Return to Registration Brochure > Table of Contents Breakout Sessions: Community1. Promoting Community Inclusion, Connections, and Personal Relationships – A look at new and creative practices to support children and adults with disabilities to create lasting relationships with others in their communities and strategies for successful implementation of innovative programs. Moderator: Cathy Ficker Terrill, Ray Graham Association for Individuals with Disabilities2. Preparing People to Live in Communities: Empowering and Supporting Adolescents to Make the Transition to Adulthood – A look at how to help individuals make a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood. The panel will talk about transitions from school to work, from adolescent to adult health care, from living in a parent’s home to living on one’s one, as a single or married individual. Moderator: TBD 3. Assuring Access to Needed Services and Supports: Building Community Capacity to Serve All People in Need – A look at the policy and practice steps necessary to create access to agency services and supports and universal access to essential community services and supports, regardless of individual’s age, or healthcare need. Clarify the role and reasonable expectations of family, the community, and public service systems in assuring all people access to services and supports. Moderator: Nancy Thaler, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 4. Self-Directed Services: A Key to Rebalancing Strategies – A focus on strategies that ensure individual access to quality services and the use of Support Intensity Scale in selfdirected environments to drive person-centered planning and individual budgeting. The discussions will focus on self-directed services as a vehicle for rebalancing. Moderator: Jean E. Tuller, Oregon Technical Assistance Corporation 5. Pushing the Employment Agenda: Making Community Jobs a Reality – A discussion of the next steps needed to increase the number of people with disabilities employed in communities, including an exploration of successful practices and state and federal policy programs that will move more people into the workforce. The goal is to identify and discuss strategies and policies that facilitate quality individual employment opportunities. Moderator: John Butterworth, Ph.D., Institute for Community Inclusion, University of Massachusetts 6. Legal Issues Related to Inclusion and Self-Determination: Old and New Challenges - A look at the range of legal issues that confront people with disabilities including involvement with the criminal justice systems (e.g. as offenders, victims or witnesses), guardianship, marriage and child custody. Moderator: Christine Griffin, Massachusetts Disability Law Center 7. What Works in Home and Community Supports: Using Research and Evaluation to Achieve Valued Outcomes – An examination of the goals that people with disabilities and those who know and care about them recognize as most important. It will summarize research and describe effective practices for identifying, integrating and sustaining practices, circumstances and other factors associated with positive outcomes in people’s lives and supports. Moderator: K. Charlie Lakin, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration 8. Using Technology to Promote the Independence of People with Intellectual and Cognitive Disabilities – A review of technological devices and supports that are available to enhance and promote the independence of people with disabilities and to summarize recent public policy developments. Moderator: David Braddock, Ph.D., University of Colorado Coleman Institute 9. The Provider of the Future: What Will the Next Generation of Community Support Providers Look Like? – A discussion of changes that are taking place in the arrangement of provider services to support community membership and self determination. The session will look at the areas of focus for most service agencies today and challenge of funding and resources and the need to redefine management systems. Moderator: Lynne Seagle, Hope House Foundation |
