ONLINE-Weather Effects on People With Disabilities--A Caution
2024-02-06 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Online via Zoom
Members $60/Non Members $85
Presented by Margaret J. Gould-The Visions Center for Creative Management

Have you noticed the weather has been crazy recently? One day it’s 20 degrees and the next it’s in the mid-50s. Did this summer feel hotter? It was the warmest on record for NYC. Do you remember flooding like we’ve seen recently in NYC before?

Significant weather events have an incredible impact on people with disabilities. People with disabilities are 4x more likely to die or be injured in climate emergencies.

This webinar will highlight why it is important to be aware of how we are supporting people with disabilities in the community. As programs become less center-based and more independent, we need to ensure that safety measures are in place, many of which will be different from what we are currently doing. Face it, we don’t just run group homes anymore! And, in making these changes, we have to look at our structure and infrastructure differently.

This webinar is for executives and anyone who manages programs, safety directors, administrators, and policy staff. The materials presented will be informative and helpful in considering what your organization must and should do going forward.

VIRTUAL AMAP TRAINING February 2024
2024-02-05 17:00 - 21:00 | Online via Zoom
Members $150 / Non Members $185

Dates: February 5, 7, 8, 12, 13th 5pm-9pm

This course certifies trainees to administer medications in OPWDD-funded residential and day programs. This course follows the OPWDD approved AMAP curriculum and includes: responsibilities of AMAP certification, common medications, side effects, rights and responsibilities of administering medication measurement of vital signs, and common abbreviations used in the medical field.

Virtual Course Structure
This course will be completed virtually through IAC’s ZOOM platform, over the course of 5 days with 20 learning hours on those days by a Registered Nurse. Participants must attend each day and must score 80% on exams or above. If participants receive a score under 80% they must repeat the full AMAP curriculum. All exams and materials will be supplied online and monitored by the Registered Nurse/Instructor.

**Tests will be administered and proctored online.**

Final certification follows successful demonstration of skills (observation of pouring and vital signs) at the trainee’s agency, supervised by the agency Registered Nurse. The trainee’s agency shall determine what method of observation will be used in keeping with OPWDD’s guidelines during this time.

Each session will run from 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM.

The dates for the course are as follows: February 5,7,8, 12,13
**Registrants MUST attend each session**

ONLINE-POWER HOUR Data-Driven Decision-Making: Unleashing the Potential
2024-02-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Members $40/Non Members $55
presented by Casey Donovan, Director of Product Management, eVero Corporation and Brittany Hoosier, Associate Executive Director, AIM Services
Explore how to foster a culture that embraces data as a strategic asset. We will explore navigating ethical considerations, ensuring transparency and fairness in your decisions, and adapting to evolving circumstances with real-time insights. This presentation will offer a way to explore your toolsets to establish meaningful KPIs to ultimately enhance the lives of the people you support. Unlock the power of data and elevate your decision-making prowess.

ONLINE-POWER HOUR: HOW TO WRITE AN ACCEPTABLE POCA
2024-02-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Members $40/Non Members $55
Presented by Denise Gibson-Phipps
Most organizations strive to achieve perfect audit results or simply zero “0” citations on surveys.

So what do you do when the perfect audit doesn’t happen identifying “kinks” in your system???

In this Power Hour session, participants will learn fundamental skills and strategies for writing an acceptable Plan of Corrective Action (POCA).

The webinar will cover important follow-up actions to ensure ongoing compliance.

Target audience: Program Administrators, Program Managers and Quality Improvement/Assurance staff

HR Committee Meeting
2024-02-02 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-01-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Online via Zoom

ONLINE-SOCIAL MEDIA ETIQUETTE
2024-02-01 11:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Members $60/ Non Members $85
presented by Hilary JM Topper
Have you ever posted on social media and then gone back 5 minutes later and deleted it because you’re worried someone might take it the wrong way?
Are you surprised to learn that some hiring companies will look at your personal social media accounts before offering you a job?
If your job is a huge part of your life and your life is painstakingly documented on social media, is it just a matter of time before you say something on your personal page that will affect you professionally?
COVID blurred the lines between personal and professional. Our homes have become offices, and we use social media to keep tabs on both our personal and business relationships. And even if we think we know about social media etiquette, the line between what is appropriate and inappropriate to post isn’t as clear-cut as it was a few years ago. This training session will focus on the dos and the don’ts of today’s social networking. What should you post? What shouldn’t you post? How does it impact the organization when you post something that is controversial on your own page?
This training can also assist HR professionals in crafting company policies by identifying potential issues around social media use.
Hilary JM Topper, MPA is the CEO of HJMT Public Relations Inc. She is the author of three books including Branding in a Digital World. Hilary is an avid blogger who has two blogs – HilaryTopper.com, the NY Lifestyle Blog, and ATriathletesDiary.com blog. She is also a podcaster with Hilary Topper on Air. In her free time, she trains for triathlons and is a USA Triathlon coach, RRCA Running Coach, and USMS Swim Coach.

IN PERSON SCIP INSTRUCTOR REFRESHER TRAINING
2024-02-01 10:00 - 17:00 | IAC, 145 West 30th St 12th Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Members $140/ Non Members $170
Presented by Jesse Mayor
This class satisfies the requirement that SCIP Instructors must recertify annually.

ONLINE-Managing A Remote Workforce: Success Strategies
2024-01-31 10:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Members $70/Non Member $95
Presented by Margaret J. Gould and Katherine Gould-The Visions Center for Creative Management

Managing a remote workforce isn’t easy, but there are some tricks you can use to keep your staff engaged and ensure performance accountability. This session will provide information and ideas for managers who have staff working remotely or who are supervising community-based services that are not centered-based.

The key ingredients we will highlight are: how to ensure communication is flowing effectively, implementing policies and practices, creating clear expectations, and monitoring work performance. We will offer some hints on how to organized your management practices to ensure productivity and quality emerge. In addition, we will help you build skills in this area that will be necessary in meeting workforce needs in the future.

This will be a very intense webinar designed to offer an array of ideas. There will be scenarios and practical examples included.

Adult Day and Employment Services Committee Meeting
2024-01-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom

QA Committee Meeting
2024-01-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Online via Zoom

ONLINE ACTIVE SHOOTER SITE PREPAREDNESS TRAINING
2024-01-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
In today’s work environment, staff need to prepare themselves for the possibility of a hostile intruder the same way they would prepare themselves for a fire. Unlike that scenario, where everyone evacuates, an active shooter scenario is much more complex. Basic protocols like Run, Hide, Fight are not enough. Where do you run? Where do you hide? What do you fight with? Join us as we help put staff at ease and explore various options that your organization can pursue to give staff a better sense of what role they can play in saving their lives and the lives of others.
Training Objectives:
o A general understanding of active shooter scenarios
o Knowledge of three response plans and their applicability
o The importance of floor plans
o Staff responses for an active shooter scenario
o Police response for an active shooter scenario
o Education on site security measures and site-specific plans
This training is intended for anyone as it affects everyone-from Administrators, Directors, Supervisors, Managers, Team Leaders, and more.

ICS Committee Meeting
2024-01-18 13:00 - 15:00 | Online via Zoom

IT Committee Meeting
2024-01-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom

Education Committee Meeting
2024-01-17 11:30 - 13:30, 2023-12-20 11:30 - 13:30 | Online via Zoom

Training Directors Committee Meeting
2024-01-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Online via Zoom

IN PERSON SCIP-R RECERTIFICATION
2024-01-12 10:00 - 14:00 | IAC, 145 West 30th St 12th Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Members $110/ Non Members $140
Strategies for Crisis Intervention & Prevention-Re-Certification
This half-day course meets the requirements for annual Re-Certification for SCIP-R. Participants will review safe & effective approaches to working with individuals who exhibit aggressive behaviors. Participants will also revisit appropriate calming techniques, preventive strategies to de-escalate adverse situations & proper techniques for physical intervention when all else fails.
This class will be held IN PERSON at IAC.

Membership Meeting
2024-01-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom

ONLINE INCIDENT INVESTIGATION TRAINING JAN 2024
2024-01-10 16:30 - 19:30 | Online via Zoom
Members $425/Non members $525
Class Dates: January 10, 16, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 4:30-7:30pm
Test Date: February 1 8:30am-4:30pm
ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Are you a nonprofit professional ready to learn and take on investigations at your organization? This training will be an immersive virtual training series that provides specialized investigative skills to new investigators.

Fiscal Management Committee Meeting
2024-01-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom

IN PERSON AMAP TRAINING JANUARY 2024
2024-01-10 09:30 - 2024-01-12 16:30 | IAC, 145 West 30th St 12th Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Members $150 / Non Members $185

Dates: January 10, 11, 12th 9:30am-4:30pm

This course certifies trainees to administer medications in OPWDD-funded residential and day programs. This course follows the OPWDD approved AMAP curriculum and includes: responsibilities of AMAP certification, common medications, side effects, rights and responsibilities of administering medication measurement of vital signs, and common abbreviations used in the medical field.

Participants must attend each day and must score 80% or above on exams.

Final certification follows successful demonstration of skills (observation of pouring and vital signs) at the trainee’s agency, supervised by the agency’s Registered Nurse.

Clinic-IPSIDD Committee Meeting
2024-01-08 13:00 - 14:30 | Online via Zoom

FULL SCIP-R Training-3 Day with Specialized/Restrictive Techniques
2024-01-08 09:30 - 2024-01-10 16:30 | IAC, 145 West 30th St 12th Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Members $350 / Non Members $375
Participants will learn safe & effective approaches to working with individuals who exhibit aggressive behaviors. Participants will also learn appropriate calming techniques, preventive strategies to de-escalate adverse situations & proper techniques for physical intervention when all else fails. This training will cover CORE as well as specialized and restrictive techniques. Staff must state ahead of time which specialized and restrictive techniques they need. Staff seeking training must work in OPWDD-certified settings.

Dates: January 8-10 9:30am-4:30pm

Residential Committee Meeting
2024-01-04 14:00 - 16:00, 2023-12-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Online via Zoom

Program Analytics and Data Innovations Committee Meeting
2024-01-03 09:30 - 11:00 | Online via Zoom

FI Committee
2023-12-18 11:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom

AMAP IN PERSON December 2023
2023-12-18 09:30 - 2023-12-20 16:30 | IAC, 145 West 30th St 12th Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Members $150 / Non Members $185

Dates: December 18, 19, and 20th 9:30am-4:30pm

This course certifies trainees to administer medications in OPWDD-funded residential and day programs. This course follows the OPWDD approved AMAP curriculum and includes: responsibilities of AMAP certification, common medications, side effects, rights and responsibilities of administering medication measurement of vital signs, and common abbreviations used in the medical field.

Participants must attend each day and must score 80% or above on exams.

Final certification follows successful demonstration of skills (observation of pouring and vital signs) at the trainee’s agency, supervised by the agency Registered Nurse.

The Power of Optimism
2023-12-14 10:00 - 16:00 | IAC, 145 West 30th St 12th Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Members $140 Non Members $190
This class is in person at IAC
Presented by Katherine Gould, The Visions Center for Creative Management
To work in the field of disabilities effectively you must have a frame of optimism. Its very important that you believe in the mission, vision, and values and that you can inspire others to have a can do attitude. Sometimes it’s hard to be optimistic when you are under pressure and even harder to pat yourself on the back. But being positive is the golden nugget for success. This class will teach you how to remain positive even through the hard times.
