[acb-hsp] ACB-HSP Convention Program

[peter altschul]

Hey, Darien and list:

As President of the Employment Committee, I apologize for someone 
not attending your session to talk about the job fair.  I thought 
I had assigned someone to do this, but I had to cut my time at 
the convention short because of my wife's illness.

Now, some bad news and good news.

The Employment Committe's first session does indeed conflict with 
your first session, which saddens me.  Our second session, a 
presentation by MJ Schmit about her work experiences, will NOT 
conflict with your second session as your second session 
immediately follows our second session.

So...I hope all of you come to our second session to hear from 
MJ, as I'm sure she'll have lots of interesting things to say.

Best, Peter



> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Darian Slayton Fleming" <darehart56 at hotmail.com
>To: <acb-hsp at acb.org
>Date sent: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:28:32 -0700
>Subject: [acb-hsp] ACB-HSP Convention Program

>Hi Folks,

>I’m responding to the comments about the HSP convention 
program.

>Yes, our program is on Wednesday July 13 as Andy said.  Our first 
session is at 2:45 and involves a panel discussion with 
interactive discussion with the audience about networking and 
mingling as professionals with vision impairments.  We follow 
that at 5:45 with a mixer where we may practice the skills and 
just get to know one another.  We thought the subject would 
appeal to a wider audience in ACB.

>As any of you know who attend or plan programs at 
conference/conventions, it’s impossible to plan programs so 
they do not conflict with other programs.  It’s such a busy 
week.  We are working on trying to partner with other affiliates 
on programs, but it is not always possible.  Many affiliates run 
into this same difficulty.
>Sometimes affiliates attempt to network throughout the year to 
coordinate, but it doesn’t always work out.  Last year, we 
hoped to have someone visit our program to talk about the 
employment taskforce job fair, but it didn’t happen.  But we 
did partner with Aging and Vision Loss to talk about 
volunteering, recreation and getting involved in community.

>Perhaps special interest affiliates could utilize the leadership 
list more to put out feelers about partnering with one another, 
at least to initiate the process.

>This is not poor planning on the part of HSP or the employment 
taskforce.  I see it as simply great minds thinking alike.

>As president of Human Service Professionals I certainly encourage 
as many people as possible to attend our two part program.  I 
think we have a lot to offer.  I also encourage you to squeeze in 
employment taskforce meetings.  Perhaps there is a way to split 
your time.

>If not, we wish you a wonderful time at conference/convention, 
and we hope to meet new and returning attendees at our events and 
others.

>Thanks,

>Darian Slayton Fleming
>ACB-HSP President