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March 25-26, 2025
This conference revolves around the belief that the most innovative and creative solutions are often born from the minds of frontline vocational rehabilitation professionals like yourself.
We invite you to:
- Share Your Ideas: Join in the discussion about your innovative solutions, creative projects, and fresh ideas with fellow professionals.
- Discover New Perspectives: Be inspired by your peers and start thinking differently about vocational rehabilitation.
- Revitalize Your Commitment: Reconnect with your creative abilities and rekindle your passion for improving the vocational rehabilitation landscape.
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Benefits of Sponsoring the Innovation Inspiration Expo
Investment: Invest in your brand equity by supporting the community of rehabilitation professionals.
Talent: Connect with line staff, supervisors, and agency directors who are at the forefront of the rehabilitation and assistive technology field.
Leadership: Demonstrate your organization’s leadership and innovative practices in front of the brightest minds in the field.
The Innovation Inspiration Expo is a grassroots effort to connect all vocational rehabilitation professionals to educate, discuss, and share different and inspiring practices that are working in the field
An Annual Virtual Event Hosted by the
University of Wisconsin-Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Institute (SVRI)
Expo Dates: Tuesday, March 25 and Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Purpose: Provide a virtual forum for sharing innovative and creative solutions in vocational rehabilitation (VR) that are field initiated (frontline), improve the consumer VR experience, and result in high-quality employment outcomes.
Location: Virtual/Online
Audience: The target audience for the expo includes anyone who wants to learn about innovative solutions to help people with disabilities maximize their participation in the workforce.
Proposal Design: The proposal should describe an innovative solution, activity, project, or program started within the presenter’s organization by one or more staff members. The innovative practice does not need to be evidence based or backed by research, but it should have been in use for one year or more and have some proof of efficacy. The hope is to find grassroots problem-solving within organizations that became successful new processes, approaches, or programs.
- All presentations will be recorded. The selected presentations will be available on-demand for the conference's duration and for four weeks after its end.
- Some presentations will be selected for a live question and answer session. For selected presentations, the presenter(s) will be available for the live session.
- All material contained in a presentation, or as a separate handout, must be available for conference attendees to download and use at their discretion.
Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2024
Notification on Proposal Submission: Presenters will be informed about their proposal status and next steps via email by October 31, 2024.
Questions and/or Assistance Preparing the Proposal: The goal is to secure a broad range of presenters and topics for this Expo. The Expo committee is especially interested in examples of innovative strategies, solutions, projects, and programs that were created by or in collaboration with marginalized communities and/or with underserved or unserved populations and that meet the needs of people with the most significant disabilities.
For questions about this Request for Proposals or assistance preparing the proposal, email svri.training@gmail.com.
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Provide a virtual forum for sharing innovative and creative solutions in vocational rehabilitation (VR) that are field initiated (frontline), improve the consumer VR experience, and result in high-quality employment outcomes.
Some of the most innovative and creative solutions come from professionals who work directly with consumers and recognize needs, opportunities, and new possibilities. This expo is designed to give frontline VR professionals a forum to share new ideas, innovative solutions, and creative projects with others in the field. It is also an opportunity to be inspired by peers to think differently, reconnect with creative abilities, and revitalize professional commitment by seeing the field from an exciting new perspective. The expo will be offered virtually on an annual basis to ensure the ability of all frontline staff to attend, participate, and be inspired.