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2010 Faces of
Leadership Conference
2010 Children's Day
at the Legislature
Old Brick Playhouse Apprentice Program Receives 2009 Coming Up
Taller Award
Ruby Payne Training
Events
From Hello to Good Riddance - Personnel Policies and Practices
that Make Sense for Your Nonprofit
Strengthening Families In West Virginia Conference
The
Silent/Victim Witness: Intimidation at Its Best
2010 WV
Children’s Justice Task Force Conference
Calendar
2010 Faces of
Leadership Conference
"Reflect, Act, Impact"
West Virginia's annual
statewide conference on volunteerism, community service and
service-learning, coordinated by the WV Commission for National and
Community Service, was held July 20-22, 2010 at the Charleston Civic
Center. The conference is also a time for "friends" to
reconnect.
Pauline Sturgill & June
Robinson
Former AmeriCorps
Program Directors
The conference included:
Inspirational Keynote
Speakers:
-
Renee Verbanic,
Life Long Learning - "Reflections that Lead to Action";
-
Luther
Snow,
Creator of Asset Mapping - "Our Strength in Tough Times" -
http://www.luthersnow.com/ ; and
-
Timothy
Johnson, President & CEO of
Leadership 101 - "Leadership in the 21st Century Can Be
Fun" -
http://www.leadership101.net/.
Skill-building workshops which were
varied and included something for
everyone: Time Management - Get Organized for Peak Performance;
Skills that Lead to Action; Finding Hope Under the Umbrella; How to
Deal with Annoying People; Interviewing Strategies for Employers;
The ABCs of Advocacy; Building a Financial Fortress; Public
Speaking; Using Technology to Help WV Youth; Service Teams That Pack
a Punch; Strategy Making for Nonprofit Organizations; and many
more.
Governor's
Service Awards
West Virginia's most prestigious volunteer award the Governor's
Service Awards celebration honors West Virginia volunteers
of all ages for their service and Lifetime Achievement of service.
Recipients received a crystal award.
2010
Governor's Service Award Recipients
http://www.volunteerwv.org/nd/index_2010_gsa_recipients.cfm
Isaac Joseph - This singing/performing duo first performed at
the 1997 conference at Snowshoe. On the closing day of the
conference their
performance with messages against substance abuse and promoting love
and tolerance combined
with their humor and high energy music always sends attendees on
their way full of energy and spirit!
Isaac Joseph
Conference
Attend ees
Attendees enjoying Isaac
Joseph
Appalachian
Leadership Academy Fellows w/June Robinson
http://www.southernwv.edu/wd/southerns-appalachian-leadership-academy
Appalachian
Leadership Academy Fellows
http://www.southernwv.edu/wd/southerns-appalachian-leadership-academy
For
information on the Faces of Leadership Conference contact:
Moya Doneghy - (304)558-0111
or Moya.Doneghy@wv.gov
2010 Children's Day
At The Legislature
On February 17, 2010, Children's Day at
the Legislature began with a
 Welcome and Opening Session. Jim McKay,
State Coordinator Prevent Child Abuse West Virginia welcomed attendees followed by the
Invocation delivery by Rev. Dennis Sparks. The Opening Session
began with remarks by First Lady Gayle Manchin; Susan Perry, Department
of Health and Human Resources
Deputy Secretary; and Miss WV 2009 Talia Markham.
First Lady
Gayle C. Manchin
Keynote Presentation
"The Impact of Online
Grassroots Organizing for Legislative Action"
Jane Hamsher & Christy Hardin
- Co-founders
www.firedoglake.com &
Jason Keeling -
www.aBetterWestVirginia.com.
WV YouTube Youth Forum
The
3rd Annual WV YouTube Youth Forum was moderated by Tim Irr, Anchor
WSAZ-TV News. The YouTube Forum featured video questions, for
Legislators,
submitted by West
Virginia students. The following
Legislators participated in the forum: Senator Clark Barnes,
Senator Jeffrey Kessler, Delegate Don Perdue
and Delegate Meshea Poore.
Youth
Forum Student Questions:
http://www.youtube.com/group/2010WVYouthForum
Delegates Poore & Perdue & Moderator Tim Irr
 
Senators
Barnes & Kessler
Old Brick Playhouse Apprentice Program Receives
2009 Coming Up Taller Award
The Old Brick Playhouse
Apprentice Program, of Elkins, WV was nationally recognized as
one of fifteen youth arts and humanities programs to receive the
prestigious 2009 Coming Up Taller Award. On November 4, 2009
youth and adult representatives of the program traveled to
Washington, D.C., for a ceremony to accept the award from
First Lady Michelle Obama.
l-r: Missy McCollam;
Will Stout & First Lady Michelle Obama
Coming Up Taller
is a national initiative that recognizes and supports outstanding
out-of-school and after-school arts and humanities programs for
children, especially those with great potential, but limited outlets
for creative expression. A project of the President's
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), in partnership with
the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library
Services (IMLS) the Coming Up Taller Awards honor programs that
offer exceptional learning experiences in the arts and the
humanities and that have a tangible effect on the lives of young
people as evidenced through improved academic scores,
enhanced life skills, and positive relationships with peers and
adults.
The Old Brick Playhouse, a
non-profit educational arts theatre, has been providing during and
after-school theatre programming in the Mid-Atlantic region and
overseas since 1992. The Old Brick's after-school and summer
programs are designed to provide educational arts opportunities for
children and youth ages 5 - 18. The
Old Brick Playhouse Apprentice Program provides a safe, structured,
after-school opportunity for secondary school students to engage in
theatre. Each year the program begins in mid-October and
culminates in a main stage performance, in May, showcasing each
student's talent.
"The Old Brick Playhouse's Apprentice
Program was extremely honored to be a recipient of the 2009 Coming
Up Taller Awards," said Missy Armentrout McCollam, Executive
Director, The Old Brick Playhouse. "We strive for an
environment in which youth learn that though everyone is equal,
everyone is not the same - and in the arts, as in life - those
differences are the stuff by which masterpieces are made."
Margo Lion, co-chairman, President's
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities said, "This year's Coming
Up Taller Awardees exemplify how arts and humanities programs
outside of the school setting can impact on the lives of our young
people. By exciting imaginations and providing opportunities for
self-expression through the disciplines of theater, dance, music and
literature these exceptional projects offer their participants
windows on possibility and a belief in a more positive future."
The Old Brick operates in cooperation
with the WV Department of Education and the Arts, WV Division of
Culture and History, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, Verizon
Foundation, WV Afterschool Network, Snowshoe Foundation, Tucker
Community Foundation, Armstrong Foundation, McDonough Foundation,
and hundreds of local civic businesses and individuals.
For more information:
Old Brick Playhouse:
(304)637-9090;
missy@theoldbrick.org;
www.theoldbrick.org
Coming Up Taller:
www.cominguptaller.org
President's Committee on the Arts and the
Humanities:
www.pcah.gov
Ruby Payne
Training
The dedication of teacher preparation
institutions to meeting the needs of all public school
students was exemplified during the recent Ruby Payne Teacher
Education training, "Strategies for Today's Teacher
Candidates".
Sixty-eight (86) education faculty and
administrators from across the state came together at Salem
International University for a day of sharing strategies,
techniques, and methodologies for addressing the needs of students,
in poverty, in public schools.
Events
September 16, 2010
From Hello to Good Riddance - Personnel Policies and Practices
that Make Sense for Your Nonprofit
Byrd Health Sciences Center
Auditorium, 2500 Foundation Way
Martinsburg, WV
Registration Fee: $35.00
Contact: Felicia Fuller
- (304)264-0353 or
ffuller@EWVCF.org
September 17, 2010
Strengthening Families In West Virginia Conference
West Virginia State University
Institute, West Virginia
Contact: KISRA (Kanawha Institute for Social Research &
Action, Inc.)
304-768-8924 x200 or Email:
kisrainfo@kisra.org
September 21, 2010
"The
Silent/Victim Witness: Intimidation at Its Best"
Marriott Town Center –
Charleston, WV
September 23, 2010
"The
Silent/Victim Witness: Intimidation at Its Best"
Cacapon Resort State Park. – Berkeley Springs, WV
FREE - Registration Deadline: September 10,
2010
Brochure/Registration:
The Silent
Victim Witness brochure.pdf
Contact: Amy Landers (304)965-3552
October 20-21, 2010
2010 WV
Children’s Justice Task Force Conference
Charleston Civic Center – Charleston, WV
$100 for participants and/or exhibitors
http://www.wvchildrensjustice.org/index.html
http://www.wvchildrensjustice.org/conference2007.html
Contact: Andrea Darr at
(304) 558-3348
Calendar
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