Member Highlight: John Morgan

John Morgan is ARA’s director of compliance. If you haven’t spoken to him and/or seen him speak, you need to. As the director of compliance, he vets and ensures all documents that are put into ARA’s compliance program are validated and put in their proper spot. He also, within ARA’s Green Light program, contacts members with any issues they may have within their compliance documents. He also coordinates site inspections with Home Office. When he’s not keeping ARA members in the green, he spends his spare time making spirit signs for high school sports programs (think football, basketball, etc.) and end of the season senior gifts. Most of the money he’s paid goes back into the sports program. It’s his labor of love. His biggest project this past year was a sign for a catholic school that took him six months to complete. The school wanted to honor those who contributed to making the new floor a reality, so John took pieces from that old floor and created a 4’ X 3’ tribute. If you want to know about our compliance program or simply want to get to know John, email him at john@americanrecoveryassn.org.

Register Now For The October Webinar

Join us for our October webinar focusing on:

Navigating ARA’s Compliance Portal
presented by John Morgan and Les McCook
of American Recovery Association

 

OR

It’s time to register for September’s webinar

Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts and Practices
presented by Dave Kennedy of First Credit Resources
 

Member Highlight: Sharing The ARA Love

American Recovery Association would like to give a shout out to Torie Baker of Baker Recovery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Torie and her husband, Sam, were in attendance at the ARA Convention in Denver this past July. Torie, we love your enthusiasm, support and awesome attitude!

Click HERE to see what Torie thought about this year’s convention.

Register Now For The August Webinar

Member Highlight: AJ Bruce

AJ Bruce, son of Paul Bruce, Jr., has always had a passion for weapon design and application. Even in his childhood, AJ was enthralled with the Military Channel. This fascination manifested not only in AJ’s unfolding career, but in his strong character as well.

AJ received his Master’s Degree in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey this past spring. AJ worked his way through college, doing whatever necessary to achieve his goal. This competitive outdoorsman stunned employers when he and four other seniors from his class entered their project in a demonstration against schools from all over the country. AJ’s team won the bid and were deemed the “A team,” resulting in him obtaining three job offers from military contractors before his graduation. (more…)

Member Highlight: Marcelle Egley-Sparks

Register Now for the June Webinar

Tuesday, June 28, 2:00 p.m. CDT / 3:00 p.m. EDT

OR

Wednesday, June 29, 11:00 a.m. CDT / 12:00 p.m. EDT

Thank You, Jim Hall

Jim Hall is one of those men who go above and beyond in every aspect of life. Jim has given innumerable hours to growing and improving our association and industry as a whole. We are very proud to call Jim an ARA board member and friend. We would like to specifically thank Jim for his contribution to NARS 2016. Jim, in addition to his NARS committee duties, organized and facilitated the NARS 2016 AT&T Stadium Tour. From coordinating with the stadium to making sure the tour and transportation went smoothly, Jim prepared and planned every step of the way. Thank you, Jim, for all the work that you have done for ARA and NARS. We truly appreciate your loyalty and dedication to ARA and our industry. Without Jim, and the rest of the 2016 planning committee, NARS would not be the successful event that it has become.

Are you paying too much for background checks?

Join us for our May webinar focusing on:

Low Cost, Secure Background Checks – A Major
Step On The Road To Compliance
presented by Doug Duncan and Ken Graves of TalentValue
 

Wednesday, May 11, 2:00 p.m. CDT / 3:00 p.m. EDT

OR

Thursday, May 12, 11:00 a.m. CDT / 12:00 p.m. EDT

ARA members must register online for the webinar with individual email addresses to receive a certificate of completion. If computer sharing is necessary, please provide a list of employee names and email addresses in an excel spreadsheet to tricia@americanrecoveryassn.org.

American Recovery Association provides a free continuing education webinar series for recovery and remarketing professionals. The one-hour webinar offers education about the latest recovery laws and regulations, compliance policies and industry issues.

We are also excited to announce that the state of Louisiana now recognizes all ARA webinars as part of the eight hours of continuing education that is required to renew state licenses.

If you have any questions or feedback about our continuing education webinar series, please contact ARA Home Office at 972-755-4755 or homeoffice@americanrecoveryassn.org.

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