2016 Housing Conference for LeadingAge New York April 12-14, 2016 | Page 3

Housing Professionals Annual Conference Education Sessions April 12 – 14, 2016 Pre-Conference Intensive Tuesday April 12 Noon – 1 p.m. Pre-conference registration (lunch on your own) 1 – 5 p.m. Pre-Conference Intensive: HUD Management and Occupancy Challenge Join Mary Ross for a four-hour training session that combines a review of the latest trends and hottest topics of the day, with answers to some of the most frequently encountered problems facing affordable housing owners and agents. To be discussed: • Fair Housing concerns, specifically addressing bullying and hoarding; • The latest required changes to the Resident Selection Plan and discussion of original ideas used in TSPs and applications for senior properties; • Income and deduction clarifications, including some proposed changes; and, • Status update on potential regulatory changes affecting affordable housing providers. Mary Ross, CPO, FHC, MORS, president, Ross Business Development Inc., Marietta, GA Conference Agenda WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 7:45 – 8:45 a.m. Conference registration/Continental breakfast/Visit exhibitors 8:45 – 9 a.m. Welcome 9 – 10:30 a.m. independent living can pose certain risks for these adults – and prove challenging for family and caregivers. How do we help a senior who starts to display cognitive impairment? What do we need to do to develop support systems that keep them safe, keep dementia-related behaviors from disturbing the housing community, and help their families deal with the challenges of this disease? Kelly Papa, MSN, RN, corporate director of learning, Masonicare University,Wallingford, CT PLENARY SESSION Live-In Aides and Related Issues Noon – 1:15 p.m. Developing policies and procedures to address residents’ need for live-in aides can be complicated. This is especially true when your resident proposes that a family member move in to the unit to act as the live-in aide. Join us to get new information about establishing policies that honor rights of residents to have assistance while curtailing attempts to circumvent HUD’s occupancy requirements for senior housing. Mary Ross, CPO, FHC, MORS, president, Ross Business Development Inc., Marietta, GA 1:15 – 2:45 p.m. 10:30 – 11 a.m. Refreshment break/Visit exhibitors 11 a.m. – noon KEYNOTE ADDRESS Dementia in Independent Senior Housing: Concerns, Barriers and Solutions For the millions of Americans with dementia, staying at home for as long as possible is a common goal. However, Lunch with exhibitors Concurrent sessions: 1) EIV – An Explanation of HUD’s Requirements for Using Their Enterprise Income Verification System This session will provide an overview of which documents are required during the Management and Occupancy Reviews (MOR), the Master File, using Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) as up-front income verification and income discrepancies. Mary Ross, CPO, FHC, MORS, president, Ross Business Development Inc., Marietta, GA 2) Cliques and Bullying – Can’t We All Just Get Along? This session focuses on issues of cliques, bullying and naysayers in our housing communities. Discussion topics include: how to recognize bullying behavior in our communities while addressing successful ways to prevent and decrease the behaviors from occurring, empowerment of staff in a bullying situation, and analysis of non-bullying, non-harassing and non-