2009 Governor's Conference Education Breakout Sessions Listing

2009 Governor’s Conference

Education Breakout Sessions Listing By Time

Session 1: Thursday, October 29 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Disaster Preparedness and Response

Sponsored by Red Cross of Greater Indianapolis

DPR-01: 101 Disaster Training and Citizens Corps

Meeting Room – Veterans I

Presenters:

Deborah Fletcher, American Red Cross Liaison, Marion County Emergency Management

Brad Schleppi, Emergency Program Manager, American Red Cross of Greater Indianapolis

Session Description:

This session will discuss the types of threats and hazards which may occur in the State of Indiana and how they impact the community at large. It will also explain the steps necessary to prepare the individual, family and or organizations that may be affected by an emergency or disaster.

Learning Objectives:

 Identify what makes an emergency a “disaster” and the threats faced by the residents of Indiana

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Discuss the steps necessary to be prepared for an emergency or disaster at the individual, family and organizational level.

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Explain emergency response from a local, state and federal perspective.

Audience: Participants interested in Threats/Hazards and Emergency Preparedness activities, Disaster Relief

Professionals, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, National Service Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps

Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), Nonprofit Executives and Leaders.

Level: Beginner

Faith-Based Initiatives

FBI-01: Leadership for a Religiously Diverse World

Meeting Room – Veterans II

Presenter: Mary Ellen Giess, Interfaith Youth Core


Effective Leadership in the 21 st century must involve the capacity to work across difference, including religious difference. This does not necessitate being a religious leader, but rather a leader for interfaith cooperation –

working together across religious lines. IFYC equips young people for interfaith leadership through the exploration of shared values, service learning, and storytelling. This alternative method of engaging religious communities allows young people to explore their own religious identity as well as the identity of others while engaging in common action for the common good. In this workshop, IFYC staff will explore the definition of an interfaith leader, the IFYC methodology utilized to develop these leaders, and then facilitate an interactive workshop to develop the essential skill of storytelling. The workshop leader will outline the vision, knowledge base, and skill set of interfaith leaders, followed by a discussion of IFYC’s leadership development methodology, which utilizes shared values, storytelling, and service-learning.


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Participants will learn the urgency and importance of cultivating interfaith leaders.

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Participants will learn what it means to be an interfaith leader.

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Participants will begin to cultivate their own skills of interfaith leadership.

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Participants will learn about the importance of interfaith leadership and begin to cultivate those skills for themselves.

Audience: Agents of Social Change, Board of Directors/Committee Members, Career Center Staff, Community

Partners, Development Professionals, Disaster Relief Professionals, K-12 Educators, Faith-Based and Community

Organizations, Higher Education Administrators, Higher Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, Higher

Education Students, National Service Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps VISTA, Learn and Serve America,

Senior Corp) National Service Program Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Nonprofit

Consultants, Program Administrators/Staff, Resident Leaders, Trainers, Volunteers, Volunteer

Supervisors/Managers/Administrators, Youth Service Practitioners/Staff/Administrators

Level: Beginner

A Wealth of Ideas: Financial Literacy for People and Organizations

Sponsored by Networks Financial Institute at Indiana State University

FL-01: Financial

Literacy in Housing and Community

Development

Meeting Room – Veterans III

Presenter: David Kaufmann, Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority

Presentation Description: At IHCDA, we believe that growing Indiana's economy starts at home. Our charge is to help communities build upon their assets to create places with ready access to opportunities, goods, and services.

We also believe that financial literacy plays a major role in helping families become more stable, put down roots, and climb the economic ladder. The Indiana Foreclosure Prevention Network (IFPN) was developed to assist homeowners facing foreclosure in these troubling economic times. Since its inception in November 2007, the IFPN has assisted more than 25,000 Hoosiers who were in danger of losing their homes. Because we believe strongly in financial literacy, IHCDA also administers the Individual Development Account (IDA) program. IDAs offer families an opportunity to increase their asset base participating in a matched savings program. Indiana's IDA program has helped Hoosier families to save over $2.7 million, generating assets worth nearly $30 million. Along with the IDA program, IHCDA also administers the Educational Development Account (EDA) program. Similar to the IDA program, this matched savings program is geared toward furthering the education of 21st Century Scholar parents. Because of the IDA and EDA programs, IHCDA realized that many of the participants were not able to obtain a bank account. Unfortunately, IDA participants are not alone. It is estimated that more than 200,000 Hoosier households are unbanked. Bank On is a national financial literacy campaign designed to help families convert their wages into wealth by accessing and using mainstream financial services. Under the program, financial institutions charge reduced or no fees to open and administer accounts. IHCDA will provide pamphlets, contact information, and websites relating to the topics covered in the presentation.

Learning Objective :

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Provide an overview of the products offered through the Indiana Housing and Community Development

Authority (IHCDA), specifically The Indiana Foreclosure and Prevention Network, Individual and

Educational Development Accounts, and a new national initiative entitled Bank On

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Provide financial literacy information that goes beyond traditional banking

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Provide access to financial services to those least likely to apply for assistance through funding institutions

Audience: Agents of Social Change, Community Partners, Financial Officers/Managers, Faith-Based and

Community Organizations. Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Nonprofit Consultants, Program

Administrators/Staff, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators

Level: Intermediate

Leadership

Sponsored by USA Funds

LPA-01: The Case of Servant Leadership

Meeting Room – Veterans IV

Presenter: Carmen E. DeRusha, Purdue Cooperative Extension Service – Marion County


Leadership based on service to others is an inspiration and a validation for those who already sense the desire to help and serve others, as volunteers serving their communities. Leadership based on service will be a new discovery for those who have not encountered this concept before. Leaders find in Servant Leadership the personal satisfaction and happiness that only the authentic desire to help others can provide. This satisfaction is internal to the Servant

Leader – it provides true meaning to their lives. Servant Leaders are naturally accepted and loved in their spheres of influence because they are always looking to engage and help others to succeed and grow. A Servant Leader knows when she or he has succeeded by answering these questions: Do those serve grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, and more autonomous, more like themselves to become servants? And what is the impact on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived? These ideas are certainly new for many people; they will sound just right for others but for all, the challenge will be able to understand concrete behaviors that reflect this understanding of leadership. Participants will gain a new understanding of leadership based on Robert Greenleaf’s writings. This new understanding of Leadership begins with the desire to serve and help others vs. the traditional understanding of Leadership based on power and selfservice.


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Participants will understand the fundamentals of Servant Leadership

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Participants will identify behaviors that reflect Servant Leadership principles

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Participants will understand the value of the Servant Leadership philosophy to inspire community service and volunteerism in communities

Audience: Agents of Change, Board of Directors/Committee Members, Career Center Staff, Community Partners,

Development Professionals, Disaster Relief Professionals, K-12 Educators, Event/Meeting Professionals, Financial

Officers/Managers, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Higher Education Administrators, Higher

Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, Higher Education Students, Hiring Personnel, National Service

Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), National Program Service

Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Nonprofit Consultants, Program Administrators/Staff,

Resident Leaders, Trainers, Volunteers, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators, Youth Service

Practitioners/Staff/Administrators

Level: Intermediate

Mobilizing Volunteers

MV-01: Getting to Know Your Volunteer Center

Meeting Room – Veterans V

Presenter: Tiffany Dow, Alan Witchey, and Monica Nicholas, United Way of Central Indiana


The presentation will be an overview of what a volunteer center is, the types of services provided, and ways to access local volunteer opportunities. The United Way of Central Indiana’s Volunteer Center coordinates multiple large-scale volunteer events that engage community members, coordinates customized group volunteer opportunities, and maintains a volunteer-oriented website called Volunteer Solutions, which enables community members to find individual volunteer opportunities, and the large-scale volunteer events will be covered in more detail. While the examples provided will be specific to the UWCI Volunteer Center, the concept of all of these things are found in volunteer centers or United Ways across the nation, and the information will be applicable to any participant. Participants will learn how to access and utilize their local volunteer center (or equivalent resource.)

Participants interested in volunteering as individuals or as a group will learn about services available that will enable them to be connected to local volunteer opportunities.


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Participants will know how to utilize their local volunteer center

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Participants will learn how to access area volunteer opportunities

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Participants will learn different types of group volunteer opportunities available

Audience: Agents of Change, Community Partners, Development Professionals, Faith-Based and Community

Organizations, National Service Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America,

SeniorCorps), National Program Service Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Program

Administrators/Staff, Resident Leaders, Volunteers, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators, Youth Service


Level: Beginner-Intermediate

Unlocking the Mystery

Sponsored by the Indiana Department of Mental Health and

Addictions/ FSSA and Department of Correction

UM-01: Addiction Recovery Coaching

Meeting Room – Salon 5

Presenters:

Stanley W. DeKemper II, Gina I. Fears, Nate L. Rush, Unlimited Synergy, Inc.


Participants will be afforded the opportunity to better understand recovery coaching and to assess its appropriateness for their organization. Addiction Recovery Coaching is an evidenced based practice that increases recovery outcomes for recovery addicts and has been implemented for both volunteers and paid staff in faith based and community programs. The goal of this presentation is to increase the participants understanding of what addiction recovery coaching is and how it helps recovering addicts improve their recovery outcomes. The presentation is intended for policy leaders and management as well as direct service providers.


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Participants will recognize the roles and functions of an addiction recovery coach.

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Participants will understand the dynamics of addiction recovery coaching.

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Participants will be able to identify issues in the provision of recovery coaching services.

Audience: Agents of Social Change, Board of Directors/Committee Members, Faith-Based and Community

Organizations, National Service Participants, National Service Program Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders,

Staff, Consultants, Program Administrators/Staff, Resident Leaders, Trainers, Volunteers, Volunteer

Supervisors/Managers/Administrators, Youth Service Practitioners/Staff/Administrators

Level: Beginner

Youth Development


YD-01: Youth Finding Their Voice Through Service – Engaging Youth in Philanthropy


Presenters: Dianne Murer, Youth as Resources for Hendricks County

Annie Smith, Youth as Resources, A Program of the United Way of Central Indiana


This is a very interactive workshop that will allow youth and adults to “connect the dots” between service projects, community service and the bigger picture of philanthropy . Helping youth to find their voice through service will be a central theme of the workshop. Participants will leave with helpful handouts and ideas for making a difference in their communities and for successful philanthropic projects. Fun activities and small group discussions will enhance the core topics of: 1) enriching the experience of youth giving and serving; 2) understanding & awareness of

“making a difference” 3) community needs assessment; 4) the three pillars of youth philanthropy; 5) skill building for youth; 6) youth & adults working together. Participants will leave the workshop with an understanding and awareness that they as an individual and a larger group can “make a difference” in their school, community and society. They will also have an understanding that if they are involved with service they are really part of a bigger picture and that picture is “philanthropy.” The learning tools that they receive as individuals during the workshop will be very beneficial in building stronger civic engagement within their communities.


 Attendees will learn how to move “giving & serving” to the next level – philanthropy.

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Attendees will identify personal strengths and passions for “making a difference.”

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Attendees will learn how to identify ways to initiate and implement a successful community service project.

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Attendees will have fun while learning!

Audience: Youth/Adults

Level: Beginner

Campus and Community Connections

Sponsored by Indiana Campus Compact

CCC-01A: Generating, Deepening and Documenting Learning through Voluntary Service:

The DEAL Model of Structured Critical Reflection


Presenters: Dr. Lisa E. McGuire, Indiana University: School of Social Work

Dr. Kathy Lay, Indiana University: School of Social Work


Reflection has long been identified as one of the means by which service experiences become a tool for learning

(Eyler, & Giles, 1999) and is considered essential for faculty maximizing student learning from service. Building upon adult learning and experiential learning theories, this workshop will present a model of structured critical reflection called the DEAL model (Ash & Clayton, 2004) which requires students to D escribe, E xamine and

A rticulate their L earning. This model provides a structure for students to describe their service activities and examine them in light of the stated academic objectives, personal learning goals and/or their sense of civic responsibility. The workshop will also present a model of critical thinking skills (Paul & Elder, 2002) that assists in the generation and assessment of student learning from the service experiences. The authors will present examples of student products from a social work course with a service-learning option, as well as rubrics for evaluating reflection products using the DEAL model and Paul & Elder's critical thinking skills.

Learning Outcomes:

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Theoretical basis for employing reflective writing

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How the DEAL model can be used for service-learning classes

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Effective utilization of critical thinking

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Ability to rate reflective writing using critical thinking skills

Audience: Higher Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, K-12 Educators

Level: Intermediate

CCC-01B: This session includes Two Presentations – Part A & B


Part A: Schools within the Context of Community

Presenters: Dr. Eva Zygmunt-Fillwalk, Elementary Education, Ball State University

Dr. Gail Bader, Anthropology, Ball State University

Dr. Pat Clark, Education Studies, Ball State University

Dr. Jon Clausen, Education Studies, Ball State University

Dr. Mark Malaby, Elementary Education, Ball State University

Dr. Wilfrida Mucherah, Educational Psychology, Ball State University

Mrs. Donna Williams, Elementary Education, Ball State University


The purpose of the presentation is to provide an introduction to an 18-credit interdisciplinary, immersive semester at

Ball State University, which is providing a new approach to preparing early childhood and elementary school teachers-an approach that introduces future teachers to the complex interplay of factors that influence children's learning. The Department of Elementary Education is collaborating with the departments of Educational Studies,

Anthropology, and Educational Psychology to provide this immersive experience. Teacher candidates benefit from this semester-long experience by gaining a better understanding of the impact of community and family context in the educational process. They also provide a benefit to the community by participating in a project that meets a community need. This experience provides students and faculty with the opportunity to participate in teaching, research, and service in the community.


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How to effectively collaborate with the community

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How to navigate intra-college and inter-departmental politics to forge successful collaborations

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How to map projects in order to intentionally address campus and community needs

Audience: Higher Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, Community Partners

Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Part B: Older Adults and University Students: A Project for Lifestyle Redesign and

Service-Learning

Presenter: Dr. Candace Beitman, University of Indianapolis: Occupational Therapy


Nearly 95% (50 to 60 million) of older adults live either alone or with an aging spouse, in the community, or in a retirement or assisted living setting. One strategy for addressing the needs of a growing elderly population is sustain independent functioning or retard a reduction in functioning for as long as possible, thus improving psychological and emotional functioning as well. Lifestyle redesign approaches have been associated with maximized health, wellbeing, and community independence. Results from studies using this type of client-centered intervention have included significant decreases in health care costs and increases in reported quality of life for older adults (Beitman,

2001; Clark et al., 1997, 2001; hay et al., 2002). Similar programs have been helpful training students for future practice with older adults (Beitman, 2001). This presentation will discuss an interdisciplinary lifestyle redesign and service-learning program conducted at the University of Indianapolis for older adults living in a government subsidized Midwestern senior apartment complex. Results from this program demonstrated improved attitudes and knowledge in the students, and improved perceptions of well-being and mastery in the older adult participants.

Audience: Higher Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, College Students, Community Partners


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Session 2: Thursday, October 29 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.



DPR-02: Building Community Organizations Active in Disaster


Presenter: Steve Cain, Indiana Voluntary Organization Active in Disaster


This Building Community Organizations Active in a Disaster presentation shows how all parties can work together at the local level in all phases of disasters. ACOAD is a valuable way to bring people together to help individuals be more prepared for disaster; to make communities more disaster resistant; and to help communities and individuals recover more quickly form disaster. This presentation and discussion will allow participants to discover what a

COAD is, who is involved, and how to start a COAD. The COAD is inclusive of all members and organizations in a community. COADs not only help individuals in all phases of disaster; they make communities more disaster resistant. COADs reduce human suffering and financial loss due to disasters. This presentation is given by the

President of Indiana Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster and Purdue Extension Disaster Communication

Specialist. Attendees will learn about educational resources from all members of the Indiana VOAD and national organizations.


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Learn what a Community Organization Active in a Disaster does and who makes up a COAD.

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Learn will learn about resources from various organizations active in a disaster.

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Learn how to begin forming a COAD in their community.

Audience: Agencies, Agents of Social Change, Community Partners, Development Professionals, Disaster Relief

Professionals, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Local Government, National Service Participants

(AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps) National Service Program Staff,

Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Nonprofit Consultants, Program Administrators/Staff, Resident

Leaders, Trainers, Volunteers, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators.

Level: Beginner


FBI-02: The Cultural Commission: “Be the Change You Want to See in the World”


Presenter: Joey Nelson, Stone’s Hill Community Church


The participant will have a theological basis for community engagement, a sharper focus on the importance of leadership in a community renewal effort, and some heart-warming stories that underscore the power or a difference marker. What we believe, how we believe, what we produce, where we place our trash, the state of our buildings, what our yards look like, the movies we produce, the art we value is all a reflection of stewardship and our taking serious the Genesis or Cultural Commission. All that we do is a reflection of what we truly believe. We believe that community service and volunteerism is rooted in the Cultural Commission, something we find all the way back in

the first chapter of Genesis in the Bible. God made our world and then asked us to take care of His stuff. While we can never create what God created, we are called to extend it, shape it and form it and organize it and research it and use it in such a way that we thus extend God’s creative work in our world.


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Community Service is rooted in the Cultural Commission “Take Care of God’s Stuff”

 The Cultural Commission must be led by revolutionaries “Don’t wait for help to come from elsewhere”

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The Revolutionaries must meet the felt-needs of a community “Create Easter in Cemetery-Like Places”

Audience: Agents of Social Change, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Volunteers

Level: Beginner



FL-02: “Show Me the Money” Financial Literacy Education for Adults


Presenter: Linda Wawrzyniak, Higher Standards Academy, LLC


“Show Me the Money” is a presentation about how one city in Indiana created a program to help people begin to learn about and understand money during this economic downturn. Through the use of games and hands-on learning, people with little or no financial understanding were able to experience life-changing strategies to financial security. This presentation will showcase these games and how we made learning about money something fund and interactive. We will share how the students applied these games to real life and how it made a difference.

In addition, this presentation will provide resources and ideas on how to teach adult financial literacy. The goals of financial literacy will be discussed and shown how you can apply to any financial training.


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Participants identify instructional options and resources for teaching financial literacy to adults

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Participants will share and evaluate one local successful approach in Adult Education

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Participants will distinguish between basic financial literacy and financial freedom.

Audience: Career Center Staff, Community Partners, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Higher

Education Administrators, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Program Administrators/Staff, Resident Leaders,

Trainers, Volunteers, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators

Level: Beginners

Leadership


LPA-02: Telling Your Story: Leaderships Role in Securing Funding


Presenter: Falicia Brewer, Brewer & Associates, Inc.


The Case: How do I Tell My Story? is designed to provide attendees resources and tools on how to effectively and consistently tell their stories to funders and the community. The Case is the first essential ingredient in effectively communicating the organization’s needs to its constituents. It includes the mission and vision important to the community. Utilizing a PowerPoint presentation, handouts, anecdotal stories and question and answer, participants will learn how to create a case for support.

To compete with other organizations for volunteers, donations, in-kind services, media attention and other kinds of support, it is essential to set your initiative apart from similar endeavors. This workplace provides the tools and

techniques that help participants write a case for support that attracts volunteers, increases stakeholder commitment, builds community awareness and draws in support of their initiative.


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Participants will learn tools and resources to build a case for support for their organizations.

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Participants will increase their understanding of the purpose of the case for support.

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Participants will be able to utilize the case for support as an organizational management tool.

Audience: Agents of Social Change, Board of Directors/Committee Members, Community Partners, Development

Professionals, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff,

Nonprofit Consultants

Level: Intermediate


MV-02: An Introduction to Engaging and Sustaining Volunteers (Members) Who Are

Disabled


Presenters: Lise Cox, Bosma Enterprises, Inc.

Brian Petraits, Bosma Enterprises, Inc.


This presentation will focus on the untapped volunteers that are the disabled citizens of Indiana. Not only does mobilizing a volunteer force bode well for the organization or committee, but when you have a diverse volunteer force, many new strategies and ideas are brought to the table. Participants will be exposed to many different types of disabilities, some of the key stereotypes about those disabilities, and ways to be an interactive session with standard lecture and PowerPoint methods being administered. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers. Depending on the audience, generic topics can be elaborated on to best meet the learning objectives of the participants. After attending this workshop, participants will understand where to look for volunteers that have a disability, how to get over that initial stereotype about someone that has a disability, and the abilities of those with disabilities.


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Participants will learn about the importance of benefits of mobilizing volunteers who have a disability

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Participants will learn where to look for volunteers that have a disability

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Participants will learn key factors on different types of disabilities

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Participants will be introduced to the best practices in disability inclusion from planning to recruiting, to retention, to utilizing resources.


Development Professionals, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, National Service Participants

(AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), National Program Service Staff,


Leaders, Trainers, Volunteers, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators

Level: Beginner




UM-02: Access to Recovery


Presenters: April Schmid, Access to Recovery (ATR), Division of Mental Health and Addiction


The Division of Mental Health and Addiction (DMHA) provides funding for a number of prevention and treatment programs throughout the State of Indiana. This presentation will briefly discuss DMHA's prevention and treatment efforts, focusing on the Access to Recovery (ATR) program. Indiana Access to Recovery provides treatment and recovery support service funding for permanent residents of seven Indiana counties (Allen, Elkhart, Lake, Marion,

St. Joseph, Vanderburgh and Vigo). The Indiana ATR program aims to expand the chemical dependency recovery infrastructure in Indiana to include both faith-based and community organization that have not traditionally been involved in Indiana's chemical dependency and recovery efforts. Additionally, ATR aims to expand clients' access to services by funding recovery services (e.g. transportation, parenting education, childcare, employment services, transitional housing, and faith-based/community support). The Indiana ATR program also pilots the establishment of client choice at the center of all chemical dependency recovery efforts throughout the state.


 Participants will know and understand Indiana’s efforts to address chemical dependence through a variety of programs, including the Access to Recovery (ATR) program.

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Participants will understand how the Division of Mental Health and Addiction (DMHA) works with faith and community-based providers to provide funding, specifically through the ATR grant, for treatment and recovery support service provision.

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Participants will understand how becoming a partner with DMHA, through certification as an ATR provider, increases capacity-building opportunities because of DMHA’s collaboration with OFBCI and other technical assistance providers.

Audience: Board of Directors, Community Partners, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Nonprofit

Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Nonprofit Consultants, Program Administrators/Staff

Level: Beginner



YD-02: Hope School-Based Mentoring


Presenter:

Judy Sorg, DeKalb County Community Foundation


Participants interested in volunteer programs or service organizations will benefit from the lessons learned by this grassroots effort to provide school-based mentoring. Participants will come away with an increased understanding of what is required to develop a single or multi-district school-based mentoring program in their community.


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Attendees will be exposed to a grassroots effort to successfully assist elementary schools and help students succeed through offering a school-based mentoring program.

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Attendees will be exposed to an example of a school-community volunteer partnership involving business and industry, public and private schools, faith-based communities and service club.

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Attendees will become aware of requirements for developing a school-based mentoring/tutoring program, including volunteer recruitment, development, and retention.

Audience: K-12 educators, school administrators, faith-based volunteer coordinators/volunteers, community volunteer coordinators, business leaders

Level: Beginner



CCC-02A: This session includes Two Presentations – Part A & B

Student Presentations


Part A: Engaging College Students in the Election Process

Presenters: Joseph Baumgartner, University of St. Francis: Biology Major

Thomas Meehan, University of St. Francis: Biology Major

Eric Toy, University of St. Francis: Education Major


In the fall 2008 semester, Indiana Campus Compact sponsored the University of Saint Francis Student Government

Association (SGA) in developing a program to engage college-age voters in the U.S. presidential elections. The

SGA programming subcommittee carried out an election education program with the purpose of educating and engaging young voters and even enabling some college students to vote. The program was carried out over three events: a mock election/voter registration drive, candidate information drive, and a town hall discussion open to the campus committee. Our activities even gathered local media attention. As a result of the SGA program, the campus community was better informed about the election and thirty individuals were registered to vote.

Audience: All

Level: Beginner

Part B: Month of the Young Child

Presenters: Jessica Bailey, Purdue North Central: Early Childhood Education Major

Erin Foust, Purdue North Central: Early Childhood Education Major


This presentation will discuss a service-learning project at Purdue University North Central to recognize the month of the young child. The purpose is to highlight the importance of young children's development and to examine the quality of care provided in communities. Students involved in this service-learning project will be collaborating with local officials and the National Association for the Education of Young Children in order to foster greater awareness of these issues within Northwest Indiana.

Audience: College Students and Community Partners

Level: Beginner

CCC-02B: This session includes Two Presentations – Part A & B


Part A: A Model for International Service-Learning: The Effect of Poverty, Conflict and

Disease on the Ugandan People

Presenter: Doug Grant, Franklin College: Leadership


In January of 2009, Franklin College offered its first international service-learning course which included both an intensive classroom learning environment and a two-week visit to Uganda. This course was designed to allow the students a much different experience than a typical mission trip. The first element of a successful course would be to develop a solid understanding of the county, its history, culture and current issues. After that foundation was established, students needed to learn about Uganda through physical labor, at the organizational level and at the policy level. Learn how this amazing course impacted our students, developed critical thinking and continues to benefit the people of Uganda.

Audience: All

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Part B: Campus Partnerships: Service-Learning in International Communities

Presenters: Marilyn Lake McElwain, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Indianapolis

Dr. Candace Beitman, School of Occupational Therapy, University of Indianapolis

Dr. Teresa Jablonski-Polk, Department of Education, Ivy Tech Community College

James Ream, Theater, University of Indianapolis


This presentation will highlight a specific international service-learning partnership between the University of

Indianapolis and Galen University in Belize. Now in its second year, the partnership has expanded to include faculty and students from Ivy Tech Community College. In this presentation, participants in the Belize program, both faculty and students, will discuss the specific service projects conducted, assessment and documentation tools, use of technology, and plans for the future growth of this successful service-learning course.

Audience : Higher Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, Community Partners


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Session 3: Thursday, October 29 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.



DPR-03: How to Manager Volunteers in Times of a Disaster


Presenter: Kathy Wojkovich, United Way Regional Volunteer Center,

Mary Sullivan, Director of Volunteer Development for Metro United Way,

Jessica Wozny, United Way of Wabash County


Participants will learn about how four different communities responded to disasters that affected their communities.

How to mobilize volunteers, prepare and train volunteers to help in response and recovery mode for communities or neighborhoods. This session is being presented by four members of the Indiana Association of Volunteer Centers, an organization whose members are dedicated to the recruitment, referral, promotion and recognition of volunteers for organizations in their local communities and throughout the state of Indiana. The members have been trained and certified in establishing volunteer reception centers in time of disasters. They will share their knowledge and experience with the audience.

The presenters all had key roles in coordinating their community or regions response and recovery efforts during and after the storms of 2008. A brief overview will be given for each of the four communities, challenges faced and the overall outcomes will be shared. Time will be permitted for questions of the presenters. Materials to help you and your community will be provided for those attending this session. Be there on time as there is vast experience from these presenters to be shared.


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Learn how to manage the spontaneous unaffiliated, unskilled volunteers during a disaster

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Learn what a volunteer reception center, why its key during a disaster and how partnerships with community foundations, faith-based organizations, service clubs can result in forming Long Term

Recovery Teams.

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Learn from four individuals who have first hand experience with the four steps of disaster process; preparedness, mitigation, respond and recovery. Here are some numbers, collectively mobilized 20,000 volunteers to muck out homes or clean up storm debris of 3000 homeowners coordinated the filing 4,000

FEMA applications and over a year of recovery.

Audience: Agencies, Agents of Social Change, Community Partners, Development Professionals, Disaster Relief

Professionals, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Local Government, National Service Participants

(AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps) National Service Program Staff,


Leaders, Trainers, Volunteers, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators.

Level: Beginner


FBI-03: Mobilizing a Volunteer Revolution


Presenters: Timothy Ayers and Keith Carlson, Grace Community Church


Whether the participant is from a sending organization receiving organization, they will learn some practical principles that have worked in maximizing the volunteer experience. This results in happier staff, volunteers, pastors, donors, and clients. Tim and Keith will present both the philosophical and practical under pinnings of what we have learned from mobilizing thousands of volunteers at Grace for service in the community. We have reasons behind what we have done that are crucially important for understanding the difference between a good and bad volunteer experience. We have very practical lessons we have learned partnering with community organizations, both in regular weekly volunteer opportunities, and massive one-time events like our annual Weekend of Service where we mobilize 3-4,000 volunteers over a weekend.


 Volunteers go through a “staged” development process from casual to curious to committed to compelled.

We must provide opportunities to facilitate that growth.

 A “good” volunteer experience needs to be “good” for the volunteer, the sender, and the receiver.

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Good partnerships are a key to good volunteer experiences

Audience: Community Partners. Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders,

Program Administrators/Staff, Volunteers, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators, Churches

Level : Intermediate



FL-03: Financial Literacy for Youth – Financial Literacy Programming for Children &

Youth


Presenter: Jennifer Burk, Junior Achievement of Central Indiana, Inc.

Gail Thomas Strong, IPBS Teacher Line, WFYI Outreach

Priscilla Wolfe, Networks Financial Institute at Indiana State University


Children and youth learn about money in all sorts of ways. Now more than ever we need to teach future consumers to use sound financial practices and to make good financial decisions. This starts with a core foundation of basics like understanding the difference between wants and needs, setting short term and long term goals, learning to delay gratification and other money management topics like earning, budgeting, saving, spending wisely, understanding how credit works, sharing and giving back to the community.

The panel discussion will overview successful financial literacy programs and resources that can be integrated into community programs. Participants will learn about useful financial literacy educational tools including classroombased programs, afterschool programs, hands-on games and real life simulations, family activities, computer games,

fun fast-paced public television series and web-based resources where kids teach kids about money and business.

There will be a question and answer session with the presenters.


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Participants will examine the status of financial literacy among children and youth in the United States

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Participants will develop awareness about financial literacy educational resources available for children and youth and learn way to prepare future consumers with the critical life skills needed to put them on a path toward sound financial decision-making and prosperity.

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Participants will gain ideas for tailoring existing financial literacy educational tools for their constituents.

Audience: Community Partners, K-12 Educators, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Higher Education

Administrators, Higher Education Faculty, National Service Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), and Youth Service Practitioners/Staff/Administrators

Level: Beginner

Leadership


LPA-03: Establishing an Effective Volunteer Led Support Group Program


Presenter: Scott Hundley, Community Church of Columbus

Dana Fisher, Community Church of Columbus


Scott Hundley and Dana Fisher, as counselors in our local church, the presenters have found providing support groups that reach a variety of individuals and families allows us to make a positive and lasting impact on many. In the fall of 2007, Hundley and Fisher launched Tuesday Connection which is a 13 week support group program designed for families. The presenters are currently preparing for their 5 th session this fall.

With attendance over 200 each week, we provide a free meal, childcare and offer numerous support groups (i.e.

DivorceCare, DivorceCare of Kids, Boundaries for Women, etc.) Community Church of Columbus provide the service free and it is facilitated by volunteers.

The workshop would allow participants to: 1) understand how to establish a support group ministry; 2) select, train, and equip volunteers for service; 3) manage with effective means of financial support; 4) implement protective steps to insure safety.

This session will help participants recruit and develop a strong volunteer base to effectively run a broad support group program in a local church to significantly impact the various mental, spiritual and emotional needs of individuals and families.


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Participants will be able to establish and organize a comprehensive volunteer led support group ministry within the local church.

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Participants will be capable of developing a plan for utilizing volunteers for support groups ministry. The plan will include recruitment, equipping, and protective guidelines.

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Participants will also design a plan for community involvement that includes a referral network, marketing and additional financial support.

Audience: Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Nonprofit Staff, Program Administrators/Staff, Volunteers,

Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators, Youth Service Practitioners/Staff/Administrators

Level: Intermediate


MV-03-Session A: We’ve Got to Stop Meeting Like This


Presenter: June Miller, Indiana Nonprofit Resource Network


Meetings can be productive, efficient and effective. This fast-paced, interactive workshop will provide participants with guidelines and tools that can be applied immediately to any meeting to improve results and maximize benefits.

Learn how to manage disruptive meeting participants; stay focused on the agenda; engage all the participants and change the negative culture of meetings you participate in. You and the organizations you are associated with will spend less time in meetings while your productivity and positive outcomes will be on the rise. Workshop attendees will learn how they can plan more effective meetings and how to be an active meeting participant to assure that the meetings they attend are productive. Following this workshop, participants will have skills and knowledge that they can apply to the very next meeting that they plan or attend. Meeting costs (time, money and frustration) will decline and meeting productivity and benefit will increase.


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Participants will learn, and be able to apply, easy-to-follow proven guidelines for effective meetings

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Participants will have learned to apply skills that they can use immediately to improve the outcomes of the meetings that they are responsible for planning and for meetings they are attending. These skills include understanding the different types of meetings and how to plan them; managing disruptive behavior; staying focused, and more

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Participants will have tools that they can use immediately to improve the outcomes of the meetings that they are responsible for planning and for meetings they are attending. These include using alternative meeting agendas and minutes; use of parking boards, ground rules and energizers and more.


Development Professionals, Disaster Relief Professionals, K-12 Educators, Event/Meeting Professionals, Financial

Officers/Managers, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Higher Education Administrators, Higher

Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, Higher Education Students, Hiring Personnel, National Service

Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), National Program Service

Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Nonprofit Consultants, Program Administrators/Staff,

Resident Leaders, Trainers, Volunteers, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators, Youth Service


Level: Intermediate




UM-03 Session B– Hearts and Hands – Sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company

(This session is in the Mobilizing Volunteer Education Category – Presented in same room as Unlocking the Mystery)


Presenter: Sherry Bossing, Eli Lilly and Company

Presentation Description:

Participants will gain insights into Lilly's employee volunteer program "Lilly Hands and Hearts," along with how they have strategically aligned their efforts to Lilly's Corporate mission and vision. In addition, you will learn how

Lilly leverages the Lilly Hands and Hearts volunteer program to strengthen employee engagement and their overall commitment to the community. Participants will also learn methods for engaging, training, and mobilizing volunteers to make a measurable difference.


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Aligning volunteerism to the organization, mission and vision

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Approaching volunteerism strategically

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Accelerating involvement and outcomes of the volunteer experience

Audience: Agents to Social Change, Board of Directors, Committee Members, Community Partners, Development

Professionals, Disaster Relief Professionals, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Higher-Education

Administrators, Higher Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit

Staff, Program Administrators Staff and Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators

Level: Beginner



YD-03: Youth Development, Building Partnerships, and International Service


Presenter:

David Hoffert, Principal at Northfield Jr./Sr. High


Teachers continue to search for new ideas and strategies to help students learn and apply content with authentic and engaging learning opportunities. Similarly, community agencies struggle to find ways to best utilize their adults in meaningful service. Voicing Experiences through Service (VETS) is a Program of National Significance, funded by the Corporation of National and Community Service. VETS supports youth with and without disabilities (ages 14-

21) as they build relationships with veterans and collaboratively record oral histories for the National Veteran's

History Project at the Library of Congress. The VETS multi-year project is partnering with schools in Indiana,

Maryland and Vermont. In the highly interactive session, participating students, community partners and veterans will share reflections and lessons learned. In addition, participants will be provided with access to resources and tools for easy replication.


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Participants will be introduced to the benefits of intergenerational programming as a rigorous, relevant and relational service learning.

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Participants will learn the basic principles and values of using oral histories/ethnography to meet academic standards, other related life skills and meaningful community partnerships.

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Participants will be provided strategies for VETS curriculum as a model to combine service learning into authentic service learning experiences.

Audience: Educators, Youth workers, Learn & Serve, Community Agencies

Level: Intermediate



CCC-03A: Do Something! Students as Changemakers


Presenters: Matthew Morrow, MHA,IUPUI,

Shannon Sorrels, IU Bloomington

Christian Harmon, IUPUI

Kaitlin Kesmodel, IU Bloomington

James Vick, IU Bloomington

Kelly O'Hara, IU Bloomington


Matthew Morrow, winner of the 2009 Richard J. Wood Student Community Commitment Award will discuss the history and development of Youth Advocating Leadership and Learning (YALL) the group student action group he

founded as a student at IU Bloomington in response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.. Morrow will be joined by current YALL leaders who will speak about the organization, their upcoming plans, and opportunities for students.

Audience: College Students, Higher Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, Community Partners


CCC-03B:

“Measuring the Impact of Service Engagement”


Presenters: Courtney Brown, PhD, Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University

Tiffany Dolder, Center for Evaluation and Education Policy , Indiana University

Charles Boyd Hegarty, PhD , Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University


In order to measure the impacts of service-engagement on college students the Center for Evaluation and Education

Policy (CEEP) in partnership with Indiana Campus Compact (ICC) developed a survey to be used with several

Indiana campuses. The purpose of this presentation is to share preliminary results of this service-engagement survey.

The results provide insight into the impact service-learning and co-curricular involvement has on: student communication skills; student career paths depending on major, minor, or demographic; student connection to their campus and local communities; student level of interest and commitment to participating in service-learning courses and/or co-curricular service activities. The goal of this presentation is to advocate for the institutionalization of and supportive culture of service-learning and co-curricular service activities on higher education campuses through understanding student interests as well as outcomes.


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Share preliminary results of a service-engagement survey piloted on multiple campuses

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Provide insight into the impact service-learning and co-curricular involvement have on various student learning outcomes

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Discuss evidence in support of institutionalization of service engagement in higher education

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Session 4: Thursday, October 29 3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.



DPR-04: Managing Spontaneous Volunteers in Time of Disaster


Presenter: Alan Witchey, Volunteer Center Director, United Way of Central


When a disaster strikes, unaffiliated or spontaneous volunteers will come to help, but their arrival may cause unexpected complications. This presentation will provide a basic overview of spontaneous volunteers, what motivates them, and how to be prepared to manage them. We will explore how spontaneous volunteers differ from other volunteers and in what ways they are the same. You will receive the practical nuts and bolts of creating a disaster response plan for spontaneous volunteers, including when to activate, how to train staff, designating team leaders, backup plans, continuity of operations planning, and establishing strategic partnerships. The workshops will discuss different models and limitations for volunteer reception centers during times of disaster.


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Participants will receive a basic overview of spontaneous volunteers and how to manage them.

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Participants will learn components of a disaster plan as it relates to managing spontaneous volunteers, appropriate training, and contingency plans.

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Participants will overview of different models for volunteer reception centers during times of disaster, and when specific models might be more appropriate.

Audience: Agents of Change, Community Partners, Disaster Relief Professionals, Faith-Based and Community

Organizations, National Service Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, Senior

Corps), National Service Program Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Program

Administrators/Staff, Volunteers, Volunteers Supervisors/Managers/Administrators

Level: Intermediate


FBI-04: Educating Youth from a Faith-Based Perspective


Presenter: Cathie Humbarger, Three Rivers Educational Trust


Participants will leave with a clear understanding how faith-based decision making for youth can be included in every opportunity we have to mentor youth. We live in a culture that encourages our youth to make dangerous and destructive decisions based on immediate gratification with little regard to long term consequences. Those of us grounded in faith that have an opportunity to assist youth in making decisions can develop strategies in decision making that are appealing to youth and grounded in principles of faith even though the students may not have a faith based perspective. This presentation will equip participants to train and encourage youth in the decision making process that will make sense to them and help them understand positive outcomes. Participants will also learn to encourage healthy and positive long term instead of short term pleasure.


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Understand how our culture impacts youth to make dangerous/destructive decisions.

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Learn how to develop strategies in decision making that are appealing to youth from a perspective that decisions based on faith-based principles are sound even though students may not be making decisions from a faith-based perspective.

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Learn how to train and encourage youth in the decision making process that will make sense to them and help them understand positive outcomes. Develop strategies to encourage healthy and positive long term outcomes instead of short term pleasures.

Audience: Agents of Social Change, Career Center Staff, Community Partners, K-12 Educators, Faith-Based and

Community Organizations, National Service Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps VISTA, Learn and Serve

America, Senior Corps), Nonprofit Staff, Program Administrators/Staff, Trainers, Volunteers, Youth Service


Level: Beginner



FL-04: Understanding Young Donors


Presenter: Derrick Feldman, Achieve, LLC


“We’re struggling with the best way to engage young donors.” Sound familiar? That’s because you’re not alone.

Most nonprofit organizations are challenged on how to best engage younger generations of donors. Nonprofit organizations often make the mistake of failing to engage younger generations of donors, because they either lack an

outreach effort to engage them at all or attempt to do so in a manner inconsistent with the generation’s preferred methods of communication and/or engagement. Whether it’s Gen X, Y, Z or Millennial; this session will focus on how to attract, steward and engage young donors in the work of the organization. Based on case studies of other organizations, participants will gain a greater understanding of how to engage young donors and keep them involved in the work of the organization.


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Understand young donors and how to engage them

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Learn how to structure a campaign to attract young donors

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Learn the myths about young donors

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Learn a better understanding of young donors and how to successfully engage them in giving.

Audience: Board of Directors/Committee Members, Development Professionals, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders


Leadership


LPA-04: Building Effective and Productive Teams


Presenter: Monica Nicholas, Leadership United and Kim Donahue, Nonprofit Training Center


Participants will learn that team building is an effective way to bring a group of volunteers, students, employees, etc. together to become more effective at what they do by building trust in each other and improving communication skills. Many organizations are dealing with downsizing right now, putting more pressure on teams to do more with less and whether it is accomplishing simple tasks or strategic planning, learning to solve problems cooperatively enables the group to be more efficient. Participants will learn team building techniques, take part in hands on demonstrations and receive materials they can use to do team building with their own groups. This presentation will be a fun, upbeat, hands on learning experience that will introduce participants to the basic principles of team building, how to facilitate it and the desired outcomes. Participants will be shown how to strategically plan and facilitate interactive games designed to mobilize and motivate people. Through various learning activities, participants will apply teamwork principles including: ensuring effective participation by all members of a group, handling changes in the team, clarifying team-members roles and responsibilities, increasing trust, and tapping into the wisdom of crowds.


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Participants will understand why team building is more than just having fun, it is way to make a group of people more effective at what they need to accomplish

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Participants will receive concrete ideas on how to make teambuilding fund that can be easily simulated

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Participants will learn how to make team building meaningful to the team, including debriefing the experience and putting what they learn into practice


Development Professionals, Disaster Relief Professionals, K-12 Educators, Event/Meeting Professionals, Faith-

Based and Community Organizations, Higher Education Administrators, Higher Education Faculty, Higher

Education Staff, Higher Education Students, Hiring Personnel, National Service Participants (AmeriCorps,

AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), National Program Service Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Nonprofit Consultants, Program Administrators/Staff, Resident Leaders, Trainers,

Volunteers, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators, Youth Service Practitioners/Staff/Administrators

Level: Beginner


MV-04: Generations, Expectations & Motivations: Challenging the Status Quo


Presenter: Flory May, Simply Hospitality


The purpose of this presentation is to focus on the different motivated opportunities of each generation. Flory May will strive to answer the questions: “What motivates each generation to work their best?” This in turn changes the concentration on best volunteer management practices. These practices delve into nine specific fields that allow volunteer managers to best adapt his or her management to his or her targeted audience. These nine realms include: cost, motivations, control, communication, retention, process, reports, analysis, and appreciation. Flory will cover the steps to generational management with a clear slide show that will create relatable contexts that will allow the audiences to have a better understanding. Finally, Flory gives the program and interactive quality by showing a video followed by a simple game called “6 words.” This game allows the participants to stretch their imagination in the context of volunteer management. Building a Volunteer Fan Club. Learn the best practices to building a committed and productive volunteer workforce. This session is for Executive Directors, Managers and Hands-On

Volunteer Coordinators. Effective volunteer management requires balancing volunteer expectations and the needs of your organization. Volunteer expectations, requirements and use of technology vary greatly by generation. What they are willing to do, the amount of time they are willing to spend.


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Participants will be able to differentiate volunteer expectations by generation

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Participants will be able to differentiate volunteer requirements by generation

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Participants will be able to differentiate volunteer management practices by generation

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Participants will have a deeper understanding of the role (and expectations) of technology in managing volunteers

Audience: Agents of Change, Disaster Relief Professionals, K-12 Educators, Event/Meeting Professionals, Faith-

Based and Community Organizations, National Service Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and

Serve America, SeniorCorps), National Program Service Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff,

Nonprofit Consultants, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators, Youth Service Practitioners/Staff/

Administrators

Level: Intermediate




UM-04: Huffing in the Heartland


Presenters: Marissa Manlove, The 24 Group

Kim Manlove, The 24 Group


Participants will learn causes and consequences of inhalant abuse, how to prevent it and what to do when they learn someone is abusing inhalants. This presentation will use a multimedia format (video and PowerPoint slides) that combines the presenters' powerful personal story with the latest facts and data related to inhalant abuse, including statistics about use in Indiana


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Participants will know how to identify aerosol products that can be abused.

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Participants will learn the physical and psychological consequences of the misuse and abuse of inhalants.

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Participants will learn the sign of inhalant abuse.

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Participants will learn what to do and not to do if you discover abusing inhalants.

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Participants will know what populations are at particular risk for inhalant abuse.

Audience: Youth Service Practitioners, Staff, Administrators, K-12 Educators, Community Partners, Faith-Based and Community Organizations who work with Youth, High School, National Service Practitioners, Nonprofit Staff,

Program Administrators and Staff, Volunteers




YD-04: Service Learning and Social Justice: Increasing K-12 Students Understanding of

Human Rights Through Critical Community Service


Presenter: Nancy Brattain-Rogers, Center for Public Service and Community Engagement, Indiana State

University


This session focuses on how to create curricular and co-curricular service-learning experiences designed specifically to help students understand human rights issues of our times. We will overview the tenets of critical community service activities related to human rights. The purpose of Terre Haute Human Rights Day to promote understanding and recognition of the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of all members of the human family. Each year, several hundreds students K-12 students and community members join together to participate in workshops, service projects, performances, and other outreach activities in order to explore one of the articles of the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights. Human Rights Day service-learning activities have included diverse academic representation from the humanities, as well as natural and social sciences. The issues that are addressed at Terre

Haute Human Rights Day range from local to international. The presentation formal will include a presentation of the ISU experience and discussion of how participants can incorporate this model in their communities. Participants will learn about utilizing service-learning in a manner that extends service beyond volunteerism to learning about social justice issues.


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Participants will identify strategies for developing service-learning projects that help students better understand contemporary human rights issues.

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Participants will identify opportunities for developing a human rights special event in their community.

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Participants will define and describe the components of critical community service.

Audience: Educators

Level: Intermediate



CCC-04A: Are We Walking the Talk? An Indiana Study on the meaning of Service-

Learning in the Promotion and Tenure Process


Presenters: Dr. Jacquelyn Frank, Eastern Illinois University

J.R. Jamison, M.A., Indiana Campus Compact


During the past 20 years, service-learning has begun to garner increasing respect among university administrators as a vehicle for professional development among faculty members because it offers a vehicle through which the three faculty roles of teaching, scholarship, and service can be intertwined. However, often the institutional frameworks in place to evaluate faculty members do not sufficiently reward faculty engaged in service-learning projects.

Because of this, administrators charged with making decisions regarding promotion and tenure can find themselves unable to reward service-learning even when they desire to do so.

This presentation will explore a study conducted by the 2008-2009 class of Indiana Campus Compact Faculty

Fellows that focused on Indiana institutions of higher education and the tensions that existed between administrator perceptions of the value of service-learning and the demands of the institutional frameworks that exist around them.

Results from the study will be discussed, and participants will learn best practices related to the documentation of service-learning as it relates to promotion and tenure.

Audience: Higher Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff


CCC-04B:

This session includes Two Presentations – Part A & B


Part A: Biodiesel Production as a Platform for Service-Learning and Interdepartmental

Collaboration

Presenter: Dr. Douglas Schauer, Ivy Tech Community College-Lafayette: Chemical Technology


At Ivy Tech Community in Lafayette, students in the Chemical Technology program are currently engaged in a service-learning project that is focused on educating the community about biodiesel production. This project has involved several community outreach events that have invited the community to learn more about biofuel production. Furthermore students are also partnering with local biodiesel producers in an attempt to provide no-cost chemical consultation that will address the challenges faced by these producers in their processes. These interactions leave students with the impetus to develop and perform experiments that will solve real-world problems in the realm of biofuel production.

Audience: All

Level: Intermediate

Part B: Success Breeds Success – The Evolution of a Service-Learning Class into a

Community Project

Presenters: Roy Elkes, Ivy Tech Community College-Bloomington: Accounting

Steven Englert, Ivy Tech Community College-Bloomington: Accounting,


This presentation will explore the theme of harnessing the resources of an educational institution to promote the common good. Students in an introductory individual income tax course were required to participate in an on- campus free income tax preparation project for low- income families. As the number of clients began to strain the resources of the class, it was decided to partner with the city government to expand the service. The success of the endeavor created a snowball effect with not-for-profit agencies advertising the project which in turn led to more returns processed and the need for more preparers. This presentation will analyze the factors that transformed a service-learning experience into a community project.



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Session 5: Friday, October 30 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.



DPR-05: Service in the Wake of a Disaster


Presenter: Eric Riddle, Author of Watershed: Service in the Wake of Disaster


This presentation will discuss Eric Riddle’s personal volunteer experience in the June 2008 Flood and shares his insights while writing his book Watershed: Service in the Wake of Disaster . Riddle’s presentation purpose is to discuss the lessons learned through his three unique volunteer experiences with the local recovery teams. The participant will hear practical advice about how to effectively manage a local recovery effort in the aftermath of a disaster. The participant will hear from my personal experience as a volunteer and hear about the presenters work developing a volunteer management tools in response to a disaster.


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Participant will learn practical advice about how to effectively manage a local recovery effort in the aftermath of a disaster.

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Participant will learn about resources available to communities to be better prepared before a disaster.

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Develop insights into the Bartholomew County Long Term Recovery Team.

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Learn about the Indiana Volunteer Organization Active in Disaster organizations (INVOAD)

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Understand the value of the INVOAD resource network at a local level, communities can develop

Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COADs) to prepare for and respond to disasters.

Audience: Agents of Change, Community Partners, Disaster Relief Professionals, Faith-Based and Community

Organizations, Nonprofit Staff, Volunteers, Volunteers Supervisors/Managers/Administrators

Level: Beginner


FBI-05: Mobilizing Adult Volunteers to Empower Teens Who Reach Teens


Presenter: Rob Yonan, Pastor of Student Ministry at Grace Community Church


This presentation presents a vision to utilize faith, love and service to impact to the next generation. Rob Yonan will discuss the impact of a compelled community of adult and student volunteers, the lives of other students, through faith, love and service. 1) Surfacing, training, and empowering volunteers (adults, and student volunteers). 2)

Utilizing long term relationships locally, nationally, and internationally for serving and growing.


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Participants will be excited about the impact a team of adult volunteers can have in the lives of teenagers.

Participants would be excited about the impact and learn principles of creating environment for adults to reach teens who reach teens.

 Participants would be encouraging with a “Long Haul” view that reaps over the course of time.

Audience: Community Partners, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders,

Youth Service Practitioners/Staff/Administrators, Church Leaders, Youth Service Workers

Level: Intermediate



FL-05: Non-Profit Capacity “Planning to Build: Building Nonprofit Organizational

Capacity in Challenging Times


Presenter: Kim Donahue, United Way of Central Indiana

Richard Gordon, IUPUI Solution Center


The weakening economy has had a severe impact upon the nonprofit community in Central Indiana. Many nonprofit organizations are faced with serving more clients and having less funding to do so. As a result, many nonprofits must re-think how they operate and how they serve. In order to be effective in a time of global recession, nonprofit organizations will need to be able to define their capacity building needs, develop a focused strategic plan to guide them, and be aware of the local capacity building resources that can assist them. Topics of discussion will include – 1) Why organizational capacity building is important; 2) Ten key elements needed to devise a viable strategic plan; and 3) Central Indiana resources that can assist nonprofit organizations in building their plan and meeting their capacity building needs. Interactive case studies will be utilized to help nonprofit representatives with the following: 1) Identify and understand their organization’s capacity building needs; and 2) Apply key elements needed to develop a sound strategic plan.


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Participants will be able to demonstrate a coherent understanding of what capacity building means and why it is important

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Participants will be able to apply the ten key elements (i.e. a communication strategy, development of a strategic planning task force, etc.) needed to develop an effective strategic plan

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Participants will also be aware of and capitalize on local organizations that can be instrumental in helping them address capacity building needs

Audience: Nonprofit Staff, Nonprofit Consultants, Trainers

Level: Intermediate

Public Awareness

LPA-05: Communicating with Your Legislator


Presenter: Lesa Dietrick, Ice Miller LLP

Ann Doran, Ice Miller LLP


Attendees will hear from experienced lobbyists about the ins and outs of contacting decision-makers and how to advocate for their organization’s agenda.


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Participants will develop a better Understanding of how the legislative process works

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Participants will develop a better understanding of how to contact legislators

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Participants will develop a better Understanding of how to advocate your organization’s position with decision-makers

Audience: Board of Directors/Committee Members, Community Partners, Other – all of those who advocate for the organization/association

Level: Beginner


MV-05: AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps


Presenter: JJ Trotta, AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps – North Central Region


What would it be like if your organization suddenly had the resources of 10-11 enthusiastic, talented and professional young adults working full-time for up to eight weeks? Think of the impact! Best of all, there is very little cost to you or your community. AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) teams are led by a trained Team Leader and travel in their own fifteen passenger van. There is no charge for the team’s services except the need for housing, supplies and materials needed for the project. The workshop will explain the mission of

AmeriCorps NCCC, allow participants to leave with the knowledge of what NCCC teams can do for their organizations and communities, and a step by step guide to the process necessary to apply for and receive a NCCC team. Participants will have the opportunity to brainstorm and share ideas of how a team could support their organization and community.


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Participants will leave with a better understanding of how to use a moderate size group of members (more specifically NCCC members) to address the needs of their mission.

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Participants will leave with a better understanding of projects and goals of other like organizations and gain possible partnerships in the process.

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Participants will leave with a better understanding of the different streams of National Service and the ability to choose the one that best fits their needs.

Audience: Board of Directors/Committee Members, Community Partners, Disaster Relief Professionals, K-12

Educators, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Higher Education Staff, Higher Education Students, Service

Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), Nonprofit Executives and

Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Program Administrators/Staff, Volunteers, Volunteer Supervisors/

Managers/Administrators, Youth Service Practitioners/Staff/Administrators

Level: Beginner




UM-05: Inside Look Behind the Walls: An Overview of Programs Offered by DOC


Presenter: Jerry Vance, Director of Programs, Indiana Department of Correction


This session will provide an overview of the programs offered to those incarcerated with the Indiana Department of

Correction. Presentation will included these topics - Education, substance abuse, responsible fatherhood, PLUS

Faith and Character Based units, Therapeutic Communities.

Learning Objective:

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Participants will develop an understanding of the services offered inside prison, and how faith and community partners can coordinate inside and out.




YD-05: Your Personality, Their Reality: The Importance of Being Yourself in Motivating and Developing At-Risk Youth


Presenter: Samantha Arrasmith, AmeriCorps Member through Sycamore Service Corps


Samantha Arrasmith’s presentation will focus on the success that individuality combined with professionalism can bring to any volunteer working with an at-risk group. The presentation will be formatted to follow a list of what I have found to be the four most important aspects of personality when mentoring. These include originality, confidence, humor, and honesty. By featuring the story of Ryves Youth Center Sweeties from April 2008 to August

2009, Samantha’s plans to highlight important events in my service (including the beginning stages of planning an activity, implementing activities, and how to react when plans for an activity fall through) which correspondence to

Samantha’s belief that each of the four above-mentioned aspects of personality carry great importance when volunteering with at-risk youth. Throughout the presentation, each audience member will be provided with a small booklet in which they will be guided to fill in ideas of their own about planning activities and relating to youth. In order to get participants more involved with my ideas, Samantha plans to ask for four sets of three volunteers (one set for each aspect of personality discussed) who each will be asked to read statements as though they were interacting with at-risk youth.


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Audience will learn that as a volunteer, staying true to one’s own personality is key in successfully mentoring youth in need including but not limited to one’s own enjoyment of volunteerism and also lasting effect that one’s service has on at-risk youth.

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Audience will learn the four most important parts for personality with regards to mentoring at-risk youth

(including originality, confidence, humor, and honesty) and how each of these can help with planning activities and relating to at-risk youth.

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Audience will, throughout the course of the presentation, fill out a booklet of ideas for mentoring at-risk youth based on their own personalities that will be taken home.

Audience: Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Higher Education Students, National Service Participants,

National Service Program Staff, Volunteers, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators, Youth Service


Level: Beginner



CCC-05A:



Part A: Engaging New Faculty in the Pedagogy of Service-Learning

Presenters: Elizabeth A. Wepler, Indiana University: Office of Service-Learning

Dr. Andrew Libby, Indiana University: Office of Service-Learning

Dr. Nicole Schonemann, Indiana University: Office of Service-Learning


This presentation will discuss Project Engage, a summer service-learning course development program, created in response to the “Enriching Educational Experiences” section of the new IUB General Education Requirements. This program 1) introduces full-time faculty members and their cohorts on the IUB campus to the concept of servicelearning and to issues and resources in the local community, 2) provides visits to area agencies and opportunities to talk with directors and other representatives of non-profits in the community, 3) provides assistance and guidance in developing a new service-learning course or revising an existing one to include a service-learning component, and 4) establishes a mentoring relationship between seasoned service-learning faculty and program participants. This presentation will include reflection on best practices and lessons learned designing and implementing a new program.


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Engaging new and current faculty

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Overcoming obstacles to institutionalization

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Facilitating faculty partnership building w/community agencies



Part B: Factors Contributing to Success in Community Service and Service-Learning

Presenter: Marianne Foulkrod, University of Indianapolis: Community Service and Service Learning


A review of the literature on community service (CS) and service-learning (SL) illustrates some significant common practices, including proper placement, selectivity of applicants, sound supervision, active participation, and reflection. The presenters of this session intend to apply these common practices to a study of the University of

Indianapolis’ Laurelwood Project, a community service and service-learning experience that has been in existence since 1996. Besides exploring practices contributory to the success of the Laurelwood Project, the presenters will highlight an aspect that is less often mentioned in the literature: sustainability. As a thirteen-year project,

Laurelwood is well known and valued, and annually attracts a large number of participants between the ages of four and seventeen as well as college students who are volunteers or members of service-learning classes. This session will examine the design features of the Laurelwood experience that cultivate sustainability.

Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to learn about practices that make a sustainable service-learning experience.

Audience: Higher Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, College Students, Community Partners


CCC-05B:



Part A: Physical Therapy Education and the YMCA: Partnering to Strengthen the

Community

Presenters: Dr. Stephanie Piper Kelly, University of Indianapolis: Krannert School of Physical Therapy

Terri Bradley, Baxter YMCA

Julie Gahimer, HSD, University of Indianapolis: Krannert School of Physical Therapy

Sharon Worden, University of Indianapolis: Krannert School of Physical Therapy

Session Description

The purpose of this presentation is to describe a successful service-learning partnership between the University of

Indianapolis Krannert School of Physical Therapy Doctor of Physical Therapy program and the YMCA of Greater

Indianapolis, Baxter Branch (Baxter Y). This unique program serves to provide community-based learning opportunities for doctor of physical therapy (DPT) students while providing fitness and wellness opportunities for two groups: 1) older adults through the “Senior Fitness Assessment Program” and 2) adults with disabilities through the “Fitness Following Disability” program. This presentation will present the format of both programs with outcome information from all participants – academic faculty, students, Baxter Y staff and participants. Suggested models for expanding the program or for development in other settings will be discussed.

Audience: Higher Education Faculty, Community Partners, College Students

Level: Intermediate

Part B: Baby Steps: Early Childhood Service-Learning Partnerships

Presenter: Dr. Mary Jane Eisenhauer, Purdue University North Central: Education Department


Creating a meaningful service-learning course is like the toddler learning to walk! Service-learning is natural to the early childhood profession, but it is a complex process that takes time and planning. This presentation will explore the role of service-learning in early childhood teacher education through one instructor’s experience developing, implementing and evaluating all aspects of a new service-learning course. This is an overview of the steps taken to establish relationships with community agencies, promote students’ reflective thinking, and structure worthwhile projects that benefit both students and the community. Examples of the assignments, student projects and

assessments will be shared to illustrate the strides and occasional tumbles during the first offering of the course.

Participants will learn about engaging community partners, motivating students as well as the practical and logistical issues of creating a service-learning course.


Level: Beginner

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Session 6: Friday, October 30 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.



DPR-06: Disaster Mental Health and Working with Special Populations During Time of

Disaster


Presenter: Drew Klatte , Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction


This course examines disaster mental health and the psychological first aid model that is now being widely used.

The psychosocial reactions to disasters and trauma are recognized to be among the most enduring and debilitating outcomes of disasters. To respond effectively, responders need a full understanding of the psychosocial impact of disasters that is so prominent, pervasive and prolonged. It is now recognized that in a disaster, the size of the psychological impact greatly exceeds that of the medical impact on individuals, responders, and the community.

Not only do responders need to fully understand this impact on those they are assisting, but they also need to understand the impact on the responders as they fulfill their roles. It is essential for the responder to remain effective and functional both during the response and afterwards.


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Participants will understand the need for Disaster Mental health following disasters

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Participants have knowledge of the Disaster Mental Health response for Indiana

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Participants will have knowledge of the at Risk populations during a disaster

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Participants will have a greater understanding of the psychological issues that surround disasters.

Audience: Community Partners, Disaster Relief Professionals, Faith-Based and Community Organizations

Level: Intermediate


FBI-06: Urban/Suburban/Rural Faith-Based Partnerships


Presenter: Pastor Frank Alexander, Oasis of Hope Baptist Church & Oasis of Hope Development Corporations


In this presentation Pastor Alexander will share some of his experiences in developing and sustaining urban/suburban ministries. This presentation will discuss steps involved in effecting U/S/R Partnerships. I will also discuss some of the barriers, challenges and rewards relative to this type ministry. There will also be ample time for questions and answers.


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Participants will identify barriers to Urban/Suburban/Rural Partnerships

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Participants will identify steps to forging Urban/Suburban/Rural Partnerships

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Participants will become acquainted with some successful Urban/Suburban/Rural Partnerships


Partners, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, National Service Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps

Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Resident

Leaders, Volunteers, Youth Service Practitioners/Staff/Administrators

Level: Intermediate



FL-06: Strategic Planning For Nonprofit Organizations “Employing a Market-Based

Approach to Nonprofit Management”


Presenter: Carey Craig, Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, State of Indiana


These days there is so much talk about sustainability, its meaning and impact on the nonprofit sector. This workshop will explore recent trends in market-based approaches that, if applied successfully, may yield to a steady income stream for your organization in the years to come.


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Sustainability beyond public and private resources

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Implementation of fee-for-services

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Creative ideas and solutions

Audience: Board of Directors/Committee Members, Development Professionals, Financial Officers/Managers,

Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Nonprofit Executives/Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Nonprofit Consultants,

Program Administrators/Staff

Level: Advanced

Leadership


LPA-06: Working with Media: Media Relations 101


Presenter: Susan Miller, Ewing Miller Communications


Many people believe there is a mystery in working with the media. Others are afraid the media will distort their story and they will end up being “burned” by the press. In reality, working with the media is a great way to build capacity for an organization and it also much more cost-effective than traditional advertising. In this Media

Relations 101 workshop, Susan Miller will provide participants with an introduction to media relations including the basic tools nonprofits will need to communicate their story. In addition, Susan will provide them with insight into how the news process works, how to identify the best contact for a story and how to develop solid relationships with media experts. Finally, Susan will provide some practical tips for handling challenging interviews such as a scandal with a board member or a natural disaster. The workshop will conclude with participants breaking into groups to tackle various “media situations.” Susan will help participants make their “news” more attractive to writers and producers. This presentation will provide sound advice that attendees can turn to when confronted with crisis communication situations. This presentation will also provide an overview of the basic tools (media alert, news release) organizations will need to develop in order to tell their story to the media.


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Working with the media-how to make a compelling case with the media for covering your nonprofit’s news.

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Contacting the media – tips for reaching out to print, broadcast and online media outlets

 Staying out of harm’s way – fundamentals of conducting an interview including the “basics” of crisis communications protocol.

Audience: Board of Directors/Committee Members, Career Center Staff, Community Partners, Development

Professionals, Disaster Relief Professionals, K-12 Educators, Event/Meeting Professionals, Financial

Officers/Managers, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, National Service Participants (AmeriCorps,

AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), National Program Service Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Nonprofit Consultants, Volunteers, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators,

Youth Service Practitioners/Staff/Administrators

Level: Intermediate


MV-06: Read Up: Engaging Corporate Volunteers


Presenter: Alan Witchey, United Way of Central Indiana


This presentation will focus on effective strategies for engaging corporate volunteers through a specific example name ReadUp, a volunteer tutor program with the goal of elevating fourth and fifth grade Indianapolis Public School students who were reading below grade level to grade level reading. ReadUp is a collaborative program developed by the United Way of Central Indiana, in partnership with Indianapolis Public Schools and Central Indiana

Corporate Volunteer Council. Corporate volunteers are matched with students and spend one hour each week on vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. Having recently completed its second year, ReadUp recruited more than

1,000 volunteers to help 4 th and 5 th grade students who were reading below grade level. The presentation will focus on ReadUp as an example, but will explore it in the context of how to engage corporate volunteers, how to establish and evaluate volunteer programs, and how to develop larger community collaborations to make long-term community change. Participants will receive an overview of corporate volunteer programs and how to engage them, structuring a volunteer tutoring program, evaluation of volunteer programs, and how nonprofit, corporate, and public agencies can benefit by working together.


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Participants will learn how corporate volunteer programs are structured and how best to engage them in volunteer activities

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Participants will learn the basic components in developing a volunteer tutoring program, useful ways to recruit volunteers, and effective evaluation of volunteer programs

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Participants will learn how nonprofits, public schools, and businesses can work collaboratively to create meaningful community change.

Audience: Agents of Change, Community Partners, K-12 Educators, Faith-Based and Community Organizations,

National Service Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), National

Program Service Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Program Administrators/Staff,


Level: Intermediate




UM-06: Ex-cellent Workers Rather Than Ex-Cons (Developing a Workforce for Re-Entry)


Presenter: Doug Evans, Operations Director, PEN Products


Offenders have the chance to participate in over twenty five US Department of Labor certified apprenticeship programs during incarceration. Learn about this talented and motivated labor pool from PEN Products. We're a lot more than just license plates!


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Participants will develop an understanding of the job and skills training available in the Department of

Correction and how they can meet the needs of Indiana business.




YD-06: The “What,” “Now What,” to Actively Engaging Youth in Programs


Presenters: Patricia A. Wachtel, Girls Incorporated of Indianapolis

Joi B. Smith, Girls Incorporated of Indianapolis


This hands-on workshop will provide volunteers and youth workers with facilitation skills and practices to successfully work with groups of youth. Workshop participants will also learn and practice new ways of communicating and engaging with youth through the use of the Experiential Learning Cycle. Workshop participants will learn new ways of communicating and engaging with youth. Workshop will provide an opportunity for professional development in the area of positive youth development, group facilitation and gender specific services.


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Participants will gain an understanding of the Experiential Learning Club.

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Participants will understand the developmental needs of school aged youth.

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Participants will learn and practice basic facilitation skills applicable to any Socratic style of program delivery.

Audience: Volunteers 18 and older

Level: Intermediate



CCC-06A: The History of Service-Learning


Presenter: Mary A. Cooksey, Indiana University East: Humanities and Social Sciences


Service-learning is a pedagogy with a long, rich history. From the chautauquas of the 19 th century to Jane Adams’

Hull House and beyond, service-learning has evolved into a dynamic teaching and learning strategy impacting colleges and communities all over the world. In this presentation, we will trace the history of service-learning - from the innovative and provocative ideas of educators and intellectuals to an academic way of being that is transforming the American classroom.

Audience: All

Level: Beginner

CCC-06B: Do Community Partners/Clients Collaborate with Faculty to Enhance

Student’s Learning through Service-Learning Projects?


Presenters: Priya Chari Rajagopalan, Purdue University: Marketing

Harry Brown, Purdue University: Office of the Dean of Students


This presentation will focus on the process of developing (and maintaining) effective collaborations for successful service-learning projects. The topics to be addressed include the institutionalization of service-engagement and developing successful service-learning projects. Three “case-studies” will be presented. The first will explain the process of building collaboration needed to develop a new service-learning course. The second case study will discuss the process of transitioning a course from one having a general community service requirement to having an actual service-learning project. The third case study will focus on the process of maintaining an on-going servicelearning course. Each case study will illustrate different roles, relationships, and expectations needed to develop and maintain an effective collaboration supporting development and institutionalization of service engagement and service-learning within the university and within the community.


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Participants will be introduced to the development of the service-learning pedagogy through to its current manifestation in the American education system.



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Session 7: Friday, October 30 1:30 p.m. – 2:25 p.m.



DPR-07: Faith-Based Community Disaster Workshop – Collaborating to Prepare Part I


Presenter:




Participation in this workshop will provide Faith-Based Leaders with the tools and resources necessary to build stronger community relationships and forge new partnerships where none have existed to better prepare their local community and congregation for times of disaster. The Faith-Based community is a vital part of the response network needed during a disaster by providing services and goods to the public in a variety of ways. This workshop will allow throughout the State of Indiana as well as give them the tools to identify assets and needs within each of their respective communities. Indentifying, stakeholders will enhance each Faith Leader’s ability to serve their community as a part of a Community Disaster Network. The workshop will also educate the participants in the necessity of preparing for emergencies before they happen by identifying the steps necessary to ensure recovery after a disaster has occurred. Participants will also learn about the phases of disasters response and specifically how the faith group can help educate and in some cases mitigate some of the hardships associated with disasters before they take place within their community.


 To educate our community’s Faith-Based Leadership to the importance of disaster planning and preparedness. To encourage the participant’s peer-to-peer interaction and networking know-how to affectively create strong locally based relationships and to more effectively meet local needs during times of disaster.

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To build and more thoroughly understand its communities needs before, during and after a disaster strikes.

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To better educate Faith-Based leadership about the phases of an emergency and how they can assist in preparing their congregation/community for such an incident.

Audience: Faith-Based and Community Organizations

Level: Beginner


FBI-07: Simple Technology That Saves Lots of Time and Money


Presenter: Michael H. Simon, Simon Solutions


Charitable organizations such as churches, faith-based nonprofits, and social agencies have long since recognized the difficulties involved in allocating resources to those in need. Some organizations have dropped benevolence programs altogether because the process of monitoring giving, avoiding fraud, and working with other communities organizations can be extremely challenging.

Now there is hope. Simon Solutions, international leaders in internet solutions, partners with faith-based and community leaders in the development of revolutionary web-based tools that make it easy for churches, non-profits, and government agencies to work together at grassroots levels for greater outcomes. These solutions are built by a community, for communities.

In over 200 cities, hundreds of organizations, including thousands of care providers, use our technology tools to build greater capacity for community partnerships and engagement. They use CharityTracker to build greater capacity for community partnerships and engagement. They use CharityTracker to build distributed service networks that increase their ability to identify needs and mobilize resources. Accountability and efficiency is increased, and duplication of services and fraud is deceased.


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Participants discover new and exciting ways to jump-start and sustain faith-based and community collaboration using technology.

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Participants will hear stories of how other communities in the United State have been successful in helping churches, nonprofits, and government agencies work together in meeting the needs of the vulnerable.

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Participants will learn simple ways to create a culture that supports building capacity for sustainable community partnerships.


Partners, Development Professionals, Disaster Relief Professionals, Financial Officers/Manager, Faith-Based and

Community Organizations, National Service Professionals (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve

America, SeniorCorps), National Service Programs Staff, Nonprofit/Staff, Resident Leaders, Trainers, Volunteers,


Level: Beginner



FL-07: Grant Strategies – 5 Obvious (but rarely implemented) Keys to Communicating with Foundations


Presenter: Kris Parmelee, Parmelee Consulting Group, Inc.


This presentation will achieve the above learning outcomes by answering the following topic specific questions

1) Initiating a Conversation/Building a Relationship – is your program a fit for the foundation’s interest areas?

How can tell? Who should you call? Where do you start…?

2) Asking for Support – Are you communicating what the foundation needs to hear to help them learn gain a deep understanding of your organization? Are you clearly asking for support and is it for an appropriate program?

3) Maintaining the Relationship – How often and what kinds of communications are you having with foundations on an ongoing basis? Do they only hear from you when you need something? Are you turning in reports on time (and full of factual information)?

4) Nurturing Relationship – Just like individual donors, relationships with foundations need to be nurtured.

How do you get to the “next level” with a foundation? How do you know when it is time to end the relationship?

5) Recognize Foundation – Are you appropriately recognizing foundation’s that are supporting your organization and its programs/services?

The presentation will be followed by a question and answer period. Handouts will be available.


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How to effectively initiate conversations with and build a mutually beneficial relationships with foundations.

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How to effectively ask for support from a foundation

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How to maintain relationship with foundation (nurture relationships and appropriately recognize foundations)

Audience: Board of Directors/Committee Members, Development Professionals, Faith-Based and Community

Organizations, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Nonprofit Consultants

Level: Intermediate


PA-07: What is My Social Media Strategy?


Presenter: Georgette Dumont


Participants will not only acquire a better understanding of why nonprofit organizations need to adopt internet communication technologies into their organizations, but also see that it is not as complicated or daunting as many see it to be. Internet communication techniques incorporation is needed to remain viable into the future in a world that is transitioning to adopt and exist with new technologies. In today’s technological age, all organizations have to adapt to this new environment to remain vibrant. This is especially true for nonprofit organizations. As more people become accustomed to interacting online, those in the nonprofit sector need to understand how not only to utilize this new medium, but also how to align social media strategy with the organization’s mission and goals. In this workshop, a brief overview of the changes in how and why people use the internet will be covered, how nonprofit organizations can adjust and benefit from these changes, what nonprofit organizations need to do off line to make their online relationships effective, and how to start the process of engaging in nonprofit social networking relationships.


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Understand the importance of aligning social media marketing with organization’s mission.

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See the usefulness of using Internet Communication Technique tools to meet the organization

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Understand the value of social media marketing for the organization

Audience: Board of Directors/Committee Members, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Program

Administrators/Staff, Volunteer Supervisors/Managers/Administrators, Youth Service


Level: Beginner


MV-07: How to Promote Your Organization’s Mission Through Community Partnerships


Presenter: John Halal, Honors Beauty College


Too often, volunteer organizations miss the opportunities that may be leveraged by partnering with service minded small businesses. Many think only of approaching major funders. However, small businesses are uniquely poised to provide services that can enhance and accelerate a non-profit’s mission. Honors Beauty College President John

Halal has been making service part of the school’s mission for 17 years. He will discuss how the school has partnered with organizations such as Community Health Network to provide women re-entering the workforce following incarceration or substance abuse recovery programs, with the self-confidence they need to participate in the job interview process. Students at Honors Beauty College work with at-risk women to provide them with grooming services, and educate them on how to maintain their look. The transformation is more than aesthetic – you can see a renewed sense of pride and confidence in each woman that receives services. Mr. Halal will also discuss how Honors Beauty College has worked with Prevail, to support domestic violence awareness. Through a national program call CUT IT OUT!

, Honors Beauty College students learn first-hand the signs to look for that may indicate a client is in a domestic abuse situation.


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Participants will see how small business can support their daily mission through providing services that support the needs of the population non-profits serve.

 Participants will be encouraged to think “out of the box” with regards to how small business can support them in addressing their needs.

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Participants will benefit from real world examples of how Honors Beauty College has volunteered services to group ranging from the re-entry population to victims of domestic violence. Time-permitting, Honors

Beauty College founder John Halal may also be able to share insight to how Honors has reached out to support the self-esteem of girls and young women through partnerships with the Girl Scouts Council of

Indiana.

Audience: Board of Directors/Committee Members, Career Center Staff, Community Partners, Development

Professionals, K-12 Educators, Hiring Personnel, National Service Participants (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista,

Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), National Program Service Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders,

Nonprofit Staff, Volunteers, Youth Service Practitioners/Staff/Administrators

Level: Intermediate




UM-07: Breaking into Prisons: Keys to Collaboration


Presenters: Moderator: Rev. Stephan T. Hall, D. Ministry Director, Religious & Volunteer Services, Department of

Correction, State of Indiana

Stephanie Yoder, Indiana Youth Institute

Mary Z. Longstretch, Faith in Community Ministries

Rob Sambosky, Companions on the Journey

Lisa Williams, PEN Products

Doug Evans, PEN Products

Reverend Melvin Jackson, Westside Community Ministries, Inc.


Over five thousand Hoosiers volunteer with the Indiana Department of Correction each year. Hear from several community organizations about their partnership with the IDOC and learn how your non-profit can effectively collaborate with IDOC to better serve those who are incarcerated or recently released.




YD-07: Academic Service-Learning: Working with Learn and Serve - Indiana


Presenters: Michael Slavkin, Ph.D. and Marti Reece, Learn and Serve Indiana Initiatives


Interested in working with school-based partners in grades Kindergarten-12th Grade? This interactive session will provide faith-based organizations, community not-for-profits, higher education partners, and other interested parties with what schools expect of service-learning programs. Handouts, materials, and interactive discussions will provide participants with immediately - useable resources and support for working with schools in 2009-2010.


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After the session, participants will be able to recognize and explain the characteristics of effective servicelearning programs and projects, based on a discussion of the national service-learning standards.

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After the session, participants will identify the expectations of P-12 school partners in developing a needsbased service-learning project, as evidenced by participation in a partnership workshop experience.

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After the session, participants will be able to apply sound strategies to serving on a service-learning advisory board and being an effective K-12 school partner, as evidenced by participation in a partnership workshop experience.

Audience: Agents of Social Change, Community Partners, Disaster Relief Professionals, K-12 Educators, Faith-

Based Organizations, Higher Education Faculty and Students, National Service Participants, Nonprofit Staff,

Volunteers

Level: Intermediate



CCC-07A: “International Service-Learning and the Development of Intercultural

Competency”


Presenters: Willi Kant, Anderson University: International Education

Fredrick Shively, Anderson University: Religious Studies


This presentation will focus on different models of international service and learning as a part of the mission statement and the specific learning objectives of international education at Anderson University. Each year over five hundred students serve in intercultural settings with Anderson University’s Tri-S program. Several academic departments will be presenting on the integration of service-learning and academic objectives. This session will also

focus on the development of intercultural competency in international service-learning and the assessment of intercultural competency.


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Assessing intercultural competency

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Value of institutionalizing service-learning

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Successful international service-learning models

Audience: Higher Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, Higher Education Students

Level: Intermediate

CCC-07B: What Can Indiana College Students Do to Promote Environmental

Sustainability?


Presenters: Sarah Batto, DePauw University, Double Major -Spanish and Hispanic Studies

Christina Lear, Butler University, Triple Major - English, Gender Studies, and Spanish


Students from the ICC Environment Leadership Program will facilitate this interactive workshop by discussing and sharing successful environmental initiatives being developed and led by college and university students throughout the state of Indiana. Participants will discuss and develop action plans for environmental collaboration at the campus and statewide levels and will learn about current legislation related to the environment in Indiana.

Audience: College Students, Higher Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, Community Partners

Level: All

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Session 8: Friday, October 30 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.



DPR-07: Faith-Based Community Disaster Workshop – Collaborating to Prepare Part II


Presenter:




Participation in this workshop will provide Faith-Based Leaders with the tools and resources necessary to build stronger community relationships and forge new partnerships where none have existed to better prepare their local community and congregation for times of disaster. The Faith-Based community is a vital part of the response network needed during a disaster by providing services and goods to the public in a variety of ways. This workshop will allow throughout the State of Indiana as well as give them the tools to identify assets and needs within each of their respective communities. Indentifying, stakeholders will enhance each Faith Leader’s ability to serve their community as a part of a Community Disaster Network. The workshop will also educate the participants in the necessity of preparing for emergencies before they happen by identifying the steps necessary to ensure recovery after a disaster has occurred. Participants will also learn about the phases of disasters response and specifically how the faith group can help educate and in some cases mitigate some of the hardships associated with disasters before they take place within their community.


 To educate our community’s Faith-Based Leadership to the importance of disaster planning and preparedness. To encourage the participant’s peer-to-peer interaction and networking know-how to affectively create strong locally based relationships and to more effectively meet local needs during times of disaster.

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To build and more thoroughly understand its communities needs before, during and after a disaster strikes.

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To better educate Faith-Based leadership about the phases of an emergency and how they can assist in preparing their congregation/community for such an incident.

Audience: Faith-Based and Community Organizations

Level: Beginner


FBI-08: Mission Work at Home


Presenter: Merlin Gonzales, Faith, Hope and Love International, Inc.


Mobilizing volunteers in meaningful ways could be challenging. The vision and purpose of projects/events are important ingredient in recruiting volunteers but to keep the volunteers to continue serving is another challenge.

In this session, you will hear a story of an organization that started in April 2005 with 200 volunteers and grew its volunteer base to 1200 the following year. In addition, you hear ways to cast the vision, organize different groups and sustain a week of service that includes dozens of projects and hundreds of volunteers.

You can inspire a generation to serve not just with their hands but with their hearts. You can transform a community on neighborhood at a time.


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The audience will be encouraged to consider mission work at home first before planning to go outside of their community.

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Family-oriented mission will be recognized as one of the ways to bond together again and to experience volunteerism together.

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Mission at Home will be recognized as one of the alternatives for companies for team-building and activities outside of their work place.


Partners, Development Professionals, Disaster Relief Professionals, Financial Officers/Manager, Faith-Based and

Community Organizations, National Service Professionals (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve

America, SeniorCorps), National Service Programs Staff, Nonprofit/Staff, Resident Leaders, Trainers, Volunteers,


Level: Intermediate



FL-08: Beyond Grant Funding: “Now that I have a Government Grant, What Should I

Do? Accounting for Public Funds


Presenter: Carey Craig, Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives


Now that my organization has a government grant what do we need to do? This workshop will offer information for controlling and accounting for federal and state grant funds. Learn how to avoid major audit problems by employing the appropriate accountability techniques.


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Participants will learn how to manage a public grants program

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Participants will learn how to account for taxpayer funds

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Participants will learn about other government grant requirements

Audience: Board of Directors/Committee Members, Development Professionals, Financial Officers/Managers,

Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Nonprofit

Consultants, Program Administrators/Staff

Level: Beginner


PA-08: Present with Impact


Presenter: Denny Faurote, The Faurote Group


The primary focus of this session will be on how to deliver a presentation with impact that gets results. For most people, the thought of having to give a presentation creates stress and anxiety. In this session, Denny draws on his extensive experience in coaching managers and executives in presence and presentation skills to help participants gain the confidence they need to deliver high impact presentations. Instead of dreading the presentation you will begin to look forward to them with confidence. This session will use various multimedia resources to drive home the points and require the attendees to be actively involved during the presentation. In this session we will teach techniques on how to channel fears into positive energy. Denny will discuss the major elements of a presentation and highlight how and why the tone of your voice and actions speak louder than words (content). In addition, skills and techniques will be discussed that will help you, the presenter become a more powerful, energetic, and effective communicator.


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Participants will understand the elements (verbal and non-verbal) of an effective presentation

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Participants will learn how to command an audience with confidence

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Participants will learn easy to implement techniques to improve your speaking ability every day.

Audience: Board of Directors/Committee Members, Development Professionals, Event/Meeting Professionals,

Higher Education Administrators, Higher Education Faculty, Higher Education Staff, Higher Education Students,

National Service Members (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), National

Program Service Staff, Nonprofit Executives and Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, Program Administrators/Staff, Trainers,


Level: Intermediate


MV-08: Service is Not Simple: Reflective Discussion to Deepen Civic Engagement


Presenter: Kelli Covey, Project on Civic Reflection

Ryan Lewis, Project on Civic Reflection


The aim of reflective discussion is to provide an outlet for people involved in service to discuss their beliefs and values about service, community, leadership, giving, associating, etc – with short texts in the literature and

philosophy as a jumping off point. The discussions inspire fresh thinking, help people articulate their values and explore the meaning of service. This 75 minute presentation will begin with a brief overview of civic reflection –

Who is doing it? What are the beliefs? Next, the two presenters – both trained facilitators – will lead a 50 minute demonstration discussion on a short text to give participants a feel for the practice. Finally, the last 10 minutes will be reserved for questions.

Civic Reflection is a flexible humanities-based reading and reflection tool to help volunteer and service programs increase effectiveness and member satisfaction. Programs implementing civic reflection discussions report increased and satisfaction among participants, a stronger commitment to service and higher rates of retention and renewal among members and volunteers. Participants will gain an overview of the practice of civic reflection and the benefits. But they will also participate in a civic reflection discussion to get a real experience of how it works.


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Participants will be introduced to the concept and practice of civic reflection

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Participants will experience a civic reflection discussion

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Participants will learn about resources for implementing civic reflection programs

Audience: Faith-Based and Community Organizations, Higher Education Staff, National Service Participants

(AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, Learn and Serve America, SeniorCorps), National Program Service Staff,


Level: Intermediate




UM-08: When It is Time to go Home – A Panel Discussion on Re-Entry


Presenter: Mike Lloyd, Director of Transitional Programming, Department of Correction, Moderator


The panel discussion will focus on successful programs which have addressed the challenges and opportunities presented by the 20,000 offenders released each year from the Indiana Department of Correction.


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Participants will gain a better understanding of the scope of offender re-entry and how it affects Indiana.




YD-08: Summer Learning Scalability and Social Innovation


Presenter: Earl Phalen, Summer Advantage USA


With millions of school children under-performing academically, Earl has helped transform "out-of-school-time"

(OST) into an opportunity for serious, rigorous academic programming that has help increase educational performance and close the achievement gap for nearly 15,000 disadvantaged children. As Founder of the BELL

Foundation (Building Educated Leaders for Life), Mr. Phalen created a $30 million/year youth development organization reaching 15,000 scholars in 75 public and charter school sites throughout Boston, New York City,

Baltimore, Detroit, and Springfield, Massachusetts. While at BELL, one of the "top 25 organizations around the world" according to Fast Company magazine and the Monitor Group, Mr. Phalen developed a scientifically proven model to dramatically increase the academic achievements, self-esteem and life opportunities of children living in

low-income, urban communities. Mr. Phalen's newest venture, Summer Advantage USA, will grow to serve more than one million sstudents in grades K-8. A project of the Mind Trust, Summer Advantage is serving nearly 800 youth in Decatur Township, Indiana in the summer of 2009.


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Attendees will gain knowledge about the power of summer learning .

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Attendees will learn about building sustainable, scalable organizations .

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Attendees will learn about social innovation .

Audience: Appropriate for all audiences: Board of Directors, Community Partners, K-12 educators, nonprofit executives and leaders, youth service practitioners/staff/administrators and the general public

Level: Beginner

Session 8: Friday, October 30 3:00 p.m. – 4: 15 p.m.

HE-08A:



Part A: Student Efforts in Raising Global Health Awareness

Presenters: Caitlin Dugdale, Indiana University School of Medicine: MS II

Brendan Sweeny, Indiana University School of Medicine: MS II


In April of 2009, the Global Health Student Interest Group at IUPUI organized its first annual “Global Health

Week,” a series of lunch lectures aimed to raise awareness about international health issues. This week was capped by a “Hunger Banquet” which sought to increase awareness and action toward global hunger, raise funding for international development and included cultural entertainment and a keynote address by Jim Morris, former director of the World Food Programmer. Global Health Week featured a wide collection of speakers, including physicians from the community, an international medical missionary, and representatives from Indianapolis-based international efforts like Ambassadors for Children, the IU Kenya/AMPATH program, the Calnali Project, and the IUSM

Honduras program. These speakers gave lectures on a variety of topics, including: Sustainability in Global Health

Partnerships (panel discussion), Neglected Tropical Diseases, Medical School International Clerkships, Electives, and Short-Term Experiences, and Incorporating Global Health into Your Career.



Part B: Community Employment Workshop/A Service-Learning Project

Presenters: Kimberly Bush, Purdue North Central: Organizational Leadership and Supervision Major (OLS)

Tracey Haas, Purdue North Central: Business Management Major

Nicholas Mucha, Purdue North Central: OLS Major

Lori Schroeder, Purdue North Central: Accounting and OLS Major


The Community Employment Workshop is a project where students lead the participants in the ABC’s of job search techniques through lecture, examples and questions. This is a service-learning project that gives back to the community in the fact that this is free to the participants. There are six workshops, which guide participants through job search techniques, cover letters, resume writing, interview techniques and questions, follow-up techniques and a taped mock interview. The participants receive a CD copy of the interview so that they can critique themselves. The current class (Fall 2009) is creating a free workbook to be given to future participants.


Level: Beginner

CCC-08B:



Part A: Learning about Community Service through an Alternative Spring Break

Presenters: Martha Sue Breeding, IUPUC: Business Major

Dr. Larita Killian, IUPUC: Assistant Professor of Business

Cristal Reynolds, IUPUC: Business Major

Dr. Katherine Wills, IUPUC: Assistant Professor of Business


“Service Plunge ‘09 ” was the first cross-disciplinary and first alternative spring break project at IUPUC. This presentation will describe how the experience affected student values and perspectives both as representatives of the campus and as members of the community. The presentation will also touch on the process of garnering local support and tapping into student motivations. As IUPUC is a commuter campus, this project gave students a rare opportunity to meet other students and faculty outside the formal classroom. It was an alternative way to serve the community, build social relationships with other students and learn about the operations and management of nonprofit organizations.

Audience: Higher Education Staff, Higher Education Faculty, College Students, Community Partners

Level: Beginner

Part B: Learning in D.C., Helping at Home: The impact of an Alternative Spring Break

Experience

Presenters: Katie Neuman, Ivy Tech Community College-Richmond: Early Childhood Education Major

Ruth Bowser, Ivy Tech Community College-Richmond: Business Administration Major

Tammy Sabados, Ivy Tech Community College-Richmond: Elementary Education Major

Donna Snoddy, Ivy Tech Community College-Richmond: Accounting Major


Four students will present their experiences and outcomes from a recent Alternative Spring Break program. A student leader served in a planning and advisory capacity from beginning to end. Students who participated worked with various organizations in Washington, D.C. in order to provide service and learn about homelessness in several aspects. Students were able to learn about the experiences of homeless people and also had an opportunity to see a day in the life of a homeless person in Washington, D.C. After returning home, students took what they learned to start a volunteering club on their college campus to help underprivileged members in the surrounding community

Audience: Higher Education Staff, College Students

Level: Beginner