PAULA MCELWEE: can you find this one? The CIL next steps for creating and operating a Leadership Academy. You've got one side that's assets and one side that's barriers. On the assets you're looking at those things that we've talked about a little bit. Who are you going to use to staff it? What are your funding sources going to be? What are your collaborations? Who do you know out in the community that's on a board? On your barriers, any of those that you feel like you're lacking. On all of those, what are you going to do about it? So you've got that planned, next steps. And we really want you to just take a few minutes to fill that out and then we'll talk together a little bit about it. So if you're with someone else and you're not sitting at the same table but you're with the same organization, you might want to collaborate on that. I think that's very useful. If you're from the same state but not the same organization, you might want to decide is it statewide, like for you guys or are you going to do it at individual organizations? I hear you've already been planning, but that's super. All right. So let's take a few minutes to get that started. Write your elements of your plan and then we're going to talk about how you're going to do it. So we're going to share back in a minute. Okay, lets talk a few minutes together. I want you to think about, of all the things you have written down on your plan, what is the first or the most important or the most exciting, you pick, but let's come back together and talk about what's the first thing you're going to do when you get home or the most exciting thing or most important thing that you're going to do when you get home. And I know who wants to talk first. Ta da! AUDIENCE MEMBER: mine is to bring this back to our executive director and basically give her, or give her a cliff notes version of what we did this week and get her on board. Kind of did that with a text message just now and just while the excitement is still here, let's go. PAULA MCELWEE: so bring on board the other players in your organizations because sometimes they have to be involved in the decision making. So very important and exciting thing to do. All right. What else would people like to share that's exciting or important things you're going to do in your plan? Anybody? Microphone. AUDIENCE MEMBER: come up with a presentation for the board after getting materials and some of the other stuff you talked about on the website that we can use to show outcomes. PAULA MCELWEE: uh-huh. Take a look at your board and get their buy-in because they're going to be involved in different ways. Good. What else are you going to do? Yeah. AUDIENCE MEMBER: this is more a question than that, but as she said, make that presentation. Both Kimberly and Bob said something about their outcomes. Do you have your outcomes somewhere where you can send it to us so it's like the documentation to say how well it works? ROBERT HAND: for me, I'd put you in touch with RICV and they have them, but they'll be happy to share it with them. PAULA MCELWEE: to reach the person at RICV, right in front of your manual there's an info for leadership, yeah, I forget what the e-mail address is, but you can e-mail to that address. You'll probably get Joseph Cody responding to you. ROBERT HAND: info@nationalcla.org. It's right on the front page there. PAULA MCELWEE: info@nationalcla.org. It's right on that first page. And Joseph is usually the person right now who's doing that as far as Bob and I know. All right. What else would you like to do when you get home? AUDIENCE MEMBER: I was just saying about the video that you had as far as recruiting buy-ins that you had shown earlier about the presentation. PAULA MCELWEE: so the video at the very first day that we showed was really excellent for that. So you can contact Kimberly if you want to know, KIMBERLY TISSOT: it's on our website as well at www.able-sc.org. AUDIENCE MEMBER: say that one more time. KIMBERLY TISSOT: www.able-sc.org. And the video is under programs and then under CLA under the programs. AUDIENCE MEMBER: that's in the manual, right? KIMBERLY TISSOT: that's not in the manual. PAULA MCELWEE: it's in the slides. KIMBERLY TISSOT: but it's in the slides, yeah. And the direct link is in the slides as well. PAULA MCELWEE: so you'll have, on that page you'll have the link as well. Back here? No? That was a stretch I think. Sorry. Who else is excited to do something and wants to tell us about it? Yeah. Right here. AUDIENCE MEMBER: I'm going to be one of the people that takes the training, so I'm going the be the one that encourages the board to accept the training so that I can take it. And I'm going to be presenting to the board on Monday. PAULA MCELWEE: excellent. AUDIENCE MEMBER: so I've got a lot of homework to do. PAULA MCELWEE: and then maybe after you get them to buy in, you can help them recruit some of your peers to attend with you. So that'll be good. Yeah, Brenda. AUDIENCE MEMBER: we already have buy-in from our management staff because of what happened last year in Berkeley. But I think the first thing we're really excited about is to sit down with our management staff and talk about recruitment strategies because we are one of those centers that the people, we need to have in our CLA not necessarily people that we see every day, so we need to have a really hard-hitting marketing campaign and I'm excited to get that off the ground. PAULA MCELWEE: yeah. Excellent. So if you think about the people in the community that are going to be most benefitted by and might benefit those boards the most and the community as a whole, sometimes they're people that have not come to your center for services. They went through, you know, their normal integrated life, but they're out there and they're people with disabilities. And to engage them in the disability community is a really, this is a positive way to do that. Other ideas? Anybody have something else they want to share? Yeah, go ahead. Use the microphone, please. AUDIENCE MEMBER: I'm allergic to it. We have an existing grant I think I mentioned on accessible transportation and part of it is we're having five accessible transportation conferences throughout our great state of Texas, and part of that piece is to encourage 30 Texans with disabilities to serve on transportation boards and Councils. So they'll experience specific, this training came at the perfect time to help them engage and train folks particularly on Robert's Rules and other things I've learned. PAULA MCELWEE: and absolutely the specificity that you're using there is appropriate because you're targeting a specific kind of board, you will recruit people interested in that issue. It will be a good match. So, excellent. Other comments or questions or ideas or fun times?