Items of Interest from Regional Services and Membership (RSM)

Please Join Us at the 2012 International CEC Convention in Denver, CO, April 11-14, 2012

We will be selling 50th anniversary buttons, with proceeds to benefit the CCBD Foundation. Stop by and see us at the CCBD Membership Table near (or just inside) the Exhibit Hall.

RSM Meeting will be held on Friday, April 13, 9:00 AM - Noon. This is a networking and information sharing meeting for all RSM leadership, as well as CCBD members who are interested in reactivating their CCBD subdivision.

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Announcement of upcoming conferences and regional news

Region 1:

Idaho CCBD is hosting a spring workshop on March 8-9, 2012, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM, at the Riverside Hotel in Boise, ID. Keynote speaker, Dr. Jeffrey Sprague, will be presenting, “Response to Intervention: Using Universal Screening and Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports in Schools.” For more information, contact Cyndi Cook at ccook@nsd131.org.

Region 2:

Arizona CCBD is having its first meeting and talk with a free presentation by Daniel Gulchak titled "Introduction to a School-Wide Behavior Plan." This will take place on January 26th from 5-6pm at Orangedale Junior High School. The target audience is teachers, administrators, and university students. Please join us!

Region 4:

Colorado CCBD - Our website is up and running. www.colorado-ccbd.org, and we're on facebook so like us!!

Our annual Affective Needs conference is on Friday, January 20. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Ross Greene, and we are featuring many fantastic and relevant breakout sessions throughout the day. We know that participants will leave with many ideas and tools that they could implement on Monday morning in their classrooms! At that conference, we will be awarding the Kay Cessna Award to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional skill in serving students with emotional and/or behavioral disabilities. We look forward to announcing that winner in the next newsletter!

We are accepting applications for 3 grant opportunities, 2 for classrooms and 1 for professional development.

We look forward to supporting the Council for Exceptional Children's International Conference in Denver in April, and are currently working with CCBD National on the membership table as well as the Foundation Fundraisers!

And a number of great updates from Texas CCBD. See below!

1) Our first official Texas CCBD newsletter will go out in late January detailing the reactivation of our chapter, introducing the officers, and recruiting committee members and volunteers.

2) Our Texas CCBD website will be live in late January, where members can access news and events related to Texas CCBD and the education of individuals with behavioral disorders.

3) We have partnered with Texas CEC to have a presentation strand devoted to CCBD in the annual Texas CEC conference on June 28 - 30 in San Antonio at the Historic Menger Hotel. Details regarding conference registration will be shared with Texas CCBD members in the upcoming newsletter.

4) We are holding a Texas CCBD recruiting event at the annual Sam Houston State University CEC conference on February 3 in Huntsville, TX. The keynote speaker for this event will be Dr. Michael Wehmeyer from the University of Kansas.

Region 5:

Things are active in the Midwest subdivisions of CCBD. Wisconsin CCBD just hosted a very successful annual conference on December 1, and 2, 2011, in Green Bay, Wisconsin at the Hotel Sierra. Congratulations goes out to Debbie Brent and her officers!

Illinois is holding its Winter Drive In Conference at the Wyndham Lisle Hotel February 3-4, 2012. For further information, contact: Bev Johns at bevjohns@juno.com

Indiana CCBD will host a strand at the Indiana EBD Conference, April 26-27, 2012. For more information, contact Susan Albrecht at sfalbrecht@bsu.edu.

Ohio has announced that its conference will be held June 22-23, 2012, at the University of Toledo in Toledo, OH. For further information, contact Ed Cancio at ed.cancio@yahoo.com.

Kentucky CCBD has their summer conference scheduled for June 27-28, 2012, at the Lexington Convention Center in Lexington, KY. For more information, go to the Behavior home page athttp://www.state.ky.us/agencies/behave/misc/bi01.html

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