Catch us if you can!
January 4th, 2008 | 
Author: We are putting together our 2008 travel schedule and it’s going to be a wild one, so be sure to get in touch with us if you’d like to get involved or host a session at your agency.
Warren and Maureen are about to head off to Bangladesh for a couple of weeks.
Allison has trips planned to Maine, Oregon, and Washington.
Richard and Justin will be in Oregon and California.
Jim will be in Florida (several times).
Justin will be in West Virginia and Indiana
Justin, Richard, and Kara will be all over New York and New Jersey.
and… That only gets us into February!
After that we’ll be off to conferences all over the country as well as hosting our own conferences in South Dakota, Oregon, Delaware, and Connecticut.
You can keep track on our website by looking at Therap Conferences, Other Conferences, and User Group Meetings.
As always, if you’d like to join in anywhere, or if you would like some on-site training, then please get in touch.
:: Justin ::
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Here we come…
September and October are conference months.
All of us here in Therapville will be criss-crossing the country showing our wares.
While we’re out and about we’d love to come and meet with you and your agencies and colleagues.
If you are at any of the conferences, we’d be happy to set up meetings, sessions, and training there.
Take a look at the list here or below
:: Justin ::
| Conference Date | Location | Conferences |
|---|---|---|
| September 4 – 7, 2007 | Atlanta, GA | NAPSA |
| September 5 – 8, 2007 | KINTEX, Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, Korea | DPI’s 7th World Assembly |
| September 9 – 11, 2007 | Washington, DC | ANCOR GAS Conference |
| September 10 – 12, 2007 | Wenatchee, WA | Valued Lives 2007 |
| September 13 – 16, 2007 | Cincinnati, OH | Catholic Charities USA Annual Gathering |
| September 19 – 21, 2007 | Clearwater, FL | Florida ARF Annual Meeting |
| September 20 – 21, 2007 | Altoona, IA | IDDNA |
| September 24 – 26, 2007 | New York | NYSRA – 2007 Leadership Training Summit |
| September 26, 2007 | Virginia | VNPP |
| September 26 – 28, 2007 | Illinois | IARF – The 2007 IARF Conference & Trade Show |
| September 27, 2007 | Farmington, CT | CCPA Fall Conference |
| September 30 – October 2, 2007 | Albany, NY | NYSMRDDNA |
| September 30 – October 2, 2007 | Virginia Beach, VA | VA-APSE/VRA/va-ACCSES |
| October 2007 | Albany, NY | CP OF NYS |
| October 2 – 4, 2007 | Estes Park, CO | 6 State Summit |
| October 7 – 10, 2007 | Boston, MA | AHCA/NCAL/MECF |
| October 10 – 12, 2007 | Wichita, KS | InterHab Annual Conference |
| October 10 – 12, 2007 | Texas | PPAT – 11th ANNUAL FALL CONFERENCE |
| October 10 – 12, 2007 | Casper, WY | WY MEGA Conference |
| October 11 – 13, 2007 | Dallas, TX | The Arc’s 2007 National Convention |
| October 17 – 17, 2007 | Worcester, MA | Shared Living Conference |
| October 18 – 20, 2007 | Albany, NY | NYSARC Annual Convention |
| October 18 – 19, 2007 | Lake Ozark, MO | MACDDS |
| October 23 – 25, 2007 | 1st Annual Louisiana Disability Summit | |
| October 24 – 26, 2007 | Eugene, OR | ORA |
| October 30 – 31, 2007 | Dublin, OH | OPRA Fall Conference |
| November 2007 | New Jersey | NJACP |
| November 6 – 8, 2007 | Bangkok, Thailand | Inclusion International |
| November 7 – 9, 2007 | Alexandria, VA | NASDDS – 2007 Annual Meeting |
| November 7 – 7, 2007 | 54th Annual CT Nonprofits Conference | |
| November 18 – 23, 2007 | Taipei, Taiwan | 2007 Asian Conference |
| December 5 – 7, 2007 | Seattle, WA | Annual TASH Conference |
| December 12, 2007 | Farmington, CT | CCPA Annual Conference |
| February 5 – 7, 2008 | Dhaka, Bangladesh | APDF |
| March 2008 | Tuscon, AZ | CARF |
| March 2008 | Worcester, MA | ADDP |
| March 2008 | Indiana | INARF |
| March 2008 | Dublin, OH | OPRA |
| March 24 – 25, 2008 | Honolulu, HI | Annual Pacific Rim Conference |
| April 2008 | Ames, IA | IACP |
| April 2008 | Florida | UCP |
| April 2008 | Lake George, NY | NYSACRA |
| April 2008 | Anchorage,AK | Full Lives |
| April 2008 | New York City, NY | YAI/NIPD |
| April 2008 | Tulsa, OK | OK DDSD |
| April 13 – 14, 2008 | New Orleans, LA | ANCOR |
| May 2008 | St. Paul, MN | ARRM |
| May 2008 | Nashville, TN | NASDDS – Mid Year Meeting |
I am in Kansas again!
While I wasn’t able to click my ruby slippers to get here, the trip over yesterday.
I approached security at Bradley with some trepidation as I too was carrying a projector screen. The chap asked me what it was, “a projector screen” says I. “Cool” says he! No problem. They really are very cool, portable screens, you can see mine in the photo above.
I’m looking forward to meeting some of our Kansan customers and hopefully a bunch of new folks, before donning the slippers and heading home!
:: Justin ::
PS Allison, I hope you had fun setting up the booth in Oregon!
For once, Jim is in the right place at the right time.
One of our running jokes here at Therap is that when there is a trip that involves extremes of weather then we send Jim! This time he seems to have lucked out judging by this photo he sent me from Palm Springs, California.
He said: “Photo number 4 [shown here], is taken from in front of the Palm Springs Convention Center. Those are the San Jacinto Mountains towering above the city of Palm Springs. Yes, there really are mineral springs in Palm Springs. It is very cool that 50% of the city is within the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, who just happen to successfully run the Spa Casino Resort in downtown Palm Springs.”
Meanwhile back at the ranch, I am discovering that Maryland too extends beyond the I95 areas as I meet with some fascinating people.
– Justin
Coming to a conference near you.
Over the next month or so, there will be folks from Therap at conferences and presentations all over the country. It seems that this time of year along with late spring are prime conference season in the developmental disabilities world.
If you are going to be at one of these conference, let us know so we can look out for you. If your agency os close to one of these conferences, let us know and we’ll see if we can stop by!
You can see the latest list of where we’ll be here.
At the moment it looks something like this: (Thankfully it’s not all me!!)
October 5th-7th: Kansas
October 12th-14th: California
October 16th-18th: Arkansas
October 17th-18th: DC
October 19th-20th: Texas
October 20th: Connecticut
October 24th-26: Ohio
October 24th: Boulder, Colorado
October 26th-28th: Oregon
October 31st: Washington
November 2nd-3rd: North Carolina
November 3rd-6th: New York
November 7th-8th: California
– Justin
Making Lemonade in Savannah, Georgia
Jim skipped town last night to head down to Savannah, Georgia to meet with some providers.
He tells me that this is where Forest Gump was filmed, but were not certain we have quite the right bench!
Alliance for Full Participation – Day 2
Day two for us, day one of the conference.
We’re all set up and people are starting to come through.
Already met a few users from around the country, even some folks who have attended my classes but I had never met in person before.
More later
– Justin
Washington DC – Day One
On the way down here I discovered a great way to get over one of my phobias – asking for directions!
We have a Verizon broadband wireless card which works over the cell phone network. Not only does this mean that I could access Therap and set up DEMO accounts while travelling at 65mph down Interstate 95 (it’s OK, Jim was driving) but when we went a little astray in DC, we were able to look up Google Maps and find our way to the hotel!
The conference looks like it will be huge based on the number of exhibitors, I’ll post some pictures when they turn the lights on!
– Justin
Getting Ready for the Alliance
We are frantically getting ready for the Alliance for Full Participation Conference in Washington, DC on Thursday and Friday (we go down on Wednesday to set up).
For me this has involved an awful lot of writing and printing.
As we did at the last ANCOR conference we will be running a series of classes/training sessions at our booth, so be sure to stop by and say hello or maybe even join in!
If you know anyone else who is going, send them to say hi, I love to meet people that I have only previously known over the phone or web.
– Justin
Jim in Las Vegas
Jim is currently in Las Vegas attending the annual conference of the National Association of QMRPs.
He says that the fountains at the Bellagio Casino draw a huge crowd of people each night to watch the show; the water is shot 200 feet into the air.
– Justin
