Description

Presiding Officer:
Denise Colley, WCB Immediate Past President

• Welcome Back

• National Report
  Learn what’s happening on a national level with American Council of the Blind. Deb Cook Lewis, ACB First Vice President

• The Jobs People Do
  The unemployment rate of those who are blind continues to be at an unacceptably high level. Panelists are successfully employed in very different fields and will share the paths which led them there.
  Facilitated by Cindy Hollis
  Panelists: Chelsea Armstrong, Test Technician
  Quality Logic
  Boise, ID

  Larry Watkinson, Deputy Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity
  Washington State Department of Transportation
  Olympia, WA
  Natalie Couch, Customer Service Representative
  Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities
  Louisville, KY

• Presiding Officer: Reginald George, WCB Board Director

• APH ConnectCenter
  Learn about American Printing House for the Blind’s ConnectCenter, presented by Richard Rueda.

• Put the FUN in Fundraising
  This presentation will highlight fundraising ideas for local chapters as well as opportunities that are available through WCB, focusing on what’s applicable to fundraising in the state of Washington.
  Presented by Lisa George, Chair, WCB Fundraising Committee and Kim Moberg, President, South Kitsap Council of the Blind.

• The Big Three
  Let’s learn what’s happening with our agencies serving the blind and visually impaired.
  Panelists:
  Scott McCallum
  Superintendent
  Washington State School for the Blind (WSSB)
  Danielle Miller
  Director and Regional Librarian
  Washington Talking Book and Braille Library (WTBBL)
  Michael MacKillop
  Acting Executive Director
  Department of Services for the Blind (DSB)

• Forward Together: An Inside Look at Guide Dog Training
  This presentation hosted by Guide Dog Users of Washington State (GDUWS) is excerpted from the Guide Dog Users, Inc. (GDUI) program at the 2021 ACB conference and convention. It features Christie Bane, author of the book "Forward Together: An Inside Look at Guide Dog Training."

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