Innovation Inspiration Expo

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decorative imageA virtual 3-day conference focused on sharing your creative and innovative practices with your colleagues.

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January 16-18, 2024

Location: Online through our Learning Management System (CANVAS) 

Credits: The Expo is worth 28.25 contact hours (subject to change). Contact hours are tabulated as: 1 CRC clock hour is worth 1 CRC and 1 CEU clock hour is worth 0.1 CEU. This conference is pre-approved for CRCs by the Certified Rehabilitation Counselor Certification and for CEUs by the National University Continuing Education Association. Note: CRCs are included in the price of this conference. There is an additional single $23 fee for CEUs. You can find more information here: https://www.uwstout.edu/EXPO_CEUs

Accommodations: Please email svri_training@uwstout.edu by January 6, 2023, with any accommodation requests. 

This is a virtual 3-day conference with access to the content from January 24 - February 6, 2023.

Purpose: Provide a virtual forum for sharing innovative and creative solutions in vocational rehabilitation (VR) that are field initiated (frontline), improve the consumer VR experience, and result in high-quality employment outcomes.

Philosophy: Some of the most innovative and creative solutions come from professionals who work directly with consumers and recognize needs, opportunities, and new possibilities. This expo is designed to give frontline VR professionals a forum to share new ideas, innovative solutions, and creative projects with others in the field. It is also an opportunity to be inspired by peers to think differently, reconnect with creative abilities, and revitalize professional commitment by seeing the field from an exciting new perspective. The expo will be offered virtually on an annual basis to ensure the ability of all frontline staff to attend, participate, and be inspired.

Theme: Bright Ideas, Bright Future

Agenda

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Day One - Tuesday, January 24th 

Day Two – Wednesday, January 25th 

Day Three - Thursday, January 26th 

  • 8:45 am - General Announcements
  • 9:00 am - 10:30 am - Recorded Presentation – Overcoming Negative Attitudes: Effective Strategies to use with Employers - followed by LIVE discussion with presenter – Dr. James F. McNeil (Vocational Consulting Services)
  • 10:30 am - 11:00 am – BREAK
  • 11:00 am - 12:30 pm - Recorded Presentation – A Mind-Body Approach to Stress Management and Emotional Regulation – followed by LIVE discussion with presenter – Christine Paul (State of MN VR Services)
  • 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm – BREAK
  • 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm - Keynote Presentation – Innovative Projects Within HKNC –  followed by LIVE discussion with presenters Chris Woodfill and Ryan Odland (Helen Keller National Center)
  • 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm - Recorded Presentation – Project STEMM-UP – followed by LIVE discussion with presenters from: Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity
  • 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm - Day three Wrap-up and Prize Drawings

 

Presentations

Keynote Presentations

The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Reinventing Public Vocational Rehabilitation Through Transformational Innovation

California Department of Rehabilitation's Innovation Initiatives

Innovations at Helen Keller National Center: Field Services, Employment Services and Organizational Transformation

Presentations With Live Q&A

Innovation Imperative: We Need You! 

The Impact of Case Management on Counseling Practice: Considerations for the Future

Wisconsin's VR Career Advancement Initiative

Tracking PE Students

Advancing Service Delivery in the VR Field for Deaf, Deafblind, & Late Deafened Consumers 

Virtual Career Exploration - The Next Evolution 

Overcoming Negative Attitudes: Effective Strategies to Use with Employers

A Mind-Body Approach to Stress Management and Emotional Regulation 

Project STEMM-Up

On-Demand Presentations

A Unique You - Sculpting Your Calling Into a Career

Breaking Down Invisible Walls

Business Services: Best Practices

Delivering Inclusive, Accessible Student Services

Enhancing Mobility for Power Chair Users

Examining the Impact of Endemic Labor Market Trends

From One to Many - Opportunities Are Opening with Project Access!

iStrive: Cognitive Behavioral Skill Building

Mentoring as the Ingredients: Collaborating with Community and Faith Based Agencies

OT Services in VR

OTs in VR: An Innovative, Interdisciplinary Approach

Quality Employment Strategies: State Perspectives

Roadmap to Employment: Destination Success

Texas Vocational Rehabilitation Innovation Summary 

Vocational Resource Facilitation in SCI

Working with a Traumatic Brain Injury: Accommodations and Strategies 

Our Sponsors

Top-Level Sponsors

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Platinum-Level Sponsor

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Bronze-Level Sponsor

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Co-Sponsors

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Sponsorship Opportunity

Benefits of Sponsoring the Innovation Inspiration Expo

Investment: Invest in your brand equity by supporting the community of rehabilitation professionals.

Talent: Connect with line staff, supervisors, and agency directors who are at the forefront of the rehabilitation and assistive technology field.

Leadership: Demonstrate your organization’s leadership and innovative practices in front of the brightest minds in the field.

The Innovation Inspiration Expo is a grassroots effort to connect all vocational rehabilitation professionals to educate, discuss, and share different and inspiring practices that are working in the field

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