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Experience & Education
April Welch, Certified Professional Organizer is the proud owner of Simply Organized.
She works hard to make sure her clients always have the most up to date industry information by continuing her education. Listed below are the many classes she has taken, certificates she has earned along with the accreditations she holds.
Rest assure that April's commitment to helping her clients find an improved quality of life is fed by her passion for education & her hands-on experience.
Experience
Organizational Consultant - unpaid, since '93
Paid Professional Organizer, since '04
Certified Professional Organizer, since '07
New Organizer Mentor, since '07
Franklin Covey Family Organizing Guru, since '08
Organizer Coach, since '09
Spokesperson for ListPlanIt.com, since '10
Entrepreneur of the Year Nominee (2007)
Executive Administrative Assistant, 10 years
Stay-At-Home Mom, 10 years
Public Speaking/Instruction:
Spring '10
"Clearing Mental Clutter"
NAPO Seattle:
Strategies for the Cluttered Client {3/2}
Ask the Organizer Panel {3/6}
WA State Hoarding Task Force:
Inaugural 2 day Tele-Summit
US Forest Service Northern Regional University:
Business Organizing Series {x2}
NAPO National
Ask the Organizer Panel
Wenatchee Valley College -
Continuing Education
Fall '09
~ Clearing the Clutter in your Office
~ Effective Systems ... Productive Space
~ Paper, Piles & Projects
~ Time Management for the Professional
Organizing Your ADD at Home & Work
Students, Parents & Systems: Find Solutions that Work
Holiday Strategies 101
Healthy Shopping Habits that Save You Money
Summer '09
Simplified Family "Stay-cations" or Vacations
Cutting Clutter at home & work
Organizing your ADD in the Home & Workplace
Paper Clutter Demystified
Garage Organization
Save Money with Meal Planning 101
Students, Parents & Systems: How to find solutions that work!
Spring '09
~ Clearing the Clutter in your Office
~ Effective Systems ... Productive Space
~ Paper, Piles & Projects
~ Time Management for the Professional
Winter '09
~ Clearing the Clutter in your Office
~ Effective Systems ... Productive Space
~ Paper, Piles & Projects
~ Time Management for the Professional
Successful Strategies for REALLY Getting Organized this Year
Save Money with Meal Planning 101
Students, Parents & Systems: How to find Solutions that Work
Save Yourself from Paper Clutter
Organizing Your ADD in the Home & Workplace
Fall '08
Small Office, Home Office: Organizing Techniques
Meal Planning
Filing Fundamentals
Spring '08
Closet Organizing 101
Garage Organizing
Savvy Travel Organizing
Winter '08
Meal Planning
Cutting Clutter
Family Organization
San Francisco, 2007
Accreditations
Certified Professional Organizer, BCPO (NAPO)
Organizer Coach Graduate, Coach Approach for Organizers
ADD Specialist, NSGCD
CD Specialist, NSGCD
{CD: Chronic Disorganization}
NSGCD Certificates of Study in:
Chronic Disorganization (CD)
CD Client Administration
Basic Hoarding Issues with the CD Client
Basic ADD Issues with the CD Client
Basic Mental Health Conditions
Understanding the Needs of the Elderly CD Clients
Learning Styles & Modalities
Understanding the Needs of the Student CD Client
Basic Physical Conditions Affecting the CD Client
**NSGCD is the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization**
**NAPO is the National Association of Professional Organizers**
**BCPO is the Board of Certification for Professional Organizers**
Education
Conferences:
NSGCD Fall Forum, 2006
- Organizing for your Brainstyle
- Decision Styles
- Frame Styles: Integrating Multiple Intelligences & Learning Styles
NAPO Bay Area Regional Conference, 2006
- Adding Home Staging to your Organizing Business
- Space Planning 101
- The Power of the Compassionate Heart
NSGCD Annual Conference, 2007
- Case Studies
- Collaborations in Estate Organizing
- Collaborations with Goverment Agencies
- The Collaborative Solutions Approach
- An introduction to Collaborative Therapy
- OK, Who put the ketchup in the linen closet again?
- Creating Synergy: Collaborating with Government Agencies
- Putting Collaboration into Practice
NSGCD: The Collaborative Therapy for Clutter Management Workshop, 2007
- An Introduction to Collaborative Therapy
- Advanced Applications in Collaborative Therapy
NAPO National Conference, 2007
- Understanding Grief & Loss in the Organizing Process
- The Next Big Thing
- Alphabet Soup for Professional Organizers
- The New Organizing Paradigm: Working with a Shifting Network of Partners
- Virtually There: Serving Clients Throughout the World Without Leaving your Office
NAPO Bay Area Regional Conference, 2007
- Balance Stamina
- Tech Savvy Organizing
- Face Reading
- Working with the Child Client: Bringing Balance to Families (Presenter)
NSGCD Fall Forum, 2007
- Conquering Chronic Disorganization (CD): Then & Now
- Perfectionists & Pleasers
- Techniques for Overcoming Procrastination
- Strategies for Improving Decision Making & Other Issues Affecting Adults with ADD
- Buried in Treasures: the psychology of compulsive hoarding
- Motivational Interviewing Workshop
- Facilitating Freedom for our clients
Completed Level III training in Chronic Disorganization, NSGCD {2008-2009}
NSGCD Teleclasses
ABC's of education: An overview
ADD & addiction
ADD, chronic disorganization & the organizing process
Aging in place
Assisting clients living & working with learning disabilities in adulthood
Assisting the traumatic brain injured client
Backsliding
Basic ADD
Basic CD
Basic safety with CD clients
Boundaries & ethics
Collaborative Therapy for CD clients & organizers advanced: Part II
Compulsive hoarding & acquiring: approach with caution. A team approach is the way to go
Conscious Consuming: Empowering ourselves & modeling for others
Current research on the meaning of possessions during life transitions
Decision Making skills for the indecisive ADD, LD & CD clients
Depression in the elderly client
Environmental safety - staying healthy, feeling good on the job site
Epilepsy & Disorganization
Fidget to Focus: At home (part 1)
Helping young adults with AD/HD transition to independent adulthood
Introduction to Compulsive Hoarding
Introduction to learning styles & differences
Letting go: the process & meaning of dispossession in the lives of consumers
Locating mental health resources within your community
Nonverbal Communication
Normalizing ADD
Organizing for your personality type
Organizing for personality types
Panel discussion: First session strategies
Relocation stress syndrome & CD clients
Research Based Techniques to use when dealing with CD clients undergoing life transitions
Resources for investigating physical & mental health condition affecting your chronically disorganized clients
Strategies & resources to assist clients with recycling
Strategies for becoming an effective change agent
Strategies for working with ADD clients by phone
Students in transition
Supporting clients with intellectual & cognitive challenges
Time Management for the student or adult ADD/CD client
Understanding the effects of addiction & the CD client relationship
Understanding the mental health conditions affecting the CD client
Understanding the mind styles model of learning/processing
Understanding the physical & mental challenges of elderly CD clients
Virtual Organizing: Intro to a new frontier for NSGCD professionals & their CD clients
What is an anxiety disorder?
Working with auditory learners
Working with adults with hearing impairment & auditory processing disorders
Working with clients in transition
Working with CD elderly clients downsizing their homes
Working with physically challenged CD clients
Working with visual learners
Your client's personal alphabet