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RACS offers services to Bath
LEXINGTON - Rockbridge Area Community Services reminds the Bath community of the availability of their professional staff to provide presentations and training to local groups.
Speakers are available to present on a variety of agency programs and topics, including an overview of RACS services and referral processes and special topics for targeted audiences, such as parenting pre-teens and teens, special education services for children from birth to five years or managing and reducing stress/anger, to name only a few of the offerings RACS supports.
The agency's public relations director Kelly Shifflett said, "We have some highly qualified and very effective presenters on staff, and there's a broad array of topics on which we can present. In addition, we are often able to design presentations to fit specific needs upon request."
In the past year, RACS staff presented to local civic organizations about accessing RACS' services, provided a model for crisis intervention services for the Virginia School Nurses Association, and delivered numerous workshops for parents of children of all ages. Staff members have also been involved in providing training for local groups, such as childcare/ daycare workers and school faculty and administrators.
"The RACS speakers' bureau hopes to help meet the needs of local groups searching for presenters to supplement their programming," said Shifflett. "We can give a brief overview presentation or we can do more in-depth workshops on topics of interest to a wide variety of audiences. We have topics suitable for youth, parents, employees and professional staff, and evaluations of our presentations show them to be well-received by the audiences."
Most presentations are offered free of charge as a service to the local community. A more detailed listing of topic suggestions is available on the RACS Web site at www.racsb.org. Also on the Web site is a link to the speakers' bureau listing, which is located at the bottom of the "news" tab's page.
To discuss RACS speakers' bureau topics, or to arrange for a speaker, contact Kelly Shifflett, Ph.D., director prevention and public relations for RACS at (540) 462-6643 or E-mail Shifflett at kshifflett@racsb.org.
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