USOC Paralympic Leadership Conference
The 2012 U.S. Olympic Committee Paralympic Leadership Conference presented by Deloitte is heading back to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., April 27-30. Registration information will be available soon and you won't want to miss out as this conference has sold out two years in a row!
The goal of the conference is to offer program providers, including community leaders, military personnel, veteran service organizations, sport and recreation program specialists, coaches, therapists, researchers, educators, college students, and other interested parties from across the USA, the tools and the inspiration to implement, expand and support successful Paralympic sport programs.
Here's your chance to get a taste of the leading Paralympic sport conference in the U.S. as we teamed up with Livestream.com to show three sessions from the 2011 conference.
All streamed presentations are now available on demand at the Livestream website - scroll down to the Video Library to see these videos. The sessions shown include:
Community Collaboration: Using Local Resources to Build Your Program
Presenter – Shellie Pfohl, Executive Director, President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition
Spark Change from Within
Presenter – Rye Barcott, Author of It Happened on the Way to War and Co-founder, Carolina for Kibera
Using What You’ve Got: Coaching Swimmers with Various Disabilities
Presenter – Dave Denniston, Head Coach, U.S. Paralympics Swimming Resident Program
VA Sports & Recreation Resources
Presenters – Chris Nowak, National Director, VA Paralympic Program Office; Carla Carmichael, Deputy Director Recreation Therapy Service, VA Central Office; Kendra Betz, Prosthetics Clinical Coordinator, Prosthetic & Sensory Aids Service, VA Central Office
