2005 Mid-Year Meeting
Portland Marriott City Center
520 Southwest Broadway
Portland, OR 97205
April 27-29, 2005
Reaching the Summit:
Changing Systems to Personal Choice & Control
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Meeting Objectives
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Engage in dynamic and meaningful dialogue on enhancing the opportunities for people with disabilities to live full, participatory lives within their local communities.
Each session will present a state's initiative to meet an outcome of creating individual supports, developing a quality assurance strategy, and crafting a plan to meet the needs of challenging individuals. Emphasis will be placed on how each state got there--what were the obstacles in the roadway and how were they overcome -- as well as what obstacles must still be faced.
Presenters will facilitate and involve attendees in educational dialogue enabling each one to refine their "road plan" for system reforms in their own state.
Dialogue will focus on seven specific questions:
(1) What factors prompted the need for change?
(2) What outcomes are desired?
(3) What is the impact on state policy?
(4) What key obstacles did you face in making change?
------ What obstacles did you overcome?
------ What obstacles do you still need to overcome?
(5) What are the financial costs and implications?
(6) What are the outcomes received to date?
(7) What are the perspectives of self-advocates that would bear weight on
the issues of change?
| WEDNESDAY April 27 |
Board
of Directors Meeting (NASDDDS Staff & State Directors Only) |
7:30 AM - 10:15 AM |
| REGISTRATION | 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM | |
| Directors
Forum (NASDDDS State Directors Only) |
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| BUFFET LUNCHEON | 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | |
| Directors
Forum continues (NASDDDS State Directors Only) |
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM | |
| Afternoon Break | 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM | |
| Directors
Forum continues (NASDDDS State Directors Only) |
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | |
| Welcome Reception | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | |
| THURSDAY April 28 |
Continental Breakfast | 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM |
| REGISTRATION | 8:00 AM - 4:45 PM | |
| Welcome & Keynote Addresses | 8:45 AM - 10:30 AM | |
| Morning Break | 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | |
| Keynote Addresses continue | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | |
| LUNCHEON RAPS | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | |
| Workshop Sessions I | 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | |
| Afternoon Break | 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | |
| Workshop Sessions II | 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | |
| ADJOURN FOR THE DAY | 4:45 PM | |
| FRIDAY April 29 |
Continental Breakfast | 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM |
| REGISTRATION | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | |
| Workshop Session III | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | |
| Morning Break | 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | |
| Closing Plenary & Wrap Up Session | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | |
| ADJOURN FOR THE MEETING | 12:00 PM |
Click HERE for Preliminary Program with descriptions (370KB PDF)
If you have not made your hotel rooms reservation, please call the Portland Marriott City Center at 1-800-228-9290 or (503) 226-6300 for availability. Rooms at the Marriott are no longer available at the conference rate. There are a limited number of rooms still available at $169/night. Additionally, Embassy Suites (6 blocks from the Marriott) has agreed to offer NASDDDS Mid-Year Meeting attendees their rooms at the government rate ($93/night). Anyone wishing to make reservations at the Embassy Suites should call 1-800-643-7892 by Tuesday, April 19.
Driving Directions: Take I-205 South to I-84 West, follow signs to City Center exit 300B. Follow signs to Morrison St. bridge, bridge turns into Washington St. Hotel is on the corner of Broadway and Washington. (from the Portland Marriott City Center Web site)
Taxi Service: estimated fare: $25 (one way)
Airport Shuttle: Blue Star (Downtown-Airport Express). $13 (one way). Pick Up at Airport every 1/2 hour (7:00 AM - 5:00 PM) daily. Pick Up every 1/2 hour from Hotel (4:45 AM - 4:45 PM daily). For service before or after scheduled times, call for reservations 1-800-847-2272 or 503-249-1837.
MAX Light Rail (from the MAX Light Rail Web site) from Portland International Airport to Marriott Hotel - City Center (Please arrive at your stop a few minutes early. TriMet cannot always be exactly on schedule. Times shown are estimates based on scheduled speeds and distance between timing points.). FOR THE MARRIOTT HOTEL -- Directions: Portland Airport MAX Station (Stop ID 10579); Board MAX Red Line to Beaverton TC; Get off at Pioneer Square North MAX Station; Walk 0.1 mile north to Hotel (520 SW BROADWAY). FOR THE EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL -- Directions: Portland Airport MAX Station (Stop ID 10579); Board MAX Red Line to Beaverton TC; Get off at 1st and Oak. The hotel is at 3rd and Pine (2 1/2 blocks away).
Bus: Greyhound Station (1 mile north of hotel)Train: Union Station-AMTRAK (1 mile north of hotel)
The registration fee is $250 for state directors, state agency program staff, and local developmental disability authority managers and $350 for all other registrants.
PREREGISTRATION FOR THE MID-YEAR MEETING IS NOW CLOSED. IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE AND HAVE NOT YET REGISTERED, PLEASE DO SO ON-SITE ONCE YOU ARRIVE AT THE HOTEL.
If you are unable to access the appropriate registration
form or if you need additional information, please contact the NASDDDS
staff at 703-683-4202.
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