2010 Conference: August 8-10, Baltimore, MD
The Reinventing Quality Conference is the premier gathering place for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities, family members, direct support professionals, administrators of community support agencies, advocates, and government leaders – all committed to a vision of a better future for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities.
What was the theme for 2010? The 2010 conference focused on how the most forward thinking states and providers are not only weathering the economic crisis but using it as a fulcrum to improve quality and lives. See our list of speakers here.
Over 35 Sessions on these Topics of Relevance
- Abuse prevention and post traumatic stress
- Accomplishing the shift from traditional to individualized supports
- Aging
- Allocation of resources
- Asset development
- Assistive Technology
- Behavioral supports
- Best practices
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issues, expectations and directions
- Circles and community building
- Community service (VISTA, Learn to serve, Americorps)
- Creating new organizational culture
- Creative employment initiatives
- Defining and measuring quality
- Department of Labor initiative
- Effective community supports for people with complex and challenging needs
- Eliminating restraint, seclusion, aversives and other restrictive procedures
- Emergency management and disaster preparedness
- Employment-focused approaches to transitioning from school
- End-of-life issues and death with dignity
- Ethical issues
- Family dynamics
- Family support
- Federal perspective and activities related to the direct support workforce
- Full inclusion in faith communities
- Funding issues
- Great ideas “share shop”
- Health issues
- Human service cooperatives
- Individual development accounts
- Individualized budgets
- Individualized Supports
- In-home support
- Innovative quality improvement in tough economic times
- Innovative strategies
- Interactive sessions
- International research on quality of life
- Leadership issues
- Learning communities
- Life after life in an institution
- Making paid work a priority
- Managed care options
- Medicaid options promoting home and community-based services
- Microenterprises
- Multicultural perspectives
- Opportunities for independence and choice
- Organizational assessment and strategizing
- Organizational change and commitment to innovation
- Outcomes of individualized supports
- Peer support networks
- Performance indicators to measure quality
- Person-centered approaches
- Positive Behavioral Supports
- Post Secondary Options
- Practical “how to” information
- Program evaluation
- Promising practices
- Resource allocation
- Strategic investments
- Self-advocacy
- Self-direction and community integration
- Sharing stories
- Shifting services to individualized supports
- State demonstrations and partnerships
- State-reporting requirements
- Strategic planning and collaboration
- Successful approaches for assuring a job for everyone
- Supporting people with complex health, behavioral, and mental health needs
- Supporting Quality Direct Support Professionals
- Systems change
- Training and retaining quality staff
- Trends in services and expenditures
- Workforce issues and transformation
The voices and participation of self advocates were woven throughout the conference. Self Advocates had the opportunity to make short videos expressing their views on important issues and contributing to a Virtual Story Wall.
Over 700 people attended the 2010 conference – The Reinventing Quality Conference is one of the biggest, most dynamic conferences of the year. Past attendees have raved about the range and practicality of sessions as well as the welcoming atmosphere and opportunities for learning, sharing, and networking.
Comments from Past Conference Participants
- "Loved the networking opportunities!"
- "I thought I had heard it all – this was fresh information and new voices"
The Reinventing Quality Conference provides information, new ideas and active discussion about:
- Person-Centered Planning
- Individualized Supports
- Employment Innovations
- Self Advocacy
- Supporting People with Complex and Challenging Needs
- Innovative Quality Improvement
- Creative Approaches to Turn the Economic Crisis into Opportunity.
Don’t miss this opportunity to get together with people who, like you, are ready to abandon the restrictive approaches of the past and embrace new ideas to offer supports for people with disabilities to lead lives of their own design that are rich in experience, interaction and opportunity!
Conference SponsorsGold Level
Conference Exhibitors
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The National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services,
the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota,
the Human Services Research Institute and The University of
Delaware's National Leadership Consortium joined with the following
partners to organize the 2010 Reinventing Quality Conference:
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