Monday March 16, 2009

8:30 - 5:00

Conference Institutes are full-day, intensive sessions on a single subject. The following institutes will take place:

• Legal Directors Meeting
• PAIMI Institute Leadership
• TBI Grantees Meeting
• Investigative Interviews of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
• Employment Summit
• Due Process Hearing Skills
• National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Training – Depositions

Tuesday March 17, 2009

8:30 – 10:00

General Session: Mining the Potential of the New ADA

10:30 – 12:00

• Reality Check About our Underlying Assumptions about Employment
• ADA Amendments Act Update
• Disputing the Fundamental Alteration Claim in Olmstead Litigation
• Monitoring Care and Treatment of Youth with Disabilities in JJ Facilities
• P&A Orientation
• Systemic Litigation to Challenge IDEA Violations
• Access Authority 101

1:30 – 3:00

• An Effective Role for the State Rehab Council
• Using Medical Experts in Employment Cases
• Olmstead and Section 1983 Round Up
• Moving from Advocacy to Implementation: Managing Success
• Strategic Planning and the P&A
• AT Work and Transition-Aged Youth
• Guardianship 101

3:30 – 5:00

• AT and Voc Rehab
• Schedule A
• Supreme Court Round Up
• Education Advocacy in Juvenile Courts
• Good to Great: Assessing Your Board and Ideas for Greater Engagement
• Enhancing Resources for Special Ed Advocacy in the Community
• Medical Decision Making for Individuals with Guardians

5:30 – 7:00

Reception

Wednesday March 18, 2009

8:30 – 10:00

• VR and Employment Services for Individuals with Autism
• PABSS Best Practices
• Litigation Rights of Prisoners with Mental Illness
• Lessons Learned from the 2008 Elections
• Leadership Training – Part I
• Including Housing as a Component of Olmsted Settlements
• Discipline

10:30 – 12:00

• Developing a Productive VR Small Business Program
• Revised Ticket to Work
• Managing P&A/CAP Crisis and Controversial Cases
• Outreach to Native Americans
• Leadership Training – Part II
• Preserving Your Client’s Medicaid Waiver Services Hours
• Implementing Effective PBIS

1:30 – 3:00

• New and Continual Issues in VR – Part I
• Funding Employment Support
• Mobility Equipment and Disabilities: A Physical Therapist’s Perspective
• LGBTQ – Survey of Issues
• Creating a Supportive Workplace for P&A Employees, including Employees with Mental Illness
• Best Practices in Autism Waivers
• Reducing Restraint and Seclusion in Schools – Part I

3:30 – 5:00

• New and Continual Issues in VR – Part II
• I&R and Employment Issues
• Alternatives to Detention and Confinement in JJ Facilities
• How to Use the P&A Foster Care Training Curriculum
• Handling Difficult Conversations
• Getting Access to American Red Cross Shelters
• Reducing Restraint and Seclusion in Schools – Part II

Thursday March 19, 2009

8:30 – 10:00

General Session: A New Day for Federal Disability Program

10:30 – 12:00

• Independent Living Services
• When to Disclose?
• P&A Access Authority: Current Issues
• Systemic Action to Bring About Stronger Enforcement by SEAs
• Electronic – Discovery: Meet Early, Meet Often

1:30 – 3:00

• Enhancing Effective Transition Outcomes
• Hiring and Supervising Individuals with Disabilities in the P&As
• Ethics: Conflict of Interest
• Using Non-IDEA Funding to Meet the AT – Related Needs of Children
• Supporting Self Advocacy Groups

3:30 – 5:00

• Working with Business to Increase Employment Using AT
• Medicaid, AT and Kids
• Ethics: Informed Consent
• Increasing Self Determination Through Psychiatric Advance Directives