| The Foresight Companies Funeral Boot Camp provides attendees an in-depth workshop of understanding how their operating overhead, pricing, and EBITDA are intertwined. In addition, subject matter experts offer insights on important funeral business topics such as Human Resources, Marketing, Pre-Need Sales, and Accounts Receivable.
Visit http://theforesightcompanies.com/funeral-bootcamp-registration/ to get registered or call 800-426-0165. |
| The only conference that educates professionals, including funeral directors, and the public about home funerals and how we can work together to meet the needs of families who choose, in part or all, to care for their own after death. Events include panel discussions, speakers, skills sessions, and extra activities designed to create connections, such as:
The power of home funeral storytelling in words, oral traditions, online, altars, and around our crackling bonfire.
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| LAZERCON is a free AP Lazer event for business, schools, and entrepreneurs looking to learn more about what can be achieved with laser technology. See AP LAZER in action while learning about capabilities and the materials you can enhance with a laser cutter and engraver.
Businesses and Entrepreneurs will learn how to utilize a laser for maximum business growth. Add value to current products while diversifying into profitable unexplored markets that are just waiting to be tapped into. LAZERCON 2017 will be held at MadTree 2.0, the all new brewery, tap room, beer garden and private event space! Lazercon 2017 will be an invaluable experience for those wanting to learn more about laser cutting and engraving technology. Watch material demonstrations, presentations, and participate in Q&A sessions guaranteed to get you excited about what possibilities lie ahead with laser technology. Learn more and register at: http://aplazer.com/lazercon2017 |
This class will be offered at Oak Terrace Resort and Spa in Pana, Illinois
Homesteaders Director-Educational Services Steve Whitaker, who is a Certified Preplanning Consultant & Trainer and a frequent speaker at funeral service trade association events, will teach the course
The fee for this course is $75 and includes the registration/filing fees, lunch and refreshments throughout the day. Visit homesteaderslife.com/continuing-education for registration information.
This course qualifies for state insurance, funeral director and ethics credit hours in Nebraska and Iowa:
Ethics in Insurance Funded Funerals
• 6 Insurance Credit Hours
• 6 Funeral Director Credit Hours
• 3 Ethics Credit Hours
Insurance Issues and Disclosures
• 6 Insurance Credit Hours
• 6 Funeral Director Credit Hours
Because CE credit is typically not transferable from state to state, please contact your state’s licensing board before registering for out-of-state courses.
Using Social Media to Grow Your Funeral Home and Generate Leads
As demographics in our communities change, the approaches a funeral home uses to reach their community must evolve as well. Over 70% of the US is on Facebook and almost 70% of the country owns a smartphone. In order to grow your funeral home and generate new leads, you must reach these people where they spend the majority of their time: online. In this session, Garbow will share proven techniques for funeral homes and cemeteries to reach and engage their community using Facebook – including real examples of how you can use Facebook to generate a pipeline of leads. By the end of this session, you will have actionable knowledge to deploy a social media strategy that increases your bottom line and keeps you ahead of your competition!
Understand how Social Media is Transforming Our Industry:
-Learn how to improve your funeral home’s social media presence beyond posting obituaries
-Discover how to utilize advanced Facebook targeting for massively increasing your reach and engagement
-Learn how to use Facebook as a method for generating leads
About the Presenter
Zack Garbow is co-founder of Funeral Innovations, a technology firm specializing in digital marketing solutions for funeral homes. Zack has spoken at numerous industry events, including the ICCFA Wide World of Sales, ICCFA Annual Convention, ICCFA University, OGR and more. Zack created the popular FAMIC Social Media Copilot program, which helps NFDA member firms promote the Talk of a Lifetime messages on Facebook. The Social Media Copilot has helped over 500 firms reach millions of people. Zack recently was a contributor to The Director magazine, explaining how funeral homes can use social media to generate leads.
Registration Fees
NFDA Member 1st Registrant (includes CE) $119
Additional Member Registrant (requiring CE) $60
Nonmember 1st Registrant (includes CE) $179
Additional NM Registrant (requiring CE) $110
This class will be offered at the Holiday Inn Express and Suites in Dayton, OH
Homesteaders Director-Educational Services Steve Whitaker, who is a Certified Preplanning Consultant & Trainer and a frequent speaker at funeral service trade association events, will teach the course
The fee for this course is $75 and includes the registration/filing fees, lunch and refreshments throughout the day. Visit homesteaderslife.com/continuing-education for registration information.
This course qualifies for state insurance, funeral director and ethics credit hours in Nebraska and Iowa:
Ethics in Insurance Funded Funerals
• 6 Insurance Credit Hours
• 6 Funeral Director Credit Hours
• 3 Ethics Credit Hours
Insurance Issues and Disclosures
• 6 Insurance Credit Hours
• 6 Funeral Director Credit Hours
Because CE credit is typically not transferable from state to state, please contact your state’s licensing board before registering for out-of-state courses.
This class will be offered at the Double Tree Hotel in Akron, OH
Homesteaders Director-Educational Services Steve Whitaker, who is a Certified Preplanning Consultant & Trainer and a frequent speaker at funeral service trade association events, will teach the course
The fee for this course is $75 and includes the registration/filing fees, lunch and refreshments throughout the day. Visit homesteaderslife.com/continuing-education for registration information.
This course qualifies for state insurance, funeral director and ethics credit hours in Nebraska and Iowa:
Ethics in Insurance Funded Funerals
• 6 Insurance Credit Hours
• 6 Funeral Director Credit Hours
• 3 Ethics Credit Hours
Insurance Issues and Disclosures
• 6 Insurance Credit Hours
• 6 Funeral Director Credit Hours
Because CE credit is typically not transferable from state to state, please contact your state’s licensing board before registering for out-of-state courses.
Lacy Robinson, CFSP, NFDA Director of Member Development.
Seminar is approved for up to 8 CE hours by APFSP and most state licensing boards.
Register here: http://www.nfda.org/event-details?meetingid=%7bd1eccffd-a939-e711-80c0-94188202c19f%7d
Differentiate your Services with Video Streaming Capabilities
Meet Skype for Business, advanced video and communication tools for your business. During this session, Microsoft Expert, Paul Hager, will discuss how Skype for Business is helping funeral homes differentiate their business offerings through live video and audio streaming for memorial services. Paul will also cover Skype for Business’s new chat and phone system capabilities that can replace and consolidate your existing communications tools.
Learn how Skype:
-Facilitates high quality video and sound, anywhere with an internet connection
-Allows out of town family members to help organize and contribute to the memorial services
-Powers communication and collaboration between employees through chat and conference calling capabilities
About the Presenter
Paul Hager is an IT entrepreneur and one of America’s most respected Technology Futurists. Paul has always exhibited a dynamic ability to see what lies ahead, and a willingness to embrace an ever-changing world. Today, as the CEO of one of the fastest-growing technology firms in the country, Paul leads a company dedicated to helping its clients leverage—and profit from—trends in technology.
Registration Fees
NFDA Member Registrant FREE
Non-Member Registrant FREE
This class will be offered at the Capri Casino Hotel in Bettendorf, Iowa
Homesteaders Director-Educational Services Steve Whitaker, who is a Certified Preplanning Consultant & Trainer and a frequent speaker at funeral service trade association events, will teach the course
The fee for this course is $75 and includes the registration/filing fees, lunch and refreshments throughout the day. Visit homesteaderslife.com/continuing-education for registration information.
This course qualifies for state insurance, funeral director and ethics credit hours in Nebraska and Iowa:
Ethics in Insurance Funded Funerals
• 6 Insurance Credit Hours
• 6 Funeral Director Credit Hours
• 3 Ethics Credit Hours
Insurance Issues and Disclosures
• 6 Insurance Credit Hours
• 6 Funeral Director Credit Hours
Because CE credit is typically not transferable from state to state, please contact your state’s licensing board before registering for out-of-state courses.
Glenda Stansbury MA, CFSP, Marketing & Development Director of InSight Books, Co-Founder and Dean of InSight Institute Certified Celebrant Program.
Doug Manning, Founder, InSight
CE will be issued by InSight.
The Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice: 17 attendance hours.
State Funeral Service Board approval: Approved hours vary by state, contact Glenda Stansbury for more information, [email protected]
Register here: http://www.nfda.org/event-details?meetingid=%7b62a0d22f-b909-e711-9443-2c44fd7bbf5b%7d
Lacy Robinson, CFSP, NFDA Director of Member Development.
Seminar is approved for up to 8 CE hours by APFSP and most state licensing boards.
Register here: http://www.nfda.org/event-details?meetingid=%7b1ba27b68-9a0d-e711-9443-2c44fd7bbf5b%7d
Michael Nicodemus, NFDA Vice President of Cremation Services.
Seminar is approved for up to 7 CE hours by APFSP and most state licensing boards.
Register here: http://www.nfda.org/event-details?meetingid=%7b84fde6e5-920d-e711-9443-2c44fd7bbf5b%7d
Learn more about the NFDA Certified Preplanning Consultant Program!
Host: National Funeral Directors Association
Saturday, October 28, Seminar 8:00am – 4:30pm Local Time
Sunday, October 29, Certification Exam 8:30 – 10:45 am
Application deadline October 13, 2017
Advance study of CPC Standards Manual required.
CE
Seminar is approved for up to 8 CE hours by APFSP and most state licensing boards.
Registration and housing now open!
Historic city. Remarkable Convention. New opportunities!
The NFDA International Convention is still the place to find the most continuing education offerings, the latest in funeral service products and services and the best networking opportunities around!
Take advantage of all this year’s Convention has to offer:
- Choose from five pre-convention seminars
- Engaging educational sessions led by profession experts
- The world’s largest funeral service expo
- Of course…the parties
- And much more!
Be sure to check out this year’s special events, including the Funeral Directors Under 40: Laugh Boston and the Spirit of Boston Dinner Cruise.
New in 2017!
Speakers:
Jeanine Clapsaddle, MA, LMFT, CCLS is a Certified Child Life Specialist and Licensed
Marriage and Family Therapist with over 20 years’ experience working with pediatric
patients and their families, providing intervention and support throughout their course
of medical care, transition to home and bereavement experiences. She currently serves
as the Clinical Supervisor for the Child Life, Music Therapy and Healing Arts Program at
Arnold Palmer Medical Center in Orlando, Florida.
Patti Anewalt, PhD, LPC, FT, has been with Hospice & Community Care for 22 years.
As Director at the Pathways Center for Grief & Loss, Patti oversees a wide variety of
bereavement services for adults, children and teens, serving over 5500 individuals a
month. She oversees the Coping Kids & Teens program which provides individual and
group support, school grief groups, grief and crisis response trainings in the schools and
an overnight children’s bereavement camp she started in 1996.
Taryn Schuelke, CCLS, CPMT is the Bereavement Specialist on the Palliative Care
Service Team at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas where she specifically works
with siblings anticipating a death.
| Fall Conference & Webcast Where: Streamed LIVE from Texas Children’s Hospital Houston, Texas Time: Noon – 5:00 pm EST 11:00 am- 4:00 pm CST 9:00 am – 2:00 pm PST HOST A LIVE WEBCAST VIEWING EVENT: Cost: $130.00 – Non-members $120.00 – NAGC members +$50.00 Administrative fee, plus $25.00 per person for NAGC to offer 4.5 CE’s through a CEU sponsor for Psychologists, Counselors, MFT’s & Social Workers Questions: [email protected] Local Host: Bo’s Place Ethical Considerations for Working with Children Anticipating a Death Thursday, November 2, 2017 November is Children’s Grief Awareness Month. Join us for this Live Webcast on Children’s Grief! |
This class will be offered at the Residence Inn in Raleigh, NC.
Homesteaders Director-Educational Services Steve Whitaker, who is a Certified Preplanning Consultant & Trainer and a frequent speaker at funeral service trade association events, will teach the course.
| The fee for this course is $75 and includes the registration/filing fees, lunch and refreshments throughout the day. Visit homesteaderslife.com/continuing-education for registration information.
This course qualifies for state insurance, funeral director and ethics credit hours in North Carolina: Because CE credit is typically not transferable from state to state, please contact your state’s licensing board before registering for out-of-state courses. |
Dodge Technical Seminar – Las Vegas
November 9-10, 2017
Flamingo Hotel and Casino
Las Vegas, NV
Fillable registration form is already online. See agenda for time of event(s).
Another Email Contact Would Be: Erin McAvoy at [email protected]
Application for continuing education credit has been made to all states requiring continuing education credit for license renewal
Promotional materials should be available mid-June. Until that time, please direct interested parties to Sally Belanger at [email protected] or 207-841-6330. Programming routinely offers continuing education credit.
While we are still tweaking our programming, the program will offer an operational overview of the Charles C. Carson Center, US Port Mortuary, Dover, Delaware; the Personal Effects Depot, and the Fisher House were families await the return of their loved ones on their final journey home and the dignified transfer. We will also visit Arlington National Cemetery where there will be a formal wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, as well as other special educational opportunities; a tour of our Nation’s Capitol with a focus on our national treasures and monuments honoring our servicemen and women. Saturday morning, participants will help to place in excess of 250,000 wreaths on the graves of our fallen heroes at Arlington National Cemetery. In the afternoon, several other optional events are in the planning stages. Saturday night will find everyone at Constitution Hall for the United States Navy Band’s Holiday tribute. For further information will be included in the upcoming issue of The Dodge Magazine, online at Dodge’s website after mid-June or through Sally B’s office at the contact information listed above.
| Point of reference for the entire funeral and cemetery industry, TANEXPO is the rendez-vous where, every two years, funeral directors and trade professionals meet with the highest quality manufacturers. The world’s premiere funeral event, with the most impressive international attendance and the widest exhibiting surface.
The next edition takes place in Bologna (Italy) on April 5-6-7, 2018. TANEXPO offers the maximum effort to amaze the thousands of visitors with new products, technologies and design details. It is a unique showcase for manufacturers and the place where funeral industry professionals come to discover the new market frontiers. Admission to professionals with entrance tickets only. Only professional visitors can access the event. Visitors can buy the entrance ticket online by the official website and on site at the Costituzione and Nord Entrance. |
MIAMI FUNER , Worldwide Funeral Industry Conference & Expo, taking place on March 13/15, 2019 at the MACC – Miami Airport Convention Center, will be the forerunner event with the newest professional Conferences and a matchless Expo in the amazing city of Miami, leisure location and financial capital of Florida.
Jointly developed and organized by TANEXPO [the leading International Funeral and Cemetery Exhibition, gathering in Bologna 18.000 professionals from 55 Countries every two years] and MEMORIAL INTERNATIONAL LLC., [the largest funeral assistance corporation in the world with offices in 14 countries] it’s the perfect blend of the newest professional conferences and a matchless Expo!
Miami, financial capital of Florida, is the ideal place where to start new businesses and can act as a springboard for a great success in the United States, Latin America and worldwide! Join us and fly your business to new markets!
| Visitors can register for tradeshow, single workshops or for the entire packages divided into 5 different categories (marketing, IT, CEO, technical and technology and innovation). (Workshops registered visitors can visit the Tradeshow for free).
Online registrations from January 2019. |