Spring Conference 2025 - Bethesda, MD

Final Draft Agenda

General Session 1  VR Workforce Studio Customer Podcast Showcase

​General Session 2  119th Congressional Session & Priorities (no power point)

General Session 3   Building on Our Successes - Telling Our Story

General Session 4  Building on Our Successes - Federal Partnership (no power point)

General Session 5  Navigating Order of Selection in VR: Balancing Financial Pressures, Regulatory Compliance, & Service Demand  

General Session 6  RSA Update:  Supporting Your Success

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Track #1 Building on Our Successes:  Policy & Streamlining

Rewriting the Rules:  SCVRD's Creative Overhaul of Consumer Services & Fiscal Policies

Streamlining Service Access:  Revolutionizing the Intake Process

Go/No Go:  Six Easy Steps to review a VR Consumer Business Plan

                  DCC - Business Plan Rating Tool

                  Go/NoGo Business Plan Review

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Track #2 Building on Our Successes:  Fiscal Controls & Management

Beyond the Numbers:  Advancing Fiscal Management Transparency

The Wyoming Way - How Wyoming Unified Fiscal & Program Teams for Stronger Internal Controls

Developing & Maintaining Fee Schedules

 

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Track #3 Building on Our Successes:  Personnel Development, Recruiting & Retention

Clinical Supervision for State Vocational Rehabilitation Supervisors

Developing & Retaining VR Counselors & Supervisors

VR Internal Succession Planning:  Oregon's Training Model for Aspiring Leaders

 

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Fall Conference 2024 - Seattle, WA

Leadership Forum: Sunday, Oct, 20th

Final Draft Agenda

State Plans/Use Them Don't Shelve Them 

              - Utah-C

              - Indiana-C

AI/What is it good for?

      Universal Classifications

      Phrases to Improve Job Posting Applicants

      AI Classification Comparison Tool

Serving Students with Disabilities: Internal and External Coordination and Collaborating Strategies To Improve Student and Youth Outcomes

Employment Networks (EN) and You

Organizational Change/Building Your Culture

All Roads Lead to the RSA-17

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Monday, Oct. 21st 

First General Session:

 Tribal & Washington VR - Michael MacKillop, WA-B & Dana Phelps, WA-G

 The Value Proposition of VR: Past, Present & Future - Felicia Johnson, SC-G

 

Second General Session:

 Getting our VR Message House in Order - Dacia Johnson, OR-B

 

Concurrent Sessions One

 Careers in Media: Increasing Employment Outcomes

 Using Authorized Pre-ETS Activities to Enhance Service Delivery in Indiana

 Counselor Intent to Remain or Leave the State VR Program

 

Concurrent Sessions Two

Recovery Works: Job-driven Training for Substance Use Disorder Treatment & Recovery 

Equipping Workforce System Professionals with the Tools They Need to Support Mental                                                       Wellness for Youth & Young Adults Through Access to High Quality Training

Supporting Counselors to Empower Entrepreneurs: Enhancing Skills and Resources for                Self-                                  Employment Services

 

Concurrent Sessions Three

Taking the Dull Out of Data - Making Data Relevant to VR Staff

From Learning to Earning: Unlocking Success through Work-Based Learning in VR

Applying Culturally Responsive Communication in Outreach, Recruitment & Retention                                                          Strategies in VR

 

Third General Session

The Value Proposition of VR Through Employment

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Fourth General Session

The Value Proposition of VR Through Scaling Impact & Strengthening Our Partnership with Service                Providers. 

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Fifth General Session     

The Value Proposition through Talent Innovation & Working with Business to Develop & Retain the Talent                of American's Workforce

Disabled Talent in the AI-powers Workplace

 

Concurrent Sessions Four

Intersection of Artificial Intelligence & VR:  Panel Discussion with State Innovators

Advancing Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE): A National Framework for a Path Forward

Innovative Pre-ETS Ideas: VR/Provider Collaborations That Work in  Rural Areas

 

Concurrent Sessions Five

Transforming VR Service Delivery: A Strategic Model for Increasing Access & Removing Barriers

Building Effective Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work Services: Lessons from RETAIN and VR Partnerships

Inspiring, Retaining & Growing the VR Leaders of Tomorrow

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Concurrent Sessions Six

Building College Pathways to Employment: A Panel on Collaboration Between VR Agencies & Inclusive                     Postsecondary Education Programs

Advancing VR: Successful Strategies for Impactful Business Services for VR Programs & Customers

Beyond Subminimum Wage:  VR as a Gateway to Equitable Employment

 

Sixth General Session

Scaling Up: Amplifying the Voice of VR with Modern Marketing Strategies

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Seventh General Session

Fireside Chat with RSA Commissioner Dante' Allen: About the Employment & Independence of People with Disabilities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - No PowerPoint Presentation

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Eighth General Session

RSA Updates - Supporting the Value Proposition

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Spring Conference 2024 - Bethesda, MD

Leadership Forum: Sunday, April 7th 

Creating a Culture of Belonging

Partnering with your CILs   

        CIL Fact Sheet 

        SC Partnership VR & CILs

        NY-G & ILC Collaboration

Panel Discussion with State VR and ED: Improving Outcomes for Students with Disabilities Through Partnership & Collaboration

Virginia's Journey to Building a Culture of Mattering

Staff Retention:  3 Models for Building a Culture of Relationships using Stay Interviews

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Monday:  

Omar and the Fork in the Trail

1.2  Strategic Partnerships:  Promising Practices for Win-Win Outcomes

1.3 We are VR:  NH's Experience Implementing An Integrated Public Awareness Campaign

1.4 Change Through Establishing Higher Education Partnerships

2.1 Transforming the VR Organizational Environment to Enhance Staff Thriving & Performance 

2.3 Rapid & Meaningful Engagement Strategies, Practices & Implementation

2.4 Lessons Learned: Massachusetts & Maine's Experiences Launching an Intake Unite

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Tuesday:  

Optimizing the Federal VR Award: Mastering Fiscal Forecasting & Strategic Spending

The Power of Partnerships - Achieving Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE) Together

3.1 How to Integrate Business Relations for Agency Success:  Perspective from VR Agency Directors

3.4 Leveraging Medicaid in the Redesign of Internal Processes

4.1 Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Emerging Technologies

4.3 Innovative Approach to Pre-ETS: Unique Music Therapy Model with Powerful Outcomes for VR in North Carolina

4.4 Partnerships to Serve Agricultural Workers With Disabilities

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Wednesday:  

RSA Competitive Integrated Employment - Snapshots of Success 

Agents of change: Partnering with Business to Develop Talent and Build Career Opportunities in an Inclusive Workplace 

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Fall Conference 2023 - Savannah, GA

 

Keep checking back as we will update as we get presentations:

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​General Downloads:

1st General Session - Welcome & CSAVR Strategic Priorities Update

                                    Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education & Rehabilitation Services, US DOE

                                    CSAVR Strategic Priorities Update

2nd General Session - 50th Anniversary of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Two Roads Diverged in a Wood - Facing the Challenges that Lie Ahead

3rd General Session - The Power of VR

4th General Session - CVS Health & The Net:  Connecting VR Talent to Training & Career Opportunities at the National, State & Local Levels

5th General Session - Artificial Intelligence (AI) & the Future of Work for People with Disabilities

6th General Session - RSA: Advancing Competitive Integrated Employment for the Next 50 years.

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Concurrent Downloads:

1.1 Positioning VR for the Future - An Update on the Spring 2023 Conference

1.3 How Business Relations Can Support VR

2.2 Minority MH for CSAVR 10.27.2023

2.3 Five Cs of Employment Engagement

3.2 Pre-Service Recruitment HBCU Langston 

3.3 Collab between state agencies and local providers 

4.1 Long Term Outcomes for SSI/SSDI in the VT VR Program

4.2 Minnesota VRS Presentation 

4.3 Adult-Ally-CSAVR-Fall 2023 final 

5.1 What we wish we knew - VA 

5.2 Goodman Dressel Diplock ppts for CSAVR vers 10.27.23

6.1 Branding and Beyond 

6.2 CO Strategic Staffing Initiative

6.3 Justice Youth Slides - CSAVR 10.27.2023 

7.2 MN General's Innovation in Policy and learning Development.  

7.3 Innovative Accessible Career Pathways in the Financial Industry Through VR Partnerships

 

 

 

Spring Conference 2023:

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• spring2023 Information Page with recordings provided by VRTAC-QM

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Session Downloads:

1st General Session

2nd General Session

3rd General Session

4th General Session

5th General Session

6th General Session

7th General Session

8th General Session

9th General Session

10th  General Session

11th General Session

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Fall Conference 2022:
        Leadership Forum Presentations

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Conference Day 1:

• CSAVR Strategic Priorities

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7th General Session:

• VR Customer Engagement

10th General Session:

• The Data Reality: Setting the Stage for Change and Success

11th General Session:

• PowerPoint presentation