January 19, 2006
Local business
Help Now! Advocacy Center, which helps clients navigate public and corporate bureaucracies, is seeking volunteer professionals to carry out its mission.
The organization, founded by Executive Director Larry Kahn in 2004, intercedes for seniors, the disabled, minorities and others in need.
Kahn will discuss the "Ten Commandments of Negotiation" with potential clients and volunteers at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 7 in the Red Lion Inn.
Help Now! assists clients in everything from service and benefits procurement, service or treatment management to agency problems, consumer issues and housing issues.
The organization enlists volunteers from the legal, medical, mental health and trades fields, who offer their services at greatly reduced fees or no charge.
The seminar is free, but reservations are requested by calling 899-1150 between 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. For more information about the organization and volunteer opportunities, go to
www.helpnowadvocacy.org.
Best Tel Managing Partner Chuck Whiteley is among the speakers scheduled at the March 8-10 Technology Assurance Group’s national convention in San Diego.
Hundreds of telecom voice and data providers, major industry manufacturers, and trade journal representatives will be on hand to engage in communications technology, business processes, customer
satisfaction and corporate training issues.
Whiteley will talk about implementing voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) applications — Internet telephony.
Whiteley and Dennis Poulin own Best-Tel LLC, which has offices from Medford and Seattle.
The Oregon Workforce Investment Board begins a five-stop journey to meet with regional work-force delegations later this month.
Southern Oregon work-force representatives will meet Feb. 8 at Seven Feathers Convention Centerin Canyonville.
Business, labor, civic and government officials will prioritize regional needs as the state attempts to build and sustain training and education programs.
"The baby boomers are exiting the labor market," said Rogue Valley Workforce Development Council coordinator Dennis Alexander. "One of the factors that has to be considered is the
reality that we’re heading into an economy where we are going to see labor shortages as skilled managers and supervisors retire.
The impact is not going to be so much on corporations, with resources to do planning, as with small businesses."
Compiled from staff reports
