Requests for Educational Presentations
LeadingAge Kanas invites you to submit your proposal(s) for 2026 educational sessions. We are looking for engaging, relevant, and forward-thinking sessions that will be of benefit to members across the aging services continuum. These members include nursing facilities, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, home health, hospice, CCRC, Life Plan communities, HCBS and PACE.
This is your chance to share innovative and effective models, best practices, cutting edge research, updates and critical information, and provide your colleagues and/or clients with new approaches and solutions to address challenges they face.
Please keep in mind the presentations should be educational in nature. The selling, promoting, or pitching any specific product, company or service is prohibited.
Planned Education Events for 2026
- Spring Conference and Expo | April 8-9 in Wichita, KS
- Joint Provider Surveyor Training | April 29 in Manhattan, KS and TBD in Wichita, KS
- Fall Conference | TBD in Salina, KS
- Other in-person trainings and workshops at varied locations
- Webinar and virtual trainings
- On-demand learning opportunities
Proposal Submission
-
To apply you must complete the application form. A different form should be submitted for each session you wish to propose. Please complete the relevant forms for Keynote presentations versus General Session or Breakout presentations.
-
Proposals will be accepted at any time but to be considered for the Spring Conference and Expo in April, you must have your session(s) submitted no later than December 1, 2025. The deadline for submissions for our Fall Conference is May 15, 2026.
-
You will be contacted if your proposal was selected for the Spring Conference by no later than January 15, 2025 or by July 1 for our Fall Conference. If you are not selected, we will keep your submission and consider it for other events. For other educational events you will be contacted at least eight weeks prior to the training if selected.
Selection Process
Educational programs are designed to accommodate a variety of learning formats including traditional instruction, case studies, panel discussions, facilitated networking/sharing, and innovative approaches. Sessions featuring LeadingAge Kansas members or highlighting their innovative practices are encouraged. This year, we are placing a strong emphasis on sessions that are interactive, application-based or use innovative teaching methods as well as sessions that help our members with innovation, future planning, and solving current challenges. Need inspiration, take a look at this list of topic ideas.
Our education planning team is very interested in sessions with active learning activities, like hands-on exercises, case studies, simulations, etc. If you are selected to present, our team might work with you to integrate active learning activities into your session, if they are not already present.
Our education planning team will evaluate proposals based on:
Questions about the education sessions or the submission process? Contact Addy Mead at [email protected].
|
