11/2/18  10:00 am  

Present:  Paul Callister, Ellen Behrens, Rebekka Brochtrup, Jordan Briggs.

We discussed and prepared the following:

Proposal for Board Vote

Seeking authorization for up to $600 to do 2 separate mailings: 1 mailing in November for Call for Papers/Save the Date and 1 mailing in January for Conference Registration.  We plan to do mailings to CMHCs first.  If responses are low on either CMHC mailing, we would send to LCSWs

Conference fees (Friday lunch included)

• $170 Member (Full Conference)
  
• $115 Member (Half Conference)
  
• $205 Non-Member (Full Conference)
  
• $150 Non-Member (Half Conference)
  
• $95 students
  

Presenters Free

Early Bird will be $30 less than each above noted fee and will expire 45 days prior to conference.

Updates about the Annual Conference

Date:  March 15-16

Location:  University of Utah (specific location TBD; Dr. Dorn is helping with arrangements)

Lunch included in fee and provided on site

150 attendees anticipated

A newly revised Call for Proposals is posted on the website. 

Proposals will be due by 1/15/2019

Plan for at least 4, preferably 5 sessions per time slot.

Gray Otis will be our keynote speaker.  

In addition to the proposals submitted online, the committee will invite experts to present on salient counseling topics such as professional counseling identity; counseling ethics; suicide training; clinical training sessions (e.g., EFT).

For each session, there will be at least 1 licensed mental health therapist presenter.

We plan to email a Call for Proposals/Save the Date announcement ASAP

We plan to email a registration announcement in January.