Overview
The Supports Intensity Scale (SIS) assessment and planning tool is changing the world of developmental disability services. Here’s your chance to learn and experience what SIS can do for your organization and the people with intellectual disabilities you serve. Join us for a unique 3-day workshop taught by senior AAIDD SIS Trainers. The workshop will provide an in-depth orientation on SIS and it is an essential step to becoming an effective SIS interviewer. Read FAQs here.
Event Date
November 5-7, 2008. Daily from 8:30 am-4 pm EST
Organizer
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Location
The Conference Center at the Maritime Institute
692 Maritime Boulevard, Linthicum Heights, MD 21090-1952
(Accommodations available)
Agenda
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How to register/Registration deadline
You can register by calling 301-604-1340 or faxing a registration form to 301-206-9789. Registration closes on October 27, 2008, at 5 pm Eastern Standard Time. Class size is limited so early registration is encouraged.
Registration costs
The registration is $498.00 per person for the 3-day training event. Advance payment is required for registration. The registration includes fee for the training, use of the conference room facility, lunch buffet offered at the Conference Center at Maritime Institute (CCMIT), as well as two coffee breaks with light fare served during the day.
Accommodations costs
You need to make your own reservations for your hotel guest room. For the convenience of training, we suggest that you stay at the Maritime Institute hotel facility. The cost of a single occupancy is $139.00 per night, or $175 per night for double occupancy. This also includes breakfast and dinner at the hotel facility. Learn more by visiting http://www.mitags.org/ or calling
1-866-656-5569.
What you get
-In this intensive and interactive 3-day workshop, you will acquire a functional understanding of SIS and its role in providing a reliable framework to quantify the support needs of people with intellectual disabilities and its implications for self-determination, quality of life, social inclusion and person-centered planning. You will discover and transition to a positive, supports-based assessment process.
-Specifically, this workshop will help you acquire the basic skills, tools, and techniques needed to understand, communicate, administer, evaluate and interpret the Supports Intensity Scale.
-For program planning purposes, this workshop will lend you fresh perspective on how reliable and practical SIS information can be used to inform service decisions.
-As an orientation to the SIS tool, the workshop will help you learn with best practices advocated and perpetuated by AAIDD, the world’s leading organization for professionals in intellectual disability.
-If you want to become an AAIDD-recognized SIS interviewer, this training is an essential step to becoming an effective SIS interviewer. The training will provide guidance, mentoring, and coaching to aid participants in practicing effective SIS interviews. For professionals conducting SIS assessments for resource allocation purposes or for other such large scale/system-wide endeavors, this workshop is an essential first step before going through an Interviewer Reliability Review with AAIDD Senior Trainers. AAIDD recognizes a SIS Interviewer once he/she has passed an Interviewer Reliability Review with an AAIDD-recognized Trainer. Future opportunities to complete Interviewer Reliability Reviews (IRR) include at a regional training in your area, individual meeting, or another scheduled event. AAIDD will work with interviewers interested in completing IRR on an individual basis.
Who should attend
This training orientation is for anyone interested in becoming a SIS assessment interviewer. These include support coordinators and brokers, social workers, case managers, psychologists, and other professionals working in state/county agencies, private provider groups, independent living facilities, institutions, and group homes.
Read user feedback about the Supports Intensity Scale here.
Read reviews on SIS training workshop reviews here.
Cancellation policy
All cancellations must be sent in, in writing via fax to 301-206-9789 or emailed to books@aaidd.org. Cancellation of registrants received before October 31st, 2008, will be charged a fee of $75.00 per attendee. Cancellations received after October 31st, 2008, will forfeit the entire registration fee. You may send a substitute in your place without a penalty. No refunds will be made for no-shows.
*Please note that this cancellation policy is for the training registration only. For the cancellation policy for the hotel registration, please visit the Maritime Institute website at http://www.mitags.org/*
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