Training & Conferences

Dear Head Start Community,

Register Head Start Parents now for the 5th Annual MHSA Parent Training Conference. The conference will be held at the St. Cloud Holiday Inn, St. Cloud, Minnesota on October 22 – 24, 2006. The Keynote Speakers will be Rick Rassier, Kim Ratz, and Ben Glenn.

Rick Rassier
"Don’t Limit Your Challenges, Challenge Your Limits!"
From Central Minnesota
Rick Rassier is a teacher, motivational speaker, teamwork/performance trainer and one-man volleyball team from Central Minnesota. He built a challenge course to reach young people with a positive message about setting goals and staying chemically free. Rick will use a series of fun, challenging, entertaining activities to inspire parents. Through this experience you’ll find yourself more equipped to strive to reach new goals, be determined, and deal with frustration and some of the obstacles of life in a constructive way. You’ll love it!

Kim Ratz
"The Speaker Who Sings"
From Central Minnesota
Kim shares music and humor, creates a relaxing and fun environment where people feel comfortable to take some chances to think and learn, to stretch and grow. Kim’s’ journey through a personal crisis taught him that life is all about choices-what you do and how you do it is your choice. Audience members enjoy Kim’s relaxed and sincere style. Kim inspires people to do more than "just get by" but to "THRIVE" in achievingtheir life roles and goals.

Ben Glenn, "The Chalk Guy"
From Indianapolis, Indiana
Told in school that he would never amount to anything because of his dyslexia and ADD, Ben has gone on to become an internationally known speaker, humorist and author. A great storyteller, Ben infuses his presentations with humor and insight that transcends the barriers of age, race, gender and culture.

Ben’s passion is to ignite his audiences to live their lives with gusto and passion by making the best of their disabilities as well as their strengths and talents. His personal story of overcoming his dyslexia to become a writer, and learning to live with ADD, has touched thousands of lives.

Ben’s program never fails to "WOW". After an inspiring message,he creates a huge 6’X8” drawing and the drawing then becomes the backdrop for an interactive media and light show in which popular music, movie clips and 3D animations intermingle with the drawing to visually illustrate and drive home the point of the message.

To read more about these workshops click here. To learn more about the MHSA Parent Training Conference click here.

• Click to register for the 2006 Parent Training Conference.
• Read about facilities of the Conference Host, the Holiday Inn in St. Cloud, MN.
• Read about the 2006 "Fun Night"
• PTC information to all Head Start Directors.
• Director's Track Information