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Carol Ferenz

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Direct Support Professional Recognition Week is September 11–17, and we have everything you need to plan your celebrations of the dedicated professionals who make up the backbone of disability supports and services!

Place your order by 11:59 pm PDT Wednesday, August 17 to avoid incurring extra shipping costs to receive your items prior to DSP Recognition Week. Orders will be accepted after August 17, but may incur additional shipping fees or may not arrive before the start of DSP Recognition Week on September 11.

We’ve updated the 2022 Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Store with several new selections, along with some of the most popular items from previous years. The items you see are just a sampling of the many options to choose from, so check out the store today!

BONUS: Once you’ve placed your order from the 2022 DSP Recognition Week Store, peruse the 2022 DSP Recognition Week Toolkit for celebration ideas and sample social media posts.

DSP Recognition Week is one of our favorite times of year, and we cannot wait to celebrate with you and see all of your celebrations! Thank you, DSPs!

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Charting the LifeCourse was created to help individuals and families of all abilities and all ages develop a vision for a good life, think about what they need to know and do, identify how to find or develop supports, and discover what it takes to live the lives they want to live. This training series is for all professional stakeholders.

Participants in this training will:

  • Learn about the National Charting the LifeCourse Community of Practice;
  • Apply LifeCourse Principles and LifeCourse Framework; and
  • Practice Using LifeCourse Tools.

Registration

Dates:
September 16, 2022, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Registration opens 8/10/22.

December 16, 2022, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Registration opens 11/10/22.

February 22, 2023, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Registration opens 1/18/23.

May 11, 2023, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Registration opens 4/6/23.

All dates are visible in the course, but registration links will open about 5 weeks in advance of each session.

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Registration for the RCPA Conference 2022 Together! is now open! Together! will be held October 11 – 14, 2022, at the Hershey Lodge in person this year. Be sure to register, as the early bird rate is available now until September 9, 2022.

We are excited for the lineup of speakers who will be presenting at this year’s conference, as there will be pertinent information available and discussed for all service areas. Workshop sessions include:

  • Connecting Pieces for Success: Utilizing a Two-Generational Approach and Collaborative Multi-Organizational Work Model to Affect Lasting Change
    • Presented by Sara Newman of Project-Mosaic, Inc.
  • Having Difficult Conversations With Employees
    • Presented by John Amato of Familylinks
  • Specialized Telehealth for Individuals With IDD
    • Presented by Maulik Trivedi of StationMD
  • Improve Clinical Outcomes and Enter Into Value-Based Contracts Using Clinical Data
    • Presented by Dominick DiSalvo of KidsPeace
  • Returning Citizens Housing Smart Model
    • Presented by Claire Ryder and Curtis Gillard of Resources for Human Development, as well as Clayton Moser and Taeesha Smith of PMHCC
  • CMS Home and Community-Based Services Quality Measures Set
    • Presented by Juliet Marsala of Health Management Association

You also won’t want to miss our plenary speakers:

  • Chuck Ingoglia of National Council for Mental Wellbeing and Gabrielle Sedor of ANCOR will give us “Insights From Washington.”
  • Meg Snead of DHS and Jen Smith of DDAP will provide updates on how PA continues to be innovative in health care.

Be sure to check out the entire list of sessions in our brochure, and note that sessions will be recorded to allow participants access after the event.

In addition to an amazing roster of speakers, our 2022 Conference will have an exciting array of sponsors and exhibitors. We thank those who have committed to our conference thus far! If you are interested in sponsoring or exhibiting, visit here for more details.

Questions about the conference may be directed to Carol Ferenz or Sarah Eyster, Conference Coordinators.

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ODP Announcement 22-092 provides a list of current Agency With Choice (AWC) Financial Management Service (FMS) organizations that are available to support participants and surrogates who have chosen to self-direct some or all of their Participant Directed Services (PDS) using the AWC FMS model and are in the Consolidated, Community Living, and Person/Family Directed Support (P/FDS) waiver. Read the full announcement for details.

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