Here is a list of upcoming NC EAPA events. NC EAPA is an active Chapter with workshops scheduled four times per year at different locations throughout the state.

Come to the workshops to learn about relevant, interesting and up-to-date information on a variety of topics, as well as to meet, network and socialize with your fellow EAPA members and colleagues.

If you would like to add an upcoming event to the calendar, email Lindy Langston at

December Workshop:
Embracing Diversity: Addressing Harassment in the Workplace

December 11, 2008
Comfort Suites
Pineville, NC

Sally M. Masters is a Career Counselor in the Career Development Center with Appalachian State University's College of Fine and Applied Arts and Hayes School of Music. She has worked in education and counseling positions for over 25 years. Sally recently relocated to North Carolina from Massachusetts where she was an often requested regional and national resource and speaker on issues of social injustice. Sally received the inaugural statewide Human Rights Award from the Massachusetts School Counseling Association in 2007. She has a Master of Science degree in Education from Baylor University and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in School Counseling from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Robert P. Joyce is a lawyer and a specialist in public law, especially the law related to employment. He has practiced law in New York City and in North Carolina and is now the Edwin Hinsdale Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Government in the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Law of Employment in North Carolina's Public Schools. Bob consults regularly with governmental administrators and the lawyers who represent units of governments. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and the Harvard Law School.

REGISTER NOW ONLINE!

To register by mail:

Fill out the registration form. Make checks payable to NC EAPA and mail to:

Dawn Klug
Doctor's Park Suite 3-C
417 Biltmore Ave
Asheville, NC 28801
Fax: 828/258-1336

SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE
Contact David Hamby
704-355-5021

PLEASE NOTE: To reserve a room, contact the Comfort Suites in Pineville, NC (just south of Charlotte and right off I-485) at 704-540-0069 by December 1, to receive the rate of $84.00 per night. Let them know you are with the North Carolina Employee Assistance Professionals Association. Their address is 10415 Centrum Parkway, Pineville, North Carolina 28134.

March Conference:
March 11-13, 2009

30th Annual EAPA/NC Training Conference
"EAP: Championing Excellence in the Workplace"

Save these dates: March 11-13, 2009
Embassy Suites Hotel, Concord, North Carolina

Speakers:

• Dave Worster IEAPA President;
• Jeff Brantley, MD Mindfulness at Work;
• Harold Kudler, MD Veterans Returning to Workplace;
• Jonathan Feather, Ethics;
• Lucy Henry, Bullying in the Workplace;
• Terri Nicotra, ADHD in the Workplace;
• Al Greene, EAP Basics;
• Barbara Kruszewski, Psychology of Retirement;
• Susan Holman, MD Neurobiology of Addiction;
• Treatment Trends,
• and more!

For More Information Contact: Chairperson Andy Silberman at 1-919-416-1727

*Look for the Electronic Brochure later this year*