CCDA 2025 Conference Call for Proposals

Confidence, Chaos, and Compromise in Career Development

Conference Date: Friday, May 9th, 2025

Description: 

This year’s theme is centered around adjustments to career theories, career advice, and retention strategies when working with minoritized, disenfranchised, under-resourced, and disabled individuals. In this conference, we’d like to focus on how we can update our approaches when working with marginalized clients.

We seek presenters who can provide attendees with information, resources, and strategies for working with clients in various career stages. Some examples of topics we would like to cover are as follows:

Career with those who are Minoritized:

Career with those who are Disenfranchised:

• Resources and representation through community, college, or workplace programs

• Legal support for undocumented and international job seekers

• Local and State governance initiatives

• Scholarship, grant funding, and professional development opportunities 

Career with those who are Under-Resourced:

• Best practices for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace

• Business strategy and mentorship

• Career Development curriculum focused on educational capitalization or entrepreneurship skills 

• Negotiating pay, promotion, and workplace boundaries 

• Adjustments to approaches when clients have limited funds

Career with those who are Disabled: 

• Adjustments to career outlook while managing health conditions; cancer, diabetes, long Covid, chronic pain, etc

• Updates on job searching practices and strategies with disabled clients

• Sharing state and local resources and services that aim to help disabled job seekers

• Training and retraining skills for clients faced with a disability

• How to present your visible or invisible disability to your employer

Target Audience

All program material should be designed to provide learning and development experience to career counselors, career development practitioners, and specialists. These professionals work in colleges, private practice, schools, business and industry, community services, workforce, corrections, One-Stop centers, agencies, and government. They call themselves counselor educators, career center staff, coaches, career development facilitators (CDFs), rehabilitation counselors, consultants, transition specialists, managers, labor market and employment specialists, and school counselors and administrators.

Share Your Expertise, Submit Your Proposal!

Proposals must be submitted using the link provided. 

Please submit your proposal using this link: https://forms.gle/8kZeq94465uMQjQE9 

Proposal Deadline: Midnight PST on Friday, October 11, 2024. Submissions will not be reviewed past this time unless otherwise stated by CCDA on the website. 

Proposal Selection Process: The CCDA Conference Program Committee will review all proposals. Final decisions will be based on 1) relevance to the conference theme, 2) quality and clarity in the written proposal, 3) target audience alignment, and 4) cited research. Presenters will be notified via email of acceptance or rejection of the proposal by December 15, 2024. If you do not receive email notification of your proposal's acceptance or decline from CCDA by January 1, 2025, please contact Conference Planning Committee Chair, Rick Villarreal at rick@theinvisiblemaze.com

Registration Deadline: All presenters are required to register for the CCDA Regional Conference. At this moment we are making arrangements for a hybrid conference that allows for in-person participation and live video streaming. The registration deadline for all presenters is January 20, 2025. Failure to register by the deadline may result in the cancellation of your program.  Please note presenters receive a discounted rate of $35 to attend the conference.