2023 AgrAbility National Training Workshop

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Monday, March 20th: 8 am – 6 pm

• 9 am – 3:30 pm:  Mental Health First Aid – $60 fee- lunch included – Must register by March 1st
• 12 pm – 4:00 pm: Introducing the Business Model Canvas as a Planning Tool
• 1 pm – 4 pm:  New Staff Training
• 1 pm – 4 pm:  Worksite Assessment, Secondary Injury, and AT Selection- $25 fee
• 1 pm – 4 pm:  Offsite tour- Providence St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Medical Center $40 fee
• 4:30 pm – 6 pm:  Poster Session and Reception Poster descriptions

Tuesday March 21st: 8 am – 5 pm                  

• 8 am – 9 am:  Opening Conference Session
• 9:15 am – 10:15 am:  Conference Breakout Sessions
  • Low Tech Assistive Technology Lessons from Ethiopia
  • Improving Mental Health and Cognitive Abilities with Apps
  • What AgrAbility Looks Like in Communities of Persistent Poverty
  • Roundtable discussion with Veterans, Underserved and Beginning Farmers Farmer Veteran Coalition
• 10:15 am – 10:45 am Break
• 10:45 am – 12:15 pm:  Conference Breakout Sessions
  • Adaptive Beekeeping for People with Disabilities and Veterans
  • Brain Injury: Chronic Health Condition and Management for Farmers
  • Promoting Resiliency with Agricultural Clients Using SAMHSA’s 8 Domains of Wellness
  • Alternative and Value-Added Agricultural Enterprises – Panel Discussion of Successful Entrepreneurs
  • QPR for Farmers and Farm Families: Suicide Prevention Training
• 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm :  Lunch- Speaker Mike Rosmann
• 1:45 pm – 2:30 pm:  Conference Breakout Sessions
  • What Tools are in Your AgrAbility Truck?
  • Overcoming Barriers to Wellness Recovery Through Volunteerism, Peer Support, Leisure Activities, and Travel
  • Using Social Media to Support Your Farmers and Create Educational Content   handout
  • USDA Military Veterans Agricultural Liaison
• 2:40 pm – 3:40 pm:  Conference Breakout Sessions
  • Think Outside of the Box to Increase Income of Small Farmers    Direct Market Beef booklet
  • Ask In Earnest: Candid and Compassionate Conversations about Suicide for the Farm and Ranch Community
  • Project Director (PI) Session
  • AgrAbility Farmers and Ranchers Need to Work Smarter, Let the Microbes in Your Soil Take the Hard Work Out of Growing Anything!
  • Outdoor AT Show and Tell
• 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm:  Conference Breakout Sessions
  • Indoor AT Show and Tell
  • Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network Updates Northeast FRSAN  North Central FRSAN   Southern FRSAN
  • International Panel
  • Cultivating Post-Traumatic Growth and Community Reintegration in Farmer Veterans and Farmers with Disabilities
• 6:00 pm Banquet and Auction with Keynote Speaker Laurie Hayn, IN AgrAbility client

Wednesday, March 22nd: 8 am – 5 pm

• 8:00 am – 9:00 am:  Conference Breakout Sessions
  • Beyond Aching Hands and Stomped on Feet – Emerging and Current Technology Trends
  • Critical Conversations: Farm Stress and Mental Health Challenges in Farmworker Communities
  • Ohio AgrAbility and Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, Collaborating with Our State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency  Handout
  • Employing Youth in Agriculture: Keep Your Operation Legal and Your Young Workers Safe
• 9:10 am – 9:55 am:  Conference Breakout Sessions
  • Unconferencing: Sustainability – Maintaining Program Impact Beyond Funding Cycles
  • Introduction of the Workforce Development Program within the Amputee Coalition
  • Farm Family Resource Initiative in Illinois
  • SARE Grants – Preparing a Proposal
• 10:25 am – 12:00 pm:  Conference Breakout Sessions
  • From Field to Table, Train-the-Trainer Food Safety Session for Small and Mid-size Farms Section 1  Section 2 Section 3
  • From Capstone Projects to Internships:  Working with Health Sciences Students to Meet AgrAbility Program Goals
  • Cultural Humility panel:  People, Principles and Practices Applied to Serve Agricultural Communities
  • 10:25-11:05- Preliminary Results of Educating 45 Military Veterans Beginning Farmers/Ranchers through the Farm Education and Training (FEAT) Project
  • 11:15-11:55- Inter-State Collaboration to Support Veteran and Other Beginner Farmers and Ranchers
• 12pm – 1:30pm: Lunch
• 1:30pm – 2:30 pm: Conference Breakout Sessions
  • Strategies for Memory, Organization and Time Management
  • Farmer Focus (aka Metgot’ y Lancho): Leveraging Strengths and Harnessing Stressors in Guam’s Agricultural Community
  • Outreach to Land and Sea Farmers to Meet Them Where They Are At
  • It’s Hard To Keep A Psychologist Down On The Farm
• 2:40 pm – 3:40 pm:  Conference Breakout Sessions
  • Funding Assistive Technology: Financing, Credit Building, and Navigating Resources
  • Tips for Recognizing and Managing and Recognizing Excessive Stress Anxiety and Depression are Common and Resolvable article, Managing Ourselves article,  Farm Stress Management Planning Just in Case it’s Needed article
  • 4-H Save Your Brain   Leader’s Guide
  • Tai Chi for Arthritis with the Agricultural Community
• 3:40 pm – 4:10 pm:  Break
• 4:10 pm – 4:55 pm:  Conference Breakout Sessions
  • Walk in the Shoes of a Florida Farmer
  • Unconferencing: Collaborating with Goodwill and Other Non-Profits
  • What a Pain! Understanding and Managing Chronic Pain to Stay Active in Life
  • AgrAbility Safety Considerations for On-site Visits with Farm and Ranch Families   AgrAbility Safety Considerations handout

Thursday, March 23rd: 8 am – 4 pm

OPTION 1 (Full Day Tour)  8 am-4 pm

Tour a beef cattle operation and discuss how they have managed to create a resilient operation by purchasing a meat processing facility and creating a boxed beef business that delivers across the northeast US.

OPTION 2 – (Full Day Tour with ½ day drop off)  8 am-4 pm

Tour a family run farm, raising Piedmont cross cattle, and practice sustainably rotated crops and use no till practices; a farm designed for veterans to transition back into civilian life through careers in agriculture; drop off at the hotel; and a community supported, organic produce operation and CSA.

OPTION 3 (Full Day Tour)  8 am- 4 pm

Tour WSU Wilke Research Farm, a 320-acre research farm that grows different types of crops and shares their findings with farmers and scientists to help get optimal crop options and a Hutterian Colony that operates a beef operation and fully functioning farm experience that resembles farming in Switzerland 400 years ago.