The 25th Annual Home and Community Based Services Conference was held in Denver in September, 2009. Administrators, researchers, educators and providers met to learn about policies, research, and new waiver and technical assistance and training opportunities. The full range of HCBS issues was covered including CMS and AoA tracks, Medicaid basics, creativity in wavier design, balancing long term services, nursing home diversion issues and quality management strategies. 

 

Person Centered Planning; Long Term Services and Supports; Real Choice Systems Change; CMS-CMSO Workshop Series; Person Centered Organizations in HCBS; AoA Workshop Series; Long Term Care in Indian Country; NORC-SSPs and Innovative Service Delivery Programs; Fine Tuning Consumer Directed Services; Expanding the HCBS Workforce through SCSEP; Louisiana’s Permanent Supportive Housing Programs: Options that Work; Building Data Driven Web Enabled Quality Management Systems; Seeing is Believing: Transformation from Congregate to Individualized Services and Supports; Using Technology to Promote Consumer Independence; Enhancing Consumer Directed Services Using Technology; Consumer Satisfaction with Self Direction; Creating Evidence Based Programming in Your State; Partnering with PHAs to Support Community Living; Global QIS across HCBS Waivers; Criminal Background Checks for Home Care Workers; New Technologies to Support HCBS; Tips and Tools for Working with Depressed Clients; Electronic Visit Verification for HCBS; Evidence Based Prevention Programs: Dissemination and Financing; CMS Medicare Workshop Series – My Health, My Medicare; Business Innovations Workshop Series:Disaster Interventions, A Success Story; Measuring Progress: A Universal System for Classification of Support Needs; Tools for Planning with Families; Flexible Service Options that Sustain Employment; Mental Health Concerns and Training Needs within Assisted Living Facilities; Training Tools: The Role of Case Managers in Quality; Redefining Pennsylvania’s MR/ID System – Lessons Learned and Tools for Change; Promising Practices and Models in Service Delivery; Streamlining Access to Benefits and Services; Advocacy and Collaboration: Diverse Housing Resources; Using Mortality Data to Improve Health and Welfare; The Undiscovered Country: People with Mental Illness in Nursing Facilities; 

Aging Issues, Consumer/Participant Direction, Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities, Financing HCBS, Housing, Long-Term Care, Peer Supports, Physical Disabilities, Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness, Quality, Resource Center, Single Point of Entry/No Wrong Door, State/Agency Information, Transition/Diversion from Institutions, Waiver, Workforce/Direct Care 

Archived conference materials / Presentations 

NASUA 

Colorado, All States/Territories 

10/07/2009 

Kimberly Fletcher
National Association of State Units on Aging

kfletcher@nasua.org
202-898-2578