AGENDA - DIRECTOR'S DAY 8:00 Registration 9:00 Welcome and Prayer
9:15 Center Recordkeeping: Update 2009. Know When to Hold 'Em; Know When to Fold
'Em - Sister Patricia McGowan, M.B.A.
The course will cover why to maintain what records for whom, as well as discuss how long, how
much and where to effectively keep and safeguard records. An informative, hands-on workshop
that will give you the experience to confidently manage your center's important documents. With
changing government guidelines this session is a must attend.
10:45 Break
11:00 Vision-Driven Fundraising: - Lori DeVillez, B.A.
This session is ideally suited for leaders seeking guidance on how to develop a successful fundraising
business plan and who want to learn new strategies and methods for increasing center
donations. In these times of unique opportunity, we must learn innovative ways to secure a longterm,
secure base of financial support.
12:30 Lunch Break
1:30 Burnout - Why You're At Risk, How to Prevent and Reverse It -
Gregory Lester, Ph.D.
The term burnout refers to a phenomenon often seen in social service workers where they diminish
in effectiveness, morale, mood, and energy. Burnout is a significant risk for all social service
workers. This presentation will explain the phenomenon of burnout along with methods designed
to prevent it from occurring and reversing it when it does occur.
2:45 Break
3:00 Handling the Difficult Volunteer - Sister Paula Vandegaer, L.C.S.W.
Few supervisory tasks are as challenging and frustrating as dealing with performance problems.
Whether dealing with a volunteer who does not have the right skills or one whose attitude and
behavior does not meet your expectations, your job is to provide supervision, coaching and
management to turn the situation around. This session is sure to help you help your staff. A real
skill builder!
4:15 The Role and Power of Good Community Relationships - Janet Morana, MEd.
A definition of good community relations is that it comprises a variety of marketing tactics that
strengthen your credibility, enhance your image, develop goodwill, or influence public opinion.
This session will share highly effective methods aimed to inform a target audience about who you
are, what you do, and why your work is important.
Friday, July 24, 2009
8:00 Registration 9:00 Welcome and Prayer
9:15 How to Talk to Teens and Young Adults About Sex, Love and Character: Part I -
Thomas Likona, Ph.D
Drawing on his 40 years of experience with educators, parents, and youth, Dr. Likona will share
how to talk with young persons about the meaning of sexual intimacy, the ten emotional dangers of
premature sexual involvement, and the rewards of waiting.
10:45 Break
11:00 How to Talk to Teens and Young Adults About Sex, Love and Character: Part II -
Thomas Likona, Ph.D.
Dr. Likona will continue by discussing the six stages of moral reasoning, the strategies for making
good ethical choices, building a strong personal character, and living a fulfilling life.
12:30 Lunch Break
1:30 Short-Term Counseling for Long-Term Effect - Gregory Lester, Ph.D.
One of the biggest challenges we face is how to have a powerful effect on people when we have
only a short time to talk to or counsel them. This presentation will discuss powerful ways to impact
people in a short period of time. Methods drawn from sophisticated psychotherapy models will be
presented in a format that makes them practical and easy-to-understand, remember, and apply.
2:45 Break
3:00 Staying the Course Through Difficult Times - Father Frank Pavone.
Listen as Father Pavone shares where our movement is headed during these uncertain times and
what exciting times lay ahead of us. Come be encouraged, and renewed.
4:15 From Artificial Birth Control To Natural Family Planning -
Sister Paula Vandegaer, L.C.S.W
In order to make healthy life changing decisions your clients need to know about the harmful nature
of artificial birth control and how natural family planning can provide the help they need. Are you
equipped to provide this critical transformation information to your clients? This session will share
tips for counseling center clients on their reliance on contraception.
Friday - Enjoy an evening of beauty, dining and art. Pageant of the Masters Where Art Comes to Life
Ninety minutes of "living pictures" - incredibly faithful art re-creations of classical and contemporary work
with real people posing to look exactly like their counterparts in the original pieces. An outdoor amphitheater,
professional orchestra, original score, live narration, intricate sets, sophisticated lighting, expert staff, and
hundreds of dedicated volunteers have won recognition for the Pageant as the best presentation of its kind.
(Dinner on your own).
Saturday, July 25, 2009
8:00 Registration 9:00 Welcome and Prayer
9:15 As the World Turns: Understanding the Hidden Wounds of Those We Serve - Vicki
Thorn, B.A.
Societal changes that we have come to take for granted have radically changed the lives of
the modern post-millennium woman. This informative session will discuss how chemical
contraceptives, abortion, zero population growth, divorce, daycare, evil-child movies and various
media, have influenced women both psychologically and spiritually. An insightful and beneficial
session in helping us to understand those we see in our center work.
10:45 Break
11:00 Building Healthy Relationships In A Hook-Up World - Rev. John Sorrell, B.A.
Registrants will learn techniques and strategies for helping clients set healthy boundaries, learn
and communicate refusal skills, and teach critical relationship skills that will protect their minds,
bodies, and spirits, and help them to build healthy relationships that will last a lifetime. The good
news is these skills can be taught and practiced!
12:30 Lunch Break
1:30 Epidemiology of STDs in the United States - Eleanor V. Azurin, M.D.
This session will bring us up to date on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) presenting data
regarding the prevalence and continued impact of STDs on the individual and on society. With an
estimated 19 million STD infections occurring every year in the U.S., half among those under 25,
everyone who works within a center should be informed.
2:45 Break
3:00 Liberty to the Captives of the Safe Sex Delusion: Part I - Monica Hidalgo Breaux,
Ph.D, M.S.W.
Our culture promotes recreational sex, which poses immense challenges to both married and single
people. Many are slaves to their sexual appetites, but yearn to be set free. Misinformation is at the
root of the delusion of safe sex.
4:15 Liberty to the Captives of the Safe Sex Delusion: Part II - Monica Hidalgo Breaux,
Ph.D, M.S.W
Practical guidelines for preventing or correcting sexual compulsions while encouraging healthy
sexual development.
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