Please note: This agenda is tentative and the exact times and sessions are subject to change. More details will be added as they become available.

12:30 pm – 6:00 pm • NLC Pre-Conference (in-person only)

Building our Leadership Networks and Skills: An Opportunity to Connect and Grow

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many field leaders have yearned for connection during one of the most difficult times our field has faced. This session is a great opportunity to engage and collaborate with others and to gain skills and strategies that can help us stay connected in the future.

This interactive pre-session is open to anyone who will be attending the 2022 CQL Conference: Lightbulb Moments in person. The session will include a series of short presentations, exercises, small and larger group discussions, and a networking lunch where participants will get to engage and connect with other like-minded leaders. Attendees will explore skills to connect and bring people together and to build their own connections, networks, and leverage leadership opportunities in their organizations and systems. All attendees will leave the pre-session with new connections and actionable steps to enhance connections in their role and within their organization.

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm • Attendee Pre-Registration

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm • Exhibitor Setup

Please note: This agenda is tentative and the exact times and sessions are subject to change. More details will be added as they become available.

8:00 am – 8:45 am • Registration

• Grand Foyer

8:00 am – 8:45 am • Exhibiting & Breakfast

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Enjoy breakfast while visiting with our exhibitors and sponsors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer.

8:45 am – 9:00 am • Welcome Address

• Grand Ballroom

9:00 am – 10:00 am • Keynote Presentation

Supporting Us To Live Our Lives in Our Own Way

• Max Barrows
• Grand Ballroom

We as people with disabilities clearly say that we want to live our lives in our own way. Our support providers must consider all the different parts of who we are that make up our identities: Gender, race, class, sexual orientation, physical capabilities, and mental ability.

Having more than one identity can be empowering, but also can be a challenge. All of these different parts that make us who we are intersect to make up a person’s unique experiences. No one should say they cannot help us because we are too complicated. We count on you to help us overcome challenges.

We also need our provider organizations to guide us to feel proud of who we are, because by joining together to celebrate our identities, we can strengthen our voices and make everyone’s lives better.

10:00 am – 10:15 am • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

10:15 am – 11:15 am • Breakout Sessions

• Forget ‘Running Up That Hill’: How Three Organizations Used Career Ladders To Confront DSP Workforce Issues
• It Starts By Saying Hi!
• Changing A Company Culture – A Collection Of Light Bulb Moments
• Healing From Trauma Through The Positive Identity Support Approach

11:15 am – 11:30 am • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

11:30 am – 1:15 pm • Lunch (on your own)

1:15 pm – 1:30 pm • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm • Breakout Sessions

• Evidence-Informed, Data-Driven Best Practices For Person-Centered Supports In HCBS
• Sparking Support For Your Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Initiatives
• Beyond The Birds And Bees: Building Relationships In A Bumble World
• Seeing The Light At The End of Your PCE Tunnel
• Capturing Moments & A Purposeful Day

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm • Breakout Sessions

• The Staffing Struggle Is Real: A Data-Driven Approach To Employee Engagement
• A Closer Look: An Organization’s Revamp Of Their POM Approach Informed By Metrics And Quality
• Doubling Down On Collaboration
• Centering The Humans In Human Services
• Employment For The Whole Person

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm • Keynote Presentation

The Resilience of Self-Leadership

• Diane Sieg RN, CYT, CSP
• Grand Ballroom

Resilience has become such an overused term, but the skills and tools remain a critical element to manage exhaustion, burnout, and disillusionment.

Self-Leadership goes deeper than self-care because it determines all the decisions we make every day to support our overall well-being, in other words, our resilience. This highly interactive program will give you tools you can use in the moment to practice self-leadership and take back to your colleagues and staff as well.

• • Understand the meaning of Self-Leadership and how it empowers you to build and sustain your resilience
  • Experience Self-Leadership live with guided CPR practices (Compassion, Presence, and Rest and Recovery)
  • Gain follow-up support and accountability with a FREE digital 7-Day Self-Leadership Campaign

Please note: This agenda is tentative and the exact times and sessions are subject to change. More details will be added as they become available.

8:00 am – 8:45 am • Registration

• Grand Foyer

8:00 am – 8:45 am • Exhibiting & Breakfast

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Enjoy breakfast while visiting with our exhibitors and sponsors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer.

8:45 am – 9:00 am • Welcome Address

• Grand Ballroom

9:00 am – 10:00 am • Keynote Presentation

Promoting Disability Rights Through Storytelling

• Mia Ives-Rublee
• Grand Ballroom

Storytelling is a fundamental tool used by humans to teach and connect. Mia provides participants the opportunity to learn how to use storytelling to promote disability rights and policy. In the presentation, Mia will share her own story and how it has informed her organizing practices. She will share the fundamentals of good storytelling and discuss how participants can use their own stories to promote disability rights as well as other areas they are passionate about.

10:00 am – 10:15 am • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

10:15 am – 11:15 am • Breakout Sessions

• Effective Strategies For Managing The Difficult Employee
• Ah-Ha Moments: Increasing Individual Outcomes In HCBS Services Through Staff Development
• Supporting Relationships In The 21st Century
• Disability Ally Initiative (DAI)
• Continuity Of Supports Through Succession Planning

11:15 am – 11:30 am • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

11:30 am – 1:15 pm • Lunch (provided) & Awards of Excellence

• Grand Ballroom

1:15 pm – 1:30 pm • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm • Breakout Sessions

• Data Literacy And The Importance Of Data-Driven Service Provision
• Using Person-Centered Principles To Meet The HCBS Settings Requirements
• Lessons From A Paper Airplane
• Technology As A Natural Support

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm • Exhibitor Break (exhibiting teardown)

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm • Breakout Sessions

• Addressing A Systemic Workforce Crisis: Best Practices In Employee Retention
• COVID-19 And The HCBS Settings Rule: Where Are We Now?
• Renew The Promise Of Person-Centered Planning Through Technology
• Reducing And Eliminating Rights Restrictions And Advocating Guardianship Changes

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm • Break

• Grand Foyer

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm • Keynote Presentation

Supported Routines – Best Practice Strategies for a Fulfilling Life

• Dr. Thomas Pomeranz
• Grand Ballroom

This lively and informative session brings home the point that “habilitation is not a goal – it is a result.” People grow, develop, and become more independent as a result of participating in meaningful life activities. The session details how supports should be delivered to allow individuals with significant cognitive, physical and/or behavioral challenges to participate in all aspects of their life. The session provides the participants with insight as to how our perceptions and expectations serve as barriers in providing support. The four supported routine outcomes (facilitating connections, maximizing independence, enhancing self-worth, and producing self-determination) are detailed and their life enhancing effects are reviewed. The maxim that “without a presence, there is no future” serves as the foundation for this session.

In addition to the powerful presentation, all conference attendees will also receive one year of free telephone or email consultation with Dr. Pomeranz!

Please note: This agenda is tentative and the exact times and sessions are subject to change. More details will be added as they become available.

8:00 am – 9:00 am • Breakfast

• Grand Foyer

9:00 am – 10:00 am • Plenary Session

Leadership Lightbulb Moments: Skills And Strategies That Inspire Change In Our Field

• Kristen Loomis
• Caitlin Bailey
• Grand Ballroom

Over time, leaders in many roles have been the catalyst to the transformation and forward momentum of the disability service sector. This session will highlight great leadership strategies and skills that inspire and enable innovative organizational practices and improve services, supports, and the lives of people with disabilities. Kristen Loomis and Caitlin Bailey, Co-Directors of the National Leadership Consortium, will share examples, insights, and lessons from field leaders. Attendees will leave this presentation with a deeper knowledge of the leadership practices that can help our field continue to advance the rights of people with disabilities, as well as actionable strategies and approaches for investing in their own growth and the development of others.

10:00 am – 10:15 am • Break

• Grand Foyer

10:15 am – 11:15 am • Keynote Presentation

Embrace Your Awesomeness – It’s all about the people

• Brad Montgomery
• Grand Ballroom

Knowing that people are our most valuable asset isn’t enough. We need to fully understand how to empower and inspire them. Brad Montgomery will use humor, stories, music, and other tools to illustrate ways to improve our ability to meaningfully encourage others. Discover ways to achieving untapped productivity and accuracy while creating and sustaining positivity, optimism, and meaningfulness in others. Focusing on the people side of business not only improves the bottom line, it can be enormously satisfying, inspiring, and sometimes very funny.

11:15 am – 11:45 am • Raffle & Farewell Address

• Grand Ballroom

• All registrants (in-person and virtual) who cancel prior to September 19, 2022, will be issued a refund, less a $50 administrative fee.
• No refunds will be issued on or after September 19, 2022.
• Registrants must submit the cancellation request through the Attendee Changes Form.

• Registrants (in-person and virtual) are allowed one (1) free substitution, if requested prior to September 19, 2022.
• Subsequent substitution requests, occurring prior to September 19, 2022, will incur a $50 administrative fee.
• No registrant substitutions are permitted on or after September 19, 2022.
• Registrants can only substitute a registration to another employee of their own organization.

• Registrants are allowed one (1) free transfer to switch their own registration (in-person conference to the virtual conference / virtual conference to the in-person conference) – subject to availability – if requested prior to September 19, 2022.
• Subsequent transfer requests, occurring prior to September 19, 2022, will incur a $50 administrative fee.
• No registrant transfers are permitted on or after September 19, 2022.

The health and safety of attendees, presenters, sponsors, exhibitors, and other participants of the 2022 CQL Conference is important to us and we encourage you to take precautions that can help protect you and those around you. As far as protocols, here is the health/safety guidance for the event:

• Participants must self-monitor for any signs/symptoms of COVID-19.
• If you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19 in the fourteen (14) days prior to the start of the event, you should not participate in-person.
• If you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19 at the time of the event, you should not participate in-person.
• If you have a confirmed case of COVID-19 or believe you may have been exposed to COVID-19 ahead of the event – and would still be considered contagious per state/federal guidance – you should not participate in-person.
• CQL recommends that all participants are fully vaccinated and/or have appropriate testing ahead of the event, but it is not being required or monitored.
• Wearing masks or face coverings throughout the event is optional.
• Participants are encouraged to practice hand hygiene, ‘social distance’ when possible, and take other measures they deem necessary.

Considering this is an in-person event, participants accept any and all risks associated with attending in-person and CQL | The Council on Quality and Leadership is not liable for any illness or injury. If you are unable to participate in-person due to signs, symptoms, exposure, or positive testing of COVID-19, please contact events@thecouncil.org to transition to virtual attendance.

• In-person conference attendees assume any and all risks to their health and safety related to participation in the event. By registering for this conference, the in-person conference attendee is acknowledging that CQL | The Council on Quality and Leadership is not responsible for any personal injury (including death), property damage, or loss suffered by the attendee as a result of their participation.
• CQL | The Council on Quality and Leadership reserves the right to transition the 2022 CQL Conference from a hybrid event (both in-person and virtual) to solely a virtual event, for any reason.
• Any decision to transition the 2022 CQL Conference to solely a virtual event would be made on or before September 5, 2022.
• In-person conference registrants will then have two (2) weeks to elect to either cancel or transfer their registration.
• In the case that CQL transitions the conference to solely a virtual event, all cancellation and transfer related administrative fees for in-person conference registrants will be waived.
• In-person registrants are strongly advised to make travel arrangements (hotel, airfare, etc.) that are refundable. If you elect to purchase non-refundable travel arrangements, it is at your own risk and CQL is not liable for any associated costs or fees.
• Any accommodations requests made by in-person registrants – especially regarding interpreters and captioning – must be submitted before 9/19/22, so that CQL has an adequate amount of time to make arrangements.