Who Should Attend?
There is something for everyone at our conference. Whether you are a direct support professional, a human resources administrator, or a CEO, you will find something of interest to you.
Where am I going?
DCU Center
50 Foster St.
Worcester, MA 01608
When should I be there?
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
What will I be doing at the conference?
- Meeting up with colleagues, business partners, and guests
- Finding new products & services from exhibitors
- Listening to a great keynote speech
- Celebrating with award winners - maybe winning one yourself
- Attending a morning breakout session of your choosing
- Attending an afternoon breakout session of your choosing
- Checking to see if you've won the big raffle prize
- Taking your new knowledge, new skills, and new pens back to the office!
How Do I Register?
Register online with a credit card, or choose to pay by check, and an invoice and receipt of payment will be sent to you. What is the Cost?
The fee is $135.00 per person for people who work at an ADDP member agency, and $200.00 for non-members. There is a discounted group rate of $1250 ($125 each) for ten staff from a member organization.
The fee includes breakfast, lunch, presentations, as well as your participation in two professional development workshops!
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Exhibit Space and Advertisements
STILL AVAILABLE!
Call Adam Berman at
508-405-8000 or email aberman@addp.org
today to secure
your booth or ad!
PROGRAM ADS
DUE
FEBRUARY 13th!
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Thank you to our sponsors!!
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John, Paul, Ringo and George Say:
"Come Together at the ADDP Conference"
New Ideas, community links, and inspiration await!
The ADDP annual conference is a chance for our community to come together to celebrate, learn, and get inspired!
Eleven breakout sessions will be offered on topics of all sorts, for direct support staff, program managers, clinicians, directors, senior leaders & CEOs. Don't miss this opportunity to learn something new! We've got many exhibitors signed up so far - they will amaze and delight you with their products, services, and free pens! Plus, a chance to win a prize in the conference raffle!
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 Who are Tatyana and Debbie McFadden?
ADDP is thrilled to welcome the Fastest Female Paralympian in the World, Tatyana McFadden, and her mother, Debbie McFadden.
As a Russian child with a disability, Tatyana spent her earliest years in an orphanage, ill equipped to meet her needs.
The conditions in the orphanage was so poor they could not buy crayons for the children to color with let alone a wheelchair for Tatyana to get around in. She spent the first six years of her life using her arms as legs and walking on her hands as if they were feet
 In 1994, Debbie McFadden, working as the U.S. Commissioner of the Administration on Developmental Disabilities for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, visited Tatyana's orphanage on a business trip. When Debbie met Tatyana, she immediately felt a connection with the young girl and decided to adopt her and bring her to the United States. When she arrived in the US she grew very sick.
She was severely anemic and grossly underweight and doctors thought she would only survive a few more months. For a second time in her short life, Tatyana's innate strength would defy the odds.
To aid in her recovery Debbie began to enroll Tatyana in various youth sports groups. Tatyana began participating with the Bennet Blazers, a Baltimore, Maryland area wheelchair sports organization.
It did not take long for Tatyana's racing career to take off. In 2004, at the age of 15, she was the youngest member of the USA track and field team at the Athens Paralympic Games, her first international competition. She shocked the world in the process, winning a silver medal in the 100 meters and a bronze in the 200 meters.
Two short years later, Tatyana etched her name in the record books, winning the gold medal in the 100 meters in world record time at the 2006 IPC World Championships in Assen, Netherlands. She followed that performance with two silver medal performances in the 200 meters and 400 meters, securing a spot in international wheelchair racing heading in the 2008 Beijing Parlaympic Games.
With the encouragement of two-sport Paralympian Alana Nichols, McFadden was encouraged to try Nordic skiing for the first time last year. It didn't take her long to pick up the sport, as she earned a national title at her first U.S. Adaptive Nordic Skiing National Championship in January 2013. She is currently a member of the 2013-2014 U.S. Paralympics Nordic Skiing National Team, having already earned five top-10 finishes in the first three world cups of her Nordic career.
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Breakout Sessions 2015
Morning Workshops:
1.1: Facilitating Community Membership
1.2 : "Cultural Brokering" - An Innovative Tool for Outreaching Culturally Diverse Families
1.3: Autism: A Spectrum of Services and Innovation in Central Massachusetts
1.4: Your Voice Can Be Heard: Effective Advocacy with State Government
1.5: From Direct Care to Management: Can I do it? And do I want to?
1.6: Commissioners Roundtable
Afternoon Workshops:
2.1: What's Current at ADDP?
2.2: New Support Models for New Populations
2.3: Stress Less and Live More Fully
2.4: Career Advancement for Direct Professionals: Maximizing Opportunities for Growth
2.5: Behavioral Skills Training - An Evidence-Based Method for Teaching PBS and More
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