CDF 2011 Award Winners

2011 NCDA Outstanding Career Development
Facilitator Award winner:
Eileen Fleming-Patonay

2011 NCDA CDF Champion Award winner:
Susan Gabriel

2011 NCDA CDF Champion Award winner:
Raymond Henson

 

Eileen M. Fleming-Patonay serves as the Global Career Development Facilitator for Horry County Schools in Conway, South Carolina. She came to South Carolina with excellent credentials from her work in Connecticut where she was Career Development Facilitator of the Year. Eileen has distinguished herself as one of South Carolina’s outstanding GCDFs. Her work at Forestbrook Middle School has been a model for her peers in the Palmetto State. Her work has been featured on Carolina Careers, the monthly professional development program produced by the South Carolina Department of Education. She has been active with the school’s PTO, business community, and Horry-Georgetown Technical College to coordinate vibrant career development events for a diverse student population. Her career fair has become a model for her peers across the state.

 

Eileen works well with her school’s administration, staff, parents, students, and community. She has a great passion for her profession with a genuine desire to see her students achieve academically with a set goal for their future. She exhibits great competency within her profession and strives to improve herself professionally through staff development as well as outside educational opportunities within her scope of duties. She strives to insure that all staff members and parents are actively involved within the process of Individual Graduation Plan development and that everyone is well educated within the area of career availability for the students.

 

The National Career Development Association is pleased to award the 2011 NCDA Outstanding Career Development Facilitator Award to Eileen Fleming-Patonay.

 

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Susan Gabriel is the Senior Leader Program Manager for Goodwill Industries International. In 2003, Susan joined the staff of Goodwill Industries International as the CDF Specialist to help elevate the credibility and participation in the CDF Training Program. Susan believed it was important to ensure that the staff not only received quality training but also that they were given opportunities to apply their learning to real life situation. Over the years, Susan has continued to increase her knowledge and capabilities. She became a CDF master trainer, gained the eLearning certification and served as a member of the NCDA CDF Advisory Council. Greater than the national and international exposure and public commitment to CDF is Susan’s interpersonal style and personal commitment to the success of her students. She sincerely believes in the benefit of the CDF curriculum and the GCDF credential. Over the past 11 years, Susan has inspired countless people at Goodwill International Industries through her commitment to the CDF program – not only the CDFs and CDFIs she’s trained, but the millions or program participants who have been the beneficiaries of the improved competencies of Goodwill staff at many of the 165 Goodwills throughout North America.

 

NCDA is pleased to co-award the 2011 NCDA CDF Champion Award to Susan Gabriel.

 

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Raymond Henson is the Program Manager for the Office of Career Guidance, Exploration and Preparation in Little Rock, Arkansas. Four years ago, Career Development Facilitator was a new term to Arkansas. Ray quickly grasped this concept and began to build a better approach to collaboration in the career development arena. With barely a handful of CDFs in the state, Ray rallied a group of career teachers, administrators, and counselors to join him on his quest into one of the first CDF courses in the state. Ray proposed the grand scheme of “teaching our own” and without hesitation organized CDF Instructor trainings to begin building his dream. Ray has also worked hand in hand with state legislatures to see the Career Coach position become a reality in some of Arkansas poorest counties. One of the job requirements of a Career Coach is attending a CDF Training Program. Currently, one Career Coach per 500 students is being placed in schools across the state. Ray has promoted the CDF Training Program in multiple venues including Arkansas Career Guidance Association, local educational cooperative meetings, state administrator meetings, Arkansas Career and Technical Education Association, Arkansas Business Education Association, and more recently the newly founded, Arkansas Career Development Association. Through Ray’s hard work and promotion, Arkansas has grown to see over 300 professionals receive the CDF training during the last three years.

 

It is with great pleasure that NCDA co-awards the 2011 NCDA CDF Champion Award to Raymond Henson.

 

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