Education Sessions

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CEUs

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Youth Development

CA Association of
Park & Recreation Commissioners &
Board Members

CPRS Therapeutic Recreation and Aging Institute
Sponsored by the CPRS Therapeutic and Aging Services Sections
Up to 0.75 CEUs available (minimum of three hours required to receive CEUs)

Institute Registration:

Registration includes educational sessions, afternoon snack break, evening social and poster session. Registration must be postmarked by 2/8/08. After 2/8/08 registration must take place onsite.

CEU Fees:
CPRS/NRPA Member* $20; Non-Member $40
* NRPA/other state member attach copy of membership card
**must include proof of student status

Educational Sessions*
8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
CEU approval is pending for all sessions.

Welcome & Keynote
Recreation Service Delivery: Passion to Practice
Idris J. Al-Oboudi
• Explain vision and the importance of communicating it and inspiring a shared view of the future
• Identify mission or purpose of the organization and how important it is that leadership, staff, volunteers and the community understand that mission

Team Building: Adventures in Developing Effective Work Groups
Ezra Holland, MS and Dave Bacon, MS
• Identify team building techniques and how to apply to your professional growth
• Communicate CPRS Vision, Insight &

Planning (VIP) competencies & strategies while processing team building efforts Creating Community, With Junk
Bernie Dekoven
• Identify at least two ways to facilitate active, creative, community events, that can be pursued almost everywhere, with an aging population of varying abilities
• Create and participate in an event that is as much fun with an all senior population as it is with adults, middle and elementary school kids

Creating Future Presenters
Paulette Schuster, MS, RTC, RC, CTRS
• Identify and discuss the blocks to becoming a speaker
• Identify, discuss and communicate individual skills to becoming a speaker

Canine Companions: An Approach to Mobility
Anne N. Battiste, MS
• Articulate the basic structure and needs of canine companion teams in order to make appropriate accommodations in recreation settings
• Describe at least two benefits of using a canine companion

The Art of Persuasion
Larry Fontanilla, RTC, CTRS and James Overall, RTC, CTRS
• Explain why the ability to persuade is a core leadership competency
• Describe four essential steps of an effective persuasion strategy used to articulate your own persuasive strategy

Beyond the Senior Center: Adult Day Services
Nancy Matthews, MA, RC
• Describe adult day services available to seniors with cognitive and/or physical impairments as well as adults who are transitioning from an inpatient care setting to community living
• Explain the Adult Day Health Care Model which includes Health Services

Cutting and Self-Injurious Behaviors that Soothe Our Youth
James Overall, RTC, CTRS
• Define the term self-injurious behaviors
• Identify, at least, three behavioral characteristics of a person seeking help

Developing an Oral History Project
Cynthia Mascott, MS, CTRS, RTC
• Describe at least two oral history interviewing techniques they can use
• Generate an under-standing of the need for the Consent to Release Information forms as it relates to HIPPA regulations

Building Group Trust through Games, Activities and Laughter
Dr. Susan Mathieu, RTC, CTRS
• Experience 5 interpersonal exercises to generate trust within groups
• Discuss the techniques of silly & serious adaptation of game shows

Alcohol, Drugs and Older Adults: The Power of Empathy and Hope
Catherine McKean Royer, LCSW
• Identify risk factors of alcohol/other drug abuse and misuse
•Explain barriers to detection, positive approaches and treatment options related to substance use by older adults

Mental Health and TR
Pam Krug, MA, RTC, CTRS
• Identify the role of therapeutic recreation within a dynamic treatment team
• Communicate awareness of successful activities for adult patients with mental illness

Planning for Future Social Services Delivery
Thomas Robinson and Emeline Moya
• Explain three methods to assist in developing a Social Services Model Plan: assessing your environment, balancing competing service needs, and addressing future challenges
• Explain four or more innovative program ideas and successful approaches to meet social service needs into your community’s Social Services Model Plan

Problem Gambling: The Vulnerabilities of Older Adults
Catherine McKean Royer, LCSW
• Identify risk factors of problem gambling among older adults
• Describe barriers to detection / positive approaches / treatment approaches

Poster Session and Reception
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

A complete schedule, including information on the social, will be posted on the TR Section website http://tr.cprs.org. Also be on the lookout for the call for sessions for our new poster session. For additional information on the Institute contact Nancy Nisbett 559/278-7886, nancyni@csufresno.edu or Pearl Raya 714/647-6744, PRaya@ci.santa-ana.ca.us

* schedule is accurate as of November 1, 2007 and is subject to change.

Mainstream Green: Sustainable Design in Public Agencies Workshop & Green Facilities Tour
Sponsored by the CPRS Administrators Section
(Departs from and returns to the Long Beach Convention Center)

Part 1 -- Workshop
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon
Part 2 -- Facility Tour
1:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Registration includes bus transportation, and a materials packet. Lunch is on your own. Minimum & maximum capacity in effect. Registration must be postmarked by 2/8/08. After 2/8/08 registration must take place onsite (pending space available).
0.45 CEUs

Intensive Description:
Communities are truly defined by their parks, recreation facilities and open space, which reflect quality of life issues. In an era when every level of government needs to do less with more, maintaining and improving quality of life will take imagination, innovation and political courage, which can be achieved through the sustainable design of public parks and recreation facilities. Explore the Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification process and the green building movement, the desire to make a radical change in the way we think about and design facilities. Learn how to achieve a LEED certified project in your local community. Misconceptions of costs will be clarified while sharing the financial benefits. Tour LEED certified public facilities in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Participants will receive a copy of the Green Building Rating System Manual for LEED Certification as a job specific tool that can be immediately applied back at the workplace.

Learning Outcomes
The proposed institute promotes the connection between basic research on sustainable development and applied innovative design practices for the betterment of local communities.

Explain the Green Building Council’s Leadership n Energy and Environment Design (LEED) Certification process and criteria
• Identify design partners - like utility companies or the U.S. Green Building Council - at the beginning of a project to keep the long-term focus on sustainable planning and design strategies
• Evaluate misconceptions and challenges of a LEED certified public project including costs and clarifying financial benefits
• Distribute tools available to integrate green buildings into communities and build broad support for sustainable development
• Participate in a three-hour guided tour of LEED certified public facilities in Southern California
• Analyze individual site specific limitations for three facilities in regards to public uses

Trainer
Rick D’Amato, LEED AP,
LPA Architects, Inc.

Local Aquatic Facility Road Trip
Sponsored by the CPRS Aquatic Section
(Departs from and returns to the Long Beach Convention Center)
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Registration includes bus transportation, lunch, snacks, and a materials packet, minimum & maximum capacity in effect.Registration must be postmarked by 2/8/08. After 2/8/08 registration must take place onsite. (pending space available).
Learning Experience & Facility Tour
0.5 CEUs

Workshop Leaders
Trish Delgado, Aquatic Director, City of Los Angeles
Heather Gutfeld, Aquatic Coordinator, City of Irvine
Lori Thompson, Aquatic Supervisor, City of La Mirada

Intensive Description: This intensive session will provide a field exploration of four aquatic venues which have particular programmatic, size, and priority usage differences. Water park construction and operations, automation of a facility, seeking funding for capital improvement and programming for a venue, and renovating a historic landmark swimming pool, will all be discussed on our road trip. Lunch will be provided along with an interactive discussion on future trends in aquatic center design. Participants will receive a materials packet which will include information on each center visited, aquatic centers brochures, and information on additional local centers to visit while at the conference.

Learning Outcomes
• Discuss each emphasis and analyze the budgetary differences with each facility and critical components of each budget
• Explore and examine the unique challenges each operational site encounters from the operational staff point of view
• Discuss and analyze site specific limitations in regards to other programming
• This interactive session will define what makes facilities emphasize particular specialties for aquatics

Team Building: Adventures in Developing Effective Work Groups-- Bring your office!
Sponsored by CPRS
12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
0.3 CEUs

Registration must be postmarked by 2/8/08. After 2/8/08 registration must take place onsite.

Trainers
Ezra Holland, MS, Owner/President, Ezra Holland Consulting
Dave Bacon, MS, Recreation Manager, City of Redondo Beach

Intensive Description: In this interactive fun, challenging and meaningful workshop learn what goes into healthy high performing teams, what builds and blocks team development, what makes up the subsets of team skills and behaviors and applications of all the above. Attendees will receive a list of team building models that will assist them in improving their productivity at work; a list of team building theories including the communication theory, situational leadership theory, stages of group development theory & flow theory—this will increase the understanding of reasons to team build for effectiveness and an action plan with a minimum of three activities that fit into their organizational culture to implement once back at the workplace.

Learning Outcomes:
• Identify rationale for teambuilding and discuss public/private/non-profit models from high performing and successful team organizations
• Identify behaviors that block effective group work--reasons/situations in which some people don’t often work well together
• Interact with other organizations and teams to improve team building skills
• Identify team building techniques and how to apply the skills to your professional growth
• Communicate CPRS Vision, Insight & Planning (VIP) competencies & strategies while processing team building effort