2014 Alliance June Summit

 

"The Good Life: Person Centered Thinking"

 

Steamboat Springs, Colorado

June 18th – 20th, 2014

 

OPENING KEYNOTE: "Person Centered Services: Empowering People to Live a Meaningful and Complete Life"

Dakota Johns, Motivational Speaker

 

KEYNOTE: "Managing Change to Create a Values-Based Organization"

In Partnership with: The Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Mike Mayer, Senior Partner, Community Resource Alliance

 

KEYNOTE: "Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up"

Paul Schmitz, CEO, Public Allies

 

PRESENTATION: "Changing Your System – One Person at a Time"

In Partnership with: The Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Mike Mayer, Senior Partner, Community Resource Alliance

 

KEYNOTE: "Disability Trends and the Future – A National Perspective"

Renee Pietrangelo, CEO

Diane McComb, State Association Executives Forum Liaison

ANCOR

 

PRESENTATION: "Government Relations Committee Brief"

 

BREAKOUT SESSION: "Improving Quality in Early Intervention Programs: Addressing Colorado’s Strengths and Challenges in Developing a Five-Year State Systemic Improvement Plan"

Ardith Ferguson, M.Ed., Manager

Beth Cole, Fiscal Accountability Coordinator

Early Intervention Colorado Program

Colorado Department of Human Services, Office of Early Childhood, Division of Community and Family Support

 

BREAKOUT SESSION: "Oh The Lives That Have Changed!"

Facilitated by Jamie Martin, Foothills Gateway, Inc.

 

BREAKOUT SESSION: "Marijuana in the Workplace"

Sponsored by: Flood & Peterson

Curtis Graves, Esq., SPHR, Employment Law Services, Mountain States Employers Council

 

PANEL DISCUSSION: "Becoming a Person Centered Organization ~ what did it take?"

Facilitated by Stacy Hill, Foothills Gateway, Inc.

 

BREAKOUT SESSION: "Technology COPs – An arresting presentation on how three organizations from around the country are working together to improve services and supports"

Greg Wellems, Chief Operating Officer, Imagine!

 

BREAKOUT SESSION: "Colorado’s Demonstration to Integrate Care for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees"

Van Wilson, MSW, MPH, Medicaid Reform Unit, Health Program Services & Supports Division, Department of Health Care Policy and Financing

 

BREAKOUT SESSION: "Colorado Gap Analysis Project Update"

Cordelia Robinson Rosenberg, Ph.D., R.N., B.S., Director, JFK Partners, program of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, CU School of Medicine

Marijo Rymer, Executive Director, Arc of Colorado

Carol Meredith, Executive Director, Arc of Arapahoe & Douglas Counties

 

GENERAL SESSION/PANEL DISCUSSION: "Person Centered Training/Building Statewide Capacity: Next Steps"

Facilitated by Mark Emery, Executive Director, Imagine! & Alliance President

 

BREAKOUT SESSION: "Self-Advocacy as Service: Reaching Core Needs of Adults with Autism in a New Services Environment"

Valerie Paradiz, PhD, Executive Director, Autistic Global Initiative, Autism Research Institute

 

BREAKOUT SESSION: "Person Centered: From Planning to Implementation"

Steve Valente, Senior Director, Dungarvin

 

BREAKOUT SESSION: "HCBS Waiver Redesign"

Tyler Deines, Projects Manager, Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing – Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

 

BREAKOUT SESSION: "Early Intervention Services and the Coordinated System of Payment"

Ardith Ferguson, M.Ed., Manager

Tammi Graham, Director

Early Intervention Colorado Program, Colorado Department of Human Services, Office of Early Childhood, Division of Community and Family Support