On-demand Training

A variety of topics are addressed in our on-demand training catalog. Many earlier on-location trainings can be viewed as video recordings allowing you to become a virtual participant in the virtual training. To narrow your search, use the right-hand sidebar Browse By Topic feature.

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Business Acumen

• Building Self-Sustaining Programs: Business Acumen Learning Collaborative Discussion (1 Hour)
  Presenter(s): Richard Petty, Michelle Crain, Marty Dombrowski, Ryan Nolan
• Hospital to Home: A Collaborative Between Community Partners Two-Part Series (3 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Patricia Yeager, Joseph Foecking, Indy Frazee, Amanda Strantz
• Fueling Business Acumen: How CILs are Securing Contracts with Health Plans and Payers (1.5 Hrs)
  Presenter(s): Richard Petty, Bill Henning, Patricia Yeager, Audrey Schremmer
• Supporting Your CIL Board for Success
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee, Anne Weeks
• Fees-for-Service Accounting in CILs: Budgeting and Setting Rates (1 Hour)
  Presenter(s): Cara Steidel
• Fees-for-Service in CILs: A two-part series (2.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Dennis Fitzgibbons

CIL Core Services

• The Independent Living Plan – Assisting Consumers in Making an IL Plan (1.5 Hours)
  
• Coordinating Accessible & Engaging Virtual Events for CILs and SILCs: A Panel Discussion of Promising Practices (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Tim Fuchs, Mary Willard, Sierra Royster, Brooke Curtis
• Get to the Core of It: Integrating CIL Core Services for a Holistic Consumer Experience (12 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Darrel Christenson, Michelle Crain, Bruce E. Darling, Amina Donna Kruck, April Reed, Kimberly Tissot, Charlie Walters
• Community Integration: A Holistic Approach to the New Core Services for Transition & Diversion (9 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Darrel Christenson, Bruce E. Darling, Michelle Crain, Paula McElwee
• Get to the Core of It: Best Practices in the CIL Core Services - Information & Referral (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Roger Howard, Darrel Christenson
• Get to the Core of It: Best Practices in the Four Core Services, Peer Support - A Proven Volunteer Model (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Amina Donna Kruck, April Reed
• Get to the Core of It: Best Practices in CIL Core Services -- Systems Advocacy (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Stephanie Woodward
• Building an Effective Peer Support Program: A Proven Volunteer Model (15 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Amina Donna Kruck, April Reed

CIL Financial Management

• Financial Risk Mitigation in Independent Living (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee, Aaron Taylor
• Financial Management for Centers for Independent Living: Regulations and Beyond (12.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): John Heveron, Paula McElwee
• Applying Your Indirect Cost Rate at Centers for Independent Living (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): John Heveron, Paula McElwee
• Updating Your Policies to Match Current Financial Regulations (7 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee
• Financial Management Workshop for CILs: Regulations and Beyond (15 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee, John Heveron, Steven Spillan
• How to Prepare an Indirect Cost Rate Proposal (1.75 Hours)
  Presenter(s): John Heveron, Paula McElwee
• An Introduction to the New Indirect Cost Rate Requirements for Centers for Independent Living (1.45 Hours)
  Presenter(s): John Heveron, Paula McElwee
• Internal Controls for Centers for Independent Living (1 Hour)
  Presenter(s): John Heveron, Paula McElwee

CIL Management & Operations

• Workplan Development for Centers for Independent Living (1.5 Hours)
  
• How to Create the Best Board and Staff Relationships in Your CIL (1.5 Hours)
  
• Understanding the Role of the Independent Living (IL) Network Before, During and After a Disaster (1.5 Hours)
  
• Participant-Direction in Health Payer Contracting for Centers for Independent Living
  
• Peer-to-Peer - Let’s Talk About Strategies for this New Disability Innovation Fund (DIF): Pathways to Partnerships (1 Hour)
  Presenter(s): Sandra Breitengross Bitter, Paula McElwee, Jill Jacobs, Erica McFadden
• Top Experts Answer CIL Questions About Contracts with Health Payers (2.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Rick Fredrickson, Christina Mills, Amber OHaver, Richard Petty, Paula McElwee
• IL-NET First Biennial IL Institute: A Deep Dive into Consumer Control and Leadership (7 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Aaron Baier, Marisa Cantu, Bill Henning, Darrell Lynn Jones, Lou Ann Kibbee, Paula McElwee, Bonnie O'Day, Kimberly Tissot, Richard Petty
• CIL's Use of Self and Peer Monitoring as a Management Tool (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee, Annetta Johnson, Kyle Kleist
• Hospital to Home: A Collaborative Between Community Partners Two-Part Series (3 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Patricia Yeager, Joseph Foecking, Indy Frazee, Amanda Strantz
• Ready for Review - Using ACL’s Compliance & Outcome Monitoring Protocol (COMP) Tool to Achieve Excellence: Two-Part Presentation (3 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee
• Operating Independent Living Programs in the Face of Coronavirus: A Q&A Session for CILs and SILCs (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee, Susan Dooha, Jeremy Morris, Richard Petty, Marcie Roth, Corinna Stiles, Yomi Wrong, Tim Fuchs
• Top 10 Mistakes That Can Put Your CIL or SILC At Risk (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee
• Supporting Your CIL Board for Success
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee, Anne Weeks
• Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment in CILs (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Jan Derry, Roberta Sick
• Attract and Retain Your Best CIL Board Members (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee
• Resource Development for CILs: Opening the Floodgates to Sustainability (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Karen Eber Davis
• Fees-for-Service in CILs: A two-part series (2.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Dennis Fitzgibbons
• Leadership: Shifting Your CIL into High Gear (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Christy Dunaway, Robert Hand, Bill Henning, Lee Schulz
• Effective Rural Outreach: Using the Concerns Report Method as a Tool for Change (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Mike Mayer, Tom Seekins
• The Strategic Management Series: Sound Employment Practices for CILs Part 4: Managing Workplace Risks (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Melanie Lockwood Herman
• The Strategic Management Series: Sound Employment Practices for CILs Part 3: Discipline and Departure (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Melanie Lockwood Herman
• The Strategic Management Series: Sound Employment Practices for CILs Part 2: Staff Supervision and Evaluation (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Melanie Lockwood Herman
• The Strategic Management Series: Sound Employment Practices for CILs Part 1: Effective Hiring Practices (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Melanie Lockwood Herman

CIL Programs & Services

• Leaders Without Limits: A Community Leadership Academy - Train the Trainer (10 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Robert Hand, Kimberly Tissot, Paula McElwee

Disability Law & Olmstead Implementation

• Implementing and Enforcing Olmstead (9.5 hours)
  Presenter(s): Karen Avery, Mike Bachhuber, Marca Bristo, Shari Coatney, Bill Henning, Mark Johnson, Laurel Mildred, Amber Smock, Karen I. Ward, C. Talley Wells, Kelly Buckland, Richard Petty

Gathering, Analyzing, & Utilizing Data

• Using Consumer Satisfaction Information for Planning (2 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Ann McDaniel, Tonya Fambro, Anne Weeks, Christine Camene
• Disability & Diversity Data - How Centers for Independent Living Can Use Data Mining and Community Mapping to Address Diversity (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Susan Dooha, Stanley A. Holbrook, Andrew Houtenville, Megan Henly

Home and Community-based Services

• Expanding Your CIL’s Capacity through Technology and Fees-for-Service Programs (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Eli Gelardin
• The CIL and ADRC Connection: The Oregon Story (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Barry Fox-Quamme
• Effecting Policy Change in Medicaid and Community Services (1.25 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Bruce E. Darling, Suzanne Crisp

Housing and Transportation

• How CILs Can Transform the Housing Landscape (8 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Darrel Christenson, Ann Denton, Karen Michalski-Karney
• Expanding Housing Options in Your Community (1.5 Hrs)
  Presenter(s): Ann Denton

IL Administration

• OILP ACL Quarterly Connection
  Presenter(s): Jennifer Martin, Jennifer Johnson, Erica McFadden, Jill Jacobs, Ed Ahern, Peter Nye

IL History & Philosophy

• IL Philosophy and Practice Summit: Reclaiming Our Movement (6 Hours)
  

IL Skills Training

• Evolving Core Services -- Independent Living Skills Training (1.5 Hours)
  
• Independent Living Skills Training for Transition to the Community (1.25 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Jane Schiele, Rebecca Payton

Inclusion, Diversity & Underserved Populations

• Intentional Community Outreach (1.5 Hours)
  
• Serving Cross-Disability Populations (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Brooke Velarde-Hernandez, Genesis Garcia Lezama, Sarah Massengale
• Advice from the Experts: Minority Youth with Disabilities Share Program Improvement Opportunities with CILs (1.5 Hours)
  
• Disability, Diversity, and Intersectionality in CILs (11 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Darrell Lynn Jones, Daisy Feidt, Kim Gibson, Jesse Bethke Gomez, Keri Gray, Ron Halog, Stanley A. Holbrook, Judith Holt, Reyma McCoy McDeid, Elsa Quezada, Liz Sherwin, Susan Dooha, Brooke Curtis
• Disability, Diversity, and Intersectionality in CILs: Rural Outreach and Engagement (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Kim Gibson, Liz Sherwin
• Why Words Matter: Addressing Microaggressions to Create a Welcoming Environment (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Stanley A. Holbrook, Brooke Curtis
• Disability & Diversity Data - How Centers for Independent Living Can Use Data Mining and Community Mapping to Address Diversity (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Susan Dooha, Stanley A. Holbrook, Andrew Houtenville, Megan Henly
• Disability, Diversity, and Intersectionality in CILs: Creating a Welcoming and Supportive CIL for Diverse Populations (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Stanley A. Holbrook, Lee Schulz, Kim Gibson
• Disability, Diversity, and Intersectionality in CILs: Making New Friends and Playing Well with Others (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Stanley A. Holbrook, Ron Halog, Elsa Quezada
• Disability, Diversity, and Intersectionality in CILs: Creating Supportive Organizational Culture and Infrastructure (1.5 hours)
  Presenter(s): Stanley A. Holbrook, Reyma McCoy McDeid, Daisy Feidt
• Disability, Diversity, and Intersectionality: An American Journey for CILs (1.5 hours)
  Presenter(s): Stanley A. Holbrook, Jesse Bethke Gomez, Susan Dooha
• Intersectionality in Centers for Independent Living: Cultural Inclusion (1.25 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Dustin Gibson, Keri Gray, Ola Ojewumi

Information & Referral

• Get to the Core of It: Best Practices in the CIL Core Services - Information & Referral (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Roger Howard, Darrel Christenson

Institutional Transition & Diversion

• Addressing "Care Deserts": Supporting Rural Transition with Self-Direction & Other Modes of Assistance (1.5 hours)
  
• Innovations in Transition: Strategies to Engage Unhoused Consumers in Your Community (1.5 Hours)
  
• Creating a Culture in Your CIL to Guide Mental Health Transition (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Sharon McLennon-Wier, Ann DeAngelis, Sarah Wendell Launderville, Jesse Bethke Gomez
• Innovative Transition for Individuals with Mental Health Disabilities (1 Hour)
  
• Non-Traditional Transitions (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Sharif Brown, Betzaida Ramos Chárriez, Sue Hetrick, Jeff Hughes, Marly Saade
• How CILs Can (and Should!) Support Consumers Experiencing Homelessness (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Robbie Roppolo, Georgina Alvarez
• How CILs Can (and Should!) Support Consumers in the Criminal Legal System (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Sharif Brown, Scott Burlingame
• Who’s “At-Risk”? How to Determine and Address Risk of Institutional Placement to Achieve the New Core Service of Diversion (1.5 Hrs)
  Presenter(s): Michelle Crain, Jackie Pacha, Nancy Penland
• Preventing Guardianship: How CILs Can Be the Frontline to Advocate for Less Restrictive Alternatives (1.5 Hrs)
  Presenter(s): Charlie Walters, Jerri Davison
• Community Integration: A Holistic Approach to the New Core Services for Transition & Diversion (9 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Darrel Christenson, Bruce E. Darling, Michelle Crain, Paula McElwee
• ABCs of Nursing Home Transition: A Four-Part Series (5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Bruce E. Darling

Managed Care

• Effecting Policy Change in Medicaid and Community Services (1.25 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Bruce E. Darling, Suzanne Crisp
• Medicaid 101 (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Suzanne Crisp

Outcome Measures

• CIL's Use of Self and Peer Monitoring as a Management Tool (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee, Annetta Johnson, Kyle Kleist
• Using Consumer Satisfaction Information for Planning (2 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Ann McDaniel, Tonya Fambro, Anne Weeks, Christine Camene

Peer Counseling & Peer Support

• Intergenerational Peer Support (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Kelsey Bell, Dominique Dunford, Tyler Morris
• Get to the Core of It - Peer Support: Best Practices in the CIL Core Services (1.5 Hrs)
  Presenter(s): Matt Cain, Sarah Jo Jorgensen
• Get to the Core of It: Best Practices in the Four Core Services, Peer Support - A Proven Volunteer Model (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Amina Donna Kruck, April Reed
• Building an Effective Peer Support Program: A Proven Volunteer Model (15 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Amina Donna Kruck, April Reed

Personal Assistance Services (PAS)

• Expanding Your CIL’s Capacity through Technology and Fees-for-Service Programs (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Eli Gelardin

SILC Operations

• Coordinating Accessible & Engaging Virtual Events for CILs and SILCs: A Panel Discussion of Promising Practices (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Tim Fuchs, Mary Willard, Sierra Royster, Brooke Curtis
• SILCs and the Importance of Autonomy: Power Struggles and Relationships with the DSE and the IL Network (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): FranSha Anderson, Kathy Cooper, Amber OHaver
• Administrative Requirements and Cost Principles for SILCs as Sub-Grantees (1.5 hours)
  Presenter(s): John Heveron, Paula McElwee
• Top 10 Mistakes That Can Put Your CIL or SILC At Risk (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee
• Planning for Success - Effective Resource Development at SILCs (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Brad Williams, Sandra Breitengross Bitter
• High-Performance Measurement Framework for SILCs: A Three-Part Training (4 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Sheri Chaney Jones, Jeremy Morris
• Uniform Guidance for SILCs (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee
• SILC Policies and Procedures: A Solid Foundation for Management (1.25 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee, Liz Pazdral, Kathy Cooper

SILC Roles & Responsibilities

• Creating an Effective DSE, SILC, and CIL Relationship (1.5 Hours)
  
• SILC Roles and Responsibilities Within the IL Network (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Kathy Cooper, Amber OHaver, FranSha Anderson
• Getting on Board: Recruitment & Composition for Statewide Independent Living Councils (SILCs) (1.25 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Jeremy Morris, Kathy Cooper
• SILC Member Recruitment & Orientation (1 Hour)
  Presenter(s): Liz Pazdral, Brad Williams
• The DSE, SILC Roles and Responsibilities, and the Regulations: Part 2 (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Ann McDaniel, Paula McElwee
• The DSE, SILC Roles and Responsibilities, and the Regulations: Part 1 (2 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Ann McDaniel, Paula McElwee

State Plan for Independent Living (SPIL)

• The Power of Your SPIL (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Sandra Breitengross Bitter, Paula McElwee, Erica McFadden, Peter Nye, Jennifer Martin, Ed Ahern
• What You Need to Know About the New State Plan for Independent Living (SPIL): A Comprehensive Overview of the SPIL Instrument and Instructions (2 hours)
  Presenter(s): Paula McElwee
• Strengthening Relationships Among CILs and the SILC: Building and Maintaining a Statewide Partnership (1 Hour)
  Presenter(s): Ann McDaniel
• Leading Statewide Strategic Planning (1 Hour)
  Presenter(s): Ann McDaniel, Brad Williams

Systems & Individual Advocacy

• The Role of Individual Advocacy for CILs & SILCs (1.5 Hours)
  
• Disability-Led and Consumer-Driven Systems Advocacy (1.5 Hours)
  
• Approaches to Emerging Systems Advocacy in Centers for Independent Living (1.5 Hrs)
  Presenter(s): Candace Coleman, Michelle Garcia, Amber Smock
• Liberation to Leadership: The Role of CILs in Transforming Communities (7 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Sheri Burns, Robert Hand, Amina Donna Kruck, Paula McElwee, Stacey Milbern, Michael Galvan, Dolores Tejada
• Get to the Core of It: Best Practices in CIL Core Services -- Systems Advocacy (1.5 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Stephanie Woodward
• Recognizing & Responding to Caregiver Abuse (1.5 hours)
  Presenter(s): Jan Derry, Erin Fontaine, Leslie Myers

Transition of Youth

• Transition of School-Age Youth in Post-Secondary Life (1.5 Hours)
  
• Investing in the Independent Living Movement Means Investing in Youth (1.5 Hrs)
  Presenter(s): Keri Gray, Allie Cannington
• Supporting Youth in Transition: How CILs Can Contract for Youth Transition Services (1.5 Hrs)
  Presenter(s): Seth Hoderewski, Joe Michener
• Youth Transition: The Growing Role of Centers for Independent Living (10 Hours)
  Presenter(s): Kings Floyd, Seth Hoderewski, Joe Michener, Mary Willard, Sierra Royster, Kimberly Tissot, Charlie Walters