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Well… Our fortnight of conferences and the DSP Conference in particular have drawn to a close.

We had some more great games this morning, including a “stump the experts” in which I was thoroughly beaten by Allison, Sazzad, and Kara.  There may have been a little cheating by Geraro, I’m not sure

Now it’s time to pack up and get back to supporting all you fine folks out there in Therapville!

:: Justin ::

Last night was our trip down to New York City where Richard gave a guided tour of his hometown.

What impressed me even more was that everyone still made breakfast this morning.

:: Justin ::

This afternoon was our latest adventure into Therap gaming when we all played Therap Jeopardy – hosted by yours truly.

If we thought people were competitive before, well…

The fun this in this game was that people had to go and find various pieces of data in DEMO. So, peopel really had to use the system and all learned something.

It was also a whole lot of fun!

To run the game we used Stu’s Double Jeopardy which worked a treat.  If you ever want to make your own Jeopardy game, the is the one to use.  Beats fooling around in PowerPoint.

:: Justin ::

It’s not that we’re competitive or anything…

One of our major goals for this conference is to develop materials that will be made available for agencies to use when training their staff to use Therap.

A bunch of these are going to be based around games, and we proved again this morning that give people a chance to win and they will go all out and at the same time learn how to use the system

This morning’s game was a scavenger hunt.  Team had ten questions, the answer to which could be found somewhere in Therap.

Folks really enjoyed it and we’ll be making the questions and the games available as soon as we can.

:: Justin ::

Warren uses kinesthetics to show how GERs progress across states.

What a busy day!

While the conference was going full swing, I took a a quick run down to Staten Island to present to a couple of agencies.

It would have been an even quicker trip if it hadn’t been for all the traffic across Brooklyn.  Interestingly Vickie (my GPS) changed her mind on the way back and sent me home through New Jersey which worked much better!

As I suspected, we have a great group of folks here again this week who are about to be put through Sazzad’s comedy routine!

:: Justin ::

Maureen (and her very fine hat) try to make sense of our schedule

Folks are coming in tonight to be ready for tomorrow’s grand introduction.

Already I am excited about what a great group of people we have.

Can’t wait for things to get going.

:: Justin ::

Now that we’ve (almost) recovered from a wonderful week of conferencing with Provider Administrators (Photos available here) it’s time to get ready for The 2nd Therap Direct Support Professional Conference starting this week.

We’ll be checking in with folks about travel arrangements tomorrow, so be sure to let us know when you are coming in.

We’ve some great stuff planned, you don’t want to miss this

:: Justin ::

If you are looking to come to our Provider Administration and Direct Support Professional conferences, please let us know as soon as possible as we are running out of time and spaces.

If you have told us you are coming but haven’t sent in your forms or let us know your travel schedule please do that too!

We’ll be posting a more detailed  outline of the conferences soon, they are looking very exciting.

:: Justin ::

A couple of things that should be on your to-do list if you haven’t done them yet:

1. Check out the beta release of Therap 7.1. We expect the production release to happen early next month, but now is the time to get in there, check it out and give us your comments and recommendations. To get access to the Beta release, just get in touch.
2. Get your registration forms in for our conference. Space is filling up, but there is still time. Forms available at: http://www.therapservices.net/thconferences.php

So, what are you waiting for?

:: Justin ::

If you’ve been a Therap customer for more than a year or so, you can expect me to be droppigng you an email over the next few weeks to set up a time to talk.

Rather than getting your thoughts on the Mets play off chances or the up coming Scottish Premier League season, I would like to know how things are going with you, your agency, and Therap.

In particular I’d like to cover the following:

1. What Therap modules are you using and how are you getting on with them?
2. What are the next modules you would like to implement?
3. Are you aware of everything that Therap offers?
4. How do you train you staff to use Therap?
5. Are you aware of all the training materials and services that Therap offers?
6. Are you planning to send staff or attend Therap’s 2nd DSP Conference and 1st Provider Administrator Conference this December?
7. If so have you thought about presenting and/or joining a panel – this could save you the registration fee!
8. Do you know of other agencies who would be interested in hearing from us?

So have a think about the above questions and when you get a note from me think about who would be best to have on the call  and we’ll set it up at a time to suit.

If you’d like to talk sooner, just drop me a line

:: Justin ::