| Sunday, August 8 2010 | ||||||||||
| 1:00-7 PM | Registration | |||||||||
| 2:00-5 PM | Leadership Institute Grads Reunion | |||||||||
| 5:30-7 PM | Welcome Reception | |||||||||
| Day One | Monday, August 9 | |||||||||
| 7:30-11 AM | Registration | |||||||||
| 7:45-8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast | |||||||||
| Plenary 1: 8:30-10:30 AM |
Introduction and Welcome: Michael Chapman, Director, Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration
Samuel Bagenstos, U.S. Department of Justice AND The Moving Mountains Award Winners! |
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| 10:30-10:45 AM | Break | |||||||||
| Strands | Innovation in Individualized Supports: Learning From the Success of Three States | Systematic Quality Improvement: More Important Now than Ever | Promoting Opportunities for Independence and Choice | Funding Crisis: Opportunities for System Reform | Making Paid Work a Priority | Offering Personalized Supports: Evolving and Enduring Lessons | Effective Community Supports for People with Complex and Challenging Needs | Supporting Individuals and Families as They Age and Addressing End-of-Life Issues | Assuring the Best Workforce - Supporting Quality Direct Support Professionals | |
| Breakout I 10:45-12:15 PM |
Making the Shift to Individual Supports: What Works and Reflections on Lessons Learned | Keeping People Healthy and Safe: Data Driven Risk Management | All about Co-ops! Ways to Get Something Different than What Exists | Investing Wisely in the Future -- Strategic Investments and Resource Allocation | Creative and Customized Employment Options | Achieving the Life I Want and The Life I Can Afford | State-Level Comprehensive Approaches for Emergency Response and Crisis Support Services | Addressing Health Care and End of Life | National Perspective and Activities Related to the Direct Support Workforce | Moving Toward the Elimination of Restraint: How Positive Behavior Supports Have Paved the Roads Ahead and One State’s Experience with a Statewide Effort |
| Derrick Dufresne, CRA; Mike Mayer, CRA; Beth Mount, Capacity Works; Patti Scott, Neighbours Inc.; Pam Walker, Syracuse University; Moderator: Patti Scott | Alexandra Bonardi; Center for Developmental Disabilities Research, UMASS Medical Center; Ken Cabral and Laura Nuss, DC Developmental Disabilities Administration; Bill Allen and Eric Zigman, Bay Area Quality Management System; Moderator: Sarah Taub, Human Services Research Institute | Elizabeth Corson, Jeanette Gray, David Lankford, all of Achiever’s Co-op in Crossville, TN; Moderator: Ruthie-Marie Beckwith, Ph.D., Tennessee Microboards Association, Inc. | John Agosta, Human Services Research Institute; Jon Fortune, Human Services Research Institute; Graham Mulholland, PA Council on Developmental Disabilities; Moderator: John Agosta | Mike Menio, Polka Mike DJ Service; Corey Smith, VIA, Bethlehem; Moderator: John Butterworth | Ken Capone, People on the Go of Maryland; Paul Saulino, Values Into Action; Anita Yuskauskas, CMS; Pat Carver, Community Drive Inc; Moderator: Marian Frattarola-Saulino, Values Into Action–Pennsylvania | Joan Beasley, Center for START Services; Lisa Wolfe, NC START East; Dianne Turner, Oregon Technical Assistance Corporation; Moderator: Charlie Lakin, Research & Training Center on Community Living, Univ. of MN | Leigh Ann Kingsbury, Innovation in Leadership and Supports; Judy Levy, Kennedy Krieger Institute; Mindy Morrell, Arc of Frederick County; Moderator: Leig Ann Kingsbury | Carrie Blakeway, DSW Resource Center; Laura Ginsburg, DOL/ETA; Renee Pietrangelo, ANCOR; Mary Sowers, CMS; Joe MacBeth, NADSP; Moderator: Amy Hewitt | Bob Bowen, The Mandt System, Inc.; Arnie Dordick, Langton Green, Inc.; Diane Dressler, Developmental Disabilities Administration; Moderator: Nancy Thaler | |
| 12:15-1:45 PM | Lunch (on your own) | |||||||||
| Breakout II 1:45-3:15 PM |
Where We Are and How to Get There: Increasing the Investment in Innovation for Quality Supports | Quality Improvement: Connecting the Data Dots | Taking Our Place as Full Participants in Our Faith Communities | Taking Stock of Where We Are: Current Trends in Services and Spending | Building a Business: Em and Jerri’s Coffee Company | The Cost of Freedom…Keeping Your Eyes on the Prize | An Effective Jail Diversion Program for People who Have Committed a Crime | Supporting People Who are Aging in Multiple Contexts | Excellence in Direct Support: Innovative Strategies to Support the Direct Support Workforce: 2009 Moving Mountains Winners | Supporting People with Challenging Behavior: The Role of Person Centered Thinking Skills and Practices |
| Carol Beatty, ARC Howard, MD; Michael Chapman, DDA, MD; Carole Gothelf, AHRC – NY City; Jennifer Helton, Ralph Scott Life Services, Inc., NC; Joan Johnson, Beyond Academics, NC; Cindy Kauffman, DDA, MD; Sue Rattman, ARC NCR, MD; Larry Swabe, NC Council on DD; Ed Walsh, RHA Howell, NC Facilitated by: Beth Mount, Capacity Works and Mike Mayer, Community Resource Alliance; Moderators: Mike Mayer and Patti Scott | Marion Olivier, Delmarva Foundation; Ray Pierce, NYS Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities; Teresa Richard, TX Department of Aging and Disability Services; Eddie Towson, Quality Assurance Director, GA Division of Developmental Disabilities; Moderator: Chas Moseley, NASDDDS | Shelly Christensen, Jewish Community Inclusion Program; Bill Gaventa, The Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities; Andy Gordon and Danny Gordon both Representatives of The Jewish Foundation for Group Homes; Liz Weintraub, The Council on Quality and Leadership; Moderator: Shelly Christensen | Celia Feinstein, Institute on Disabilities, Temple University; Charlie Lakin, The RTC on Community Living, Univ. of MN; Holly Riddle, NC Council on Developmental Disabilities; Sheila Romano, Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities; Moderator: Holly Riddle | Tami Fenner, Emilea Hillman, Ashlea Lantz, Jerri Reisner, Sheila Stoeckel, all of Em and Jerri's Coffee Company; Moderator: Rie Kennedy-Lizotte | Judy Durand, Rosalind Gregory and Beth Munro, all of Friends & Family TIES Maryland, Mark Friedman, Blue Fire Consulting; Robert Jones, Bruce Myhaver, Dorothy Ports, Melvyn Robinson and Anthony Williams as Members of the GO Team; and the Values Into Action-New Jersey Supports Coordination Team; Moderator: Marian Frattarola-Saulino, Values Into Action-Pennsylvania | Keith Bourdon, Taunton, MA District Court; William Packard, MA Department of Developmental Services; Steven Turner, Taunton Police Department; James Young, Taunton State Hospital; Moderator: Angela Amado, Research & Training Center on Community Living, University of MN | Bill Gaventa, The Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities; Tawara Goode, Georgetown UCEDD; Liz Perkins, University of South Florida; Moderator: Maggie Nygren, AAIDD | Christie Johnson, SDACB; Eileen VanSoest, Center for Disabilities Sanford School of Medicine; Michele Betanco and Sue Henning Mitchell, both of the Starfish Program - Community Living Program, Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona; Moderator: Joe MacBeth, NADSP | Michael Smull and Mary Lou Bourne, both of The Learning Community for Person Centered Practices; Moderator: Charlie Lakin | |
| 3:15-3:30 PM | Break | |||||||||
| Breakout III 3:30-5:15 PM |
Leadership Challenges: How Leaders Can Encourage Innovation and Sustain Commitment Over Time | The Provider Challenge: Managing Quality across multiple and complex systems | Quality According to Whom? People Designing and Carrying Out Their own Evaluation of Their Services | Creative and Successful Approaches in the Face of Economic Downturn - Part One | Building an Employment First Strategy | Making a Difference | Two Approaches to Problem Behavior: Using Positive Behavior Supports for Youth in the Community and EMDR Treatment for People who Have Experienced Trauma | Evaluating Olmstead Compliance | Excellence in Direct Support: Moving Mountains Award Winners, 2010 | Medicaid Options Promoting Home and Community-Based Services |
| Carol Beatty, ARC Howard, MD; Michael Chapman, DDA, MD; Carole Gothelf, AHRC – NY City; Jennifer Helton, Ralph Scott Life Services, Inc., NC; Joan Johnson, Beyond Academics, NC; Cindy Kauffman, DDA, MD; Sue Rattman, ARC NCR, MD; Larry Swabe, NC Council on DD; Ed Walsh, RHA Howell, NC; Moderators/Facilitators: Derrick Dufresne, Community Resource Alliance and Patti Scott, Neighbours, Inc. | Gerry Morrissey, The MENTOR Network; Anne Starr, Mosaic; Renee Pietrangelo, ANCOR; Moderator: Jim Gardner, The Council on Quality and Leadership | Alycia Burroughs, VIA PA; Mark Friedman, Blue Fire Consulting; Jim Conroy, Center for Outcome Analysis; Marian Frattarola-Saulino, VIA PA; Gino Scalzitti, Values Into Action; Jean SearleJean Searle, Co-President of Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance/ VIA service user; Moderator: Marian Frattarola-Saulino | Holly Bohling, Federated HSC; Jamie Daignault, Human Services Research Institute; Vicki Niswander, Illinois Microboard and Co-op Association; Sheila Romano, Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities; Moderator: John Agosta | John Butterworth, Institute for Community Inclusion, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston; Rie Kennedy-Lizotte, NASDDDS; Colleen Gauruder, MD Developmental Disabilities Administration; Ken Cabral, DC Developmental Disabilities Administration; Moderator: Rie Kennedy-Lizotte | Stephanie Bell, The Arc of Carroll County; Gail Godwin, Shared Support Maryland, Inc.; Beth Mount, Capacity Works; Moderator: Gail Godwin | Dan Baker, Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities; Gail Ford and Jan Schaad, EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs; Moderator: Chas Moseley, NASDDDS | Tony Records, TRA Consulting | Lester Parker and Arden Kleffmann, both of Adirondack Arc ; Barbara Rothenberg, The Arc of Delaware County; Moderator: Sheryl Larson | Susie Bosstick, Kathy Poisal, Mary Sowers, Anita Yuskauskas, all from CMS; Moderator: Robin Cooper | |
| 5:30-7 PM | Reception | |||||||||
| 6:30-8 PM | Celebration of Self Advocacy | |||||||||
| 8:00-10 PM |
The DANCE! All invited! AND/OR Monday Night at the Movies (Great Movies, Popcorn, Cookies & Discussion) sponsored by the ReelAbilities Traveling Film Festival |
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| Day Two | Tuesday, August 10 | |||||||||
| 7:30-9 AM | Registration | |||||||||
| 7:45-8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast | |||||||||
| Plenary 2: 8:30-10:30 AM |
Barbara Coulter Edwards, CMS; Sharon Lewis, ADD, Pat Rogan, Indiana University School of Education, Annette Downey, Daniel Perry, Ray Schuholz, and John Toppi -- all of Community Living Services of Oakland County (Michigan) | |||||||||
| 10:30-10:45 AM | Break | |||||||||
| Breakout 4 10:45-12:15 PM |
Innovation in Individualized Supports: Providers Describe their Journeys Toward Change | Quality Improvement Systems for Home and Community Based Waivers: What CMS Expects | Sound Off About Quality | Creative and Successful Approaches in the Face of Economic Downturn - Part Two | Vision for Employment 2010: City of Philadelphia's Employment Initiative | Living My Life, My Way! | Comprehensive State Strategies for Supporting Individuals with Challenging Behavioral and Psychiatric Needs: Treatment and Emergency Response | Preparing for Disasters - Integrating and Coordinating Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery to Include People with Access and Functional Needs in Every Community | The Next Generation of Family Support and Self-Advocacy | |
| Carol Beatty, ARC Howard, MD; Carole Gothelf, AHRC – NY City; Cindy Kaufman, DDA, MD; Sue Rattman, ARC NCR, MD; Pam Walker, Center on Human Policy, Syracuse University; Moderator: Patti Scott | Anita Yuskauskas, CMS; Moderator: Val Bradley, Human Services Research Institute | Moderators: Mark Friedman, Blue Fire Consulting; Liz Weintraub, The Council on Quality and Leadership | Dennis Harkins, A Simpler Way; Michael Morris, National Disability Institute; Paula Sotnik, Institute for Community Inclusion; Moderator: Steve Eidelman, Universtiy of Delaware | Kathy Sykes, MRS, Philadelphia; Philadelphia Stakeholders; Moderator: John Butterworth | Diane Belnavis, Supporter of Brent and Innovator; Oscar Drummond, Self Advocates United as 1; Jennifer Howell, United Disabilities Services; Jean Searle, Co-President of Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance/ VIA service user; Brent Sullivan, Owner, Blankets by Brent Moderator: Gail Godwin, Shared Support Maryland, Inc. | Kevin Aldridge, Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities; Patrick Frawley, Vermont Crisis Intervention Network, Lara Palay, Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities; Moderator: Chas Moseley, NASDDDS | Richard Devylder, U.S. Department of Transportation; William Lynch, Disability Rights Section, United States DOJ; Marcie Roth, Department of Homeland Security/ FEMA; Frank Latham, Youth Leadership Project, New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities; Moderator: Marcie Roth | John Agosta, Human Services Research Institute; Robin Cooper, NASDDDS; Julie Petty, University of Arkansas; Sue Swenson, Doxa, Inc.; Betsy Valnes, National Youth Leadership Network; Moderator; John Agosta | ||
| 12:15-1:45 PM | Lunch on your own | |||||||||
| Special Sessions 1:45-3:15 PM |
Innovation and Hope and Thinking in Possibility..... Leadership Implications | It’s My Life, My Choice, and My Right to Be Abuse Free | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Forum | Think College: Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities | What Are We Learning? Using Person-Centered Thinking to Support Everyone in the Community | |||||
| Lynda Kahn and Jack Pearpoint, Inclusion Press International; Moderator: Patti Scott | Shelly Anderson, Self Advocate and Consumer Abuse Awareness Presenter; Mark Bazza, Self-Advocate and Respect Yourself Instructor; Beverly Frantz, Institute on Disabilities, Temple University; Carolyn Morgan, Self-Advocates United As 1; Tammy Torum, We Care A Lot Foundation; Moderator: Celia Feinstein | Susie Bosstick, Kathy Poisal, Mary Sowers, Anita Yuskauskas, CMS; Moderator: Nancy Thaler | Meg Grigal, TransCen, Inc.; Debra Hart, Institute for Community Inclusion, University of Massachusetts; Moderator: Steve Eidelman | Mary Lou Bourne; Michael Smull, The Learning Community for Person Centered Practices; Moderator: Charlie Lakin, Research & Training Center on Community Living, Univ. of MN | ||||||
| 3:15-3:30 PM | Break | |||||||||
| 3:30-4:15 PM | WRAP UP -- Come watch a film of conference events and Door Prizes … Door Prizes … Door Prizes! | |||||||||
| Wednesday, August 11 2010 | ||||||||||
| 8:30-4 PM | National Core Indicators Steering Committee Meeting | |||||||||