November 8-10, 2009
Embassy Suites RiverCenter & The Northern Kentucy Convention Center

Without Exception:
Building Community and Creating Opportunities for People with
Intellectual Disabilities who have Severe Reputations,
Behavioral Challenges and Mental Health Care Needs

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Sponsored by

Cabinet For Health and Family Services Department for Behavioral Health, Division of Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities	Kentucky Council on Developmental Disabilities

Pre-Conference  Sunday November 8th 1:00pm-5:00pm Embassy Suites Cincinnati – RiverCenter 10 East RiverCenter Boulevard Covington, Kentucky 41011

Conference  Monday November 9th - Tuesday November 10th 8:00am-3:30pm each day  The Northern Kentucky Convention Center One West RiverCenter Boulevard Covington, Kentucky 41011

The 2007 Conference Series

Presented by

Community Resource Alliance

 

November 6-8, 2007

International Plaza Resort & Spa

Orlando, Florida

 

Beyond Surviving: Leading and Supervising for Maximum Results

Implementing Effective Supervision and Leadership in Human Services

 

Featuring Derrick Dufresne

 

 

&

 

Dual Diagnosis: Beyond the Hyphen

Designing, Developing, and Delivering Services and Supports for People Who

Have Intellectual Disabilities and Mental or Behavioral Healthcare Needs

 

Featuring Mike Mayer

 

 

 

ABOUT THE SESSIONS

 

Beyond Surviving: Leading and Supervising for Maximum Results

Implementing Effective Supervision and Leadership in Human Services

 

Supervisors are made not born.  Unfortunately, the supervisory crisis in the field of
developmental disabilities and related services is largely self-made.  

Employees typically arrive at provider agencies in entry-level positions with a minimum of knowledge, skills, and abilities relative to the field.  We tend to promote from within, which on the surface, seems to make a great deal of sense.  The staff, who the day before were working as part of a team, all of a sudden have supervisory responsibilities for the team. They have had no training, no preparation, and suddenly are thrust into a supervisory role that is foreign, confusing, and is fraught with danger. 

 

Dual Diagnosis: Beyond the Hyphen

Designing, Developing, and Delivering Services and

Supports for People Who Have Intellectual Disabilities

and Mental or Behavioral Healthcare Needs

 

In this intensive one and a half day session we will examine the core elements necessary for those delivering services to successfully provide intensive community services and supports to people who have complex diagnoses.  We will also examine the essential ingredients for failure, such as “abdication of responsibility” and “the diagnosis wars”.  We will also review the keys to effective crisis services, including prevention, early intervention, and positive behavior supports. The humorous style of the presentation will allow us to examine serious issues associated with the challenge of doing the right thing for the right reason.  It will challenge you to stop trying to always push the envelope and what to do instead… such as considering setting the envelope on fire since most of what it holds are preconceptions, prejudices, and failures that result in our pasts determining our futures, and thus the futures of people who have significant disabilities.