HR Committee Meeting (CPNRI)
2024-06-11 09:00 - 10:00, 2024-05-14 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDVhMDkxOGUtYmJiOS00ZmJmLTg2ODUtMWRmOWExMzU3NjY3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%220989df6a-1aa6-4efa-ab2f-ec466204703e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%229d164e4e-9e83-49f0-a8f5-c3a5a2aecf2a%22%7d

Member Meeting (CPNRI)
2024-06-06 09:30 - 11:30, 2024-04-04 09:30 - 11:30 | Hybrid, 1130 Ten Rod Road, North Kingstown, RI, 02852, United States

DSP Deadline: Last Chance To Get Involved In Our Annual DSP Thank You Video
2024-06-05
If you want to be a part of this year’s video, you must submit the form Nick sends out via by EOD on this day. We will be moving onto filming after this day. Reach out to Nick with any questions.

Independent Facilitation (BHDDH)
2024-06-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual Format

Finance Committee Meeting (CPNRI)
2024-06-03 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-04-22 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-25 10:00 - 11:00 | https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82522282447

Executive Committee Meeting (CPNRI)
2024-05-23 09:30 - 11:30 | Hybrid, 1130 Ten Rod Road, North Kingstown, RI, 02852, United States

CFO Meeting (CPNRI)
2024-05-20 09:00 - 10:00, 2024-04-15 09:00 - 10:00, 2024-03-18 09:00 - 10:00 | https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87859038086

Discovering Your Leadership | A CPNRI Conference
2024-05-16 09:00 - 16:15 | University of Rhode Island, 120 Flagg Road, Kingston, RI, 02881, United States
A Conference For HHS Workers

With options for all staff levels, five amazing speakers and 12 breakout sessions, Discovering Your Leadership, is for you.

Completely Free

Yes, this completely free. Registration is REQUIRED for entry and will be checked at the door. Space is limited so act now.

SCHEDULE

SESSIONS

SPEAKERS

LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

SCHEDULE

8AM - 8:45AM

Registration & Light Refreshments

Check in & meet other attendees

9AM - 10:15AM

Welcome & Keynote Speakers

Keynote Address: Adriana Dawson, Verizon Director of Community Engagement

10:30AM - 12PM

Breakout Session A

See below for more information. Session selected during registration.

12PM - 12:45PM

Lunch

Will be provided

1PM - 2:30PM

Breakout Session B

See below for more information. Session selected during registration.

2:30PM - 4PM

Breakout Session C

See below for more information. Session selected during registration.

4PM - 4:15PM

Closing Remarks

Stay for a powerful closing address by Adriana Dawson, Verizon Director of Community Engagement

BREAKOUT

SESSIONS

Click the boxes below to see your breakout session options.

Breakout Session A

Breakout Session B

Breakout Session C

Giving and Receiving Feedback

SPEAKER(s): Anthony Rodriguez PhD, Huckel Inclusive AUDIENCE: All staff levels DESCRIPTION: This session will introduce Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and discuss the cognitive effects on our brains when we work within a psychologically safe environment to build a positive framework to begin organizational culture change with dialogue, respectful communication, and civil discourse; and explore content through small-group exercises and case studies.

Building the Beloved Community through Disability Care

SPEAKER(s): Roberta Opara AUDIENCE: All staff levels DESCRIPTION: The Beloved Community remains the yardstick of humankind’s survival, collective adaptation, and successful thriving. A unity that comes with rough edges, as a rose fully expressed with equally beautiful thorns. In this session, individuals will explore the idea that being for justice, rights, socio-economic advancement, and equal opportunity should also be driving the service mission of access and equity for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The Accountability Challenge (No Spots Remain - Capacity Reached)

SPEAKER(s): Tim Hebert/Garry Foisy/Dave Ramsden, Dirigo Leadership Consulting AUDIENCE: Professionals who want to increase their ability to lead and influence others to achieve a desired outcome effectively. First-time managers who wish to improve their comfort level and ability to lead teams. Managers, Directors, and Executives who want to build a solid workplace culture and high-performing teams by leading and empowering them rather than merely managing them. DESCRIPTION: This interactive, experiential workshop will help leaders and teams redefine accountability and understand how it impacts culture, communications, and performance. In this session, participants will learn a common language set and approach to seeing challenges more clearly and establishing a pathway toward resolution, completion, and accountability. Leveraging valuable models by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Craig Hickman, authors of The Oz Principle, the facilitators also bring a lifetime of experience leading, evolving, and growing organizations with powerful lessons learned.

Improve Performance with Your Strengths (No Spots Remain - Capacity Reached)

SPEAKER(s): Cindy Scibetta-Butts, Founder of Grow with Strengths and Gallup Certified Strengths Coach AUDIENCE: Executive leadership, managers and supervisors. *Attendees must complete the CliftonStrengths assessment two weeks before the conference. All registered attendees will receive a link and code to complete the assessment* DESCRIPTION: What if you were to learn that the tools you need to improve your own performance and your team’s performance are already in your back pocket? Learn how your Strengths can be a game-changer in the quest to improve your performance! Boost your individual and team performance through the power of Strengths-based talent development.

Building Inclusive Workspaces

SPEAKER(s): Anthony Rodriguez PhD, Huckel Inclusive AUDIENCE: All staff levels DESCRIPTION: This session will introduce Community Agreements for collective-building and collaboration, provide a working definition and framework for diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as psychological safety, and establish a framework for centering these values in the procedures of the workspace.

Leading a Culture of Change (No Spots Remain - Capacity Reached)

SPEAKER(s): Tim Hebert/Garry Foisy/Dave Ramsden, Dirigo Leadership Consulting AUDIENCE: Executive leadership, managers and supervisors DESCRIPTION: The days of status quo and tried and true approaches to leadership have given way to the need to continually reinvent oneself and the overarching purpose and mission of the organization – and lead change and transformation with humility, authenticity, and a collaborative spirit. Leading change requires creating a sense of urgency, purpose, and passion, building a guiding coalition, forming a vision, enlisting volunteers, removing barriers, celebrating small wins, sustaining the acceleration, and ultimately implementing the change and transformation needed. This session is part lecture and part experiential exercise.

Improve Performance with Your Strengths (No Spots Remain - Capacity Reached)

SPEAKER(s): Cindy Scibetta-Butts, Founder of Grow with Strengths and Gallup Certified Strengths Coach AUDIENCE: All staff levels. *Attendees must complete the CliftonStrengths assessment two weeks before the conference. All registered attendees will receive a link and code to complete the assessment* DESCRIPTION: What if you were to learn that the tools you need to improve your own performance and your team’s performance are already in your back pocket? Learn how your Strengths can be a game-changer in the quest to improve your performance! Boost your individual and team performance through the power of Strengths-based talent development.

Hiring for the Mission - Widening the Recruitment and Retention Lens (No Spots Remain - Capacity Reached)

SPEAKER(s): Roberta Opara AUDIENCE: Supervisors and HR professionals DESCRIPTION: Beyond role descriptions and responsibilities, can you get to the ‘heart’ of a potential candidate to make a hiring decision that aligns with the heart of your organization? Hiring for function without a match for the mission can feel off-target when relational ruptures occur, or role misalignment is felt in the daily function of teams. Rather than weigh which disruptive means to manage the negative consequences of such misalignment, in this session, participants will examine, precede, and incorporate anticipatory measures aimed at role fit, sustained functioning, and lasting retention for the heart health of your organization into the hiring process.

Brain-Based Learning

SPEAKER(s): Anthony Rodriguez PhD, Huckel Inclusive AUDIENCE: All staff levels DESCRIPTION: This session will explore how the brain structures initiate responsive vs. reactive states during communication at work, identify triggers in ourselves and others and ways of improving communication and trust, and understand the impact of empathetic responses to others.

Embrace Change with B.R.A.I.N.E (NEARING CAPACITY!)

SPEAKER(s): Roberta Opara AUDIENCE: Executive leadership, managers and supervisors DESCRIPTION: Navigate transitions better with the infusion of communication protocols that cut across responsibility silos which often isolate and separate, especially across multi-functional roles. Learn to apply a highly adaptive action framework to changes and transitions that occur anticipatedly or sporadically within your organization. This session explores known management theories turned practical for individuals who live leadership with their people in mind.

Developing and Executing Strategies for Organizational Growth (No Spots Remain - Capacity Reached)

SPEAKER(s): Tim Hebert/Garry Foisy/Dave Ramsden, Dirigo Leadership Consulting AUDIENCE: Executive leadership, managers, and supervisors DESCRIPTION: Strategy is a discipline that approaches a problem. Many use it in competitive pursuits, from business to politics, warfare, and sports. However, the strategy goes beyond competition to help bring about positive change in many areas, from social services to fundraising, developing technology, medical research, and other goal-oriented pursuits. By the end of this session, you can embrace your role more confidently as a strategist by eliminating the mystery surrounding strategy and providing you with an effective model for developing strategy.

Improve Performance with Your Strengths (No Spots Remain - Capacity Reached)

SPEAKER(s): Cindy Scibetta-Butts, Founder of Grow with Strengths and Gallup Certified Strengths Coach AUDIENCE: All staff levels. *Attendees must complete the CliftonStrengths assessment two weeks before the conference. All registered attendees will receive a link and code to complete the assessment* DESCRIPTION: What if you were to learn that the tools you need to improve your own performance and your team’s performance are already in your back pocket? Learn how your Strengths can be a game-changer in the quest to improve your performance!

OUR AMAZING

SPEAKERS

Adriana Dawson

Verizon, Director of Community Engagement

Tim Hebert

Dirigo Leadership, National Leadership Facilitator

Cindy Scibetta-Butts

Grow with Strengths, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach

Anthony Rodriguez

Huckel Inclusive, Lead Consultant

Roberta Opara

URI, International Teaching Scholar

All Abilities Arts & Crafts For Adults
2024-05-13 10:30 - 11:30 | Mt. Pleasant Library, 315 Academy Ave, Providence, RI, 02908, United States
This program is designed for adults with developmental disabilities. All abilities are welcome!
There are limited spots available. Registration is required. Please register through Eventbrite for each date you plan to attend.
Adults with developmental disabilities should be escorted by a direct support professional or guardian. Librarians can not be held responsible for any program participants and are there solely to provide this program. Direct support professionals and guardians are expected to assist developmentally disabled adults with program activities. Organizations should make sure to send at least one direct support professional per every two adults with developmental disabilities.

Children's Provider Meeting (CPNRI)
2024-05-08 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-03-13 11:00 - 12:00 | https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87813192195

EI Providers Meeting (CPNRI)
2024-05-08 09:30 - 10:30 | Hybrid, 1130 Ten Rod Road, North Kingstown, RI, 02852, United States

Member Meeting (CPNRI)
2024-05-02 09:30 - 11:30 | Virtual Format

22nd Annual Imagine Walk | The Autism Project
2024-04-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Goddard Memorial State Park, 1095 Ives Road, Warwick, RI, 02818, United States
For more information please click here. There are participation, volunteer and donation opportunities available. Support a great event!

DanceAbility | Inclusive Dance Classes
2024-04-13 12:15 - 13:00 | Fred Astaire Dance Studios, 1 Pier Market Place, Naragansett, RI, 02882, United States
These complimentary classes are offered once a month in Narragansett, RI at the Fred Astair Dance Studio in the Pier Marketplace.
The classes are taught by owners Caleb and Rusina Converse. They are certified in ParaDance instruction and have long been
promoters of inclusivity and the benefits of dance for all.

Call or email Fred Astaire Dance Studios to reserve your space – 401-515-4007 or narragansett@fredastaire.com.

CPNRI Communications Committee
2024-04-11 10:00 - 11:00 | Hybrid, 1130 Ten Rod Road, North Kingstown, RI, 02852, United States

Governor's Commission on Disabilities
2024-03-25 16:30 - 18:30 | State of RI, 2 Cherry Dale Court, Cranston, RI, 02920, United States
A meeting by the Rhode Island Governor’s Commission on Disabilities

The Groden Network's 9th Annual Symposium On Autism
2024-03-13 08:45 - 15:30 | Virtual Format
For more information and to register, please click here.
