"The Relevant Counselor: Preparing students for life, career, and the real world"

Location
Airport Holiday Inn
911 Brooks Ave
Rochester, NY

Date
January 25, 2006 (snow date January 27, 2005)

Overview
Counselors today have considerable responsibility to be brokers of information and resources for students and parents at all educational levels. Counselors need to help students and parents make wise decisions about educational and life planning choices, even in the face of increasing complexity and uncertainty about the future. Students today may be preparing for jobs that don’t yet exist, but soon will. Communities wish to nurture their young people for a diversity of future social roles and relationships. As such, counselors need to be up to date in their understandings of what is going on in the wider world, particularly in the realms of work and career as well as community-wide opportunities for young people of diverse talents, motivations and interests.

This year’s conference tackles the challenge of asking “how can counselors be effective in the facilitating, consulting and coordinating dimensions of their work with students’ futures?” and encourages school counselors to work with new understandings, role definitions and tools for their own success in helping all students move successfully out into the world around them.

Registration
7:45 - 8:30 a.m.

Keynote Speaker
8:30 - 9:30 a.m.

The Transformed School Counselor In Action
Carol Dahir, assistant professor and coordinator of counseling, New York Institute of Technology

Break
9:30 - 9:45 a.m.

Full Morning Professional Development Institutes
9:45 - 11:45 a.m.

OR

Shorter Morning Sessions
9:50 - 10:45 a.m. (Session 1)
10:50-11:45 (Session 2)

Lunch
12 - 1 p.m.

Performance of Depression: The Musical
1 - 2 p.m.

Afternoon Session
2:10 - 3:30 p.m.

Register Now
Print, complete, and mail the Registration Form with payment. Registration deadline: January 18, 2006.

Registrations should be sent by mail to:
Kelly Salomone
Department of Counselor Education
SUNY College at Brockport
350 New Campus Drive
Brockport , New York 14420
(585) 395-2258
ksalomon@brockport.edu

Make checks payable to: Western New York School Counselors Consortium

Conference Planning Committee

• Sandra Braun – Livonia Elementary School
• Deborah Eby – LeRoy, Private Practice
• Barbara Findlay – Penfield, Harris Hill Elementary
• Sandra Foley – Gates-Chili High School
• Donna Fraser – Honeoye Falls-Lima Middle School
• Christine Frederick – Rochester City School District, East High School
• Thomas Hernandez – SUNY Brockport Department of Counselor Education
• Andrea Jordan – Midwest New York Student Support Services Center, NYSED
• Kinga Kondor – Hillside Children’s Center
• Karen Mackie – University of Rochester, Warner School, Counseling & Human Development Department
• Carol Marron – Rochester City School District, Edison High School
• Theresa McGowan – Spencerport School District, Cosgrove Middle School
• Mary Lou Miller – Rochester City School District, Edison High School
• Lesli Myers – Greece Central School District Administration
• Beth Porterfield – Buffalo School District, School 33, Bilingual Education Center
• Bonnie Rubenstein – Rochester City School District Administration, and University of Rochester, Warner School, Counseling & Human Development Department
• Katie Scheirer – Rochester City School District, Monroe High School
• Charles Todd – Fairport School District, Martha Brown Middle School
• Barbara Trolley – St. Bonaventure University Counselor Education Deptartment
• Tom Wiggins – Keshequa Elementary School

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