9:15 Board Governance: How It Affects Me As A Director - Kerry Jepson
This workshop will help Executive and Center Directors to understand the importance of a
strong governing board. You will learn how to help your Board become a well-oiled machine,
what the roles and responsibilities are for each board member, and how you fit into the picture.
10:30 Break
10:45 Marketing To The Abortion-Minded Teens - Lori DeVillez, B.A. Using research, insight and experience Lori will help you to raise awareness of your center in your community. What strategies attract your clients? What works? What doesn’t?
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Ounce of Prevention: Safeguarding Your Center - Daniel Mansueto, J.D. This session will assist directors in identifying legal deficiencies that must be corrected to avoid potential legal problems allowing your centers to operate more efficiently. The session will also cover recent legal attacks on centers. A necessary session for all center directors.
2:30 E-mail Marketing To Your Donors - Jeremy Lefevre, B.A., M.B.A. Sending out appeal letters by mail will produce some results, but how much is it costing you? E-mail costs less to create, less to send, and you can view statistics and track results. In this session you will learn what e-mail marketing is, how to use it effectively, and hear real life examples of the successful and not so successful e-mail campaigns run by the speaker.
2:45 Refreshment Break
4:00 Building a Culture of Life...in the City for the City- Pastor Abraham Perez, D. Th. The abortion clinics have been targeting Latino’s for years. Come hear the strategies that theyare using, and how we can counter these attacks and reach Latino’s on life issues.
Friday, July 22
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Prayer
9:15 Your Body is a Mystery: The Revealing Truth About Modesty - Melanie Pritchard, M.A In a society that plasters the revealed human body on billboards, in magazine and all over television, movies and the internet, it is challenging to see why it is in our best interests to refuse to unveil the mystery of our bodies. This session will uncover the way in which our bodies speak a language that is designed to uphold our dignity.
10:30 Break
10:45 Lila Rose LIVE! - Lila Rose, B.A. Live Action, the group founded by Lila Rose, has been doing extensive undercover work, and documenting the abuses of Planned Parenthood, and the Abortion Industry. Lila will share the results of her investigation, and the opposition she has incurred. She will also share reflections about the young generation she represents.
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Raising the Bar - Leslee Unruh Leslie will give you the tools to spread the message of sexual integrity in your community through teen focused events which have been a huge success including: Purity Balls, Father-Son Time Outs, Knights to Remember, and God, Mom, & Me Teas. You will learn all the tools you need to raise the bar in your own communities and discover creative ways a center or individual can teach abstinence.
2:30 Refreshment Break
2:45 The Kinsey Report Exposed - Gregory Lester, Ph.D. Long considered to be a groundbreaking and definitive work on human sexuality, the Kinsey report has often been quoted and referenced by researchers and scholars. However, there appears to be a little-reported and deeply disturbing dark side that calls into question both the man and his data. This presentation will present this little-known and under-reported side to the Kinsey report, and its implications for our understanding of human sexuality.
4:00 Exclusive Showing of Eggsploitation - Jennifer Lahl, R.N., M.A. Exclusive Showing of Eggsploitation, winner of the 2011 Best Documentary Award California Indie Film Festival - Join Producer and Director Jennifer Lahl and her co-writer, Evan Rosa and learn how the infertility industry in the United States has grown to a multi-billion dollar business. What is its main commodity? Human eggs. Young women all over the world are solicited by ads offering up to $100,000 for their “donated” eggs. But who is this egg donor? Is she treated justly? What are the short-and long-term risks to her health? The answers to these questions will disturb you! Join us and learn what you can do to stop the Eggsploitation
Friday Evening Excursion
$50.00 Pageant of the Masters theatrical performance, Only Make Believe will be your passport to the world of the imagination unleashed. A box dinner is included.
Saturday, July 23
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Prayer
9:15 The P's in Pro-life Power - Fr. Denis Wilde, O.S.A. Ph.D. Defending innocent life is not a choice. It flows from the Gospel. Our labor of love, be it abortion prevention, post-abortion healing or educating and activating fellow believers and citizens is a responsibility incumbent on us all. Fr. Wilde will guide us through key areas already at our disposal, to effect change in our beloved land and in the hearts of the living victims of abortion.
10:30 Break
10:45 Counseling Guidelines for Preventing Teen Pregnancies: Facts. Tips, and Advice - Sister Paula Vandegaer, L.C.S.W. This session will help center counselors respond more effectively to the challenging issues facing today's adolescence and better understand the crucial role that pregnancy centers play in preventing teen pregnancy. Contraceptives and their effects will be analyzed and suggestions will be given to actively promote abstinence, and build positive client decision making skills.
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Why Marriage Matters in an Abstinence Program - Scott Phelps, BA., M.Div. Helping teens choose abstinence is one of the best ways to reduce abortions in society. But how does the marriage component fit in your abstinence program, and should it? Approximately 80% of abortions occur outside of a marriage relationship, and this workshop presents a compelling case that effective abstinence programs are those that clearly communicate the objective benefits of marriage and give clients a goal.
2:30 Refreshment Break
2:45 Abstinence Counseling: A Focus on Males - Gregory Lester, Ph.D. Brain research tells us that the male brain and the female brain process information differently. As a result, the message of abstinence must be presented in a way that can be processed by each type of brain. This presentation will discuss the differences in the male and female brains, and how the abstinence message has to be adjusted for it to be processed and accepted by the male brain.
4:00 PANEL - ASK THE EXPERT PANEL Now you can ask ATI speakers a question and get expert advice...bring your questions!
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