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NCDA Teleconference / Webinar
By Mary Ann Powell
"The New World of Work: Public Policy and Counselor Responses"is the focus of this year's teleconference / webinar scheduled for Wednesday, July 9, 2:50 � 5:00 pm.
History informs us that work will always be significant to the individual/society. Work, or lack of work, affects virtually everyone. Changes in the world of work require dramatic responses from public policy leaders and counselors. This teleconference discussion focuses on employability topics, lifelong learning, multiculturalism, and spirituality, discovering meaning and purpose in life/work.
NCDA welcomes a panel of distinguished presenters:
- Edward A. Colozzi, Career Development and Counseling Services,
- Mark Savickas, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine,
- David Blustein, Boston College,
- Bridget Brown, National Association of Workforce Development Professionals, and
- Angela Byars-Winston, University of Wisconsin Madison
NCDA President Darrell Anthony Luzzo invites you to join your colleagues for this year's International teleconference/webinar on July 9, 2008. We encourage your national and international involvement by hosting a local participant site for this special event. During the past three years, hundreds of colleagues in over 40 participant sites from Maui to Maine and Massachusetts, and Australia to Paris were involved, and participants earned CEU's from the convenience of their local settings. Now is the perfect time to be thinking about collaborating with your local agencies, schools, colleges, and other appropriate community organizations that might have an interest in participating in the 2008 NCDA teleconference/webinar that will be held during the NCDA Annual Global Conference in Washington DC. Of course we encourage you to attend the entire NCDA Global Conference, but if you can't go to Washington DC, this is a great way to virtually join us at the Global Conference and earn CEU's!
Each participant site will be able to experience the teleconference, including:
- a live webinar with PowerPoints,
- excellent handouts, and a
- list of resources and suggested readings for staff development activities.
This program can serve as a catalyst for a longer workshop your local CDA or agency may want to develop in conjunction with the main videoconference/webinar topics. In past years, many sites across the globe have planned their local workshops as a wrap-around this activity.
Even if you are planning to attend the NCDA Global Conference, we need your assistance in identifying others who may be responsible for coordinating the local participant site event. Here are the specifics:
ACTION ITEMS:
1) Contact key persons in your local CDA organization and identify other key personnel from appropriate state agency/education/corporate or other relevant settings to determine level of interest and commitment. Use this information as background/introductory material for your dialogue and encouragement of their interest in this NCDA teleconference.
2) Confirm your interest as a local site via e-mail directly to Mary Ann Powell mpowell@ncda.org indicating your name, phone number, local participant site coordinator's name, e-mail, and phone number. (Please send a cc to Deneen Pennington dpennington@ncda.org and edcolozzi@verszon.net) Mary Ann will then contact the local participant site coordinator to fully plan the live event and send out any appropriate materials including a list of suggestions to facilitate coordinating the event.
Mary Ann Powell is the NCDA Special Projects Director. She can be reached at NCDA headquarters via email mpowell@ncda.org
