The National Court Reporters Association (NCRA), in collaboration with the National Congress of State Associations (NCSA), has rolled out a toolkit aimed at empowering leaders in managing their state associations. NCRA Executive Director Dave Wenhold, CAE, PLC, announced the toolkit would debut on NCRA’s website during the annual NCSA meeting at the 2024 Conference & Expo in Louisville, Ky. “The objective of this toolkit is to give state leaders the resources they need to be effective advocates for the court reporting, professional captioning, and legal videography community,” Wenhold stated.
Accessible through the NCRA member portal via the NCSA webpage, the toolkit will be updated often and features an array of presentations on advocacy, certifications, membership, social media, and more as well as documents and other material related to the management of associations. This is a result of an ongoing effort between NCSA and NCRA leaders culminating in being delivered under the leadership of 2024-25 Chair Yvette Heinze, RPR, from Montana. “The toolkit is officially on the website, and all NCRA members can access it,” Heinze stated. “Our goal is to keep this toolkit an ever-evolving resource where state associations can share ideas, successes, and failures with each other,” she said.
“This is an arsenal of information dedicated to strengthening the working relationship between NCRA and our state affiliates,” said the Association’s President Keith R. Lemons, FAPR, RPR, CRR (Ret.). “NCSA will be better equipped to combat the proliferation of misinformation related to artificial intelligence and other immediate issues affecting the profession by using this invaluable resource produced by NCRA.”
The first NCSA meeting for the 2024-2025 term is scheduled for October 6 at 8 p.m. Eastern. If your state association has not submitted their delegate designation form for the upcoming term, they can do so via email to NCRAGR@ncra.org with the subject line “2024-25 delegate designation form – [STATE]“.
