2025 Virtual Conference - Walking the Path Together: Collaborative Approaches to Career Work and the Career Journey

When
17 Apr 2025
9:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Location
Virtual Conference
Spaces left
83

Registration

ASCA Member – $45.00
CCA Member – $45.00
CCCDA Member – $45.00
CSCA Member – $45.00
Emeritus
Member of New England CDA – $45.00
NCDA Member – $45.00
Non-Member – $50.00
Presenter
Student/Retiree – $30.00

Join us for our 2025 Virtual Conference!

Keynote: NCDA Presidents Panel

Marty Apodaca - Current NCDA President
Sharon Givens - Former NCDA President
Seth Hayden - Former NCDA President
Carolyn Jones - Former NCDA President

Higher Education (Concurrent Sessions)

Tara Malone, Lisa Carrozza, & Wiley Dawson - "Collaborative Approaches to Career Equity and Access"

This presentation highlights how the University of Connecticut’s Regional Campus Career Centers support diverse, first-generation students facing financial and personal challenges. Through equity-driven initiatives like flexible Pop-Up Career Programming and Professional Clothing Closets, we’ll explore collaborative strategies to provide inclusive, accessible career resources tailored to meet students’ unique needs.

Latoya Haynes Thoby & Tyshana Campbell - "Career Work in Our Client's Context: Operationalizing Trauma-Informed and Culturally-Responsive Career Counseling for Client Success"

This session will explore client contexts and career intervention application using trauma-informed and culturally-responsive approaches to best support client success.

Taylor Bigelow & Natalie Criniti - "Empowering Futures: Career Readiness Innovations at the University of New Haven"

Explore innovative strategies for equipping students with career readiness and life skills through holistic, inclusive programming. Highlighting initiatives like the Men of Color Collective, integrated faculty-student models, and skill-building activities, this session offers actionable tools to empower diverse learners and foster long-term success.

Business and Industry, Private Practice (Concurrent Sessions)

Mark Danaher - "Evolving Together: A Values-Based Workshop for Career Practitioners"

Experience a collaborative workshop designed for career practitioners navigating revolutionary times. Through structured peer activities, learn to align your values with today's career landscape while building meaningful connections with colleagues. This interactive session empowers you to enhance both your self-care practice and your collaborative approach to career development.

Richard Montanaro - "Coping with Transitions - An Exploration of Strategies"

This presentation will focus on adults in transition following job loss. However, coping with the transition process is across the range of events. This is both seminal work as well as ongoing research. The workshop critically focuses on the transition process and unrecognized “front-end” behaviors that can stifle, delay, or even prevent a successful transition. The active discussion will gain insight into identifying, defining, evaluating, and using these essential but not obvious behaviors - as well as a tool of self-reflection and counselor intervention.

Chris Chaia - "The Business of Coaching: Practical Steps for Aspiring Coaches"

The coaching profession has grown 76% since 2019, with many transitioning into this exciting field full-time or part-time. This session will explore the latest research (available March 2025) on how entrepreneurial coaches are investing their time, money, and resources. Attendees will gain ten actionable steps to confidently start and grow a coaching practice.

K-12 and Public Agencies (Concurrent Sessions)

Clewiston Challenger, Kevin Duquette, & Joanna DeJesus - "Improving School Counselors and Transition Specialist College and Career Readiness Collaboration for Students with Disabilities"

College and career readiness (CCR) supports are not equitable for all students. Disparities exist for a number of students, including students with disabilities and those gaps are more prominent among students of color with disabilities. CCR supports are typically carried out by school counselors for all students, and for youth with disabilities CCR support may be integrated within transition services organized by transition coordinators (SPED). We will review our findings from a large dataset and discuss the disproportionate use of school counseling programs and their CCR services by students of color with disabilities. Practical multi-tiered strategies for implementation will be offered along with ideas for collaboration.

Ana Trimble - "Collaborative Interventions to Support Community Providers"

The Children’s Center of Hamden is a community provider that has been around for more the 90 servicing children and families all across Connecticut. As a community provider we play a critical role in serving diverse and underserved populations