March 9, 2012
8:00AM

Oregon Career Develoment Association Institute and Awards

The Expanding Role of Career Development Professionals

Clackamas, OR

Friday, March 9, 2012
8:00am to 4:00pm
Monarch Hotel & Conference Center
12566 SE 93rd Avenue
Clackamas, OR 97015-9760
(503) 652-1515

OCDA invites you to participate in the 10th annual PDI and Awards Luncheon.  This is the event of choice for regional career development professionals to enhance their skills, network with colleagues, recognize outstanding career development professionals, share best practices, and gain continuing education credits.

We are pleased to announce this year’s theme: "The Expanding Role of Career Development Professionals" with Dr. Rosie Bingham.  Dr. Bingham's presentation will be followed by an afternoon of networking and a special report from Christian Kaylor of the Oregon Employment Department on emerging workforce trends.

The Expanding Role of Career Development Counselors
The Effects of Workforce "Right-Sizing" on Marginalized Groups

This presentation will highlight issues surrounding the changing workforce and the roles career development professionals can play in more directly contributing to the discourse on “right-sizing” the workforce.  The discussion will focus on forces that cause economic distress and the subsequent effects on marginalized groups.  Questions will be raised about the role counselors may play in helping others examine their lives after a disaster strikes because some people will most probably have to change work locations and career paths.  Further, the most recent world-wide economic downturn may have disproportionately affected different racial/ethnic/gender groups.  The presentation will raise issues about how such changes might affect the size of the workforce and the career outlook for such groups. 

The presentation will also look at the role a career development professional might play in shaping the educational development of individuals who could potentially change the vocational and economic world culture.  Career development professionals will need to use career counseling and vocational psychology training in ever expanding roles beyond that of direct services provider and/or instructor.  In order to make systemic impacts on the vocational and economic cultures in societies it is essential that career counselors take their training and serve larger roles in the community and in educational institutions.

The presentation will conclude with a set of concise and practical recommendations for career development professionals.  Participants will then have an opportunity to practice putting those recommendations into actions.  Participants will propose at least one or two changes that they would be willing to try in order to more directly impact career change in the lives of those they serve and those they could serve.

About our Keynote Presenter

Rosie Phillips Bingham, Ph.D. ABPP, is Vice President for Student Affairs and a tenured professor at the University of Memphis.  Her primary practical and scholarly passions are:  the power of inclusion; multicultural vocational psychology; ethics; and living well in a diverse society.  She is past President of the Society of Counseling Psychology (17) and previously served on the American Psychological Association Board of Directors and on the Council of Student Affairs Board for the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities. She is on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Career Assessment and the author of numerous articles and book chapters on career counseling.  She is a founding board member of the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis.  She earned her doctorate at The Ohio State University and was employed at the University of Florida before returning to her hometown of Memphis to be the Counseling Center Director at Memphis State University (now University of Memphis).

Schedule of Events

Registration and Details: http://www.ocda.info/pdi/