Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies
2016 Annual Summer Conference
July 13 – 15 in Huron, Ohio
Speakers
- Thursday breakfast speaker – TBD
- Thursday lunch speaker – David Bradley, Co-Founder and Executive Director of National Community Action Foundation (NCAF)
Plenary Sessions and Movie Screening
- Wednesday morning – New Executive Director Orientation
- Wednesday morning –District meetings
- Wednesday luncheon – Service Awards, Curtis Brooks Award, Membership Meeting
- Wednesday afternoon – Office of Community Assistance Update
- Wednesday afternoon – Security needs for business: Assessments, Training, and Physical Security
- Thursday evening – Special Movie Screening "Dream On"
- Friday breakfast – Exemplary Practices Awards
Workshops
This year's conference will feature four educational tracks: History of the War on Poverty, Fiscal/HR, Reentry, Agency Board Members - see Conference Tentative Agenda for additional information.
Thursday, July 14
Morning
- History of the War on Poverty – David Bradley
- Fiscal/HR: Updating Financial Policies – ZPLC Accounting
- Reentry: National Pretrial Landscape – Rachel Sottile Logvin of the Pretrial Justice Institute
- Agency Board Members: Board Roles and Responsibilities Part 1 – Julia Wise
- OCA Meetings – Prescheduled meetings between agencies and OCA
- History of the War on Poverty (continued) – David Bradley
- Fiscal/HR: Audits – ZPLC
- Reentry: Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative – Beth Oprisch of the Pretrial Justice Institute
- Agency Board Members: Board Roles and Responsibilities Part 2 – Julia Wise
- OCA Meetings – Prescheduled meetings between agencies and OCA
Afternoon
- History of the War on Poverty (continued) – David Bradley
- Fiscal/HR: Board Reports/Financials – Clark, Schaefer, Hackett
- Reentry: The Process of Reentry, – Stephanie Bays and Michael Hampton
- Agency Board Members: Board Thinking – John Wilson
- OCA Meetings – Prescheduled meetings between agencies and OCA
s - History of the War on Poverty (continued) – David Bradley
- Fiscal/HR: Risk Assessments – Clark, Schaefer, Hackett
- Reentry: Losing the Labels, – Stephanie Bays
- Agency Board Members: Do the Right Thing: How to Cultivate a Culture of Compliance and High Ethical Standards – Veronica Zhang, CAPLAW
- OCA Meetings – Prescheduled meetings between agencies and OCA
Friday morning, July 15
- History of the War on Poverty (continued) – David Bradley
- Fiscal/HR: Cyber Security: What you don’t know can hurt you – Roger Perry of Wichert
- Women in Reentry – Inmate Entrepreneur: The path from survival to success – Saundra Watkins-Taylor of Watkins-Taylor Consulting and Reentry Advocates LLC (INMATE TO ENTREPRENUER: The Path from Survival to Success)
- History of the War on Poverty (continued) – David Bradley
- Fiscal/HR: Understanding the Cloud – Jeff Taubman of Downton Computers
- Reentry: Agency Expert Panel Discussion – Leonard Sayles, Cincinnati; LuAnn Berry and George Dupey, WSOS; Carmen Kuula, Ashtabula