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2016 TASH Conference

Each year, the TASH Conference strengthens the disability field by connecting attendees to innovative information and resources, facilitating connections between stakeholders within the disability movement, and helping attendees reignite their passion for an inclusive world. This year’s conference theme, “Gateway to Equity,” explores inclusive communities, schools, and workplaces that support people with disabilities, including those with complex support needs, in living a fair, just, and balanced life. Return to TASH website.

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8:20am CST

Initiative Implementation for Improved Transition Outcomes Grand ALIMITED

1:00pm CST

Employment Implementers, Solutions for Improved Employment Outcomes Grand D

2:30pm CST

Always There, Always Ready: A Talk on Parents and Policy Regency ALIMITED Happiness: Fulfilling Life's Destiny Through Gainful Employment and Real Community Integration Grand DLIMITED

4:29pm CST

Poster Session Grand FLIMITED

4:30pm CST

Exhibit Hall Opens! Exhibit Hall

5:30pm CST

TASH Awards and Opening Reception Exhibit HallLIMITED

8:20am CST

ABLE Accounts: How They Work And How They Compare Station Master RoomLIMITED Inclusion in Postsecondary Education through Supports Available to All Illinois CentralLIMITED

9:20am CST

Creating Pathways to Employment & Community Integration Illinois CentralLIMITED Effective Employment Support - Findings From Interviews With Support Professionals Conductor RoomLIMITED

10:20am CST

HCBS, Community Living & Day Services: How to do it Frisco/BurlingtonLIMITED I'm a Free Man! - Process of acquiring my guardianship and making my own choices Regency CLIMITED Self Determination and Planning your own Life Conductor RoomLIMITED Self-advocate engagement in managed care program implementation; Access creates Equity Grand ALIMITED

11:20am CST

Opening General Session- Gateway to Equity I Grand F&E

1:30pm CST

Parent Leaders as the Gateway to Equity Regency CLIMITED Partnering with the Workforce System: Achieving Employment Outcomes through WIOA Illinois CentralLIMITED People of Color with Disabilities: Research and Systems Change Jeffersonian/KnickerbockerLIMITED

2:30pm CST

Creating a Vision for Your Life Midway Suites ILIMITED Supported Decision-Making and Alternatives to Guardianship Regency CLIMITED Terror to Tolerance to Transformation: How Parents Create Opportunities that Support Self-Determination for Adults with Disabilities Grand BLIMITED

3:30pm CST

Teaming for TIDES: Teaching Independence, Determination, and Empowerments Skills Midway Suites IILIMITED Transition to Independent Living Literature: Progress and Challenges Wabash CannonballLIMITED

7:00am CST

Association Breakfast and State of TASH Regency C

8:20am CST

Achieving Inclusive Postsecondary Education Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration Regency ALIMITED Campus Connect: Dual Enrollment Post-Secondary program for students with Intellectual Disabilities (Madison College, Wisconsin) Grand CLIMITED Families and Decision-Making Supports Frisco/BurlingtonLIMITED No regrets .. a conversation about risk taking, supported decision making and vulnerability Jeffersonian/KnickerbockerLIMITED

9:00am CST

UMN Focus Group on HCBS 3 (Parents/Family Members) Presidential Suite 315FILLING

9:20am CST

ESSA, IDEA, WIOA: Bringing Coherence to Career Development Strategies & Practices for Youth Midway Suites ILIMITED Expanding Integrated Employment Opportunities through Reasonable Accommodations Conductor RoomLIMITED Fair Housing Rights and Enforcement Regency ALIMITED Missouri TASH Chapter Meeting New York Central

10:20am CST

Issues in Healthcare Decision-making Issues in Healthcare Decision-making with People with Intellectual and Developmental DisabilitiesIssues in Healthcare Decision-making with People with Intellectual and Developmental... Illinois CentralLIMITED Meeting People Where They Are: A Multiple-Case Study of CPRCs Midway Suites IIILIMITED

11:20am CST

Closing General Session- Gateway to Equity II Grand F&E

1:30pm CST

YouthACT: Youth and Adult Partners as Transition Ambassadors New York CentralLIMITED

2:30pm CST

Supporting Youth in Transition to Independent Living Station Master RoomLIMITED The Pathways to Careers Initiative - A Bridge to Community Integrated Employment Missouri PacificLIMITED

3:30pm CST

We're in College! Our Experience in Transition Midway Suites IILIMITED

4:30pm CST

Farewell Reception TBA