Toronto, the academy provides a diversity of services such as athletics, health, fitness and nutrition. The non-profit division, called the Academy of Lions Foundation, offers health, lifestyle and entrepreneurial skills to urban, at-risk and homeless youth. Ultimately, the Academy of Lions aims to “help youth help themselves to help others.”

About Roots

Established in Toronto in 1973, Roots has evolved into an internationally celebrated lifestyle brand known for its quality leather goods, athletic apparel, accessories and home furnishings. From a small store selling a single product (Roots negative-heel shoe), Roots now has 125 stores in Canada and the United States and more than 45 stores in Asia. A privately held company, Roots has state-of-the-art manufacturing and design facilities in Toronto.

For more information, please contact:

Jennifer Branco

Executive Director

Michael ‘Pinball’ Clemons Foundation

Tel: 416-735-4040

jennifer(at)mpcf(dot)ca

http://www.mpcf.ca

Dhani Oaks

Director

Academy of Lions/The Shirt Project

Tel: 416-557-2997

dhani(at)academyoflions(dot)com

http://www.academyoflions/thisshirt

Robert Sarner

Director of Communication and Public Affairs

Roots Canada

Tel: 416.781.3574, ext. 4280

rsarner(at)roots(dot)com

http://www.roots.com

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Alpharetta, GA (PRWEB) December 01, 2011

Imedex, LLC would like to present the 2012 live Continuing Medical Education Events. Imedex

Jacksonville, Florida (PRWEB) November 16, 2011

Professional Development Resources has just released a new online CE course called ?Acupuncture ? an Introduction.? The course represents the latest addition to the company?s complementary and alternative medicine curriculum, which currently features topics such as mindfulness meditation, yoga as medicine, self-healing through breathing exercises, and the use of herbal medicines. These courses are intended to introduce health professionals to the healing power of traditional approaches to health and wellness.

Acupuncture is among the oldest healing practices in the world. As part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), acupuncture aims to restore and maintain health through the stimulation of specific points on the body. In the United States, where practitioners incorporate healing traditions from China, Japan, Korea, and other countries, acupuncture is considered part of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The new course provides an overview of acupuncture as presented by two fact sheets from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and includes a number of video clips illustrating its use.

?An important part of the service we offer health professionals is expanding their awareness of the types of treatments that are offered by practitioners who represent traditional approaches to healing,? says Leo Christie, PhD, CEO of Professional Development Resources. ?Why do we need to be aware of such practices? According to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which included a comprehensive survey of CAM use by Americans, an estimated 3.1 million U.S. adults and 150,000 children had used acupuncture in the previous year. Between the 2002 and 2007 NHIS, acupuncture use among adults increased by approximately 1 million people. This means that many of the patients we see are using alternative remedies, and we need to be conversant in such practices.?

Is it safe? Relatively few complications from the use of acupuncture have been reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which has responsibility for regulating acupuncture needles for use by licensed practitioners. Still, complications have resulted from inadequate sterilization of needles and from improper delivery of treatments. Individuals should be careful to select a qualified practitioner and carefully check credentials before engaging acupuncture services.

Does it work? Acupuncture has been studied for a wide range of pain conditions, such as postoperative dental pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, headache, low-back pain, menstrual cramps, myofascial pain, osteoarthritis, and tennis elbow. According to NCCAM, it can be very difficult to compare acupuncture research results from study to study and to draw conclusions from the cumulative body of evidence. This is because studies may use different acupuncture techniques (e.g., electrical vs. manual), controls (comparison groups), and outcome measures. Nevertheless, more and more studies are being published, and the results are summarized in this new CE course.

Among the CAM courses offered by Professional Development Resources are these:

Acupuncture ? An Introduction (1 hours CE),
Yoga as Medicine: the Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing (8 hours CE),
Alternative Therapies: Herbs I (What Every Clinician Should Know) (1 hour CE), and
Breathing: The Master Key to Self-Healing (2 hours CE).

About Professional Development Resources, Inc.

Professional Development Resources is a Florida nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1992 by licensed marriage and family therapist Leo Christie, PhD. The company, which is accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), and the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) ? as well as many other national and state boards ? has focused its efforts on making continuing education courses more cost-effective and widely accessible to health professionals by offering online home study coursework. Its current expanded curriculum includes a wide variety of clinical topics intended to equip health professionals to offer state-of-the art services to their clients.

Contact:

Leo Christie, PhD, CEO

Professional Development Resources, Inc.

904-645-3456

http://www.pdresources.org/

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