Professional Enhancement Webinar: Cultural Competency vs Humility, Emotional Intelligence & Leveraged Vulnerability, & Global Health Practice with Carlton Rounds

Professional Enhancement Webinar:

Cultural Competency vs Humility, Emotional Intelligence & Leveraged Vulnerability, & Global Health Practice with Carlton Rounds

Monday, June 13, 2016

8:00pm-9:00pm EST

Join us for an enlightening discussion addressing emotional intelligence, cultural competency, relationships and vulnerability in the public health workplace. Specifically, as these areas pertain to public health service abroad. This webinar is an opportunity to apply the knowledge and theories you have learned in the classroom to real world situations. Mr. Rounds will also discuss the opportunities to partake in public health work abroad with his organization Cross Cultural Solutions.

Presenter: Carlton Rounds, Director of Campus Engagement and Public Health for Cross-Cultural Solutions

Carlton Rounds is the Director of Campus Engagement and Public Health for Cross-Cultural Solutions the leading international volunteer service organization in the USA. Carlton has been working in the fields of international education, volunteer service, public health, social work, and proactive social inclusion and diversity for nearly 30 years. He has traveled, served, and taught all over the world in areas of democratic transition with the intention of expanding the rights of marginalized people and communities. Carlton is an international education professional having led study abroad offices both public and private, admission offices, and financial aid centers, and in the role of selector and mentor for high level merit scholarship programs.

An expert in his field, Carlton has been honored with numerous awards for his diversity work and was recognized for being one of the top 100 innovators for 2011 through POZ Magazine, and was a first place national award winner that same year with Diversity Abroad Network. Carlton is also a member of the Building Bridges Coalition, and a certified Community Health Worker who focuses on communities affected by HIV both domestically and abroad.

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Kelley Vargo, MPH, MS, CISSN

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Carlton Rounds is interviewed by GoAbroad.com

Carlton Rounds is interviewed at the 

2016 NASFA Conference in Denver, Colorado

The Power of GAP Year for Youth!

Bringing Meaning to Study Abroad and Volunteering Abroad - Presentation and Training for Faculty of Whittier College

"The Office of International Programs is pleased to announce a visit from Carlton Rounds on the 22^nd of March (the Tuesday after spring break).  He will be talking about integrating study abroad into your work with students, but the presentation and the conversation that follows will be about much more: making learning abroad meaningful and life-changing. 

 

 

Details below, but first we would like to thank the Mellon Foundation for providing some of the funding, and Bernadette Morris in the Registrar’s Office for helping Whittier make this connection! Have a great weekend!

 

Andy Wallis & Kerry Gonzalez

OIP

 

THE DETAILS: 

 

Carlton Rounds: Bringing Meaning to Study and Volunteering Abroad

Dezember House

4:30-5:30

Tuesday, March 22nd

Andrew Wallis
Interim Director, Office of International Programs
Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures
Whittier College

Language Acquisition, Social Justice, and International Volunteer Service - Workshop!

COFLT - Spring Conference 2106

March 12, 2106 

Workshop 3:
Social Justice in the Languages

Language Acquisition, Social Justice, and International Volunteer Service

How can educators intentionally use language acquisition as a tool for developing critical thinking, emotional resilience, and cultural humility?  Can curricular integration promote a platform that advances social justice, inclusion, human rights, and peace?  We will explore these questions and generate ways to use international volunteer service to add value to the classroom experience.

Carlton Rounds

Carlton Rounds is the Director of Campus Engagement for Cross Cultural Solutions for over 20 years. CCS has special Consultative Status with the United Nations and is a founding sponsor with the Brookings Institution's Bridge Building Coalition for best practices in international volunteer service.

Carlton has been working in the fields of international education, volunteer service, and proactive social inclusion and diversity for nearly 30 years. He has traveled, served, and taught all over the world in areas of democratic transition with the intention of expanding the rights of marginalized people and communities.  

Volunteer Positive highlighted through World Learning, The School for International Training Graduate Institute.

Volunteer Positive 

 is highlighted through World Learning, 

and The School for International Training Graduate Institute. 

Thank you for your respect, attention, and for making the contributions of people living with HIV visible!

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Excerpts from an Interview of GAP Years Abroad for New Book by Andrea Wien

ON LEARNING:

Carlton Rounds is an academic administration veteran the current Director of Campus Engagement at Cross Cultural Solutions (CCS), a non-profit organization that connects volunteers with people in need around the world. He says the benefits Mindy is referring to come from stepping outside of your comfort zone, making mistakes and learning from those around you. At CCS, Gappers volunteer alongside people of varying ages who come from different backgrounds, which can be a rich opportunity for young people who haven’t yet ventured outside their peer circles.

He tells the story of a time when he was 39-years-old and shared an experience with an 18-year-old who was volunteering at a special education center:

“At dinner, we would talk about our volunteer work days, and this younger guy was a street artist, so he loved to just sit and sketch. Then, one day he said, ‘I don't know what to do about this issue that’s happening on-site at my placement.’ ”

I said, ‘Ok, we'll make a deal. I'll teach you some special education techniques if you'll give your personal time to bring art to people on my placement.’ I could never have replicated his skills, as I have no artistic talent. One of the big, important outcomes for him was that he asked for help from an adult in exchange for his own mature talents. I think that's a huge lesson in reciprocity.”

Reference by Ethan Night - President of American Gap Association

March 30, 2015

To: Hiring Team,
Re. Carlton Rounds Letter of Support

Dear Hiring Team,

I have the distinct pleasure of writing a letter of support for Carlton Rounds. I've known Carlton through our shared connection with Ron Witczak, the Provost for Portland State University's Office of International Affairs.

In the past three years since we initially met, I've had the great fortune to rely heavily on Carlton to assist in the development of the AGA Standards. Clearly, when developing something as comprehensive as the AGA Standards, we referred to many similar standards, and not only with his background, but also his integrity, he became a very important element in the preliminary review. Indeed it was my first truly professional interaction with Carlton and I was not surprised, albeit pleasantly so, at his contributions to our Standards.

Reference from Erin L. Barnhart, Ph.D.

To Whom It May Concern:

Please accept this letter of recommendation as evidence of my high regard and respect for Carlton Rounds. 

I first met Carlton through our mutual work with the Building Bridges Coalition, an international collective of nonprofit, corporate, and educational organizations and institutions invested in and seeking to help facilitate ethical, meaningful international service. Carlton was already a recognized thought leader in the field, particularly regarding the need for greater diversity and inclusion, and he was immediately an invaluable collaborative, dynamic partner, offering actionable ideas and strategies as well as challenging accepted norms and inspiring new directions.