The 2003 Annual Meeting In Branson Was Great!
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That's Right, We went to Branson! |
September 19th - 20th - 21st
The Welk Resort
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Welk Resort Branson!
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2 Great Shows!
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Friday Evening |
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5:00 to 7:30 pm Saturday 9:00 am 9:10 to 10:00 am 10:10 to 11:00 am 11:10 to Noon |
12:00 to 1:30 pm Lunch on your own 1:30 to 2:20 pm 2:30 to 3:20 pm Sunday 8:00 am
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About Our Presenters
9:10 to 10:00 am
“FY 04/05 Budget Update”
Dr. Anne Deaton, Dir. MR/DD
Dr. Deaton graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Kentucky, received a masters degree from the University of Tennessee and her doctorate from Virginia Tech. She held several administrative positions at Virginia Tech and was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Services at Mizzou.
Dr. Deaton served as Deputy Director of the Missouri Division of Aging from 1993-2000 and was appointed Director of the Division of MR/DD in December of 2000. She provides leadership for a staff of 5000, has responsibility for 17 facilities and administers programs for over 24000 persons with mental retardation/developmental disabilities across Missouri.
10:10 to 11:00 am
“Funding Mo Services,
Where do we go from here?”
Don Phares, PhD Professor Economic
& Public Policy, UMSL
Professor
Phares received his Ph.D from Syracuse University in 1970.
His research primarily has dealt with housing and neighborhood change,
state and local finance, governmental structure and urban economic development.
He
is the author of “Who Pays State and Local Taxes”?, ”State-Local Tax
Equity: An Empirical Analysis of the Fifty States”, co-author of “Municipal
Output and Performance in New York City”, and editor of “A Decent Home and
Environment: Housing Urban America and Metropolitan Governance without
Metropolitan Government”. He has
published more than 70 articles and book chapters and numerous technical and
government reports. He is a
consultant for many government agencies, businesses, foundations and
universities.
Don’s extensive administrative experience includes: chairperson of a department of economics, director of a public policy research center, den of a college of arts and sciences, and vice-chancellor for a university campus.
11:10 to Noon
“Continued Improvement”
Ron Sampson, Exec. Dir.
Joplin Workshops, Inc.
1:30 to 2:20 pm
“The Autism-MR Connection”
Barbara Whitman, PhD
St. Louis University
Dr.
Whitman is Professor of Pediatrics at St. Louis University School of Medicine,
past director of Family Services and Family Studies for the Knights of Columbus
Developmental Center, member Board if Directors of Missouri PWSA-USA and a past
board member of CHADD. Dr. Whitman
was one of the first clinicians and authors to recognize the issue of adults
with mental retardation who themselves have children.
She
is a nationally recognized expert on Prader-Willi Syndrome and has done a number
of studies into the behavioral and psychiatric characteristics of persons with
the syndrome, as well as studies of management techniques-both behavioral and
medications. She has co-authored
several books including “When a parent is Mentally Retarded”, “ The
Dictionary of Developmental Disabilities Terminology” and “Attention Deficit
Disorders and Hyperactivity I Children 2nd ed”.
2:30 to 3:20 pm
“Transportation; Who Pays?”
Bert Sterbenz, Pres.
Gr. St. Louis Parent Advocacy Group, Inc.
Bert
is the father of a 34 year-old Down Syndrome man, a retired Professional
Engineer, church organist and choirmaster. He was elected president of the
Greater St. Louis Parents Advocacy Group for Mentally Retarded Citizens, Inc. in
1996. Major accomplishments of the
group have been improved socialization facilities and expansion and improvement
of sheltered workshops in the St. Louis area.
Bert is a board member of our group, and with his wife Lois,
state coordinator for the Voice of the Retarded.
Providing a full range of appropriate choices for the mentally retarded
population is his major goal.
Saturday Banquet Entertainment
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The "Homestead Pickers"
had us Included a Dinner |
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Mentally Retarded Citizens of Missouri
1310 Southern Expressway
P.O. Box 831
Cape Girardeau, MO 63702-0831
Phone: (573) 334-1166 Fax: (573) 334-9655
E-Mail: info@rcomo.org
Retarded Citizens of Missouri
www.rcomo.org
