On behalf of The National Counselors of the Deaf Association, we are
providing some changes regarding the NCDA Conference registration
deadline.

Original Deadline: April 1st- Supersaver
$150

Extended Supersaver Deadline: April 21st- Supersaver $150

Regular on-line registration: April 22nd -June 17th-
$175

Onsite registration- $200

We encourage you to take advantage of this extended time to register at
the discounted rate.

The registration fee entitles you to attend and receive:

* Wednesday's welcome & Opening Reception,

* *** Thursday's Preconference NIMC tour (June 19th), including
breakfast and lunch that day.

* Friday's Training Workshops, and

* Saturday's Regional Workday.

The registration cost does not include: Thursday's dinner, Friday's
lunch and the Banquet ticket (additional $30 for this ticket), and
Saturday breakfast and lunch.

Registration must be done on-line; (we can now accept payment by check)

http://counseling.gallaudet.edu/ (see NCDA conference on the right hand
side, under "resource")

or, go directly to the registration link at

http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=187706

As a human service provider for deaf people, please forward this message
to other workers that are social workers, school psychologists, and
other school and mental counselors in your school or local area.

Respectfully,

On behalf of Roger Beach and Cheryl Wu, Co-Coordinators

If have questions or concerns, Please reply to this email,
William.Schmidt@...
*** Thursday's Preconference NIMC tour (June 19th)

The National Institute for Multicultural Competence (NIMC)



Multicultural Competence and Social Justice



Thursday - June 19, 2008





The training provided by NIMC is designed to provide counselors with an
orientation to multicultural counseling and social justice practice
using the RESPECTFUL model of Counseling: An Integrative
Multidimensional Model for Counselors by Michael D'Andrea & Judy
Daniels. The RESPECTFUL counseling model represents a new,
comprehensive and integrative way of thinking about the persons who are
directly involved in the process of counseling and provides the
counselor with 34 multicultural competencies to be incorporated into the
counseling relationship.



Michael D'Andrea is a nationally and internationally-respected
multicultural and social justice advocate who recognize that the fields
of education and mental health professions are entering a new era. Among
the factors that are contributing the emergence of this new era in the
educational and mental health-care systems in the United States include:




* the new challenges that educators and mental health
practitioners face as they deal with the rapid cultural-racial
transformation of our citizenry and
* recent reports that describe the overall failure of our existing
school and mental health-care systems to effectively and ethically meet
the psychological needs of millions of persons from culturally and
racially-different groups in our society.





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