CELEBRATING
COMMUNITY
By Paula Wischoff Yerama, CCDP, Executive Director, Career Development Association of Alberta (CDAA)
T
he CDAA celebrates 25 years of service to career development practitioners and the career development
Please mark your calendars and save the date for ACDC 2022: Tuesday, May 3 and Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Calls for keynote presenters, concurrent session
community in 2022. It feels like
presenters, and exhibitors will soon be
just yesterday we were celebrating
available as well as early registration.
20 years at ACDC (Alberta Career
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Development Conference) 2017 with a
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gala celebration! In mid-2021, there was
registration information.
a great deal of hope and optimism that we would be celebrating, in person, in 2022. As the year went on and as the calendar turned from 2021 to 2022, it became clear that an in-person event would not be possible.
For 25 years, the CDAA has been “a recognized leader that advances the career development profession through strategic outreach and partnership activities and provides services and supports to aspiring and practicing
Today, however, we are planning
career development professionals”.
for an exciting virtual celebration
From being the first province to
and activities throughout the year
develop and launch voluntary
to acknowledge and celebrate 25
certification for career development
years of community. Twenty-fifth
practitioners by way of the Certified
anniversary activities are being planned
Career Development Professional
for the eighth annual Alberta Career
(CCDP) designation, to being a founding
Development Conference, which will
member of what is now known as
be held virtually on May 3 and 4, 2022.
the Canadian Council for Career
Additional anniversary activities and
Development (3CD), to being involved
celebrations will be planned throughout
in the Supporting Canadians to Navigate
the year.
Learning and Work project, the CDAA
10 Alberta School Counsellor / Spring 2022
has been a prominent organization in the career development community.
SUPPORTING CANADIANS TO NAVIGATE LEARNING AND WORK – PROJECT UPDATE The CDAA has been proud to support the Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF) with the Supporting Canadians to Navigate Learning and Work project. In October 2021, a funding proposal to ESDC’s Sectoral Initiatives Program (SIP) focusing on the critical transition from certification program development to certification program implementation was submitted. On December 17, 2021, the CCDF provided an update that the proposal to implement national certification had not been approved. Despite this news they are actively exploring other possibilities that have been suggested. On a brighter note, the bilingual and public Code of Ethics for Career Development Professionals, with special thanks to the team at AXTRA
