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Happy 2012! Beginning a new year is a great time for reflection...for reviewing what happened during the previous year and for looking forward to what lies ahead. During 2011, we hat lots of interesting events to remember and to pull from as we interact with our clients/customers/students and with our peers and colleagues. As part of the May mini-conference, Heather Coleman-Voss and Ron Marshall gave us some fun, but important information on how we can use social media to network with others. We also benefitted from hearing how a panel made up of professionals including recruiters, independent contractors, faith-based initiative workers, tempo-rary agencies, and Michigan Works! Agencies use social media to find and retain employees and market their services/products. May also brought us a new Presi-dent-Elect (Elaine I. Neale) and Secretary (Nikki Pearson) and a revised bylaws and constitution. In August, Heather Coleman-Voss and Ron Marshall joined us for a hands on ses-sion on LinkedIn and we introduced online book studies. October brought with it Halloween and a fun, interactive session with Ron Marshall on Twitter. Most recently, we completed a well-received mini-conference on December 2. Kimberly Kassner gave an excellent keynote presentation on how to communicate more effectively with our clients/customers/students using questioning and active listening. Cathy McCafferty Smith followed up with an outstanding session on how to use a series of reflective questions to help our clients/customers/students with the process of self awareness, career exploration, decision making, and goal setting. Looking forward to 2012, we have some wonderful and exciting events and oppor-tunities to share resources in the preparation stages. Stay tuned because we will want to seek your input in order to provide you with information that will be most helpful to you. We will also see a number of changes in the upcoming year. My tenure as your president ended December 31. I have been honored to have had the opportunity to serve you and have enjoyed being able to meet and get to know a number of you over the past year. Elaine Neale will be stepping forward as your President for 2012 and Nikki Pearson will continue to serve as your Secretary. I am confident that they have a heart for and will do an outstanding job making sure the associa-tion moves forward true to its mission of providing professional development, re-sources, and networking opportunities for career development professionals. Best wishes for a wonderful 2012! With the highest of regards,
Alicia
From the desk of…Alicia Beck, Past President Volume II-Issue 1
SAVE THE DATE NOTICE:
SEMCDFA
SPRING
CONFERENCE
“DIVERSITY & DISABILITY”
MONDAY,
MAY 21, 2012
OAKLAND SCHOOLS
WATERFORD
STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER
DETAILS...
March 25, 2012
SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
FACILITATOR
ASSOCIATION
“ CDF ”
*WELCOME*
MESSAGE FROM
ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT
2
TWITTER-WRAP-UP
PROFESSIONAL DEV.
SESSION-10/27/11
2
FALL/WINTER CONF
12/2/11-WRAP-UP
3
AUDIT REPORT
4
Inside this issue:
I would like to take this opportunity to Welcome Back our returning mem-
bers. Thank you for your continued support! To our new members...
Welcome to SEMCDFA! For those who have not renewed their member-
ship for 2012, attached to this email, please find a 2012 membership
form. We have great things planned this year and look forward to your
continued support and involvement.
A special thank you to Alicia Beck, past president, for her dedication and
years of service to the association. It has been a pleasure working with
Alicia this past year! I have learned so much under her leadership.
Alicia...many thanks!!!!
Currently plans are underway for a full day spring conference. If you
would like to volunteer to be on a committee, or assist with a short term
assignment, please let me know.
I look forward to serving as your president this year to continue to grow
and support your association!
As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions and most of all
your involvement!
Elaine
From the desk of... Elaine I. Neale, President
Volume II- Issue 1 Page 2
NEW PERKS
If you actively
serve on the
Board, your
membership fee
for that year will be
waived as a thank
you for your
service.
If you actively
serve on a
committee, you will
receive a $5
discount per
conference for that
year, in recognition
and appreciation of
your time.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSION
“TWITTER” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27-WRAP-UP
By: Nikki T. Pearson
Hello All!
Due to popular demand, we co-
ordinated another hands-on
technology session with the al-
ways entertaining Heather Cole-
man-Voss and Ron Marshall of
the Ferndale Career Center to
explore the current phenomenon
called “Twitter.” This free pro-
fessional development session
offered 2.5 CEUs and great
“info-tainment” was had by all!
Though Heather was ill, Ron
Marshall held down the fort
and worked us through the
basics of Twitter. Along with
other items, we examined:
How to establish a Twitter
account.
What ways to use symbols
efficiently for the 140-
character limitation
Using Twitter to reach particu-
lar audiences.
In the spirit of Halloween, your
dedicated SEMCDFA board
members as well as an enthusi-
astic member, Laura Robb, did
dress up and added some
“spooktacular visuals to the
event. Overall, the Twitter ses-
sion was received well, the only
thing missing was YOU!
We ended the year on a
high note at the Fall/
Winter Conference on De-
cember 2, 2011. The
beautiful facility at the
Macomb Community Col-
lege Center Campus in
Clinton Township en-
hanced our holiday cele-
bration as we welcomed
two outstanding speakers.
Our keynote speaker,
Kimberly Kassner gave a
fun and interactive presen-
tation on “communicating
effectively with clients/
students using questions
and active listening.” We
all learned more about ef-
fective communication dur-
ing the bread and peanut
butter demonstration!
Cathy Smith gave us more
great information with her
presentation on quick infor-
mal assessments espe-
cially when we do not have
a lot of time.
We were even surprised at
our unexpected guest, a
deer that appeared right
outside the beautiful
make. Just like the snow-
flakes, we are no two alike
and our results are the
best when we unite. To-
gether we can make a dif-
ference!”
A membership meeting
was held before the confer-
ence and the board would
like to thank the few mem-
bers who did attend. We
are hoping to have greater
representation at future
memberships meetings.
This is your association
and we need your input!!!
windows to listen to these
awesome presentations.
A definite sign that Santa
was nearby too!
A delicious lunch was en-
joyed by all followed by a
gift box of homemade tof-
fee for all attendees.
SEMCDFA Members were
also given a special gift, a
beautiful snowflake note-
pad with a special
poem...One of a Kind...
“ As they float to the earth,
each unique tiny flake has
no idea the impact it will
SEMCDFA FALL/WINTER CONFERENCE-
Friday, December 2-WRAP-UP
Page 3 Volume II-Issue 1
“Quick, fun, informal as-
sessments (ie questions)-
she reframed what assess-
ments can be (insightful)”
“Enthusiasm, and
energy of speaker,
very knowledgeable.”
“The red stick is
something I can use
in communication. It
is easy to forget what
a symbol can be.”
“Love the energy of the
presenter. Great group
interaction, made it fun
and interesting.”
ELAINE I. NEALE
ALICIA BECK
EDITOR: Elaine I. Neale CONTRIBUTORS:
Alicia Beck
Nikki Pearson
To be published quarterly
CONTACT INFO:
Page 4 Volume II-Issue 1
Thank you!... Linda Flynn and Denise Thornton for your outstanding work as part of the Audit Committee.
They dedicated one whole evening, to review the association’s financial records, and then created this report
and recommendations.
February 2011 Balance $3,244.03
Add: Deposits + 1,890.00 Less: Withdrawals - 2,677.38 Less: Service Fees - 42.00 November 30 Bank Balance 2,414.65
Less: Outstanding Checks - 1,378.94 (for October professional development and December conference expenses) # 1124 $599.96 # 1128 $192.00 # 1129 $186.98 #1130 $300.00 #1131 $100.00 November 30, 2011 Reconciled Bank Balance $1,035.71 November 30, 2011 Checkbook Balance $1,035.71
Books last audited in February 2011
SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN CAREER DEVELOPMENT FACILIATORS ASSOCIATION (SEMCDFA)
Audit Report November 30, 2011
Prepared by Denise Y. Thornton and Linda Flynn
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 2012 FISCAL YEAR The person who makes the deposits should be different from the person who writes the checks. Due to security concerns, do not make copies of checks. Receipts contain essential information. The person who writes the checks should not receive the statements. Per the constitution and bylaws, the treasurer presents a treasurer’s report at quarterly meetings and audit shall occur on an annual basis. If there is not a treasurer, however, it is recommended that a semi-annual audit take place. A check requisition should be prepared for each check written for expen-ditures. Investigate the issuance of a debit card.
