Valor & Solutions Calendar

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SPEAKER: MICHAEL SMULL

Michael Smull is the Chair of The Learning Community for Essential Lifestyle Planning (TLC-ELP), and Director of Support Development Associates. He is the co-developer of essential lifestyle planning and has worked in 47 states, Canada, the U.K , Australia, and Belgium. Mr. Smull has been working with people with disabilities for the past 35 years. He has had extensive experience in nearly all aspects of developing community services.
He helped found 3 community agencies, existing agencies to convert from programs to supports, and states, regions, and counties to change their structures to support self-determination. He has helped people leave institutions in the US and the UK.. Mr. Smull has written extensively on issues relating to supporting people with challenging behaviors, person centered planning, and the challenge of changing our system to one that will support self-determination. From 1982 through 1997 he was at the University of Maryland. When he left he was a Research Assistant Professor with the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services at the College Park Campus and a Clinical Assistant Professor with the Department of Pediatrics, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. As a consultant Mr. Smull works with agencies, regions and states on learning the person centered thinking skills that underlie good person centered plans, using the skills, and developing plans that are implemented. He and his colleagues also work with organizations to make the changes needed to become or continue to be best practice providers of service. He is the recipient of the 2006 AAMR service
award.

SPEAKER: AL CONDELUCI

Al Condeluci is a lifelong resident of the Pittsburgh area. He received his masters and doctorate degrees at the University of Pittsburgh. For the past 43 years Al has been associated with CLASS, a full service nonprofit organization supporting people with disabilities, where he currently serves as Chief Executive Officer. Al holds faculty appointments with the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and School of Social Work. Al serves as a consultant, collaborator and lectures extensively around the country often on material from his books, Interdependence (1991, 1995), Beyond Difference (1996), Cultural Shifting
(2002), Advocacy for Change (2004) Together is Better (2008), and the Social Capital:The Keys to Macro Change (2014), The Macro Change Handbook (2015). He has been particularly active in looking at best practice aspects in disability services and the shift from Micro services to macro approaches. Al and his wife, Liz, have 3 children, Dante, Gianna and Santino, and live on the family “hill” in McKees Rocks PA with some 17 other Condeluci families.