GPA MID-WINTER 2012

Please make plans to attend GPA Mid-Winter 2012 - March 14-16, 2012 being held at Unicoi State Park  & Lodge.  If you haven't made your reservations yet, you better get a move on - the rooms are going fast.  Call the Lodge at 706-878-2201 and Register under Event #E05082 or tell them you are with the Georgia Probation Association.  The Lodge Rooms are $79.00 per night and Cabins (1, 2 and 3 Bedrooms) are available, they run from $105 - $140 a night.

On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - Registration will begin at 2:00 until 4:00 p.m.  The Business Meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. and following the Business Meeting, at 5:15 p.m. come to  Welcome & Hospitality event and catch up with old friends and make some new ones.  Then go to dinner but come back because at 8:00, there will be a GPA Mixer and Dance - and in honor of baseball season starting on April 1 - wear your favorite teams jerseys (t-shirts) and show your support.  Of course, the Atlanta Braves are the team of choice in these parts.

If you didn't register on Wednesday, the registration table will be open from 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m., then the conference will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. so be in your seat.  This will be a full day - with Stan Cooper, Director of Probation kicking off the conference, Michael Nail will be there, lunch will be provided, after lunch  more training, please attend all training.  Should conclude no later than 5:00 p.m.   Then at 5:30 head down to the Beach House for Meet & Greet and Cookout with your friends.  Then at 8:00 there will be a Dance and at 9:00 the famous Leprechaun Contest.  So break out your Irish - and have some fun.

On Friday morning - Breakfast will be served from 7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m., then of course, please be in your seat at 8:30 so we can get started.  The morning will be a busy one - so make plans to be in attendance.  Commissioner Brian Owens will there to bring us up-to-date on Legislature business and how it will impact the Department.  Then a guest speaker (you'll have to wait and see who), then we will adjourn no later than noon. 

Of course, there will be surprises, Pam's Pot tickets, and other chances to win great prizes.

Attached is information on selling ads for the chance to have your membership and registration paid for and to help your Association in putting this conference on.

Also attached is the GPA Mid-Winter 2012  Registration Form.

The Board is excited and looking forward to this conference and hope to see everyone there.  We recently spoke to the new BPOT Class and one participant asked if the whole office wanted to go - who decided who would get to go?  Told her that would be a Chief's decision.  We challenge the Chief's to have a 100% membership and then have to make this decision - what a wonderful problem to have.

GEORGIA SHERIFF YOUTH HOMES

RESOURCES 

This was sent out on Groupwise within the Department of Corrections  but I thought it would be good to put here on our website.  It is the website that the DEA has Resource for Drug Information/Research - www.justice.gov/dea/concern/concern.htm

It helps to identify drugs and more information. 

Hope you find it interesting.