Presenter: Beverly O. Ford, a consultant with OMTI's National Welfare-to-Work Institute.
 
Your participants come to you with motivation - needs and desires that

cause them to act. Find out how to identify and use both the positive and negative motivations they bring to promote work. Learn how to transform participants' complaints about their present lives into goals for their future. Develop strategies that will link their motivation to your program's goal of self-sufficiency.
 

Presenter: Myron Zuder, Ph.D., Retiree, Summit County Department of Human Services
 
One reason why just 7% of the workforce take advantage of its Employee Assistance Program ( E.A.P.) might be that many have little or no idea what goes on during a counseling session. Herein is a description of some the dynamics and qualifications of the therapist, limits of supervisor "coaching", and other discussions which may bring about increased understanding and more participation in this valuable fringe benefit.
 

Presenter: Frank Lay, Supervisor, Center for Families and Children, Cleveland, Ohio
 
This work shop is designed to familiarize human service/social services professionals with symptoms and behavioral features of common mental health disorders. Early recognition and treatment can be essential to empower individuals and help in their movement to self sufficiency.
 

Presenters: Michael Langford and Theresa Langford, Administrators at UMADAOP, Cincinnati, Ohio

How do you balance the demands of caring for yourself, your work and your relationships? This workshop will show participants how to maintain a constant spiritual awareness that can enlighten, enrich and restore a healthy sense of self: the results being a more positive person.
 

Presenter: Bill Weber, Program Developer, Adult Services Section, ODHS
 
An overview on the issues involved in caring for the growing elderly population. Information will be shared on psychological, social and financial issues that face those who care. For the elderly. Issues of abuse, neglect/self neglect and exploitation will be touched upon.
 

Presenters: Richard Prater, Director and Mary Ann Nore, Deputy Director, Richland County CSEA

A workshop involving the latest developments in child support enforcement emphasizing the important of effective child support enforcement to a variety of human service programs. The child support program serves more children for a longer period of time than any program in the nation other than education and with long term welfare benefits giving way to temporary assistance. Child support is extremely important, now more than ever, to the future of millions of children.
 

Presenters: Doug Shelby, Senior Community Builder/Coordination, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Lynn A. Wieland, Coordinator of Advocacy, Cuyahoga County Department of Senior and Adult Services, Community Office on Aging
 
The impact of expiring Section 8 contracts, new vouchers for the welfare to work initiative, new vouchers for transitional housing, and new vouchers for persons displaced under Project Hope VI.
 

Presenters will provide a basic description of medicaid's newly integrated home care services program, including details on the consolidated waiver.
 

Presenter: Beverly O. Ford, a consultant with OMTI's National Welfare-to-Work Institute.
 
Do you find yourself doing things for participants that they could and should do for themselves? Are you then frustrated by their dependence? Learn how to replace your "helping" behaviors with " empowering" ones. Shift your strategies from making plans, solving problems, and finding resources for participants to teaching them how to do these tasks for themselves.
 

This workshop will discuss a partnership between six agencies in the aging and childcare network developed to provide respite care and supportive services to grandparents who are raising their grandchildren, history and formation of the Alliance, current activities, and plans for future initiatives on behalf of grandparents raising grandchildren.
 

Presenter: Diane Setlak, LISW, ACSW, Consultant, Silver Lake, Ohio
 
This session will focus on the latest information on growth and development in the pre-natal, postnatal and childhood years. Researchers now know so much more about brain growth and development. It is time for all of us to become acquainted with this research to help the children of the future
 

An overview of the Field Services Section and Offender Services Network's efforts to link offenders with employment opportunities and other programming, while at the same time, holding the offender accountable to the public.
 

Presenter: Barbara Sekerak, Assistant Vice President of Training & Development, Corporate Security, Key Service Corporation
 
Presentation is geared to raising the level of awareness and lessening the opportunity of being a victim of crime. Topics covered in the presentation are home safety, family security, travel safety and financial scams and schemes.
 

Realizing and refining hidden skills (that we all possess but take for granted) is crucial to effective self-realization. By helping participants to realize who they are and what they are all about, this workshop will give them confidence in their skills and innate abilities. Included in the workshop is an essential discussion on how well-developed communication skills lead to better, more successful interviews by allowing the worker to not only understand, but vocalize his/her special skills.
 

See how the S.T.A.R. program can motivate the hard to reach client and boost your job placement/retention rates.
 

Presenters: Cynthia Burnell, Chief, Bureau of Managed Health Care, and Mel Borkan, Chief, Bureau of Consumer and Program Support, ODHS
 
Managed Care: Many OWF/HS/CHIP eligibles receive health insurance coverage through Medicaid managed care. This workshop will report on the current status of the managed care program in Ohio and will describe how managed care encourages the active involvement of enrollees in their own and their family's health care.
 
CHIP: The workshop will further demonstrate the success of Ohio's Health Insurance Option for children and how it helps families become self-sufficient. Topics will include how to identify children who are eligible for no-cost health insurance, how families can apply and what services are covered. Come to hear about the difference between CHIP 1 and CHIP 2.
 

Presenter: Veeda L. Kelley , LISW Summit County Children Services Adoption Supervisor, Akron, Ohio
 
Participants will review the recently passed federal legislation governing adoption and acquire effective strategies of implementation. The workshop will promote permanency planning for the children in agency custody though competently designed adoption services.
 

Presenter: Jane Loisdaughter, Director of Education, Free Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
 

This popular two (2) part workshop is an exciting and interactive presentation on the latest street drugs and other commonly abused substances. The session well identify current nicknames, effects, and patters of abuse.
 

Presenters: Kitty Brown, Outreach Supervisor, Hennepin CDHS, Minneapolis, Minnesota and selected staff
 

Join us for this action-packed, energizing review of Food Stamp payment accuracy. After a brief team building exercise, selected staff will compete in a game show format answering questions regarding Food Stamp policy and procedures. This highly interactive program has been presented throughout the U.S. and is, according to many participants, flat out FUN.
 

Presenter: Joseph E. Natalie M.Ed, LSW, LPC, Goodwill Industries, Zanesville, Ohio
 

An overview of services and cooperative efforts used to foster the seeds of success for our customers. Particular emphasis will be placed on job retention efforts being utilized by Goodwill Industries.
 

Presenter: Carol Dayton, ACSW,LISW, Chief, Adult Protective Services, Cleveland, Ohio
 

This workshop will discuss the development of the model protocol concerning the working relationship among Adult Protective Service, Cleveland Police Department, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's office and Witness/Victim Service for treating the older, battered women.
 

Presenter: Elizabeth Sabo, Principal, Designing Success, Cincinnati, Ohio
 

Don't miss this always-popular program utilizing experiential learning to explore self esteem and the ten keys to success developed by internationally recognized self esteem and motivation expert, Jack Canfield, author of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul book series.

See how the S.T.A.R. program can motivate the hard to reach client and boost your job placement/retention rates.
 

Presenters: Becky Edwards, MA, Director of Homeless Services for Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio, and Mary Kay Incandela, Director, Sapirstein-Stone-Weiss Foundation.
 

Becoming an excellent grant writer requires the development of a healthy mix of confidence, humility and organizational skills. Join the presenters to discover a methodological approach to wading through and effectively responding to the Request for Proposal (RFP). Although funding opportunities always present their own set of guidelines, there are common requirements that the well-organized grant writer should have in their pocket to simplify the process. Join these grant "gurus" to discuss all this and various funding sources as well.
 

Presenters: Jean Andolsen, MSSA, LISW, Program Director, Staff, and residents of New Life Community, Cleveland, Ohio.
 

Have we got "seeds of success" for you to learn from! Come hear from transitional housing residents who were homeless, what it took to turn their lives abound. Learn form experts about how the combination of classes in living skills, budgeting job search and job retention produces amazing success rates.
 

Presenter: Michael G. Kamau, President, The Family Rules, Cincinnati, Ohio

Business writing does not have to be a chore. It can be an interesting, artful exercise in your unique personal expression. We sometimes experience insecurity about how well we have expressed ourselves when we write. Whether we are collaborating on an elaborate project like a proposal or a procedures manual, or simply writing a memo or business letter, we often have questions about quality of our contribution.
 
In this presentation, you will end your insecurity about whether that sentence is correct or not; or whether this memo or business letter r4eads smoothly and makes the points you intended. You will study efficient ways to test your work to be sure it is of superior quality. You will cut 80% of your writing errors by learning to; sport sentence errors and correct them immediately; quickly test punctuation accuracy and make corrections as needed; sopt common memo writing errors and correct them; and make your memos and business letters flow smoothly always
 

Presenter: Mickey Burns, Job Search Administrator, Cuyahoga Work and Training, Cleveland, Ohio
 
An upbeat look at some of the workplace conflict situations that can sometimes lead to job quits. The workshop will feature some scenarios and case studies you can use to arm successful job seekers with techniques to handling conflict at work and, subsequently, increase retention rates. Although aimed at conflict situations often encountered by public assistance recipients entering the job market, attendees will get techniques for handling their own workplace as well.
 

This popular two (2) part workshop is an exciting and interactive presentation on the latest street drugs and other commonly abused substances. The session will identify current nicknames, effects and patters of abuse.
 

The individual who reviews your proposal will look at it with a much different eye than the writer. Does the activity proposed by the request mesh with the potential funder's mission? Does the proposal meet minimum criteria? Is there enough information in the proposal to understand the project? Is there so much information that I do not have the time to read it? What is in the proposal that will grab me? Why should I be interested in funding this project/organization? Join us for a discussion of all of the above.
 

An overhead presentation and discussion of the perinatal health status of Ohio. Topics will include infant morality, low birth weight, prenatal care and birth defects. Also included will be information on the March of Dimes and resources for professionals and an update on the status of birth defect surveillance in Ohio.
 

Presenter: Michael Burns, LSW, (the other one) Cuyahoga Work and Training, Cleveland, Ohio
 
In a society where things change so rapidly for our young adults there is a need to educate them towards self-sufficiency. This workshop will train counselors and social workers on how to stimulate young minds and provide tips and tools towards self-sufficiency. In addition, we will examine the attitudes, self-esteem and perseverance in today's youth and young adults.
 

This informative session will outline the local service delivery system for Children and Family Services. Topics will include: Agency history; mandates regarding referrals; actions required following receipt of a hotline call; and the case review process.