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Friday July 22, 21612:00 PM MST
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Sun July 24, 2016 at 1:00 PM MST
Englewood Civic Center
1000 Englewood Parkway
Englewood, CO 80110
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SDEAC 2016 Grants for Service Dog & Handler Teams, First Responders, Service Members & Families (with ID cards.)
Your SDEAC Registration fee will only be $1.00. You WILL need to pay for your hotel, lunches and a Conference 2016 T-shirt, if you want one.
Service Dog Education and Awareness Conference
On July 22, thru July 24, 2016 Operation Fetch will hold a workshop for first responders, mental health professionals. community leaders, business owners, community advocates and educators. The purpose of the event is to educate police, fire and public regarding laws, regulations and procedures concerning service dogs and their handlers.
Attendees will learn to educate and advocate in their own businesses, towns or agencies for ADA compliance and conflict free access for people with visible and invisible disabilities. And professionals will better understand how and when to refer a client for service dog, emotional suppport dog or companion dog assistance.
To date, we have an impressive list of proposed speakers who will lend their time and considerable talent at the event to include:
Dr. Laurel Braitman: Dr. Braitman is a science historian, writer, and a TED Fellow. She is also an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Laurel has a PhD in the history of science from MIT and has written for a variety of publications. She is the author of Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves, which was published in June 2014 by Simon & Schuster.
Audie Marks: Service Dog Advocate, Speaker, Journalist, Senior Producer BBC
Christa Velbel, Co-founder of VALOR. Based in Chicago, they train veterans in transition to work with court case dogs. They work hand in hand with Safe Humane Chicago and have turned a 97% kill rate into an above 80% rescu/adoption rate for these high risk dogs.
Dr. Margaret Glenn: Dr. Glenn is the chair of the Department of Rehabilitation at the University of West Virginia. She also works closely with the prison training program at the federal facility in Morgantown West Virginia that trains canines for veterans with mobility and PTSD issues. She also works with agencies on access for service dogs in the workplace.
Lon Hodge: Lon,"Veteran Traveler," is a former military officer and professor of psychology that works closely with the Disaster Shelters Relief Foundation and Operation Fetch. He and Gander, the AKC national hero service dog of the year, travel the country giving seminars on service dog awareness, PTSD and ADA regulations an doing Planned Acts of Community Kindness (PACKS) with their social media community of some 400,000 followers.They have worked with businesses, police and fire and organizations small and large to create a barrier and stress free environment for service dog handlers and especially veterans and victims of trauma.
Stephanie Weaver: Author of Golden Angels. She will talk about the human canine conncetion, love and loss. She is a wellness advocate, TED-style speaking coach, writer and animal activist/advocate.
B. Jean Meade, DVM, MD, PhD: Dr. Meade is faculty at West Virginia University, researcher at the National Institute of Occupational Health and owner of Cheat Lake veterinary hospital. She also coordinates the Morgantown, Federal Correctional Institution's canine training program that supplies dogs to wounded veterans after being trained by inmates at the prison.
Proclamation requests have been sent to several city officials.
Topics to be discussed by recognized authorities in research, training and access advocacy:
- Types of Service Dogs and their training
- Mental Health Considerations:
- Visible and Invisible Injury and Canine Assistance
- Service Dogs as an adjunct to therpay
- PTSD, C-PTSD and generalized anxiety psychiatric service animals
- Why your client does not need a service dog
- Differences between Emotional Support Animals and Service Animals
- Assistance Training Organizations and Support Resources
- The Human Canine Connection and the healing power of assistance dogs
- Workplace Access Issues
- Efficacy of Service Dogs
- The VA problem and ADA non compliance
- ADA Laws and implementation
- State Laws
- Township Laws
- Local and DOJ level complaint procedures
- How to recognize and deal with real and “fake” service dogs and what to do to avoid litigation
- First Responders: What to do in the case of an emergency when service dogs are involved
- Conflict resolution for businesses and first responders
- The service vest mills, how they exploit the laws and how to respond
- Special considerations for veterans with PTSD service dogs
- More TBA
Operation Fetch is a 501c3 Organization and a division of the Disaster Shelters Relief Foundation
CEUs for teachers and mental health professionals will be available. You may sign up at the door.
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********** HOTEL INFORMATION for SDEAC 2016 ************
This is a VERY busy weekend in the southwest Denver area. Unfortunately, room costs are high and rooms are at a premium. We have had difficulty finding available rooms for SDEAC 2016 attendees. If possible, please consider roommates for the weekend, and make your reservations AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!
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Official Hotel for the Conference: These rooms will only be held until June 21, 2016. Be sure to reserve your room by then, to assure availability. |
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Residence Inn Denver Southwest/Lakewood 7050 W Hampden Ave, Lakewood, CO 80227 303-985-7676
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Conference rate: $169.00 per night, for 1 Queen bed, 1 fold out sofa-bed Includes kitchenette, pool, hot tub, full breakfast, wi-fi, patio. Provides shuttle bus to Hampden Hall. |
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Other hotels in the same area: These hotels have limited rooms available. |
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Best Western Denver Southwest 3440 So Vance St 303-989-5500 |
NO conference rate or block: $144.99 per night for 2 Queen beds. LIMITED availability Includes breakfast, microwave and fridge (some rooms) pool, wi-fi, fitness center. No shuttle available |
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LaQuinta Inn & Suites Denver Southwest 303-985-9696
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NO conference rate or block: $175.00 per night for 1 King bed Some rooms MAY have pull-out couch. Includes breakfast, microwave & fridge, wi-fi, fitness center, pool, spa. No shuttle available. |
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Conference fees are on the next page