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| 14th Annual Governor's National and Community Service Conference | |
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| Workshop: A Matter of Ethics | |
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| Participants will learn how to commit to a leadership role in increasing organizational and community awareness of ethical standards. AmeriCorps members will also be engaged in dialogue regarding ethical issues and the presenter will be promoting, encouraging and strengthening commitment to ethical behaviors within a year of service and lifelong activities. | |
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| Presented by: Dr. Paula Vaughn, Paradise Valley Community College - paula.vaughn@pvmail.maricopa | |
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| Ethical Leadership Group Exercises Self-Guided Core Values Assesment Core Values Exercise |
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| Workshop: Appealing to Experience: Engaging Boomers as Volunteers | |
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| Participants will better understand how volunteers can fulfill certain needs at their organization, how to write and maximize the effectiveness of volunteer descriptions and how to better engage Baby Boomers by discussing their needs and understanding how to craft opportunities for them. Participants will take a test assessing their own needs, illustrating what they look for in opportunities. | |
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| Presented by: Linda Krause, Sr. Manager of Community Involvement, Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona - lkrause@volunteersoaz.org | |
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Recruiting Boomers.ppt |
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| Workshop: Asset Based Community Development: ABCD | |
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| Participants will learn how to build successful and lasting community collaborations to improve your community’s quality of life with Asset Based Community Development. Learn how to find and mobilize individuals, associations, institutions of government, business and nonprofits and steps to connect youth and adults into everyday community life as contributing members. Participants will gain tools to build communities by focusing on the strengths and capacities of citizens and associations that call the community "home". | |
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| Presented by: H. Daniels Duncan, Sr. Vice President of External Relations, United Way of Tucson | |
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| Workshop: Believe in the Power of Inclusion in National Service | |
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| Attendees will be introduced to inclusive practices in National Service. When introduced to the inclusion of a person with a disability, the key components in "putting together the puzzle pieces" will outline and elaborate the necessary steps to facilitating integration of a person with a disability into National Service. With this accessible map (puzzle), a National Service organization will be able to incorporate inclusive practices. | |
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| Presented by: Ted Garland, Diane Lenz, and John McDermott, Institute for Human Development, Northern Arizona University - tedihd@gmail.com | |
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| Workshop: Coalitions and Collaborations: What is the Difference? | |
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| Organizations and community members often collaborate to address complex problems. Collaboration is a powerful way to create community change, but working together is not always easy. This workshop will identify 5 collective models: Network, Alliance, Partnership, Coalition, and Collaboration. We will compare and contrast between models and discuss what it means to be a member of each. With a clear understanding of the different levels, participants will be able to identify how a group is functioning and also provide tools for a group to maintain a healthy and productive relationship. | |
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| Presented by: Jessica Cavas, AmeriCorps* VISTA Leader, Yavapai County VISTA Project - jbcavas@gmail.com | |
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| Workshop: Cultural Competency When Serving First Nations | |
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| The workshop will focus on the use of culturally appropriate strategies when working with First Nations. The participants will increase their knowledge about the demographics of First Nations in Arizona, understand what cultural competency looks like from the perspective of the First Nations population, and will provide participants with a review of strategies to engage, retain and celebrate successes, progress and change with the First Nations population. | |
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| Presented by: Teresa Honahni, Regional Manager, Parenting Arizona, Inc. - Teresa.honahni@parentingaz.org | |
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| Workshop: Cultural Competency When Serving Latino Populations | |
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| The workshop will focus on the use of culturally appropriate strategies when working with Latino populations. The participants will increase their knowledge about the demographics of the Latino populations in Arizona, understand what cultural competency looks like from the perspective of the Latino population, and will provide participants with a review of strategies to engage, retain and celebrate successes, progress and change with the Latino population. | |
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| Presented by: Robert Candelaria, Regional Manager Parenting Arizona, Inc. - Robert.canderlaria@parentingaz.org | |
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| Workshop: Financial Education and YOU! Budgeting, Saving, | |
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| It’s no secret that AmeriCorps members need to know how to stretch a dollar. Participants will learn to create a successful personal budget, how budgeting helps maximize money, how to make informed choices about credit, understanding credit scoring and reports and much, much more. | |
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| Presented by: Patrick Jordan, Executive Director, Arizona Saves - pjordan@arizonasaves.org | |
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| Workshop: Fundamentals of Grantsmanship: Prospecting, Research and Writing (1-3) | |
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| Participants will learn about the philanthropic environment in a broad text, the basics of grant funding research, how to match donor interest with program need, how to cultivate donor relationships and proposal writing and packaging. | |
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| Presented by: Terry Gunnell, Arizona State Director, CNCS - tgunnell@cns.gov | |
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| Workshop: Funding Your College Education: Unfolding the Mysteries of Grants, Scholarships and Financial Aid to stay out of Debt! | |
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| From Community College to a PhD; learn how college financing works and how to maximize your experience while minimizing your debt. Participants will learn about Student Financial Aid, Segal Ed Awards, Peace Corps Fellows and approaches to seeking scholarships and fellowships for study, travel and research. | |
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| Presented by: Georgia Ehlers, Director of Fellowships and Community Engagement, University of Arizona - gehlers@u.arizona.edu | |
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| Workshop: Greening the Workplace | |
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| Sustainability is a tricky term that includes so many areas of life that it can sometimes be difficult to know where to start. Considering that we spend 40 hours of our week in the workplace, this can be an important first step. We cannot know where we are going, however, without first knowing where we are. This workshop will help attendees begin to explore and assess where they stand in workplace sustainability and where there are opportunities for improvement. Areas of consideration will include paper usage, energy consumption, transportation, and food waste among others. | |
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| Presented by: Heather M. Farley, Center for Sustainable Environments, NAU - Heather.Farley@nau.edu | |
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| Workshop: It’s Time for Time Management | |
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| This workshop will target AmeriCorps members in the workplace and members will learn how to better manage their time. As communication in the world becomes more instant, we are all faced with the pressures of keeping up with the demands in the workplace and at home. This session will allow individuals to brainstorm and share personal “time management tips” as well as discuss how to simplify their lives and create more time by eliminating activities/habits that drain their time. | |
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| Presented by: Carolyn Christianer, Institute for Future Workforce Development - americorps3@gmail.com | |
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| It’s Time for Time Management.ppt | |
| Workshop: More than a Rollercoaster: A Guide to Understanding the National Service Experience for AmeriCorps* VISTA Members and Supervisors | |
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| VISTA brings out the crazy in people! Did you know that the “VISTA Rollercoaster” is based on actual psychological research? Based on the research of Dr. Ron Barnes, spend a session talking about the “Morale Curve”, and how it has affected and will affect your year of service. Supervisors will learn how to better handle VISTA members in transition and members will walk away with some practical tools to help them out of the slumps. | |
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| Presented by: Margaret Garvey, Program Director, Yavapai County VISTA Project - mgarvey@ycvp.org | |
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| Workshop: Serving with a Passion | |
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| Have you ever felt burned out and as though the passion that was once the force behind your drive is slowly fading away? Well, if so, this workshop is for you! Get ready for a powerful message from Tracy that will have you running back to your office so you can begin to make things happen. Tracy has created an innovative vehicle to help others uncover and develop their own personal gifts that only they can offer the world. This will be an interactive workshop where Tracy’s contagious passion for success will help you develop never-fail strategies for personal and professional empowerment. | |
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| Presented by: Tracy A. Williams - booktracy@tracywilliams.com | |
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| Workshop: Youth Voices: Wake Up and Pay Attention! Engaging All Youth to Create, Plan and Implement Service Projects | |
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| This workshop will present a historical service learning timeline, youth voice definitions, address engaging all youth in volunteerism (from the at risk youth, incarcerated youth, youth in group homes and institutions, charter/private/public schools), define service learning, describe Global Youth Service Day “Semester of Service” and the projects implemented in 2008 across the country and in Arizona, give resources for service learning curriculums and projects, and inform individuals on how to get involved in Global Youth Service Day “Semester of Service” in 2009. | |
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| Presented by: Cynthia Brooks, Academic Year International (USA) - cynthia.brooks@goodwillaz.org | |
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| Youth Voices: Wake Up and Pay Attention Youth Voice Workshop |
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| Workshop: Who Owns Garbage? A "Wormshop" in Owning your Own | |
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| Attendees will discuss their habits with personal and workplace garbage. How does something become labeled “garbage”? They will understand how their garbage contributes to the earth’s landscape by learning both where it comes from and where it ends up after it is declared to be “garbage”. Brief segments from two videos will be shown-“Power of Community” and “The Story of Stuff” to illustrate the importance of garbage-consciousness. All will participate in making small, one-household worm boxes for use in reclaiming garbage from the kitchen for use as fertilizer on indoor and outdoor plants. The boxes that are made in the wormshop will be used as raffle prizes for the conference. | |
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| Presented by: Dr. Linda Leigh lindaleigh1@mac.com | |
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| Workshop: You Drive Me Crazy! Why? | |
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| True Colors is a lighthearted, but well researched communication tool to help participants understand themselves and others in a safe environment. This tool can assist in more effective leadership and teamwork in the workplace. Intrinsic in human nature is the need for self-confidence and esteem, two characteristics widely recognized as the basis for successful behavior. Recognizing this need for self-confidence, individual respect, worthiness and self-esteem, True Colors has been created as the vocabulary through which people can communicate the expression of their character. True Colors is an easy, entertaining way to begin to understand yourself and others. Discovering your true colors is fun and exciting and once you recognize the True Colors in your self and others, this awareness will become the key to success in personal, professional and other social activities. | |
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| Presented by: Deidre E. Crawley, Project Director, Youth in Action AmeriCorps - deidre.crawley@nau.edu | |
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| Workshop: Your Story - Your Power | |
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| Participants will first get a brief historical context of QSpeak Theatre and how the program’s youth participants help to create community-wide dialogues around youth issues and needs. Workshop participants will learn some basic techniques for using the power of their own true stories and experiences to address a social concern within and across communities. Participants will be actively engaged in storytelling, simple physical work, community dialogue and idea generation. | |
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| Presented by: A. Beck, Director, 1n10, Inc. - Coordinator@1n10.org | |
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