OCTC Hosting CASA Presentations
Owensboro, KY (09/10/2019) — The Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) Common Reading selection for the fall 2019 semester is, We Are Called to Rise, by Laura McBride.
The novel is set in Las Vegas, Nevada and follows four divergent narrators with interwoven plot lines. The characters include CASA workers, a young veteran with PTSD, a divorcee, and an immigrant family. The central cataclysmic event in the novel was inspired by a real life event the author only knew of, but was deeply affected by, and used it as a catalyst for this fictional novel.
One of the events related events include identical presentations from local Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) on "The Power of One Caring Adult to Build Resilience" on Monday, September 16, and on Thursday, September 19, both at 11 a.m. and in OCTC's Advanced Technology Center's Chandler Conference Center (ATC 107).
In conjunction with the presentations the college is accepting donations for CASA for children at the events. Donations sought would be appropriate for those children who have been experiencing a crisis. These include handwritten notes of encouragement, or new stuffed animals. Other items might include packaged small toys such as: earbuds, coloring books, crayons, or lego kits. Donations may be brought to the CASA presentations or to OCTC by October 21, 2019. For more information about CASA please visit casaov.gov.
The author of We Are Called to Rise, Laura McBride, will visit OCTC on Thursday, October 3 in Blandford Lecture Hall to do a presentation and book signing. Blandford Lecture Hall is located in the Humanities building at 4800 New Hartford Road, Owensboro. All OCTC Common Read events are free and open to the public.
We Are Called to Rise is available at the OCTC Bookstore. For more information about the OCTC Common Read program please contact tonya.northenor@kctcs.edu. To keep up with pertinent Common Read events follow facebook.com/octc.commonread
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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.
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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.
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