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OCTOBER 13TH & 14TH DOUBLETREE RIVERSIDE HOTEL BOISE, IDAHO TRACKS: |
| Professional/Personal Growth |
| Direct Support-Children |
| Direct Support-Teens |
| Direct Support-Adults |
| Parent Issues |
| Self Advocacy |
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TRACKS: Dan Baker, Ph.D. A-1: Youth with the Dual Diagnoses of IDD and Mental Illness This interactive session will lead attendees through a process for understanding how mental illness and developmental disabilities can interact to make it difficult to support youth with these dual diagnoses. All too often, IDD and Mental Health are seen by practitioners and researchers as separate lines of inquiry, but with a young person who presents these two types of disability, both must be considered. Simple, common sense definitions will be provided along with a numerous clinical examples and interventions.
Carmen Babb, MA, CADC A-2: The Power of Positive Purpose Session Description: People need a purpose in life, without purpose there is a failure to thrive which is invariably negative – people can be taught to turn the negative failures into positive purpose resulting in personal power
Tyler Whitney, Psy, D. and J. John Andersen, MS, LMFT. A-3: Supporting the female adolescent with Bipolar disorder and Autism within a Family Therapy perspective. This presentation will cover the diagnosis of both disorders in include treatment modalities. The focus will also include how to educate and empower parents through building skill sets and supporting the child within their various environments.
Kathie Snow B-1: Creative Collaboration Waiting lists, budget cuts, too many people to serve! Even under the best of circumstances, the service system and disability organizations cannot meet the needs of all. But when disability and non-disability organizations collaborate, extraordinary outcomes are possible!
Dennis Morrow, M.A.Ed., MBA B-2/B-3 (two part): Managing and Surviving Organizational ChangesDesigned for employees, managers, and leaders of organizations facing conflict resulting from any type of internal change. The focus is on understanding how real change happens for people and for organizations. Gain a clear definition for organizational change vs. re-organizational non-change. Concrete strategies are presented to maximize the likelihood of a successful change process, to survive in a rapidly changing organization, and to assess your own personal/organizational style of response to change. Jackie Frey C-1: Get Ready Now! Emergency Preparedness Learn how to have resources in place at the home or workplace, during an incident or disaster in a community
Kathie Snow C-2: Create Synergy with Style, Substance, and Words What if our interactions with others could result in greater success for all? We can eliminate frustration, fear, misunderstanding, anger, and other barriers, when we embrace improved communication, move beyond two-dimensional thinking, and utilize negotiation skills. Imagine the possibilities when you create synergy (and more allies in the process). Try it, you’ll like it!
Rebecca Evans C-3: Empowerment from the Inside Out In this course, Certified Life Coach and Motivational Speaker, Rebecca Evans, will facilitate empowering techniques, trainings and tools to assist staff in staying motivated and inspired in their work and also developing methods to encourage and empower staff and clients that they work with.
Kerry Leavell, MA, MT-BC and Stephanie Leavell, MT-BC D-1: Together in Music: Techniques for using Music in Therapy Description: It’s no secret- many children live and breathe music. As clinicians and caregivers, many of us do too! This session will start with the musical strengths already possessed by the participants, and focus on developing them into skills that can be used for more specific therapeutic purposes. Presenters are board-certified music therapists and although a brief introduction to the field of music therapy will be provided, the bulk of the session will take on a workshop form as participants make music, share stories, and explore questions together. No musical experience or talent necessary.
Robyn Legaretta-Edwards, M.A. D-2: Connecting the Disconnected and Unmotivated Student This training will look at the growing number of students that have disengaged from our learning environments and will focus on strategies and interventions that have been successful in reaching this population of students. An individualized and school wide approach will be examined to identify options that will enhance the overall classroom and school climate. Specific strategies will be presented and the participants will develop a plan of action for their own setting. Training Objectives:
Robyn Legaretta-Edwards, M.A. D-3: Strength Based Interventions: Finding the Right Path This training will examine Strength Based strategies that facilitate successful environments for individual students. A specific model will be described to illustrate the effectiveness of strength based interventions. Identification and implementation will be discussed and how to evaluate the success of these strategies. This training will focus on creating environments that encourage and support the success of children that are struggling with the academic setting. Training Objectives:
Dennis Morrow, M.A.Ed., MBA E-1: Boys Will Be Men: Road to Recovery
“Being a teenage boy is the largest untreated childhood disease in America today.”
Fasten your seatbelts for the newest ride in the park! Are you ready for a perilous journey into the REAL WORLD OF BOYS? Join us for a unique gender-specific, evidenced-based training focused exclusively on high-risk boys. This training is designed to increase the effectiveness of individual counselors and of programs working with boys and men.
What you will learn:
Boys Will Be Men provides an in-depth examination of the boy and male experience. It is an interactive/experiential training which presents scientific, historical and statistical information that challenges commonly held myths about what really works in the treatment of boys/youth/men. This training is designed for both experienced professionals and people new to the field of working with boys. It will help you stretch and grow as a mentor, parent, friend, and counselor and has broad applications for your roles outside of work as well.
What you will gain:
Tyler Whitney, Psy, D. and Jennifer Fish, M.Ed. E-2: Empowering Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders Through the Lifespan The presentation will address appropriate and necessary supports in order to empower individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders of all ages. This will include information on the characteristics of ASD, recognizing “red flags” in young children, home and school supports, and transitions and teaching “life skills” for adults with ASD. Empowering the families of these individuals will also be discussed.
Dan Baker, Ph.D. E-3: What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You! Using Positive Behavior Supports in the Community The old saying “What you don’t know can’t hurt you” is absolutely wrong when it comes to supporting youth and adults with IDD and problem behaviors. This presentation will focus on simple, team-driven strategies for identifying the reasons for problem behaviors and subsequently designing interventions. We will consider person-centered and mental health perspectives as well as traditional behavior analytic explanations for problem behavior.
Char Quade, J.D. F-1: Transition Age Planning
Matthew Jordan & David Brown f-2: Confidence, Relationships, and Music In these presentations we will discuss the universal power of music to move people. Through the skilled direction of a music therapist, the tremendous power of music can be focused toward achieving specific outcomes. The most common goals include the ability to initiate and enjoy interaction with others in a fun, non-threatening environment. Beyond that, music therapy can also be used to reduce maladaptive behaviors, increase attention, enhance motivation to participate in other treatments, stimulate memory function, counteract the effects of anxiety and depression, and to reinforce positive social interaction. Most importantly, however, music provides individuals with a nonverbal form of expression that allows them to convey the essence of who they are and what they feel to others. When this form of expression is cultivated by a trained therapist, individuals are empowered with a far greater capacity to assert themselves as beautiful and important human beings of infinite worth.
Kathie Snow F-3: Creating Community With Natural Supports and Generic Services: Isn’t it time for people with disabilities to move from clienthood, isolation, and dependence on the system to citizenship, inclusion, and interdependence in the community? It can happen when we use the abundant supply of natural supports and generic services in our communities to meet people’s needs while simultaneously ensuring their inclusion!
Trina Balanoff, M.S. G-1: “Sex is Natural: The role of sexuality in the lives of people with developmental disabilities” What is sexuality and why discuss it? Sexuality is not simply and event-driven experience. It is a natural part of the human experience. It is how we live our lives and is intimately joined to the basic needs of being liked and accepted, displaying and receiving affection, feeling valued and attractive, and sharing thoughts and feelings (Murphy & Elias, 2006). The role of sexuality in the lives of people with developmental disabilities: Sexuality plays a significant role in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities as it has direct implications for the mental, physical, and social aspects of their lives (Marten, 2006). People with intellectual disabilities, like most of us, have a varying degree of interest, reproductive ability, and sexual response. Furthermore, like other children, children with intellectual disabilities are curious about their bodies, their peers’ bodies, relationships, and other aspects of socio-sexuality. What are the attitudinal barriers?
Sometimes, it takes a shift in the attitudes of parents and professionals to fully appreciate that there is more to sexuality than events. People with developmental disabilities can learn about the abstract concepts of sexuality. Teaching and empowering individuals with developmental disabilities: Many parents and professionals have difficulty figuring out how to teach some of the abstract concepts of sexuality to individuals with developmental disabilities. Teaching children at age appropriate (not developmentally appropriate) times is key to introducing the sexuality topics. There are many ways in which to teach the abstract ideas of sexuality in ways that are concrete and meaningful.
Char Quade, J.D. G-2: The Art of Collaboration in the Development of a Legal IEP, Char Quade, J.D. Learn about student rights, parental rights, district duties and the Professional’s role(s). Trina Balanoff, M.S., Richelle Tierney G-3: Understanding the New Children’s Redesign Moving Forward: Empowering Families to….something about the redesign “Presenters will discuss how families can meet the needs of their children with disabilities using the new Children’s Redesign. Focus on the “Family Centered Planning” tool to identify family/child priorities and goals which will aid families in choosing the traditional DDA service model or the new Family Directed service model. Presenters will provide examples of both service options using the budget amounts that will be assigned to kids. They will explain how families can maximize their child’s budget, manage the budget, receive training, as well as find/supervise staff and negotiate with providers.”
SALN Member H-1: What is the Self-Advocacy Leadership Network? Learn how SALN advances equality through growth, education, and advocacy by providing opportunities so individuals with disabilities may achieve their greatest unique potential. Dan Baker, Ph.D. H-2: Preparing Youth and Adults with ASDs for Work This hands-on, interactive session will focus on strategies to assist youth and adults with disabilities to prepare for and enjoy successful, community-based, productive lives. We will focus on strategies for building both social and work-related skill bases, as well as on-the-job support strategies.
Amber Mausling H-3: Dating, Relationships and Sex This session is an open discussion about relationships and sex. The presenter will talk about what it means to have healthy, loving and safe relationships. You will learn how to have identify unsafe behaviors and keep yourself safe physically and emotionally. You will have the chance to talk and ask about relationships, dating and sex.
Allen Anderson, M.A. Full Day Workshop: I-1/I-2/I-3: Advanced Selling Skills for Job Developers
This workshop will start from a premise that the job developers attending are veterans and already have sufficient selling skills to get jobs for candidates with visible employment barriers. Basic consultative selling methodology will be reviewed to set the selling foundation but the focus on more advanced selling techniques involved in:
These skills will be outlined and taught such that participants can add those they feel most useful to their pre-existing skills. The focus of the workshop is an introduction to advanced and more controlled selling skills to enable the job developer to address more difficult or higher level selling. The workshop is interactive and will address selling challenges presented by the audience. If you are not interested in selling as part of job development you should not come to this workshop as all it will be about is selling and selling structures.
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