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Innovations in IT Management, Outsourcing and Budgeting for Social Services Agencies and Providers
Improve Program Performance, Achieve Program Goals
You will emerge from this conference with timely strategies for enhancing your organization’s ability to set and achieve program goals and performance results. Integrating technology strategy with your overarching mission, this summit will provide you with a performance framework that will help social service agencies and organizations envision and achieve new results, with concrete performance data to support them.
Best Practice Case Studies
From around the country, we have assembled some of the most innovative technology solutions to ongoing challenges in the social services arena:
  • Integrated Services: “No-Wrong-Door”
  • Case Management: Technology Streamlining Processes
  • Welfare to Work: Robust Integrated Systems
  • IT Project Management: Best Practices and Performance Management
  • Strategic Planning: Making it All Happen
Deliver More Results with Less Money
State and local government all over the country are facing tough budget shortfalls. Utilize technology strategy and applications to ensure that you meet and exceed program expectations while at the same time reducing overall program costs. Integrate services, reduce processing costs, increase data accuracy and speed, and enhance program performance results.
Learn from Leaders in the Field, Presenting Emerging Innovations, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned
The “2003 Conference on Information Technology Strategy for Social Services” offers a diverse speaking faculty and a wide range of valuable information and experience for the social service manager. Take advantage of this hands-on environment, and walk away with the tools to improve your own agency’s IT and program strategy.
June 9-10, 2003 - The Performance Institute - Arlington, Va.
Agenda and Speaking Faculty
Day One: June 9, 2003
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 Keynote Address: Technology for Social Services
Marq Youngblood, Chief Information Officer, Oklahoma Department of Human Resources
9:30 Leadership Panel: Best Practices, Using IT to Support and Transform Social Services,
Michael Coulson
Director, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Paul Taylor, Chief Strategy Officer, Center for Digital Government, Jim Hogan, Senior Project Manager, Michigan Human Services Development
10:45 Break and Refreshments
11:00

Integrating Services: "No-Wrong-Door"
Rae Ann Steinly, Senior Project Manager for IT and Services Integration, American Public Human Services Association, Harry Sutton, Director of Information Systems, Virginia Department of Social Services

12:00 Luncheon
1:00 Utilizing Technology to Deliver Critical Services
Dan Gonos, Chief Technologist, EDS Solutions Consulting West - CalWIN Project
2:00 Case Study: WorkFirst
Debbie Zeidenberg, Washington State Office of Financial Management, WorkFirst Performance Team
3:15 Break and Refreshments
3:00 Break
3:15 Case Management: Revving up Performance
Mark Turner, Ph.D., President, Optimal Solutions Group, LLC, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
4:15  Adjourn
Day Two: June 10, 2003
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 Making it Happen: IT Investment Management
John Wheatly, Socius Corporation
9:30

IT Project Management: Drilling Down to the Common Questions
Robert Mastro, Director of Information Technology, New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance

10:30

Morning Break
10:45 Case Study: SEMS Imaging System Speeds Up Process
Steve Spitzer, Washington State Division of Child Support
 
12:00 Luncheon
1:00 Application Workshop: What Gets Measured Gets Done: Building a Performance Measurement Framework to Achieve IT and Program Results 
Carl DeMaio, The Performance Institute/Reason Foundation
4:00 Adjourn

Or by calling us at
703-894-0481
Venue 

The Information Technology Strategies for Social Services will be held at the Performance Institute in Arlington, Va., just one block east of the Courthouse Metro stop on the Orange Line. A public parking garage is located inside the building.

The Performance Institute
1515 N. Courthouse Rd.
Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201
703-894-0481

A continental breakfast and catered lunch will be provided for all delegates.

Hotel

The Information Technology Strategies for Social Services conference will be held at the Performance Institute, in Arlington, VA. A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Hilton Garden Inn, at a discounted rate of $142.00. Please contact the hotel at 703-528-4444 for reservations. Be sure to ask for the Performance Institute conference rate:

Hilton Garden Inn
1333 Courthouse Road
Arlington, VA 22201
Tel: 703-528-4444
Fax: 703-528-4933

Tuition

The fee for attending The Information Technology Strategies for Social Services is:

Conference Only $995
Conference & Workshop $1,295
Workshop Only $300
Group Discounts
Reduced tuition rates for delegates who attend in groups of three or more are available by calling James Simpson at 703-894-0481, or emailing him at [email protected].