Register for Northern California CASC Conference
By Dr. Loretta Whitson, Executive Director | September 2018
Registration is open for the 2nd Annual Northern California CASC Conference, February 4-5, 2019
Build your school counseling skills and learn about national and state best practices at CASC’s second annual Northern California Conference on February 4, 2019, in Sacramento. CASC conferences are known for featuring cutting-edge educational content, unique social events and ample opportunities to network with colleagues and sponsors. This conference includes innovative workshops featuring sessions from industry leaders who will cover topics like effective school-based mental health practices, college and career readiness strategies, suicide and crisis prevention, MTSS, equity and access, and school climate. Attendees will exchange ideas with some of the most engaging minds in the field of education and school counseling and leave with new knowledge they can take back to their work setting and immediately use.
Last year’s conference SOLD OUT early with more than 400 attendees! Consequently, CASC has relocated to a larger venue and added a post-conference training to accommodate the growing and diverse professional development needs of Northern and Central California school counselors and other student support services staff. Keeping with tradition, the event will be held during National School Counseling Week at the Doubletree Hotel in Sacramento.
Trish Hatch, Ph.D., one of the foremost national and state-wide leaders in the school counseling profession, will deliver the opening keynote address and celebration. School counselors from around the country voice their appreciation for Dr. Hatch’s training saying, “her love for school counseling, her energy and the real-life application she brings to her presentations changed the way I do counseling.” Trish Hatch is a professor at San Diego State University (SDSU), where she served as director of the School Counseling Program from 2004 until 2015. She is author of the best-selling “The Use of Data in School Counseling: Hatching Results for Students, Programs, and the Profession” (2014). She is co-author of “Evidence-Based School Counseling: Making a Difference with Data-Driven Practices” (Dimmitt, Carey & Hatch, 2007); “ASCA National Model: A Framework for School Counseling Programs;” “Hatching Results for Elementary School Counseling: Implementing Core Curriculum and Other Tier 1 Activities” (Hatch, Duarte & De Gregorio, 2018); and, most recently, “P3H: Pilots, Passengers, Prisoners, & Hijackers” (Hatch, 2018).
Post-Conference – Solution-Focused Counseling, February 5: To improve upon last year's inaugural conference, CASC is offering a post-conference intensive training in a trainer-of-trainers format. Dr. Linda Metcalf, an internationally renowned solution-focused counseling expert, will offer an intensive session on solution-focused counseling techniques. Dr. Metcalf is the author of eleven books including “Counseling Toward Solutions” (1995, 2008, Wiley), “Teaching Toward Solutions” (Crown House, 2005), and “Marriage and Family Therapy: A Practice Oriented Approach” (Springer, 2011, 2019). She has presented hundreds of seminars in the United States and around the world. She is also the past president of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
The training prepares school counselors to systemically address school climate-related issues and school connectedness by preparing school counselors to be specialists in engagement strategies from a solution-focused, social/emotional learning perspective. It will enhance participants’ skills in utilizing solution-focused methodology. Dr. Metcalf will present specific techniques, hands-on opportunities and dialogues you can immediately use with students. Participants will also learn strategies to take back to the school site to provide in-service training to teachers and other school-based staff in solution-focused classroom techniques. Solution-focused counseling has been shown to improve school connectedness, increase student motivation and reduce school alienation. Participants have the option to participate in additional training and activities to obtain a trainer-of-trainers certificate.
School counseling solution-focused certification three-step process: Step 1 is attendance at the full-day training taking place on February 5 in Sacramento, step 2 requires practicum work at your site and step 3 will be a follow-up training in the Sacramento area on April 26. Workshop attendees must complete each step to be eligible to become approved in school-based solution-focused counseling from CASC. For details about the certificate program, any additional requirements, and to register, go to: www.schoolcounselor-ca.org.
Build your school counseling skills and learn about national and state best practices at CASC’s second annual Northern California Conference on February 4, 2019, in Sacramento. CASC conferences are known for featuring cutting-edge educational content, unique social events and ample opportunities to network with colleagues and sponsors. This conference includes innovative workshops featuring sessions from industry leaders who will cover topics like effective school-based mental health practices, college and career readiness strategies, suicide and crisis prevention, MTSS, equity and access, and school climate. Attendees will exchange ideas with some of the most engaging minds in the field of education and school counseling and leave with new knowledge they can take back to their work setting and immediately use.
Last year’s conference SOLD OUT early with more than 400 attendees! Consequently, CASC has relocated to a larger venue and added a post-conference training to accommodate the growing and diverse professional development needs of Northern and Central California school counselors and other student support services staff. Keeping with tradition, the event will be held during National School Counseling Week at the Doubletree Hotel in Sacramento.
Trish Hatch, Ph.D., one of the foremost national and state-wide leaders in the school counseling profession, will deliver the opening keynote address and celebration. School counselors from around the country voice their appreciation for Dr. Hatch’s training saying, “her love for school counseling, her energy and the real-life application she brings to her presentations changed the way I do counseling.” Trish Hatch is a professor at San Diego State University (SDSU), where she served as director of the School Counseling Program from 2004 until 2015. She is author of the best-selling “The Use of Data in School Counseling: Hatching Results for Students, Programs, and the Profession” (2014). She is co-author of “Evidence-Based School Counseling: Making a Difference with Data-Driven Practices” (Dimmitt, Carey & Hatch, 2007); “ASCA National Model: A Framework for School Counseling Programs;” “Hatching Results for Elementary School Counseling: Implementing Core Curriculum and Other Tier 1 Activities” (Hatch, Duarte & De Gregorio, 2018); and, most recently, “P3H: Pilots, Passengers, Prisoners, & Hijackers” (Hatch, 2018).Post-Conference – Solution-Focused Counseling, February 5: To improve upon last year's inaugural conference, CASC is offering a post-conference intensive training in a trainer-of-trainers format. Dr. Linda Metcalf, an internationally renowned solution-focused counseling expert, will offer an intensive session on solution-focused counseling techniques. Dr. Metcalf is the author of eleven books including “Counseling Toward Solutions” (1995, 2008, Wiley), “Teaching Toward Solutions” (Crown House, 2005), and “Marriage and Family Therapy: A Practice Oriented Approach” (Springer, 2011, 2019). She has presented hundreds of seminars in the United States and around the world. She is also the past president of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.The training prepares school counselors to systemically address school climate-related issues and school connectedness by preparing school counselors to be specialists in engagement strategies from a solution-focused, social/emotional learning perspective. It will enhance participants’ skills in utilizing solution-focused methodology. Dr. Metcalf will present specific techniques, hands-on opportunities and dialogues you can immediately use with students. Participants will also learn strategies to take back to the school site to provide in-service training to teachers and other school-based staff in solution-focused classroom techniques. Solution-focused counseling has been shown to improve school connectedness, increase student motivation and reduce school alienation. Participants have the option to participate in additional training and activities to obtain a trainer-of-trainers certificate.
School counseling solution-focused certification three-step process: Step 1 is attendance at the full-day training taking place on February 5 in Sacramento, step 2 requires practicum work at your site and step 3 will be a follow-up training in the Sacramento area on April 26. Workshop attendees must complete each step to be eligible to become approved in school-based solution-focused counseling from CASC. For details about the certificate program, any additional requirements, and to register, go to: www.schoolcounselor-ca.org.