Please put Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 on your calendars for the NNHRA's 8th Annual Diversity Conference. The theme is: "Diversity: Words to Action." The registration cost will be $69 for early birds through August 20; $79 thereafter; $20 for students.
Our Keynote Speaker this year will be:
Dr. Shirley Davis, Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Managing Diversity: How to Put the Lid on Harrassment
This hands-on, interactive workshop will give employers, HR managers, and others the opportunity to practice taking the right questions in response to harassment complaints.
9:00-10:15
Workforce
Anthony L. Hall, Esq. and Dora V. Lane, Esq.
Holland and Hart LLP
You Can Talk the Talk, but Can You Walk the Walk?
This interactive session will help you actually, "walk the walk" when dealing with HR diversity issues in the workplace.
9:00-10:15
Education
Nanci Fowler and Susan Thomasson
Veterans Upward Bound
Real Support: Creating a Veteran Friendly Environment Using Efficient and Effective Interventions
In the session, the organization, "Veterans Upward Bound," will show you how to implement efficient, effective and inexpensive interventions to create a veteran-friendly environment.
10:30-11:45
Community
M. Todd Felts, MALS
Reynolds School of Journalism, UNR
Cultural Communications: Bridging Emerging Social and Participation Gaps
The objectives of this session are to help participants better understand tools that help facilitate cross-cutural communications, become aware of how individuals view themselves in the world, and learn how to communicate effectively, recognize good tactics in reaching new audiences and develop ideas for creating workplace and community cultures that enhance communication initiatives.
10:30-11:45
Workforce
Judith Kerr, Colleen Miller, and LaVonne Brooks
HIS Washoe Ability Resource Center
Viable Options to Increase Inclusion and Diversity
In this informative and interactive session you will learn how the principles of Supportive Employment, Customized Employment and Work Enclaves can support individuals with disabilities and increase workplace diversity.
10:30-11:45
Education
Maria Anastasia Sefchick
TMCC
Benefits for All: A Case for Diversity in Higher Education
This session will help educators name the benefits of diversity in higher education and explore concrete ways to promote it.
1:15-2:30
Community
Nedra Daugherty, PHR and Lynda Murdock
Harrah's Entertainment
Discovering Employer-Based Strategies for Helping Youth Obtain and Maintain Employment
This session will help you identify several ways that you can implement youth-based workforce development programs
1:15-2:30
Workforce
Scott Harrington, Ph.D., BCBA George McKinlay, M.S. and Scott Youngs
Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities
TBA
TBA
1:15-2:30
Education
Dolores Fabregas and Kathy Chan, SPHR
Council on International Educational Exchange and JMA Ventures, LLC
Onboarding International Workforce into the Workplace and Your Community
This session examines best practices in onboarding an interculteral workforce in the workplace and international community.
"The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit."
This program,has been approved for 6.0 (General ) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute. Please be sure to note the program ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org.
