Why I love the UDA Retreat

By Raquel Alfaro: When I think about the meaning I hold for the word “retreat,” I think about a beautiful location surrounded by trees, in a peaceful place away from the rest of the world.  In battle, retreat means to withdraw and pull back. In many ways our UDA Retreat embodies both of these meanings…

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Throwback Thursday

By: Andrea Lythgoe ,BS, LCCE As we prepare for the current UDA conference, I thought it might be fine to look back twelve years ago to 2007, the year I was the conference committee chair. It was also a year with a lot of “firsts” for the UDA: The first Fall Retreat, the first mentoring…

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