Tuesday, November 6th
Session #: 100 Time: 8:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m.
What Are You Doing Today to Protect the Future of Parks and Recreation?
As recreation department funding decreases, the NEED for what we do increases every day. This session will show you how to determine what services your tax payers should be paying for and then come up with alternate sources of revenue for the future.
1.The participants will be able to understand the basics of taxation and why there is less money than there has been in the past.
2.The participants will learn how to create their own cost recovery model for their agency.
3.The particpants will understand how to establish a user fee system for their agency to insure that those that use the service for for the service.
Speakers: TomO’Rourke
Room: E
CEU: .1
Moderator: PamReidy
Session #: 101 Time: 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
What’s Happening on Your Fields?
With a growing percentage of youth sports programs being operated by parent-interest groups, recreation departments must ensure their philosophy and policies are properly communicated to and enforced by all outside user-groups. This session will providerecreation department staff with tools and knowledge to best handle the management of these groups.
1.Discuss methods for developing policies and procedure related to management of outside youth sports user groups.
2.Formulate a plan to communicate and enforce the recreation department's youth sports philosophy to the community and other orgainzations.
3.Explain the history of youth sports in America and the nature of youth sports user groups.
Speakers: JohnEngh, Kate Dilworth
Room: B
CEU: .1
Moderator: RandySpivey
Session #: 102 Time: 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Reforestation - Reducing Maintenance Costs and Lessons Learned
This session will review the 2011 reforestation project at GravesPark in GwinnettCounty. We will discuss how maintenance costs were reduced at this park by reforestation, reforestation processes that were employed and challenges to tree establishment.
1.How reforestation can reduce maintenance costs.
2.The processes to a successful reforestation project.
3.Challenges to tree establishment.
Speakers: JasonWeckerly, Rex Schuder
Room: C
CEU: .1
Moderator: MarkPatterson
Session #: 103 Time: 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Upward Mobility of Leaders in Parks & Recreation
Parks and recreation professionals often wonder how others in the field get promoted to management and leadership positions. What road did they take? Was it based on who you know? Did factors like race and gender, play a defining role in the decision making? This session will discuss some of the observed patterns of upward mobility and share perceptions about the parks and recreation work environment. There will also be an opportunity to, learn how leaders in the field of parks and recreation prepare for advancement opportunities.
1.Attendees will be able to identify observed patterns of upward mobility in parks and recreation.
2.Attendees will be able to explain how leaders in parks and recreation perceive their work environment.
3.Attendees will be able to discuss how leaders in parks and recreation prepare for advancement opportunities.
Speakers: JamesWorsley
Room: D
CEU: .1
Moderator: DotteeMorton
Session #: 104 Time: 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Minute Mentoring
Students and young professionals will have the opportunity to interact with GRPA leaders and professionals from around the state. A series of "one-on-one" meetings will take place throughout the session, with attendees rotating among professionals in, five minute intervals. Come prepared to ask questions, gain insight and wisdom, and make great contacts in our profession!
1.Engage in discussions with and ask questions of professionals in our field.
2.Learn of opportunities and methods to build a career in Recreation and Parks.
3.Make professional contacts.
Speakers: KentKilpatrick
Room: F
CEU: .1
Moderator: KentKilpatrick
Session #: 105 Time: 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
That Would Never Happen In My Youth Program – Lessons Learned from the 2012 ACA Hotline
This session will share “lessons learned” from an analysis of the 2012 ACA Hotline and provide suggested resources to assist in crisis management, staff training, and, preparation for the unexpected. Through discussions of case studies this session will share valuable information about health/medical issues,allegations of abuse, camper behavior issues, death, and other special situations.
1.Learners will be able to describe 3 trends in crisis hotline situations.
2.Learners will be able to identify 3 resources useful in crisis situations.
3.Learners will be able to articulate 2 staff training ideas that help prepare staff for crisis situations.
Speakers: KatieJohnson
Room: G
CEU: .1
Moderator: WendyCollins
Session #: 106 Time: 9:30 am to 12:15 am
Creative Ways to Get New Athletic Fields
Getting new ANYTHING is about money. This session will show you ways to find money for new Athletic Facilities other than the traditional way of trying to convince your elected officials that you need them.
1.The participants will understand the elements of long term capital funding and bonding.
2.The participants will know the actual cost of facility construction.
3.The participants will know how to create a business proforma (a hypothetical financial set of figures based on business operations for estimate purposes.) to present to decision makers.
Speakers: TomO'Rourke
Room: H
CEU: .2
Moderator: PamReidy
Session #: 107 Time: 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
TILT Successful Counselor In Training Program
Parks and Recreation agencies across the Nation have experienced a reduction in workfoce and an increase in demand for recreational opportunities creating issues with staffing. Teens in Leadership Training teaches teens ages 13-15 years old leadership, techniques to assist in a variety of programs. The goal of TILT is to create future employees and the outcome has generated a pool of volunteers for any parks and recreation events.
1.How to establish a program.
2.Who to partner with.
3.Supervision of the Teen.
Speakers: KimShealy
Room: B
CEU: .1
Moderator: WendyCollins
Session #: 108 Time: 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Manage Your Brand
Is your brand helping or hurting your reputation? Learn to identify a strong brand and the components required for a consistent message. Do's and Don'ts of brand management.
1.How to creat Brand Awareness.
2.How to successfully managmen your Brand Reputation.
3.Brand Best Practices.
Speakers: NazaninWeck
Room: C
CEU: .1
Moderator: TanyaJackson
Session #: 109 Time: 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Recreation is Youth Development
It is often difficult for Parks and Recreation professionals to articulate “What do you do for a living”? This is not difficult for a teacher, a police person or a doctor. I propose that Parks and Recreation Department’s across the country createcommunity. This is most evident in the youth programming as the profession is developing youth to become healthy, productive, engaged community members. Recreation and Youth Development will, provide recreation professionals insight into how to articulate “what we do” to stakeholders, elected officials and potential funders.
1.Gain a familiarity with the youth development approach of conducting recreation programs.
2.Strengthen the ability to articulate and communicate the relationship between recreation programs and youth development.
3.Discuss practical strategies for integrating youth development into recreation programs.
Speakers: KimberlyMcNeeley
Room: D
CEU: .1
Moderator: PamReidy
Session #: 110 Time: 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Protecting Parks & Programs Series: Look Closer, It’s There
There is a valid explanation why an average of 5% of all volunteers serving parks and recreation fall through the cracks when they in fact have a troubled criminal history. Long standings and outdated screening methods have finally been replaced,leaving organizations and agencies confident that their volunteer workforce has stood up to the scrutiny of the most systematic and meticulous national screening procedure available.
1.Engage in discussion relative to the different levels of criminal background checks.
2.Have a clear understanding of the steps for conducting a comprehensive criminal background checks in compliance with the NRPA Recommended Guidelines for Credentialing.
3.Be capable of comparing their current background check practices with the park, recreation and conservation industry standard.
Speakers: MichaelPfahl, Chris Goodman
Room: G
CEU: .2
Moderator: RandySpivey
Session #: 111 Time: 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Finding Your Focus: Organizational Master Planning
Developing an organizational master plan allow sthe park and recreation agency to undertake a strategic and critical overview of the agency's true value to the publi it serves. However, unlike a facilities master plan, an organizational master plan, focuses on the agency itself; its budget, personnel, program, facilities and services.,
1.Understand the value of developing an organizational master plan.
2.Learn why staying a step ahead of change will position the department better in the eyes of the community.
3.Be better prepared to clearly show the economic impact to the community by providing the right services that are neededtoday.
Speakers: DavidCarter
Room: I
CEU: .1
Moderator: DotteeMorton
Session #: 112 Time: 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
Athens Music Scene
A tour of notable sites important in the history of the internationally known Athens Music Scene.
1.Recognition of Athens as a key location for music development.
2.Introduction to various styles of Athens music.
3.Understanding of the economic impact the music scene to the community.
Speakers: JeffMontgomery
Room: OFFSITE
CEU: .1
Moderator: CathyPadgett
Session #: 113 Time: 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
Maintenance in the New Normal
In this session we will present how CobbCounty has had to adjust to the down economy and how all parts of maintenance operation has had to change to meet the needs of the Citizens. We will look at all areas of our operation and give examples at how we, had to re look at how we handle Maintenance county wide. From our small machine shop, land unit, construction crew to our zone operations we have had to change the way we think to accomplish the task. The session will give the opportunity for people to, to take away some tips for their on department. We will tell what worked and what did not work. We will talk about our struggles and what we are doing to overcome them.
1.Ways to be successful in maintaining facilities and supporting programs in the “new economy”. share ideas that have worked in your department.
2.Motivate staff being asked (demanded) to “do more with less” and maintain a higher standard.
3.Improve moral of staff who have not received a raise in 5 to 6 years and have none coming in the near future and are “feeling” unimportant and unappreciated.
Speakers: BenjieBrumbeloe, Tom Bills
Room: B
CEU: .1
Moderator: EddieCanon
Session #: 114 Time: 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
Workin’ Well!: Making a Work-Site Wellness Program Thrive
The Athens-Clarke County Unified Government Employee Wellness Program was formalized in 2004 and has grown by leaps and bounds. The program involves a yearly Health Risk Assessment tool, weekly educational classes, a full fitness class schedule, onsite, fitness center with complimentary personal training and classes, weight loss challenges, risk reduction coaching programs, monthly 5k walk/jog events, healthy cooking contests, and a multitude of yearly screenings, (mammography, PSA/DRE, BMI, bone density, lipid/glucose panel, blood pressure, etc.). The rewards program involves both health insurance discounts and healthy gift card incentives, and has grown from 40 to 600 participants.
1.Constructs of a well-developed program.
2.Success: return on investment, claims reduced, lives improved, and productivity increased.
3.Recruitment of low or no-cost program services.
Speakers: KendraHoughton
Room: C
CEU: .1
Moderator: KentKilpatrick
Session #: 115 Time: 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Developing leadership skills requires a conscious effort ona daily basis. Before you can lead others you need to be able to elad yourself. This session will challenge your beliefs about what it takes to be a true leader and start a new journey towards, becoming a person of influence.
1.Understand the difference between "Management" and "Leadership".
2.Master the process of applying these natural laws in your decision making process in order to become a person of greater influenece.
3.Learn the skills needed to create a leadership culture within your organization that unleashes the talent of your entire staff and continue to build on that talent so the team grows and develop individually and as team members.
Speakers: DavidCarter
Room: D
CEU: .1
Moderator: DotteeMorton
Session #: 116 Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Protecting Parks & Programs Series: Trust, but Verify
You may think you know someone, but do you? There is an estimated 30,ooo park and recreation volunteers active in our system today who should have been disqualified. To understand how this, can happen is to take an inside look at what all background check investigators must do to meet the test of due diligence, reduce the false positives, false negatives, and provide appropriate, useful, information required to decide who is allowed one-on-one access to our most vulnerable populations.
1.Understand why database checks as a standalone are worthless.
2.Have an appreciation of what it really takes for a background check to be compliant with the clearly defined expectations in the business of parks and recreation.
3.Be capable of leading their agency in the initiative of comparing and upgrading their current background check practices with the industry standard.
Speakers: MichaelPfahl, Chris Goodman
Room: G
CEU: .2
Moderator: CarlaKalip
Session #: 117 Time: 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
The Art of Adapting as a Young Professional
An interactive session that highlights the many pitfalls and opportunities young professionals can face. Participants will work through scenarios and look at case studies of how adaptability could make or, break a bright future. Participants are encouraged to share their own examples and stories from their experiences.
1.Learn to analyze the big picture.
2.Employing creative solutions to issues.
3.Project futur ramifications of today's decisions.
Speakers: MelindaCochran
Room: H
CEU: .1
Moderator: RandyHaygood
Wednesday, November 7th
Session #: 200 Time: 8:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Cultural Arts Tour-Good Dirt & Lyndon House
Speakers: ClaireBenson, Rob Sutherland
Room: OFFSITE
CEU: .2
Moderator: LisaCastile
Session #: 201 Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
First Responder: Dealing with Medical Emergencies in Sports
This presentation will review emergency situations in athletics and management strategies.
1.Understand potential for emergency situations to occur in athletics.
2.Be able to develop and implement an emergency action plan.
3.Identify emergency situations and be able to apply appropriate first aid measures.
Speakers: RonCourson
Room: B
CEU: .1
Moderator: KentKilpatrick
Session #: 202 Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Improving Employee Morale – Creating a Culture of Excellence
This session will be about agency vision, values, and creating a workforce that is happy and all moving in the same direction. If your employees can see past the daily tasks that they perform and focus on a shared vision, you will be on the way toward, having exceptional morale.
1.The participants will understand the need for and ways to achieve a shared organizational vision.
2.The participants will understand the role that values play in an organization and determine ways to establish the organizational values.
3.The participants will understand their individual role in achieving a successful department.
Speakers: TomO’Rourke
Room: C
CEU: .1
Moderator: PamReidy
Session #: 203 Time: 8:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Stewards of Children: Adults Resolving Child Sexual Abuse
GeorgiaCenter for Child Advocacy presents the revolutionary Stwards of Children sexual abuse prevention training. The program provides particpants with sever simple, proactive steps to sexual abuse prevention through an interactive video, workbook and, group discussion. The program believes and teaches that child safety is an adult's job.
1.Understand the facts of child abuse - incidence rates and effects on children, their families and society.
2.Understand the importance of minimizing one-adult/one-child situations and developing well-conceived policies in youth-servicing organizations that support this.
3.Be able to recognize the signs of sexual abuse and have resources to react responsibly to incidents of child sexual abuse.
Speakers: TiffanySawyer
Room: D
CEU: .2
Moderator: DotteeMorton
Session #: 204 Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Wildlife Management – Where Are The Dangers?
Since the sensationalized stories of the python population explosion in the Everglades more and more stories of wildlife interactions are reported. Just how worried should we be and what is necessary to, lessen our liability in these settings. Are the most dangerous animals in our parks found on four legs? Participants in the class will learn the truth behind many of the wildlife patrons found in our parks and, what dangers they actually pose. This class will truly awaken your animal instincts as we delve into what wildlife wants to, tries to, and is allowed to do in our parks!
1.Participants will learn how to spot potential negative wildlife interactions.
2.Participants will learn how to control issues before they arise.
3.Participants will learn what resources are available to them in controlling and education staff on these issues.
Speakers: MarkPatterson, Ph.D
Room: G
CEU: .1
Moderator: StephanieBarrens
Session #: 205 Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Dance & Creative Movement in Recreation
Everyone’s doing it so let’s get moving! For many that never sought out professional careers in dance, moving and grooving can be a fun opportunity in the recreational setting. From ballet and jazz, to hip-hop and even Zumba dancing and creative, movement serve as a common language among extremely diverse crowds. People of different ages, abilities, races, genders, origins and skill level could all benefit from the physical activity, socialization, and skills.
1.Discuss the benefits of dance and creative movement in the recreational setting.
2.Discuss the variety of dance forms that can be used in the recreational setting.
3.Explain how dance and creative movement translate to multiple divisions of recreation.
Speakers: PamLee
Room: H
CEU: .1
Moderator: AntonioOwens
Session #: 206 Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Cutting Edge Technology for Air Quality in Indoor Aquatic Centers
This class will review recent testing of equipment for removal of airborne combined chlorimes in natatoriums. It will also, review other technologies now available on the market which, aid in the pursuit to rid natatoriums of the harsh effects of chlorinated air. Video taped demonstrations will be included in the presentation.