Dear Educator:

In 1985, the Ascension Parish Chemical Industry joined forces to create the Ascension Parish Chemical Industry Community Awareness and Emergency Response committee (CAER). One of the directives of the committee was to educate area residents about the chemical industry’s function in the community. From that directive evolved a project to develop a group of subjects and speakers to present these to the community.

As you go about your daily teaching activities, bringing in an outside resource to reinforce a lesson can be a positive experience for students. Hearing someone discuss their career, their job requirements or simply receiving a message on how to be more successful makes learning a more pleasurable experience. We in the CAER committee recognize that sharing our information resources with teachers, students and the community is a win-win arrangement.

This booklet has been prepared to provide teachers and parish civic organizations the opportunity to avail themselves to our information resources to address topics of interest. To schedule a speaker, please call the contact person listed on the individual company program offerings. If you have other topics of interest, please call or write one of the member company contacts. We will be happy to provide whatever help we can.

The members of CAER are proud to assist the educators of our area as they prepare our children to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.

Call us to begin utilizing our resources!