Pandemic Reflections and Spring Services at ICAN

As we bring in March we are coming up on the one year anniversary of when this pandemic hit us. At ICAN that has meant working from our homes doing virtual appointments and virtual presentations.

Before this pandemic hit, I would never have bet that virtual appointments and virtual presentations would worked as well as it has.

With our virtual presentations, we are finding out that for the majority of schools, more people sign up for virtual presentations than typically show up in person. Another major benefit is that we can record the virtual presentations and have the school counselors send out a link so families can view the recording at their convenience.

Spring is when we hold most of our presentations on Career & College Planning and Financial Aid Most of our presentations are going to have to be held virtually again. Some of those presentations will be a combo presentation of both Career & College Planning and Financial Aid. All of these presentations are geared for sophomores/juniors.

You can check with your school counselor when your ICAN presentation will take place. They will be the ones that send you information on how to register for the Zoom webinar.

We are also having webinars every Wednesday at 5pm on different topic that you can check out too. Here is a link to what topics are coming up on our Wednesday Webinars: www.icansucceed.org/videos 

Even though the pandemic is a year in and still keeping us from getting back to “normal,” don’t let that stop you from planning for your future. Hope to have you attend some our ICAN presentations this Spring.


  Erick Danielson - ICAN Ankeny Center