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November 18-20, 2009

Children’s Home Society of West Virginia 1422 Kanawha Boulevard, East P.O. Box 2942 Charleston, WV 25330

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VISIT CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES�The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences is located at the Leon Sullivan Exit off I-77 (Exit 100). Parking is easily available on the street and in adjacent parking lots. You might even ask the hotel concierge to have the hotel bus drop you off at the Center. There are wonderful opportunities there, including a gift shop. Activities available while you have free time on Wednesday include the Art Gallery as well as the Planetarium daily shows and the Electric Sky Theater. You might even enjoy seeing the terrific science exhibits developed for the children (and adults who have forgotten).

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State Museum has reopened

Cultural Center State Capitol Complex

OR VISIT YOUR CULTURAL ARTS CENTER & STATE MUSEUM The Cultural Center and newly open renovated State Museum is located within the State Capitol Complex on Greenbrier Street near the Boulevard. It is at Exit 99 off Interstate I- 77. You will be interested in the Art Exhibits in the Great Hall and the ar-chitecture of the building. The Cultural Center also houses the State Archives. If you are particularly interested in genealogy, there is a trove of information here and li-brarians ready to help you research.

MUSEUM VISITING HOURS 9 a.m.—5 p.m. Tuesday—Saturday

12:00 pm.—5:00 pm. Sunday Last entry at 4:15 p.m.

each day

Clay Center Leon Sullivan Way

Planetarium is now showing “Stars of the Nile” Wed—Sat at 11 a.m. & 2. p.m.

The giant screen will feature Sea Monsters at 12, 1, & 4 p.m. and Dino Alive! At 3 p.m. Electric-Sky Theater

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����Register by November 11. Please call 304-346-0795 for later registration. Name ____________________________________Organization__________________ Street Address __________________________________________________________ City _________________________________________State ___________ Zip_______ TEL_________________________________________ FAX ______________________ e-mail ________________________________

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__ TH-1 __ TH-2 __ TH-3

Uncovering Hidden Resources (Spagnuolo) Marketing from the Inside Out (Stershic) The “Feeding and Care” (Taylor)

__ FR-1 __ FR-2 __ FR-3

Money/Life Skills (McGinnis) Advancing Your Career (Drennan) Housing: A Community Cornerstone (Young)

(Make checks payable to Children’s Home Society. Mail to CHS of WV, PO Box 2942,Charleston WV, 25330 or send purchase order. You may contact Janet Craig at 346-0795 to have your agency invoiced.) Full Conference (Nov. 18-20) ($120.00) _____ (Alliance for Children discount) ($100.00) _____

Thursday (Nov.19 only) ($ 75.00) _____

Friday (Nov.20 only) ($ 45.00) _____

Annual Dinner (Additional charge) ($ 27.50) _____

TOTAL PAID _____

[All Participants] I will attend Opening Reception. Yes ____ No_____ (Wednesday Nov. 18 at 6:30 p.m.)

[CHS Staff] I will attend the Friday staff luncheon. Yes ____ No_____ (Friday, Nov. 20 at 12:15 p.m.)

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����������������������� Wednesday, November 18 4:00—8:30 Conference Registration Begins (At the Summit Conference Center) However, you may check into your rooms at the Charleston House prior to coming to the Summit Conference Center.) 6:30—8:30 Opening Reception and the “Presidents Helping Children Exhibit” (Substantial hors d’oeuves and desserts) Thursday, November 19 8:00— 4:00 Breakfast and Registration (At the Summit Conference Center) 8:30— 9:00 Plenary Address 9:00—12:00 AM Workshops TH-1. TH-2. or TH-3 (Choose 1) 12:00— 1:30 Lunch on your own 1:30— 4:30 PM Workshops TH-1. TH-2. or TH-3 (Choose 1) 6:30— 8:30 Children’s Home Society’s Annual Meeting & Dinner (At the Charleston House) Friday, November 20 8:30—11:00 Breakfast /Registration Continues 9:00—11:00 Plenary Session (Boundaries) 11:00—12:00 Workshops FR-1, FR-2, or FR-3 12:15— 2:00 Annual CHS Staff Meeting and Luncheon

����������� Please remember to complete and turn in your evaluation. There is a lagniappe (surprise) waiting for you at the conference registration desk.

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Every Child Matters put together this “Presidents Helping Children” Ex-hibit. This traveling exhibit and our reception are free and open to the public. There is a continuing presidential legacy of presidents who made decisions that affect the well being of all the new generations of Ameri-cans. According to a recent UNICEF study, America ranks 20th of 21 developed countries in the well being of children. We need to urge our leaders to leave a legacy of love for the children of the future. �

Children’s Home Society gratefully acknowledges the continuing support of the Thomas Health System in pre-senting this conference for those professionals who serve the children and families of West Virginia.

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Conference opens at 8:30 a.m. in the Horizons Room on the first floor of the Summit Center. However, arrive by 8:00 a.m., breakfast will be waiting for you in the meeting room.

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Plenary Session (8:30 –9:00 -a.m.)

Bill Hairston, grew up on Coal River near St. Albans, WV and shares his stories of how communities affect the lives of both the adult citizenry and its younger citizens. Be sure to arrive early to listen to this accomplished story teller share his stories of community life from the rich Appalachian culture. Bill Hairston is a self-employed Sociologist/Organizational Development Consultant specializing in non-profit and church related agencies. He also does Outreach Coordination for the Religious Coalition for Community Re-newal and is known across the region as a professional storyteller and musi-cian. Bill is secretary of the Society’s Board of Directors.

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�������������������� CHS employees call Janet for hotel reserva-tions. Others, make your hotel reservations with the Charleston House Holiday Inn (304-344-4092). Tell them you are registering for the Children’s Home Society Conference. The conference rate is $84.00 for single through quadruple occupancy. Deadline to

receive the conference rate is November 1. Reservations after the cutoff date will be accepted on a space or rate available basis. �

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��Chairman of the Board, Dr. Keith Spears, invites you to participate in the CHS Annual dinner. How-ever, you must register for it as a separate part of the conference. There is a space on the registra-tion form. There is an additional charge of $27.50 for the meal. Continuing Education credit (1.5) will be given for the annual meeting, the evening pro-gram and the featured speaker. .

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For day guests parking (nearest the Summit Center) is in the city parking building, continue north into the next block of Summers Street past the Center. Enter the parking building at the ma-roon canopy, just past the Subway Sandwich Shop on the right. The elevator on the Summers Street side will place you on the corner diagonally across from the entrance to the Center. Parking charge in the city park-ing building is $5.00 per day. Other parking options are at the Town Center Mall ($1.75) just a short walk away from the Cen-ter. The Charleston House Holiday Inn parking lot may be available also. Parking for day guests and hotel guests will be $4.00 a day.

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The Summit Conference Center is located at 129 Summers Street at the corner of Quarrier and Summers Streets in downtown Charleston, WV. You may print a good map from their website (www.summitcenter.com). This map will help you locate the facility and show nearby parking.

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Susan Spagnuolo, M.Ed.. Director of Technical Assistance at the Mid Atlan-tic Network of Youth and Family Services (MANY) Susan has 35 years of experience working with, and in behalf of, youth in high risk situations. She has 20 years of experience in the delivery of customized, practical, and comprehensive technical assistance support to community and faith-based programs that serve youth and families. Susan is a skilled facilitator and consultant, with expertise in teaching and training in many areas of the youth services field. ;�#=9<�Marketing from the Inside Out: Engaging Employees for Strategic Advantage Learn how to take care of the people who most impact your marketing and organizational success. More than just a “feel good” session for taking care of employees, this session shares critical insights and examples from nonprofit and for-profit organizations on how to: • Gain employee commitment • Create and reinforce a “customer-focused” culture • Strengthen employee-stakeholder relationships Sybil F. Stershic, President, Quality Service Marketing and author of Tak-ing Care of the People Who Matter Most: A Guide to Employee-Customer Care Ms. Stershic is a marketing and organizational advisor who specializes in em-ployee and customer care. Her professional passion is internal marketing—taking care of employees so they can take care of customers. After graduating from Lehigh University with a degree in social psychology, she began her career in bank marketing. Turned out that she loved marketing and hated banking. No problem, since the banks she worked for eventually merged into oblivion. In 1988, she launched Quality Service Marketing to build on her internal marketing passion. As QSM evolved to provide customer-focused mar-keting/strategic planning and training, she continued her journey: learning and practicing internal marketing...collecting and sharing examples of best practices in numerous articles and presentations.

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Plenary “Boundaries” (9:00—11:00) Today, out-of-home care providers are caught between decisions about the best possible care for children and youth and the limits imposed on those relationships by our nation’s rules and regulations, the current wave of litiga-tion, and their own personal and professional boundaries. John Kevech, an LPC with nearly 30-year’s experience who practices at Ohio Valley Guid-ance, will present his popular workshop on Boundaries. (2 hours of creditable SW ethics) �

Workshops (11:00—12:00) Choose 1 �

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Christy McGinnis, banking consultant from BB&T, will present techniques to prepare for future financial fitness. This workshop will give attendees clues for their own futures as well as learning how to teach banking life skill activi-ties to the youth in care. �

;��=9<� Advancing Your Career: The AAS Degree Program Mark Drennan will present this information session on the Society’s new Youth Development Specialist degree. YDS is an Associate in Applied Sci-ence degree offered through the WV C&TC system. Those CHS staff who have applied and those interested are urged to attend. ;��=.<� The ABC’s of Housing: A Quality of Community Life Issue (The Myths and Facts about HUD) Evie Young, operations specialist from HUD, will present housing programs that offer home ownership possibilities and options that improve the quality of life for the homeless, poorly housed, and those wishing to meet the needs of their growing families and changing lifestyles. This is useful knowledge for working with families and developing communities. ��

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