Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Plenary: Sustaining Systems Change Presentations • Steve Eiken • Lex Frieden • Susan Reinhard • Susan Fox • Gerald J. Morrissey, Jr. Concurrent Breakout Sessions 1 Concurrent Session A Session: Streamlining Access to Services Presentations • Ann Volpel • Dale Laninga • Heather Johnson-Lamarche Concurrent Session B Session: The Big Payoff: Employment Outcomes Presentations • Elain Richard • Abigail Averbach • Cynthia Thomas • Alice Porter Concurrent Session C How Are the Grants Helping Consumers and How Are Consumers Helping the Grants? Presentations • Keith Jones • Diana Autin • Michelle Hoffman • Bonnie Olheiser Concurrent Session D A Practical 101 Session on the Essentials of Housing Finance and Developing Affordable Housing Coordinated with Services • Patricia Sylvester • Carla Berg Pope Concurrent Session E Building-In Quality: Measuring It and Improving It • Suzanne Bosstick • Tamara McCloy • Becky Selig Concurrent Breakout Sessions II Concurrent Session A Formative Evaluation: What It Is and How to Do It • Janet O'Keefe, Dr.P.H., R.N Concurrent Session B Supporting Family Caregivers • Lynn Friss Feinberg, M.S.W • Sandra Newman, M.P.H • Grace Sisco Concurrent Session C Facilitating Partnerships and Building Coalitions Across Aging and Disability Service Networks • Michelle Putnam • Elizabeth Hecht • Kirsten Dunham Concurrent Session D Building Relationships with Public Housing Agencies • Ken Barbeau • Stephanie Stein • Clifton C. Martin Concurrent Session E How Complicated Can It Be? Enrollment Strategies • James Overland • Joan Zinser Concurrent Breakout Sessions III Concurrent Session A Creating A Multi-Program Web Site Through Collaboration • Kevin Sypniewski • Barbara S. Kelley • Angela S. Ruck Concurrent Session B The Power of Automated Assessment Tools • Penny Black • Mollie Baldwin Concurrent Session C Establishing Individual Budgets – Models That Work • Pam Erkel • Susan Flanagan • Leslie Boggis • Carole Smith Concurrent Session D Exploring Home and Community-Based Options for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances • Albert Zackik • Kristi Plotner • Virginia Mulkern • Marlene Walsh Concurrent Session E Effective Cross Grant Collaboration and Coordination • Christine Gaynor • Amy Porter • Beth McArthur • Paul Ford • Laura Nuss • Dawn Lambert • Ann Eller • Joseph Donovan • Donna Holt • Linda Kendall-Fields Concurrent Breakout Sessions IV Concurrent Session A Lessons Learned from Nursing Home Transition Programs • Jacqueline Dunaway • Cindy Gruman • Paul Ford • Linda Kendall-Fields Concurrent Session B Identifying Policy Barriers to Self-Direction • Valerie Bradley • Pattie Flury Concurrent Session C Building Local Community Coalitions to Create and Sustain Successful Systems Change and More Inclusive Communities • Christine Gaynor • Susan Fox • Stan Kosloski • Nicole LaPointe Concurrent Session D Promoting Evidence-Based Practices in the Delivery of Mental Health Care • Melody Riefer • Glenace Edwald • Nancy Widdoes • Albert “Chip” Maltais • James Martinez, Jr • Flo Stein Concurrent Session E Feast or Food Fight: Policy Implications of the Medicaid Buy-In • Henry Ireys Wednesday, March 2, 2005 Plenary: Current Status and Future Directions of CMS • Melissa Hulbert • Dennis G. Smith • Gale Arden Concurrent Breakout Sessions V Concurrent Session A Integrated Quality Management Systems: States’ Experience • Vereen Bebo • Gail Grossman • Karen McKim • Beth Jackson Concurrent Session B Effective Emergency Back-Up Models for Consumers Who Self-Direct • Daryle Doyle • Leslie Boggis Concurrent Session C Worker Recruitment and Retention Strategies • Karen Antonick • Angela King • Elise Scala • Jill Burke Concurrent Session D How Medicaid Can Support the Mental Health Recovery Model • Christine Robinson • Linda Cabral • Rollin Shelton • Christine Simiriglia Concurrent Session E Do Employment Services Support Self-Determination • Michael J. Head • MaryAlice Mowry