Georgia APSE SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT Statewide Conference Registration is open and
ready to go! If you have mailing lists and/or listservs, please share
this information as widely as possible. We look forward to seeing you in
Athens!
Date:
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - Friday, October 12, 2012
Location:
UGA Hotel and Conference Center
1197 South Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA 30602
United States
Welcome
to the registration site for the 2012 GA-APSE state conference, "Real Jobs
For All: The Expectation, not the Exception!" We anticipate a wonderful
conference filled with presentations focusing on moving Georgia forward towards
a more inclusive workforce. Changing hearts, minds, and policy to reflect
numerous employment options for all people will be a great beginning in our
state.
Invited keynote presenters
include Dr. Lisa Razzano, Associate Director of Training and Education for the
University of Illinois, Chicago, Department of Psychiatry. We wanted to make
sure she made it back to Georgia after her rousing speech at The Carter Center
SE Forum.
We also look forward to
finalizing keynote agreements with Dr. Lori Davis and Michael Callahan, and
will feel fortunate to have both of these stars in the fields of Customized and
Supported employment available to share their prospective visions.
We anticipate hearing from Rich
Toscano and David Lynde, both nationally known employment experts with a wealth
of experience, who will share their ideas about the IPS model and how
implementation depends not just on the "front line", but also how policy
and administrative decisions can positively affect evidence-based supported
employment.
We are anticipating a large
roster of sessions including an encore appearance by Jennifer McGee, advocate
and mother of sons who experience autism. We will have appearances by a
well-renown motivational speaker and self- advocate who is also a business
person, and a father and son whom will share their ideas about what it takes to
make a real life in the community. Ruby Moore, ED of The Georgia Advocacy
Office, will present "Real Jobs, Real Lives." Ruby has over thirty
years of experience in advocating for people previously considered
"unemployable". GA-APSE's own Doug Crandall will share "Creating
Communities of Excellence," a panel discussion which is sure to get conversation
and ideas flowing. We are working hard to offer meaningful sessions on job
development, collaboration around funding for SE, and other topics sure to add
tools to the toolbox of SE for all in attendance. The GA-APSE Board of
Directors welcomes you to Athens!
