Fundraising Conference Supporting Literacy

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Fundraising Conference Supporting Literacy

GET “HAPPY FOR NO REASON” 
AND SUPPORT FAMILY LITERACY!

Sunday, October 4, 2009
8:30am – 4:00pm
Richard Nixon Library
Yorba Linda, CA

Visit the beautiful Richard Nixon Library and enjoy a continental breakfast and delicious catered lunch in the rose garden!

Enjoy an amazing and talented line-up of best-selling authors and thought-provoking speakers!

AND feel great about supporting Family Literacy in Orange County!

The Read to Succeed conference raises funds to support Family Reading Inc., a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help families develop a positive home learning environment by developing habits such as a full family reading time for 20 to 30 minutes daily. The program consists of interactive educational and entertaining presentations – “edu-tainment.” Family Reading Inc. enjoys partnerships with schools, libraries and community organizations inspiring children and parents and supports the "Drop Everything And Read" (DEAR) and Silent Sustained Reading (SSR) programs.

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS:

Sheryl Roush
TOPIC:
Sparkle-Tude!®: How Parents Can Stay Motivated to Raise Healthy Children”
Known as the Sparkle-Tude® Expert, Sheryl Roush helps individuals and organizations rekindle the spirit, raise the bar and create excitement. Her inspirational message is one of humor, heart and hope. As an internationally top-rated female motivational speaker, she has presented nearly 3,000 programs in nine countries, and on programs alongside Olivia Newton-John, Geena Davis, Jane Seymour, Mark Victor Hansen, Art Linkletter, James Ray, Suze Orman, and more. Sheryl was twice crowned “Ms. Heart of San Diego” and “La Reina de Esperanza” (Queen of Hope) honoring her contributions to women and children in the community. She President of Sparkle Presentations, Inc., and is a 12-time author, and creator of the Heart Book Series, which includes: Sparkle-Tudes!™,
Heart of a Military Woman, Heart of a Woman, Heart of a Mother, Heart of a Woman in Business, Corazón de Mujer, and Heart of the Holidays. Her writing has appeared in San Diego Family Magazine, Wise Women, the San Diego Business Journal, and Montel Across America.
This Mother’s Day Sheryl was interviewed on by Montel Williams. <http://www.sparklepresentations.com>
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Marci Shimoff
TOPIC: How to overcome stress and toxins in today’s fast paced world.
Marci Shimoff is the author of the new instant runaway bestseller, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, which offers a revolutionary approach to experiencing deep and lasting happiness. She is a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret.Chicken Soup for the Soul, including Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul, have met with stunning success, selling more than 13 million copies worldwide in 33 languages. President and co-founder of the Esteem Group, she delivers keynote addresses and seminars on self-esteem, self-empowerment, and peak performance. Her writing has appeared in national women’s magazines, including Ladies Home Journal and Woman’s World.
Marci is also the woman’s face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, <http://www.happyfornoreason.com>

Dr. Ann Corwin, PhD, M.Ed aka The Parenting Doctor
LUNCHEON KEYNOTE
Creator of “The Child Connection Parenting Program”
Dr. Corwin has made it her life’s work to develop practical parenting programs for parents and children. With a Ph.D. in Marriage, Family and Child Therapy and Masters Degree in Education and over twenty five years of experience in parenting consulting and child development education, she has helped thousands of parents – with children ages birth to five years and beyond. Dr. Ann focuses on prevention and helping families learning to help themselves! Her parenting skills development workshops and parent coaching programs have immediate solutions to child discipline behavior issues such as hitting and biting, respect and discipline, poor sleeping habits, relationships and school, toilet learning, new siblings and sibling rivalry, separation anxiety and much more.
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Garett Guenot, aka The "Purpose Guy”
Garett Guenot is a purpose coach, author, and speaker who has dedicated his life to helping others discover what they were born to do. Garett is President and CEO of PurposeGuy LLC, a company designed to teach individuals to discover their purpose in life and inspire them to pursue their dreams with excellence. For over 10 years Garett has been studying the art and science of personal development , in a quest to determine the common skills and traits of fulfilled and successful people. In the process, he discovered that true success is a combination of 3 things. Successful people pursue their passion, expand their purpose to benefit others, while progressively realizing their vision and dreams. Garett holds a degree in psychology, a certification in Organizational Leadership, and has received training in counseling and marriage and family therapy from California State University Fullerton.

Seth Sherwood
FOUNDER
Seth Sherwood is the founder and executive director of Family Reading Inc., a nonprofit family literacy development program. He specializes in motivating parents and children to develop a positive and healthy home learning environment. Seth and his band perform at libraries and
schools in Orange and Los Angeles Counties. Seth enthusiastically enjoys helping individuals, families and organizations develop success habits allowing them to achieve their goals. As a child he regularly visited his mother’s native country of Guatemala. He completed a two year Peace Corps tour in 1983, working in agricultural projects in Chile and in a refugee camp in Honduras. Before making the transition to Family Reading Inc., Seth was a school teacher in Orange County for 16 years, and a skilled trainer for with Dale Carnegie.

PLUS:

  • Miss California 2009, Kristy Cavinder
  • Channel 4 Traffic Newscaster Paul Johnson

LOCATION:                  
Richard Nixon Library
18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.
Yorba Linda, CA 92886-3949
Phone  (714) 993-3393
<http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/>
http://www.nixonlibraryfoundation.org/
                      
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Cost: $89 per person
Includes Continental Breakfast and a
delicious catered Lunch in the Rose Garden!  Your choice of turkey, roast beef or vegetarian sandwich.

FREE AMPLE PARKING.
 
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Bring an open heart and mind…and we’ll guarantee that you’ll be uplifted and have fun!
 

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