Workshop Descriptions

Session A – Choose one of the following:

A – 1 Helping Clients Manage Their Finances During Unemployment Happens By Planning Ahead
Kathy Frenette
Watching your pennies can add up to dollars. What is a want and what is a need? Taking advantage of the Advanced Earned Income Credit.

A – 2 Town Welfare 101
Donna Meuse
Everything you always wanted to know about Town & City Welfare with handouts. There will be time for a question and answer period to follow.

A – 3 The Assessment Process
Piper C Reason
This workshop will help service providers identify how prepared their clients feel about making a career decision, self-knowledge, generating options, information seeking, making decisions, and job search skills.

A – 4 Resume Writing
Barbara Warren
Learn how to help your clients make their resumes stand out and to get them the interviews. This workshop will provide the opportunity to evaluate various resumes and styles, and to learn what works and what doesn’t.

A – 5 Knowing Your Labor Market
Chuck Gherson
What your local market is compromised of, what it offers, how to connect with employers to find out what is really needed, and how to locate labor market information.

B – 1 How to Write Kick-Butt Cover Letters
Heather Carson
Participate in a hands-on abbreviated version of Bernard Haldane's Dependable Strengths exercise. Practitioners will return to clients with a user-friendly tool to draw out successful experiences from any client's past.

B – 2 Ethical Issues in Career Counseling
Rosalind Ekman Ladd
Of course, we are all ethical people! But ever wonder if it is OK to "massage" the truth to help a client? Or feel caught between doing what's in your client's best interest and your obligation to respect confidentiality? This workshop will focus on specific case studies and introduce three methods for deciding what is right. Open Discussion and sharing of experiences is encouraged.

B – 3 The Legal Handbook For Women in NH as a Self-Advocacy Tool
Theresa deLangis
This workshop will introduce participants on how to use the handbook as a tool for self-advocacy in keeping with the civil rights statutes of the state. It is published by the Commission in partnership with a 32-member Advisory Committee, covers the rights of women in education, the workplace, and in the family.

B – 4 Stress Management for Human Service Workers
Diane Gilmore
Are you managing stress or is it managing you? Understand the biology of stress, it’s impact on you and how YOU can become the Master of your own stress level.

C – 1 Job Search Training Skills...For People Who Help Other People Find Work!
Rich Paiva
Learn the skills your clients must know to help them find good jobs more quickly. You will also learn about the Career Development Facilitator (CDF) credential. Recognized in the field as the credential to have.

C – 2 Employment Law –Helping Clients with Criminal Records
Charles Temple, Esq.
The three levels of Criminal Classifications; Collateral Consequences of Convictions; and Annulment of Convictions will all be discussed.

C – 3 Women in the Trades, Get the Skills That Pay the Bills
Ronnie Sandler
Skilled trades and technical careers offer high wage jobs with on the job training. Learn more about how to help your clients explore and enter trades and technical jobs

C – 4 Playing The Networking Game, All the Way to Work!
Piper C. Reason
Most jobs are found through networking. While job searching might not seem fun, here’s an opportunity to try out a new game format for teaching your clients the essential skills necessary for effective networking.

C – 5 Emotional Freedom Technique and becoming a King or Queen of Possibilities
David Phreaner & Denise Sleeper
Learn about two unconventional approaches to career and job counseling that are sure to challenge your thinking. You will learn about EFT and the Art of Allowing that can stand alone or be used together as powerful tools to assist your clients and yourselves.