Dear Betty,
Many thanks for a terrific workshop this morning. The material you presented was excellent and everyone had their needs and questions addressed. The evaluations all said that the participants thought that this was important information and many people indicated that it should be repeated for other cancer patients.
Nancy Robinson, MSW
Community Health Resource Center,
CPMC Oncology

Dear Betty,
What an uplifting workshop with you! Thank you so much for an excellent session and for the effort you made to help me personally. Your insight and your feedback are really giving me a new perspective to explore and a new angle to "unblock" me in this log jam!

You are incredible. Thank you.
Sincerely, FG

Seminars and Workshops

Kohlenberg & Associates offers seminars and workshops for professional organizations, disability groups, and informational groups on topics including:

• Vocational evaluations in Family Law
• Vocational services in Collaborative Family Law
• Vocational issues for people with disabilities
• Self-employment evaluation
• Job seeking skills building
• Resumes and cover letters
• Interviewing
• Handling issues of disability and other problems in interviewing
• Salary negotiations
• HIV and employment
• Career choice

Lisa Trustin’s SEMINARS & PRESENTATIONS

2007 — Presenter on Best Practices: Effective Advocacy When Addressing A Vocational Evaluation, Association of Certified Family Law Specialists, Walnut Creek

2006 — Instructor on In the Works: Helping Women in Finding their Right Livelihood, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco

2006 — Panelist on American Corporate Counsel Association SFBA Chapter Career Development Committee Presentation, Offices of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Palo Alto

2006 — Presenter on Career Counseling Panel: Working with Special Populations, Graduate Counseling Program, St. Mary’s College of California, Moraga

Betty Kohlenberg’s SEMINARS & PRESENTATIONS

Feb 2009 — Speaker on “Vocational Services in Family Law Collaborative Practice Cases” for Collaborative Practice Silicon Valley, Santa Clara

Sep 2007 — Speaker on “Preparing Clients for a Vocational Evaluation” for the San Mateo County Bar Association Family Law Section, Foster City

Jul 2007 — Speaker on “Vocational Services in Family Law Collaborative Practice Cases” for the Collaborative Practice San Mateo Group, San Mateo

Mar 2007 — Speaker on “Legal Restrictions on Employment: Solutions for Unique Workers” for the American Board of Vocational Experts, Seattle, WA

Feb 2007 — Speaker on “Vocational Evaluations in Family Law Cases” for the Marin Family Law Study Group, San Rafael

Feb 2007 — Speaker on “What Every Family Law Attorney Should Know About Vocational Evaluations” for the Barristers Family Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco, San Francisco

Sep 2005 — Speaker on “Handling Cross Examination” for the ABVE Fall Conference, San Francisco

May 2005 — Speaker on “Vocational Evaluations in Employment Law” for the Marin County Bar Association Employment Law Section monthly meeting, Mill Valley

Apr 2005 — Speaker on “Cancer in the Workplace” for the UCSF Cancer Resource Center, San Francisco

Jan 2005 — Speaker on “What a Vocational Counselor Can Do for You: Cross Examining Credentials, Opinions and Reports” for the Northern California chapter, Association of Certified Family Law Specialists, San Mateo

Nov 2004 — Speaker on “Domestic Assessments — Vocational Aspects” at the IARP 2004 Forensic Section Conference, San Antonio, TX

Oct 2004 — Panel Speaker on “Spousal/Family Support: Providing Expert Vocational Evaluation Testimony” for the CARRP 22nd Annual Conference, San Francisco

Oct 2004 — Panelist on “Vocational Evaluation: Standards of Practice in California Family Law” for the American Board of Vocational Experts 2004 Fall Conference, Las Vegas, NV

Sep 2004 — Speaker on “Vocational Evaluations in Family Law” for the Young Family Lawyers’ Group, San Francisco

Sep 2004 — Instructor on “Vocational Evaluations in Family Law Cases” for the San Joaquin County Bar Association Family Law Section Continuing Legal Education, Stockton

Mar 2004 — Speaker on “Cancer in the Workplace” for the UCSF Cancer Resource Center, San Francisco

Apr 2003 — Speaker on “Direct- and Cross-Examination of Expert Witnesses” for the Family Law Mentoring Groups, San Francisco

Mar 2003 — Panelist on “Vocational Evaluations in California Family Law” for ABVE, San Diego

Jan 2003 — Speaker on “Cancer in the Workplace” for the UCSF Cancer Resource Center, San Francisco

Oct 2002 — Speaker on “Managing Career Change with RSI” for the Repetitive Strain Injury Support Group, Mills Health Center, San Mateo

Sep 2002 — Speaker on “Vocational Evaluations in Family Law” for the Young Family Lawyers’ Group, San Francisco

Sep 2002 — Speaker on “Returning to Work with Cancer: Issues to Consider” for the 7th National Brain Tumor Conference, San Mateo

Jun 2002 — Speaker on “Reasons for Vocational Evaluation in Marital Dissolution” for the Alameda Bar Association Family Law Section, Oakland

Feb 2002 — Speaker on “Cancer in the Workplace” for the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Cancer Resource Center, San Francisco

Sep 2000 — Instructor on “Interviewing and Selecting Candidates within Disability Guidelines” for Bay Area Video Coalition Media Link Program staff, San Francisco

Aug 2000 — Speaker on “Who’s in Charge: Taking Control of Your Career with RSI” for the Repetitive Strain Injury Support Group, Mills Health Center, San Mateo

Jun 2000 — Speaker on “Strategies for Managing Cancer and Career” for the CPMC Community Health Resource Center, San Francisco

Nov 1999 — Speaker on “Returning to Work with Cancer” for the UCSF Clinical Cancer Center’s Cancer Resource Center, San Francisco

Oct 1999 — Speaker on “Answering Employment Questions for People with Cancer” for the National Carcinoid Conference, sponsored by UCSF Stanford Healthcare’s Cancer Resource Center, Novartis Oncology and the National Carcinoid Support Group Inc., San Francisco

Sep 1999 — Instructor in “Interviewing Skills for Career Advancement” for SF Muni supervisors’ union, Transport Workers of America Local 200, training for promotional examinations for managers, San Francisco

Jul 1999 — Speaker on “Answering Employment Questions for People with Cancer” for the Community Health Resource Center of the California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco

Jun 1999 — Speaker on “Career Choice for People with RSI” at the East Bay RSI Support Group, Berkeley

Apr 1999 — Career Counselor for “What on Earth Will You Do? Navigating Environmental Career Paths”, a conference for 125 eighth grade students and their guidance counselors, for the Family Ecology Program and the Alameda County Office of Education, Oakland

Jun 1998 — Speaker on "The Vocational Evaluation Process in Marital Dissolutions" at San Francisco Bar Association Family Law Section monthly meeting

Oct 1997 — Staff Trainer on "Return to Work Issues for People with Disabilities" for the Women's Cancer Resource Center, Berkeley

1996 — Panelist on "Very Work-Able: How the Disabled Contribute to Employers," "Getting the Most Out of Giving - The Many Rewards of Volunteerism," and "Job Snobbery - How You Deal With It" on TCI's JobNET on Cable Channel 35, San Francisco

Betty Kohlenberg’s HIV/AIDS-related SEMINARS & PRESENTATIONS

Oct 2006 — Speaker on “Considering Work While Living with HIV” for WORLD’s Lotus Project, a peer advocacy program for HIV+ women, Oakland

Oct 2006 — Speaker on “Getting Ready to Consider Work” for the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) Transgender Resource and Neighborhood Space (TRANS), San Francisco

Jun 2006 — Instructor and Moderator on “Considering Work While Living with HIV” for PRC’s Just for Women Workshop, San Francisco

May 2006 — Speaker on “Considering Work: Choosing what to do and deciding about disclosure” for the NWPC Working Positive Institute at VOICES 2006, AIDS Alliance Conference, Washington, DC

Jan 2006 — Speaker on “Structuring Employment Services for People Living with HIV/AIDS” for the Sonoma County Commission on AIDS Task Force, Sebastopol CA

Nov 2005 — Speaker on “Employees’ Rights on the Job: Making the decision about disclosing HIV status and asking for accommodations,” “Employment Service Principles: What Works,” and “Thinking about Work While Living with HIV” for the NWPC Positive Futures training institute, Hartford, CT

Oct 2004 — Speaker on “What Works: Effective Service Approaches” and on “Disclosure, Accommodation and the ADA from the Employee’s and Employer’s Perspective” at NWPC’s Positive Futures Institute, Philadelphia, PA

Jan/Jul 2004 — Instructor and Moderator on “Considering Work While Living with HIV” for Just for Women Workshop, San Francisco

Sep 2003 — Speaker on “Resume Writing” and “Disclosure of HIV/AIDS Status” for the Positive Workforce: From Hope to Reality Conference, San Diego

Sep 2003 — Speaker on “Understanding HIV/AIDS: Essential Rehabilitation Issues” for the National Rehabilitation Association Pacific Region Training Conference 2003, San Francisco

Apr 2003 — Instructor on “Rehabilitation Barriers and Work Issues for People with HIV/AIDS” for the Department of Rehabilitation San Francisco District new counselor training, San Francisco

Apr 2002 — Speaker on “Staying in Your ‘DO’s’ for Just for Women: A Private Space for HIV+ Women Considering Options For Training and Employment sponsored by Positive Resource Center, UCSF’s AIDS Health Project and Shanti, San Francisco

Feb 2000 — Speaker on “The American Experience of Employment for People Living with HIV/AIDS” for the Positive Futures Initiative, London, England

Jan 2002 — Speaker on “Starting to Think about Work” for AIDS Support Network, San Luis Obispo Oct 2001 Speaker on “The Next Steps: Pursuing Options for Work or Education” for PRC’s Just for Women: Employment Services for HIV+ Women, San Francisco

Sep 2001 — Speaker on “The Medical Assessment Process for Vocational Issues” for HIV and Work: What Providers Need to Know, a conference sponsored by CPMC and the Community Consortium, an association of health care providers who care for the majority of people with HIV infection in the San Francisco Bay area.

Mar 2001 — Speaker on “A Client-Focused Model for Considering Work for People Living with HIV/AIDS” and “Workplace Re-entry Preparation” at the 13th National AIDS Update Conference, San Francisco

Mar 2001 — Instructor on “Vocational Issues in Social Security Disability Hearings” for San Francisco AIDS Foundation, San Francisco

Nov 2000 — Speaker on “Thinking about Job Goals: Deciding What You Really Want” for PRC’s Just for Women: Employment Services for HIV+ Women, San Francisco

Jul 2000 — Instructor on “Helping People with HIV/AIDS Consider a Return to Work: Issues and Answers” for clients and Case Managers, sponsored by the AIDS Education Project, Department of Psychiatry, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

Jun 2000 — Speaker on “Employment Issues for People Living with AIDS” for Contra Costa HIV/AIDS Consortium, Richmond, CA

Aug 1999 — Speaker on “Answering the Hardest Questions: Employment for People Living with HIV/AIDS” for vocational rehabilitation counselors, employment specialists and social workers; on “Starting to Think about Work: Choosing Jobs and Careers While Living with HIV” for people with HIV, for Northern Nevada HOPES, Reno, NV

Aug 1999 — Speaker on "Employment Issues for People with HIV" at Positive Resource Center's training for social/vocational service providers, The Challenge of Employment: Meeting the Emerging Needs of People with HIV/AIDS, San Francisco

May 1999 — Moderator for “HIV in the Workplace: ADA Implications” and “The Immediate and Long Term Effects of Vocational Evaluation on Spousal Support” at the ABVE Spring Conference, San Francisco

Mar 1999 — Speaker on “Mental Health Issues in Returning to Work for Persons Living with HIV” in The Changing Epidemic: Emerging Mental Health Issues at National HIV/AIDS Update Conference, San Francisco

Mar 1999 — Speaker on “Employment Issues for People with HIV” at Positive Resource Center’s training for social/vocational service providers, The Challenge of Employment: Meeting the Emerging Needs of People with HIV/AIDS, Oakland and Novato

Jan 1999 — Speaker on “AIDS in the Workplace” on At Work with Marty Nemko, on Public Radio station KALW, 91.7 fm, San Francisco

Aug 1998 — Speaker on "Helping People with HIV Return to Work" at ABC Positive Resource Center's training for social/vocational service providers, The Challenge of Employment: Meeting the Emerging Needs of People with HIV/AIDS, San Francisco

Mar 1998, Apr 1997, Mar 1997 — Seminar Instructor on "Interviewing — Specific Answers to Hard Questions" and "Answers to Illegal Questions" for the Marin AIDS Project's Employment Support Group, San Rafael

Feb 1998 — Panelist on "Employment Issues and Resources for People with HIV/AIDS" for the Second Western H.E.A.R.T. Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco

Jan 1998 — Speaker on "Planning Your Return to Work" for the HIV/AIDS Resources, Counseling Department, Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara

Oct 1997 — Seminar Instructor on "Choosing a Job" and "Answering Illegal Questions" for the Thursday HIV Workshops sponsored by Berkeley Community Law Center, Fremont and Oakland

Please inquire for the list of seminars and presentations
prior to 1996