NOSOTROS Education Center
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Wed, Jul 30
|Zoom Webinar
SSS Professional Development Webinar (2025)
NEC is your go-to resource for professional development webinars to elevate your TRIO program.
Online Webinar
Jul 30, 2025, 9:00 AM CDT – Jul 31, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT
Zoom Webinar
About this Webinar
NEC is your trusted source for professional development webinars designed to enhance your TRIO program. With more than 30 years of TRIO experience, Elizabeth "Lisa" Retamozo and the NEC team of specialists will lead your Project staff through a series of live webinar sessions to boost program effectiveness.
What's Covered
This engaging two-day webinar will cover the following topics:
1. History of TRIO & Legislation Impacting All TRIO Programs
2. SSS Program Regulations
3. Identification, Recruitment, & Selection of Participants
4. Objectives & Plan to Provide Services
5. Budget Management & Uniform Guidance Overview
6. Recordkeeping Requirements & Documentation/Verification of Services
7. Compliance Assessment Readiness
8. Annual Performance Report & Prior Experience Points
This is a 2-day webinar and will take place from 9 AM - 4 PM (Central Time) each day.
See the schedule below or download a copy of the Agenda.
Registration
Registration fees: $500 for Individuals; $1,500 for Institutions (unlimited staff may attend).
Registration fee includes valuable resource materials you can use in your project and recordings of all sessions.
We offer multiple payment options including PayPal, Credit and Debit Cards, and Manual (Purchase Order or Invoice and Check).
Presenters
The Lead presenter will be Elizabeth "Lisa" Retamozo. She frequently invites other TRIO professionals to contribute additional insight and expertise to the training.

Lisa has 30 years of experience implementing, managing, supervising, and evaluating federal (TRIO) and state-funded educational and career opportunity programs serving low-income and potential first-generation college students.
In 2003, Lisa started her own consulting company, NOSOTROS Education Center. Since then, Lisa and the NEC team have provided TRIO Projects nationwide with short/long-term technical assistance, new project implementation, project evaluation; assistance with annual performance reporting, database customization/training; compliance assessments, in-service training, and professional development seminars; development of policies and procedures manuals, proposal writing, and technical review services.
Lisa received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her Masters in Business Administration from Texas Woman’s University.
Informal Reviews/Comments from Last Year's Professional Development Webinars

See more on our Client Testimonials page.
Can’t attend live? No problem! Go ahead and register and receive the recordings after the live webinar has concluded. Then watch the webinar on demand to fit your staff’s training schedule—perfect for on-boarding new Project staff or to use as part of your annual staff training agenda.
Allowable Cost Service: Please note that this is a professional development seminar and an allowable cost. §646.30: What are allowable costs? The cost principles that apply to the Student Support Services Program are in 2 CFR part 200, subpart E. Allowable costs include the following if they are reasonably related to the objectives of the project:... (c) In-service training of project staff.
Agenda
1 hourWorkshop #1: History of TRIO & Legislation Impacting All TRIO Programs
15 minutesBreak
Registration Types
Institutional (Unlimited)
This registration type will grant webinar access to an unlimited number of attendees from your institution. You will serve as the Contact Person for your group. Register yourself, and we will contact you with information about getting your colleagues registered. Each attendee must complete registration to gain admittance.
$1,500.00
Individual
This registration will grant one individual access to the 2-day workshop.
$500.00
Total
$0.00