2012 NAPSEC

Annual Leadership Conference

Sunday, January 15 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012

NAPSEC FOUNDATION RAFFLE

$100 per Ticket - Only 100 tickets will be sold!

To get a paper copy of these materials you can print the conference web pages.

Conference Schedule for 2012 

Sunday the 15th

Noon – 5:00 pm        Conference Registration – Chief Washakie Circle

1:00 – 5:00pm             Exhibitor Set Up – South Foyer of AZ Ballroom

12:00 – 2:30 pm          Board Meeting – Board Room

3:00 – 5:00pm             NCASES Meeting – Board Room

6:00-7:00pm                New Comers Reception

7:00-8:30pm                Welcome Reception – Sonoran Terrace

 Monday the 16th 

7:30 – 8:30am             Breakfast  - South Patio

7:30 – 4:00pm            Registration - Arizona Desk South

7:30 – 3:30pm            Exhibits Open - South Foyer of AZ Ballroom

8:30 – 11:30am           Symposium

                                    Marj Flemming – Mentoring

                                    Salon I, J, K & L

9:30 – 10:00am          Coffee Break – Visit Exhibitors 

                                    South Patio

12:00 – 1:30pm           Federal Update – State of the Association Meeting

                                     Box lunch provided

                                     Salon N & H

2:00 – 3:30pm             Concurrent Sessions  

                                    Marj Flemming – Leadership in Times of Change

                                    Cholla

                                    Brenda Considine / Barbara DeMarco– Engaging Families in Public Policy and Advocacy Through Grassroots Organizing

                                    Town Hall

                                    Connie Laird and Bryan Davey of ACCEL & Dr. Robin Church of Kennedy Krieger /NAPSEC Member Programs

                                    - Agency Sustainability: Models of Diversification

                                    Sunshine

4:00 – 5:30pm             Wine Tasting Reception – Patio South

                                     This is a new event - attendees will have a chance to meet with exhibitors as they participate in a wine tasting.

                                     Different wines will be provided at each vender's table. Venders will only exhibit at the conference on Monday.

9:00 – 12:00pm           NAPSEC Networking – R Bar 

 Tuesday the 17th 

7:30 – 1:00pm            Conference Registration - South Registration Desk

7:30 – 8:30am             Breakfast – Camelback Patio

7:30 – 8:15am             Breakfast Roundtable – Salon M

                                    Adult/Transition Issues - Dr. Jade Carter, Horizons School

8:30 – 10:00am           General Session – Salon I, J, K, & L          

                                    John Littleford

                                    Understanding Staff & Institutional Culture: The Key to Staff Recruitment & Retention and Institutional Health

10:00 – 10:30am         Coffee Break –Patio South

10:30 – 12:00pm         Concurrent Sessions

                                     Christine Ferguson – Take Your Work Environment from Toxic  Terrific

                                     Town Hall

                                     Elain Fogel – How Your School Can Build Customer Loyalty and Growth 

                                     Cholla

                                     John Littleford – Risk Management and Succession

                                     Sunshine

12:15pm  – 2:00pm    How to Prepare for NCASES Accreditation

                                   Mesquite

Box Lunch Served     NCASES Team Leader Training 

                                    Palo Verde

                                     NCASES Site Reviewer Training 

                                     Salon M

12:15 – 1:15pm           Board of Directors Meeting

                                   Board Room

1:30 - 3:30pm            Arizona Association of Private Special Education Providers (AAPSEP) Meeting

                                 Board Room

2:30 - 4:00pm            NCASES Commissioner Meeting

                                  Mesquite

1:30 – 6:00                  Rich Robinson Classic - Golf Tournament – Camelback Inn Club

6:00 –7:30pm              NAPSEC Reception - Western Welcome!

                                     Mummy Mountain II - Please make sure you pack your comfortable western gear -Shoes, boots, and jeans. Mummy Mountain is a western cowboy town!

9:00 – 12:00pm           NAPSEC Networking – R Bar

 Wednesday the 18th    

7:30 – Noon               NAPSEC Registration -  South Registration Desk

7:30 – 8:30am             Breakfast – Patio  South 

7:30 – 8:15am             Breakfast Roundtable – Salon M

                                    Bring Your I Pad – Learn How to Play!  

8:30 - 10:00am           General Session

                                    Salon I, J, K & L

                                    Michael Fowlin - Beyond 9 to 5                                   

10:00 – 10:30am         Coffee Break – South Patio

10:30   12:00pm          Concurrent Sessions

                                    James Sylvestre & Helen Bosch -  A Look in the Mirror – Developing and Implementing a Program Evaluation System for your Organization

                                    Reflecting the Beautiful and the Not-So-Beautiful!

                                    Cholla

                                    Dr. Thomas McCool - Eden Autism Services,

                                    Debra Pearlman, Justin Fuhr - Kennedy Krieger School –  Using 2.0 Technology to Support Students with Special Needs

                                    Salon N, H   

                                    Eileen Lichtenstein - SOAR! With Resilience

                                    Town Hall

12:15 – 2:15pm           NAPSEC Awards Luncheon

                                   Peace Pipe

Conference Concludes

Afternoon Meetings

2:30 – 3:30pm             CASA – Public Policy Committee

                                    Mesquite

2:30 – 3:30pm             Outcomes Committee

                                    Palo Verde

2:30 – 3:30pm             Postsecondary & Adult Services

                                    Saguaro

3:30 – 6:00pm             Conference Committee    

                                    Board Room

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Conference Registration Form

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Speaker Profiles

speaker information will be updated as it becomes available

Helen Bosch has been Vista's Executive Director since 1991, and has led the organization's growth and development for 20 years.  Helen has served on various boards and commissions including Connecticut Association of Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities, Connecticut's State Rehabilitation Council, the governor-appointed Commission on Services and Supports for Persons with Developmental Disabilities and the follow-up Education Committee.  She is also a member and past-chair of the Coalition for Adults with Learning Disabilities.

Robin P. Church, Ed.D. 

Senior Vice President for Educational Programs and Executive Director of School Programs at The Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore since 1985 and Associate Professor of Education, Johns Hopkins University.  Dr. Church received her undergraduate training at Lesley College, and graduate training at Teachers College, Columbia University, and The Johns Hopkins University.  Dr. Church has 40 years of experience in working with children with special needs and over 20 years of experience training and teaching graduate students of education.  Dr. Church serves on several local and national Professional Boards and oversees a school serving over 600 students in seven locations including three in the public school arena.  Public/Private partnerships have become an essential part of the Kennedy Krieger School programs.    Dr. Church has directed research efforts in the area of adolescent literacy and students with multiple learning and behavior problems and has published extensively in this field. 

Brenda Considine is President of Considine Communication Strategies, a communications, marketing and public policy consulting firm.  She has held professional positions in the field of government relations and policy development since 1985 and today serves as a consultant to ASAH, New Jersey’s state association of approved private schools. She began her career at Autism NJ, where she was ultimately appointed its first Director of Legislative Affairs, influencing policy development at the state and federal level and creating that organization’s first grassroots initiatives in support of improved disability policy in New Jersey. Later, as Director of Government Affairs at the Arc of New Jersey, she coordinated statewide grassroots education and activism programs, and get out the vote campaigns. She lobbied successfully for the passage of New Jersey's Family Support Act, positively shaped the adopted Comprehensive Educational Improvement Act (CEIFA), and coordinated a successful campaign for a New Jersey bond referendum. She has served on the Commissioners Advisory Council on Special Education, and the New Jersey Legislative Task Force on Special Education. She has served as a consultant to the New Jersey Department of Education, Department of Human Services and Department of Health, as well as the New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities. Since 1994, her professional work has been influenced and informed by her experiences as the parent of two children, one of whom has a disability and attends a private school.

Bryan Davey, PhD, BCBA-D

Director of Behavioral Services for ACCEL in Phoenix, Arizona.  He is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and a Licensed Behavior Analyst in Arizona. Dr. Davey has a master’s degree in Special Education with an emphasis in Functional Analysis and a doctoral degree in Special Education.  His professional experiences include being a certified special education teacher, consultant to schools and businesses nationwide, and establishing two agencies in which ABA services are delivered to families and within school districts.  He has expertise in training organizational personnel in the application of behavioral principles and procedures, functional behavioral assessments, intervention implementation, autism insurance laws, and effective teaching practices.  Dr. Davey presents research and conducts workshops annually at numerous regional and national conferences. He actively consults for organizations including the Kennedy Krieger Institute School Programs, Henry Ford Medical Center’s Pediatric Department, numerous school districts, and families across the United States. Presently, Dr. Davey assists organizations in several states to implement policies and procedures for working with insurance companies in states that have and have not passed autism insurance laws.

Barbara DeMarco is Vice-President of Porzio Governmental Affairs, one of New Jersey’s leading lobby organizations, where she represents the interests of several industries including casinos, horse racing and breeding, agriculture, and education. Prior to joining Porzio, she worked as an independent governmental affairs consultant and lobbyist for nearly a decade. In the early 1990’s she served as President of Marketing and Communications for Nancy Becker Associates, a Trenton-based lobbying firm; and prior to that, as Director of Legislative and Advocacy Services for the Arc of New Jersey, where she worked to coordinate grass roots support to help close one of the state’s developmental centers. Focused on education reform, specifically early childhood education, charter school expansion, special education and school choice, DeMarco believes that every child deserves a quality education based on his or her needs. She chaired the New Jersey School Choice and Education Reform Alliance’s subcommittee on preschool and special education. In addition, she authored transition recommendations to Governor-elect Chris Christie. She served as an aid to New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, and former Assembly Speaker Chuck Hardwick.  She also worked for New Jersey’s 7^th districts in state legislative office. She has extensive campaign experience on the national, state, county and local levels. She has served as ASAH’s lobbyist since 2009.

Christine Ferguson is an author and speaker on leadership, personal development, and communication. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and is a Master Graduate and former leadership team member of Rapport Leadership International—a training and development organization. Over the past 15 years Christine has launched a career services firm; held managerial and director roles with Time Inc. and the American Heart Association; earned multiple awards, and contributed to articles published in Forbes.com and CNNMoney. Most recently, Christine founded End Leadership Hunger, and is a co-author of The Power of the Platform: Speakers on Life with best-selling authors Jack Canfield and Brian Tracy.

Marj Flemming is an entrepreneur who focuses her energy and business on the elements of leadership.  She is founder and owner of Launch Point Leadership, a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to developing individuals as leaders and positioning organizations to take leadership positions. After successful careers with the General Electric Company in strategic planning, management, and training, and the Tennessee Valley Authority in human resources management, Marj started her business in 1990 and now works as a coach with individuals who want to become leaders and as a consultant for companies and groups striving to become a presence in their communities or grow a business to a position of leadership. Marj has serves on several Boards and Advisory Committees in the Southeast including the Chattanooga Women’s Leadership Institute and Volkswagen Diversity Council.  She is the author of a white paper, Authentic Leadership, as well as a recently published book – Leadership Wisdom in a Nutshell. 

Dr. Michael Fowlin, better known as Mykee, is no stranger to the stage. He has been formally acting since age 11, but started creating voices (via prank calling) at age 9. In addition to his talents on stage, he has an undergraduate degree in psychology from Evangel University, in Springfield, Missouri, and in the fall of 2001, he attained a doctorate degree in clinical psychology from Rutgers University. Oddly enough, he suffers from delusions of grandeur, for, while performing, he is convinced that every audience member is his patient. His programs combine both his professional acting talents and his psychological training. His mission is to create an atmosphere of worldwide inclusion, not just tolerance, towards all people. He has worked extensively with all age groups in the United States and in other countries. His work has included peer mediation, diversity trainings, gender equity workshops, and violence prevention seminars. He hopes that all audience members will leave his performance with that wonderful, awakening feeling of beauty: the beauty within one’s self and the beauty within others; the celebration of our differences, and the acceptance of our shared experiences.

Justin Fuhr joined the KKI in 2010 to revamp and coordinate the various database programs used by the school programs.  He works with administrative and teaching staff to improve PowerSchool, PowerTeacher, and the other database programs used in both research and teaching applications.  He also works with Debra Pearlman on the Intranet/Extranet.

Connie Fletcher Laird, M.A.

Connie Laird has been Executive Director at ACCEL in Phoenix, Arizona since 1996.  She received her undergraduate training at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona and her graduate training at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.  Connie has over 43 years of experience working with individuals with special needs in clinical and educational settings as well as in the development and supervision of adult programs.  Connie serves on several local and national boards including currently serving as the NAPSEC Conference Committee Chair and is in her 11^th year on the NAPSEC Board of Directors.  As Executive Director of ACCEL, Connie oversees an educational setting serving over 250 students with special needs on two campuses, the Bista Autism Clinic and Michael’s Garden, ACCEL’s adult program.  Connie was also instrumental in the creation of Arizona’s association of private schools and agencies serving individuals with special needs, AAPSEP.

Eileen Lichtenstein, MS Ed, CEO of Balance & Power, Inc and Peak Performance Success Coach is a certified Anger Management Specialist, Career and Mid-Life Coach, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique ) Practitioner, a former Biofeedback Therapist and faculty at Hofstra University. Her book "SOAR! with Resilience: The Interactive Book for Overcoming Obstacles & Achieving Success"  is the core material for many of her trainings and a motivational read for anyone struggling to take their personal or professional life to a higher level of success and satisfaction. Eileen has facilitated many leadership and stress management trainings to educators in the special education field. http://www.balanceandpower.com.

John C. Littleford served as teacher, trustee and head of school for over 25 years. For the past 20 years he has been a consultant to over 4000 independent, international schools, partially-state funded schools. His clients also include corporations, foundations, universities and a range of other non-profit organizations. Mr. Littleford's areas of expertise include: board governance, strategic planning, executive and staff compensation and evaluation; executive searches; marketing strategies; fund raising; managing change; organizational climate; institutional and financial audits; and team building. He speaks and leads workshops on these topics worldwide. Littleford & Associates’ Newsletter is published five times a year and is widely read by 25,000 trustees and school and not for profit leaders.

Dr. Thomas McCool is President/CEO of the Eden Family of Services, based in Princeton, New Jersey.  From 1996 to 2005, Dr. McCool served as the Vice President of Development and Government Relations for Devereux nationally. From 1985 to 1996 Dr. McCool was the Executive Director of Devereux California with responsibility for Clinical, Residential, Recreational, and Educational/Vocational Programs for 235 developmentally disabled children and adults. Dr. McCool received a Doctor of Education Degree in Educational Leadership from Fairleigh Dickinson University's Institute for Leadership Studies in Hackensack, New Jersey, and a Masters of Education Degree from West Chester State University, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Debra Pearlman has a BFA in photography and graphic design from Emerson College. Specializing in documentary production and digital media creation, Debra works with The Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, National Geographic, the BBC.  She has created websites for the Mary McClellan Foundation, Buzzwave Collaborative, Cambridge Buzz, Rice Mansion Inn and other non-profit and commercial institutions.  She joined the Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) in 2010 as the Web Content Specialist responsible for creating an Intranet/Extranet for the KKI Schools.  Other responsibilities are support to Justin Fuhr, Database Administrator, on PowerSchool and database management.
 

For the last ten years James Sylvestre has been at Vista Vocational & Life Skills Center in various positions; for the last five years as Quality Assurance & Project Development Manager.   In his tenure at Vista he was responsible to develop and implement many systems and projects including a thorough program evaluation initiative at Vista, and has led Vista to NCASES accreditation.   He graduated with a B.A. from American International College in 1993, and in 1995 earned a M.A. in Experimental Psychology from University of Hartford. 

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NCASES Sessions Information

NCASES offers three sessions at the NAPSEC Conference for you to learn more about NCASES Accreditation and be trained as an NCASES Site Reviewer or if you have done two site reviews, you can attend a training to become a Team Leader of a site review team.

How to Prepare for NCASES Accreditation

The "How to Prepare" session will offer participants an overview of the accreditation (i.e. its origins, philosophy, mission, organizational structure) and a summary of the NCASES process from the time a program applies for accreditation through to the completion of the site review team visit and accreditation report.

Site Reviewer Training

NCASES will provide a training session for attendees who wish to become an NCASES Site Reviewer. Site Reviewers are needed to conduct site visits at applicant programs. This session will walk you through an accreditation site visit and prepare you to go on a site review.

Team Leader Training

The Team Leader Training is for an site reviewer that has completed two site reviews and wishes to serve as a Team Leader. Team Leaders are the main contact for the program and organize the team on site. With input from the team members, the Team Leader prepares the accreditation report at the conclusion of a site visit.

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Camelback Inn Information

www.camelbackinn.com

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Accommodations/Rates

Accommodations here are everything you'd expect and more. 453 comfortable, spacious, Pueblo-style casitas with thoughtful touches everywhere. Included are 18 suites that range from grand to grandiose, some with private swimming pools. But no matter where our guests retire for the evening, they enter a luxurious, amenity-rich guestroom with French doors leading to a private patio or balcony and the glorious vistas of Camelback Inn. Camelback Inn's Guestrooms are Smoke-Free

All of our richly-appointed guest rooms are equipped with each of the following items:
Private patio or balcony
Kitchenettes with "stove-top" or microwave
Refrigerator and mini-bar
Cordless telephone
Bathrobe
iHome clock/radio/mp3 player
Private label amenities
Complimentary in-room and laptop safes
Hair dryer
Iron/ironing board
Coffee maker
Fax and computer hook-up with high-speed internet access provided by STSN
Voice messaging
 

Room Rate

$255.00 Single/Double Room

All rooms are spacious and beautifully decorated.

Hotel room rates are subject to applicable state & local taxes

For reservations use "Ctrl Click" on the link below!

https://resweb.passkey.com/go/NAPSEC2012

If this does not work for you, copy and paste the link in the your web browser.

Group Reservations Number - 1-800-266-9432

Make sure you identify yourself as an attendee of the  NAPSEC Conference to get the conference rate.

Cut off date for the NAPSEC room rate

is December 24, 2011.

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Group Rates for Extra Days

Honored 3 days prior to January 15th and 3 days after January 18th.

BASED ON AVAILABILITY.

Optional Resort Fee Includes...

NAPSEC negotiated the conference contract to have the resort fee be optional - it is an individual choice. You can let them know when you check in if you want to add it to your room. You have the option to have it your entire stay or not at all.

 Here is what you get for $25

Camelback Inn Experience Passport

High speed internet and wireless internet in your guestroom

Unlimited local and domestic long distance calls

Access to Spa fitness room (fitness room only, maximum of 2 people)

1 complementary house margarita, draft beer or house wine at R-Bar or BLT Steak

15% off gift and clothing purchase at the Resort, Spa and Golf Shops

15% off Starbucks purchases

Discounts listed are per day, per room and are not valid with any other offers.

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Transportation

Airport  

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

Taxi

 The Camelback Inn is 15 minutes

from the Sky Harbor International Airport.

Rental Cars

AVIS/Budget Car Rental

Directions  

　From Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport To Camelback Inn Resort

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Area Attractions & Tours...

Phoenix is a beautiful area to vacation with many sites in and around the city - there are all types of tours available. Below are web sites that provide information on what to do and see. The Southwest Conference Planners-Part of the DMC Network offers group tours in the areas that are listed below. You will need to contact them in advance or get a group organized on site to take advantage of these tours. For individual tours and sites, you can also check with the concierge at Camelback Inn.

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