2017 Kansas Conference on Poverty

This year's conference will include pre-conference sessions, as well as 40 plenary sessions and workshops – see detailed descriptions and meet the experts.

Wednesday, July 19

Pre-Conference Session: Conflict and You

Plenary Session: Overincarceration in America

Session 1

• Building Resilience in Head Start Children
• Client Poverty: Life Hacks from Corrections Professionals (part 1)
• Combating Tobacco Dependence and Addiction among the Economically Disadvantaged, Uninsured, and Underinsured
• Compassionate Accountability
• How Leadership, Advocacy, and Energy Can Engage Communities in Poverty Work
• Mobile Services: Bringing Resources to People

Session 2

• Combating Client Poverty: Life Hacks from Corrections Professionals (part 2)
• Compressed Work Weeks
• Helping Clients with Mental Health Needs
• Leadership: Developing a High Performing Team
• Let’s Build a Brain!
• A Modern Partnership for Family Stabilization, Financial Education and Economic Mobility

Thursday, July 20

Plenary Session: The Positives Behind Negative Attention

Session 1

• The History of Poverty in America: Looking Back to Move Forward
• Job Creation Strategies for Rural Community-Based Organizations
• Supported Decision Making: Achieving Meaningful Community Life
• Tearing Down Walls and Deflating Misconceptions of the Latino Community
• Telehealth ROCKS: Leveraging Technology to Improve Access to Care for Development and Behavioral Needs
• Yes, Libraries!

Session 2

• Basics of Operating a Small Business Loan Fund
• Beyond Sustainability: Creating Resilient Organizations
• “If I Only Had a Job”
• Poverty and the Human-Animal Bond: Ending the Cycle of Judgment
• Power Up, Power Down: Managing Your Energy for Enhanced Productivity and Performance
• The Track to Social Justice: Resisting and Impacting Injustices within Your Community (part 1)

Session 3

• Gaining Independence through Organized Financial Records
• Partnerships with K-State Extension for Local Poverty Alleviation
• Pathways to Employment
• Planning to Plan: How to Kickstart Strategic Planning
• Successfully Competing for Funding
• The Track to Social Justice: Resisting and Impacting Injustices within Your Community (part 2)

Friday, July 21

Plenary Session: Kansas Tax Policy and Poverty Connection

Session 1

• Bridges for Kansas Families: Building Social Connection and Resilience for Families in Poverty
• Jackson County Parole Re-Entry Project
• PACE: The Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly
• Preventing the Summer Slide for Low-Income Families
• TAP IT: A Model for Successful Advocacy and Sales
• Why is this Person Still Working Here?

Closing Plenary: Annie McKay, CEO, Kansas Action for Children

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