Therapville in the Midwest

If you are in Missouri or Minnesota I hope you will take some time to register and plan on attending the upcoming user group meetings we have scheduled for these two states. You can sign up for the sessions from the website under upcoming user group meetings. Please take advantage of these opportunities.

Hey Therapville Midwest!! Just a friendly reminder about our upcoming conference at the CoCo Key Water Resort in Kansas City May 22nd and 23rd! Early bird pricing for rooms at CoCo Key have to be booked by April 20th… only 16 short days away! I also received this Groupon in my email today I thought I would share with all of you current & future Therap users who may be coming to the conference and bringing children with you (or you love lazy river’s like myself)… This is a great deal for half off for two passes to the 55,000-square-foot water park water park as well as a discount on pizza and drinks! The deal ends in a day and a half so take advantage for some entertainment after the awesome conference sessions!!

How fun does this look?!

See you all in May!

P.S. Don’t forget to register for the conference here !

Therap was back in Vinita, Oklahoma this past week visiting with Home of Hope. They have decided to add Therap to their residential part of the agency. While visiting with staff we went over the Tlogs, Health Tracking,  Secure Communications and the always cool ISP Data. This group had no trouble picking up on the user friendly Therap application. Good luck to this group and remember to keep an eye out for Therap in your town!

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Hello Everyone! Sorry about the lack of posts! The last few weeks have been quite busy! Chris and I were in St. Louis training the great staff at Bridges Community Support Services for a few days at the end of February.

Bridges Community Support Services

The morning started off quite interesting with Theresa setting off the alarm to the building, but all of that was taken care of and Chris and I were able to train even with the ringing in our ears We also ate at a fantastic little Thai Restaurant that I would highly suggest to anyone in the area called “Pearl Cafe”. Thanks for all of the help Theresa!

Chris & Theresa

After St. Louis I spent some time with another fellow trainer Stephen Flanigan in New York. We spent the week training with Heritage Christian Services.

Heritage Christian Services

We received a very warm welcome complete with Therap colored balloons and a TON of great food and snacks every time we turned around

Heritage Christian Services

Thanks especially to Liz for being such a great host!!  Since it was my first time to Buffalo (and Rochester) Stephen was kind enough to take me to Niagara Falls after training one evening. Thanks to daylight savings it was still light out when we got there and we walked around the falls until dark. Thanks Stephen

Niagara Falls!

Me at Niagara Falls for the first time!

Lastly! I spent a few days last week in the Wisconsin Dells at the fabulous Kalahari Resort for the Rockin WALA Conference! I chatted with a lot of really great providers. The Dells looked like they would be quite fun to go to in the summer time, although I feel I lucked out with a 75 degree week in Wisconsin in March! I look forward to visit again sometime soon to do some on site training Hope everyone has had a fabulous March, I personally can’t believe it’s almost over!

Check out another issue of the Therap Midwest Video Blog in Minnesota…

Last Friday I was able to join with a couple others to meet in Jefferson City in consideration of Electronic Signatures for the state of Missouri in consideration of developmental disability providers. The discussion was insightful and is moving in a direction of clarity for all providers in the “show me” state. You can imagine the difficulty in defining all of this in a state that is called the “show me” state.  All in all I am greatly encouraged that this process will give definition to an area that agencies across Missouri will benefit in the services to individuals they support.  Stay tuned for more updates on this subject.

The annual Therap conference is over and it was a wonderful opportunity to learn, share and network! There was a Missouri User Group that took place and great ideas were shared. Did you know that there is a Missouri State page on Therap? I like the fact that there is some “Missouri Specific” information listed here. I think this page might be enhanced by adding some information about the Therap GER module incorporating the Missouri CER form and maybe adding some information about how this functions within Therap. The Central Missouri Regional Office has welcomed CERs that are typed and legible. It has also been beneficial to my agency, as we are able to complete trend analysis in a quicker, more efficient fashion. Our Human Rights Committee and Health and Safety Committee are both able to identify agency wide trends.
Michelle

Check out the latest blog from the Provider Administrator Conference in New York.

Wish you were here!  People say that a lot.  This is never so true than at this point of the year for me wanting every single agency in the Midwest to the National Conference in Newark, NJ.  We have agency from across the country all coming into NJ to meet to discuss all the  new items in Therap as well as discuss the future of Therap for the next 3 days.  It is so awesome to see some agencies from Therap Midwest represented at the conference.  Agencies from Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois, and Indiana. Click on the link below to see the latest installment of the Midwest Video Blog below……

Hey everyone! Jordan again. Just finishing up my week in Waterbury with Maureen and Justin! I may have chatted with a few of you this week as I took my first few attempts at live help. In between chatting sessions there were a few minor details to finish up to get ready for the National Provider Administrator Conference in 4 days!!! I’ve learned a lot this week about the really neat things you can do with the data you collect using Therap. Can’t wait to learn even more next week at the conference! Look forward to seeing everyone in New Jersey!