Wednesday
September 16. 2015
From 10am to 3pm

Xenos
1340 Community Park Drive
Columbus OH 43229

6th Annual Ohio Direct Support Professional Recognition Event

Hosted by the Ohio Alliance of Direct Support Professionals

This great tradition continues for the sixth year. It's a great day for DSPs and everyone else lucky enough to participate. This years program includes a humorous and motivating keynote, other presentations, and an array of inspirational and fun activities. Lunch is provided, as are souvenir bags and other goodies. The program will focus on DSP's, by imparting ideas on how to live happier, reduce stress, and improve their own health and wellbeing.

We can't wait to see you at this year's DSP Recognition Event!

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Featuring Keynote - Karen Vadino

Laughing for the Health of it - Humorist for Human Services

Karen Vadino is a Motivational Speaker, Humorist, Trainer and Consultant. In her thirty-plus years as a human service professional, most of Karen's experience has been in the field of chemical dependency, both as a licensed clinician and as a certified prevention specialist.

Karen draws from her extensive and varied experience to form the foundation of her unique and distinctively humorous approach to life and work. For the past fifteen years, she has been a nationally recognized speaker and trainer sharing her inimitable insights with thousands of people - adults and youth - each year. Karen has been described as "one of those rare people who can make you laugh and cry in the same moment." For more information visit karenvadino.com

Featuring Special Guest - Nancy Jane-Smith

Put your Oxygen Mask On First: Practical Strategies in Self Care

Nancy Jane Smith, MSEd., LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor, speaker and trainer with Masters of Science Degrees in both Counseling and Higher Education from the University of Dayton. Nancy also completed her postgraduate training in Gestalt Therapy at the Gestalt Institute of Central Ohio. Nancy has eight years in private practice and a total of 15 years working as a counselor/coach.

Her specialty is helping women; limit their anxiety, by reducing their reactivity to the world and learning how to trust themselves. Recently, she published the book, This Stuff is Hard: Making Peace with Your Anxiety. For more information visit Live-Happier.com

2015 DSP Event T-shirts

Purchase your T-shirt at Registration

Only $10!

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