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2004 National Conference

May 6 - 8, 2004
Waterside Marriott Hotel - Norfolk, Virginia

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The National Association of Planning Councils (NAPC) invites you to Norfolk for the 2004 National Conference. Join others who are leading community-based planning and action for human services and health in communities all across America. Enjoy three days of exciting presentations and professional networking opportunities, in this charming seaport city rich in history, culture, and warm Southern hospitality.

Conference keynote speaker:  Jeremy Rifkin, internationally-known author of thought-provoking best-sellers including “The End of Work,” “The Biotech Century” and “The Age of Access.” His sixteen books, exploring the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment, have been translated into more than 20 languages and are used in hundreds of universities around the world.  Jeremy Rifkin and his books

Other featured topics: Community indicators ... effective tools for community planning ... public policy advocacy ... federal data resources ... and prevention: reducing needs for services by working for social change. Networking sessions will spark dialogue on emerging issues and effective community practice. 
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Pre-conference option: On Thursday morning, May 6, attend a 2-1-1 session with the national Alliance for Information and Referral Services (AIRS) conference. Explore how 2-1-1 can provide not only an easy-to-remember telephone entry point for improved access to a community’s human service system, but also useful real-time data as an essential tool for service and system planning.  AIRS conference

Introducing NAPC: NAPC is a non-profit national organization which promotes quality community planning and supports the work of its member organizations. Planning councils bring people together to identify needs and work toward solutions, mobilizing community involvement, developing and coordinating services, advocating for informed decisions by funders and policy makers, and linking people with community resources.  More about NAPC

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NAPC Annual Conference Schedule: May 6 – 8, 2004
Conference events are at the Marriott Hotel, except for the Saturday night celebration

Day & Evening 1 -- Thursday, May 6
10:30-12:00 2-1-1 Workshop (joint session with AIRS conference)
12:00 Lunch on your own
1:30-4:30 NAPC Board meeting
3:00-6:30 Conference Registration
6:00-6:30 Welcome and Orientation for new members and first-time participants
6:30-7:30 Conference opens - cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres - “meet and greet”
7:30-9:30 Welcome; Keynote Address: Jeremy Rifkin
9:30 until? Night on your own (local sights and restaurants)

Day 2 -- Friday, May 7
8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast Buffet; topic roundtables available
9:45-11:45 Charting the Future: Jeremy Rifkin, and group discussion of issues raised
12:00-1:00 Luncheon
1:15-2:45 Public Policy Advocacy - John Corlett
3:00-4:30 Building the Capacity of Non-Profits - Jennifer Henderson
4:30 Rest of day and evening on your own (local sights and restaurants)

Day & Evening 3 -- Saturday, May 8
8:00-9:15 Full Breakfast Buffet
8:30-9:15 Overview of Federal Data Resources - Marshall DeBerry, FedStats.gov
9:30-12:30 Community Indicators Showcase - the NAPC indicators team
12:45-1:45 NAPC Annual Meeting Luncheon (everyone welcome)
2:00-3:00 Prevention and Social Change - Nancy Findeisen and Phil Dessauer, Jr.
3:15-5:30 NAPC Board Meeting
3:00 Afternoon on your own (local sights and restaurants)
6:30-9:00 Celebration: Seafood Fest (optional, paid for in advance by attendees)
 

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Featured Speaker ... JEREMY RIFKIN

Introduced by Paul Gilmer, Executive Director, West Virginia Research League, Charleston, West Virginia


Building the Capacity of Non-Profits
(Friday afternoon, 3:00)

Many planning councils serve as a resource to other nonprofits in their communities. This workshop will be a "nuts & bolts" approach to helping nonprofits build their capacity to manage their programs more effectively as well as position them to adjust to the ever changing climate of human services.

Speaker: Jennifer Henderson, President and co-founder of Strategic Interventions, Inc., is a master trainer, facilitator and technical assistance provider in the areas of strategic planning, organizational transformation, cultural diversity, community development, management assistance and capacity-building. “Strategic Interventions, Inc. is an international consulting firm dedicated to advancing progressive social change through building the long-term institutional capacity of organizations and expanding the skills and acumen of leadership.” 

Introduced by Fred Butler, Executive Director, Community Action Network (CAN), Austin, TX

An Overview of Federal Data Resources for Community Planning
(Saturday morning, 8:30)

This session will provide an overview of federal data sources useful for community planning. Using an Internet-connected PC, the presenter will guide participants through some key web sites, including FedStats.gov, a join effort of the 14 largest federal statistical agencies. Federal data series examined will include those provided by Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, BEA, IRS, and topic-specific statistical agencies including Bureau of Justice Statistics, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Energy Information Administration, National Center for Education Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Speaker: Marshall DeBerry, Manager, FedStats.gov, Washington, D.C.

Introduced by Sharon Clark, Administrator, National Association of Planning Councils, Dallas, Texas


Community Indicators
(Saturday morning, 9:30)

The latest on community indicators work, to include: Key findings from the International Community Indicators Conference in Reno -- lessons learned that can be applied in local communities ... An overview of the national and international context of community indicators, including the new Community Indicators Consortium ... NAPC’s new state-of-the-art social indicators website (www.socialindicators.com) will be featured with discussion of NAPC’s 60 core indicators and their application in local planning and policy initiatives.

Speakers will include Katrina Middleton (Community Services Planning Council, Sacramento, California), Fred Butler (Community Action Network, Austin, Texas), Mark Salling (The Center for Community Solutions and Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio), and others on NAPC’s indicators team.

Introduced by Martha Blaine, Executive Director, Community Council of Greater Dallas


The NAPC Annual Meeting / Luncheon
(Saturday, 12:45)

All conference participants are invited to the luncheon. Enjoy reports of the year’s highlights, introduction of new members, thank-yous and awards, and election of officers and board members. (Afterward: group photo, incoming Board of Directors.)


Human Services and Social Change
(Saturday afternoon, 2:00)

An interactive discussion of the emerging role of human service providers as social change agents. What value is derived from agencies changing from simply providing services to advocating for policies that enable people to help themselves and move into the economic mainstream? How can human service agencies advocate for the service-to-change agenda and strengthen the democratic participation of underserved populations in the process?

The discussion will be led by Phil Dessauer and Nancy Findeisen, two members of a new national working group on Human Services and Social Change sponsored by Independent Sector and the Union Institute and University. Both are past Presidents of NAPC, and are executive directors of the councils in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Sacramento, California, respectively.

Introduced by Mary Louis Campbell, Executive Director, The Planning Council, Norfolk, Virginia

The AIRS Conference and the
2-1-1 Pre-Conference Session

NAPC’s 2004 annual conference has been scheduled immediately after the annual conference of AIRS, the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems, in the same location -- the Norfolk Waterfront Marriott -- for the convenience of people who would like to attend both events. The AIRS conference opens on Saturday afternoon, May 1, and continues through Thursday morning, May 6th.

To read about and register for the AIRS conference, go to: http://www.airs.org/events/events_conference.asp

On Thursday morning, May 6, (time), AIRS and NAPC will offer a joint session on 2-1-1. NAPC has long been interested in 2-1-1, for its great potential for linking people with services, and also for its potential for providing real-time data about needs, trends and services for community planning. This update and discussion session will feature presentations by leaders in the development and implementation of 2-1-1 from NAPC organizations as well as others around the country. Session coordinators for NAPC are board members Pam Kestner-Chappelear, Executive Director, Council of Community Services, Roanoke, Virginia, and Martha Blaine, Executive Director, Community Council of Greater Dallas. (NAPC is a member of the National 2-1-1 Coalition.)

(There is no additional fee for NAPC members wishing to attend this session, but please pre-register on the NAPC registration form. Those wanting to attend other parts of the AIRS conference will need to contact AIRS to register.)

Here is more information about 2-1-1 from the AIRS website, www.airs.org:

Americans in search of critical services such as emergency financial assistance, food, shelter, child care, jobs, or mental health support often do not know where to begin. Looking for help means locating dozens of phone numbers and/or websites (for those who have access), and then searching through a maze of agencies and services to make the right connection. Now, more than ever, individuals and families will need a way to efficiently access all the resources of the community to achieve or maintain self-sufficiency.

Community information and referral has been bringing people and services together as a critical part of the health and human service delivery system for over 30 years. I&R specialists are skilled professionals who assess callers’ needs, determine their options and best course of action, direct them to appropriate programs/services, provide culturally appropriate support, intervene in crisis situations, and advocate for the caller as needed. 2-1-1 provides an easy way for every citizen to access comprehensive and specialized I&R services in their community. This easy-to-remember, universal number that connects individuals with community resources is the solution America needs for more people to find help or give help in their communities.

The mission of 2-1-1 is to build America’s capacity to strengthen the way people access help and engage in civic life. The Alliance of Information & Referral Systems, United Way of America, and National 2-1-1 Coalition have provided ongoing leadership to the National 2-1-1 Initiative which is designed to accelerate, lead, and support the implementation and sustainability of the national 2-1-1 system.

For more information on 2-1-1 please visit www.211.org or read the AIRS 2-1-1 Position Paper.
 

The 2004 National Conference and the
National Association of Planning Councils

If you are leading, participating in, researching, teaching about, studying, or simply interested in effective community-based planning and mobilization to address human service and health needs and to build strong and caring communities, then this conference — and NAPC — will be valuable to you.

NAPC offers lower conference rates for members and for additional people from the same member organization. This would be a great time to join NAPC! Please consider NAPC's special introductory membership offer.

NAPC invites you to come, learn, and interact with colleagues working in communities all across the country. Relax and renew. Then return to your community with new ideas, skills, and tools .... and most important of all, an expanded network for ongoing information and support through the National Association of Planning Councils.


You are invited to participate in the resource fair

All conference participants are encouraged to bring materials about your organization and your work to share. For NAPC members and conference attendees, there is no charge to display and distribute materials on the resource tables. They will line the meeting room and be available for visiting throughout the conference sessions. Those unable to attend the conference but wanting to distribute materials may contact Mary Louis Campbell, mlcampbell@theplanningcouncil.org, to discuss arrangements. Please take any extra materials with you at the conclusion of the conference if you wish to keep them. To ship materials, please address the box to yourself at the hotel, writing “NAPC Conference” and your arrival date on the box.


Thanks, to all who have helped make this conference possible!

Special thanks to all the conference speakers – national experts as well as NAPC members and other community-based speakers – for sharing your valuable time and experiences.

NAPC Board members serving as 2004 conference coordinators are NAPC Board members Pam Kestner-Chappelear (Executive Director, Council of Community Services, Roanoke, VA) and Mary Louis Campbell (Executive Director, The Planning Council, Norfolk, VA). The NAPC Board has served as the conference planning committee, and several members have planned sessions and/or will serve as speakers or moderators. NAPC Board members include Nancy Findeisen, President (Executive Director, Community Services Planning Council – Sacramento, CA), Martha Blaine, Treasurer (Dallas, TX), Elaine Andersen (Norwalk, CT), John Begala (Cleveland, OH), Fred Butler (Austin, TX), Phil Dessauer, Jr. (Tulsa, OK), Marge Dill (Ithaca, NY) Paul Gilmer (Charleston, WV), Ed Schoenberger (San Francisco, CA) and Karen Wulfkuhle (Lenexa, KS). Sharon Clark, NAPC Administrator (Dallas, TX), has provided staff support.

Thanks to Connect America, Association for Community Health Improvement, Idealist, GuideStar, the online Chronicle of Philanthropy, and many of NAPC’s members for agreeing to post news of the NAPC conference in publications, and online, with links to the NAPC website, www.communityplanning.org.


For more information

Please check this website page often for program updates and additions.

To learn more about the conference, the National Association of Planning Councils, and planning councils and their work, please visit the NAPC website. E-mail NAPC: napc@communityplanning.org. Call the NAPC office: 214-342-2638 or, toll-free, 1-800-795-9834. To learn more about or contact NAPC’s members, you’ll find a roster, which includes links to their websites and email addresses, on the “NAPC Members” page of the NAPC website.

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How to register for the conference and reserve a room at the conference hotel

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Complete the registration form and mail, with payment, to: NAPC, 11118 Ferndale Road, Dallas, TX 75238.

You may also register by e-mail.  Use this email-friendly registration form -- or, just type the necessary information into an email and send to: conference@communityplanning.org.

Qualify for the “Member” discount by joining NAPC as you register for the conference! To see where you would fit in the dues structure, go to “Join NAPC.”

Bring colleagues! NAPC offers members a substantial discount for additional people attending from the same member organization.

Conference fees: $298 per person for non-members; $248 for the first conference attendee from a member organization; $198 for each additional attendee from a member organization.


SATURDAY NIGHT SEAFOOD FEST

There is an additional charge of $45 for the optional Saturday night celebration (at a lovely location on the water).


LOCATION, HOTEL RESERVATIONS, TRANSPORTATION

The conference will be in beautiful Norfolk, Virginia, at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott, 235 East Main Street.

Call (757) 627-4200, 1-800-228-9290 or 1-888-840-3143.

To learn more about Norfolk, please visit Visit the Norfolk Convention and Visitor’s Bureau website, www.norfolkcvb.com. Read more about the hotel at www.norfolkmarriott.com. From the hotel website: “The Marriott is located in the heart of downtown Norfolk connecting to the Waterside Convention Center and The Waterside Festival Marketplace ... The US Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command is adjacent to the hotel, and Hampton Roads Harbor Tours, Harbor Park Stadium, MacArthur Center Mall and the Nauticus National Maritime Museum are within two blocks."  "Hotel amenities: New York City Deli & Pub, Coffee Maker in Room, Business Center, Concierge, Parking, Pool, Modem Lines in Room, Hairdryer in Room, Express Checkout, Handicapped Rooms/Facilities, 24 Hour Front Desk, Laundry/Valet Services, Television with Cable, Fitness Center or Spa, Safe Deposit Box, Room Service, Restaurant, Piano Bar/Lounge." Check-in time is 4 p.m., check-out time is 11 a.m.

Transportation and parking: cabfare from the airport is $15-20 per person one way; the hotel does not offer a courtesy shuttle. Parking is available at the hotel for $19 per overnight stay for self-parking, $24 for valet parking.


QUESTIONS?

Please e-mail: conference@communityplanning.org ... or call NAPC toll-free: 1-800-795-9834.

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Looking forward to seeing you in Norfolk!

2004 Conference Photo Album

Looking ahead ...

2005 NAPC/CIC Conference
May 12-14 in Washington, DC

Looking back ... 

2003 National Conference, May 8-10, 2003

At Asilomar Conference Center, on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula - Northern California

Sincere thanks to everyone who helped make NAPC's 2003 National Conference such a success!

Presentation highlights   Online photo album
 

Information and photos from other past conferences: 

2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998
 

Would you like to make suggestions for future conferences, volunteer to make a presentation, or be added to the conference invitation list?  Please send NAPC an e-mail:  NAPC@communityplanning.org.  Be sure to include your phone number, mailing address, and e-mail address.