Below is a select listing of upcoming events and conferences. For a complete listing, go to the NCHPAD calendar at http://www.ncpad.org/events/index.php.
Breast Cancer 3-Day Event, August 8-10, 2008, Chicago, Illinois
Recruiting Team Members of ALL Physical Abilities! Attend the GET STARTED meeting and find out about this exciting opportunity.
Meeting: April 17, 2008
6:00 p.m.
1640 W. Roosevelt Road (Auditorium)
Chicago, Illinois
For more information about the 3-Day Breast Cancer Event, go to www.The3Day.org or call 800.996.3DAY. For more information about participating with the All Abilities Team, call 312-355-1584 or email amyr@lakeshore.org.
Inclusive Fitness Conference: Exercise is for Everybody, Chicago, Illinois, October, 15-18, 2008
Deadline for Proposals: April 23, 2008
The Inclusive Fitness Conference is accepting abstracts for presentations to take place for its conference in conjunction with Club Industry 2008, a premiere event for commercial fitness and nutrition. This is the first conference ever for practitioners in fitness and wellness where one can learn about creating and executing a plan of action to make a facility accessible to all. Papers are invited on a wide a variety of topics including fitness techniques, exercise science, recreation, sports, assistive technology, programming, health promotion, evidence-based practice, wellness, and more. The hope is to educate owners and operators of commercial, private, and medical fitness and wellness centers, in addition to professional practitioners within those fields.
Please email all submissions to Marc Onigman at marc@corporatefitnessshow.com. Submissions should include: Speaker's Name, Job Title, Company, Street Address, City, State, Zip, Country, Phone, Fax, Email, Bio, Presentation Title, Abstract (A concise paragraph describing the session content), Objectives (3 examples of what the attendees will take away), Session Format (i.e. solo session, workshop, panel, roundtable), and Target Audience. If the submitter is different from the speaker, please provide your own details (name, company, phone, email)
For more information, contact Stacey Orlick, 203-358-3777, Stacey.orlick@penton.com or Cristina Cotto, 386-313-3810, Cristina.cotto@penton.com.
The President's Challenge, President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS), Going On Now!
As advocates for physical activity, we here at NCHPAD play an important role in encouraging all Americans to move more. The President's Challenge began as a national youth fitness test, but has grown into a series of programs designed to help improve anyone's activity level.
Visit www.presidentschallenge.org to find materials, resources and programs that fit your needs and abilities and join in the Challenge to increase your activity levels, even tracking your progress online.
Online Learning, Practices to Promote Inclusion for People with Autism across the Lifespan, April 21, 28 and May 5, 2008
Learn about new research and information being documented on people who have severe communication impairments and autism. Explore ideas for addressing needs in comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary. Get answers to several commonly held, but often erroneous, assumptions about autism. This series will conclude with a session given by a parent and self-advocate.
For more information, go to http://www.tash.org/CTE/teleconferences.html
Accessibility Training Course, National Center on Accessibility (NCA), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, April 28 - May 1, 2008
A Universal Approach to Interpretive Planning, Programs, and Design
For more information, go to http://www.ncaonline.org/index.php?q=node/74 or contact NCA at 812-856-4422, 812-856-4421 (TTY), or nca@indiana.edu.
Midwest Symposium on Therapeutic Recreation and Adapted Physical Activity 2008, April 28-30, 2008, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
This symposium, sponsored by the University of Missouri, is geared toward students, practitioners, researchers, and educators from areas including community recreation, mental health, intellectual disability, physical rehabilitation, aging, outdoor recreation facilities, and colleges and universities.
For questions, please call the MU Conference Office at (573) 882-4038 or go to http://muconf.missouri.edu/midwest_symposium/index.html.
2008 Believable Hope Conference, United Cerebral Palsy (UCP), June 18-21, 2008; Washington, DC
Deadline: May 21, 2008
Members of the disability community, business and community leaders, healthcare professionals, and families will join forces with UCP to create Believable Hope for a life without limits for people with disabilities. Please visit the conference web page at http://www.ucp.org/conference for full details or call 800-872-5827.
International Conference on Self-Determination, May 27-29, 2008, Detroit, Michigan
The Center for Self Determination is presenting this conference featuring international perspectives on progressive notions of mental health recovery, family supports, community membership, ending forced impoverishment and system change requirements. This conference is dedicated to laying a foundation across disability and aging for moving publicly funded systems of support/care from the paternalism of the past to true equality in the future.
For more information, go to http://www.communitydrive.org or email info.icsd@gmail.com.
The New Professional: Leadership in Science, Practice, Policy and Advocacy, AAIDD 132nd Annual Meeting, May 28-30, 2008, Washington, DC
This conference offers the latest research, crucial issues, best practices, and helps to meet today's challenges of leadership. The four plenary sessions include: "Are Genes Destiny?," "Living a Real Life," "The New Professional," and "It's a New World!"
For more information, go to http://www.aaidd.org or contact Maria Alfaro at maria@aaidd.org.
2008 Southwest Conference on Disability, October 1-3, 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Deadline for proposals: May 30, 2008
The main conference theme is Opening Opportunities and the two special emphasis themes are "Supporting Wounded Warriors - Meeting the Needs of Veterans with Disabilities" and "Support for At-Risk Families When Parents Have Cognitive Disabilities."
For more information about the conference and submitting a proposal, go to http://cdd.unm.edu/swconf/index.asp or call 505-272-6247.