Call for Presentation 2010

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The New Hampshire Health Care Association (NHHCA) invites you to submit a presentation proposal for our 2010 education and events. Please make sure to fill out the following information and only submit 100% completed proposals.

Who Should Submit a Proposal?:
As a long term care professional you have the experience to understand the trends, issues, and challenges facing you and your colleagues. Now is your chance to share that knowledge and experience; from success stories to professional insights, you have the opportunity to enhance long term care in New Hampshire. Anyone can apply to be an education presenter. We welcome proposals from providers, state agencies, long term care organizations, business members, consultants, and all others interested in submitting a proposal.

Audience Characteristics:
NHHCA represents more than 90 long term care facilities statewide, providing care to more than 8,500 elderly and disabled people. Education sessions draw a range of 30 – 200 attendees while some convention sessions will draw over 250 attendees. Our audience represents all disciplines from both independent and multi-facility organizations and both not-for-profit and proprietary organizations. The attendees have varying levels of experience in the long term care profession from significant experience (10+ years) to moderate experience (5-10 years) and limited experience (0-5 years).

Seminar Focus & Topics of Interests:
NHHCA invites you to submit a seminar proposal with a focus directed to usable, relevant information such as: care practice, culture change, business & financial management, human resource, innovations & advancements, leadership, marketing, performance excellence, documentation & assessment, customer service, workforce development, and much more. Even though your education information may not fall directly in one of the categories listed above we still strongly encourage you to submit a proposal.

Speaker Fees/ Expenses:
For over half a century, New Hampshire Health Care Association has earned an outstanding reputation for providing high quality educational programs. We select speakers who share their expertise for the overall benefit of the long-term care profession.

Speakers who waive their fees (honorarium, travel reimbursement, etc) will be given top priority in the selection process. As an effort to keep registration fees at a minimum and pass the savings on to the attendees. If you require or expect an honorarium or reimbursement for any of your expenses, you must indicate it in section IV.

Selection Process:
The Education Committee and the Events/Program Coordinator of the NHHCA will review all completed proposals. Incomplete proposals will not be reviewed. Criteria used to select proposals include but are not limited to:

• Unique and timely content;

• Relevance to the needs to the key constituencies of NHHCA;

• Practical, results- oriented applications;

• Speaker fees and expenses

Submission Guidelines:

• Education sessions can range from 1 hour to a full 8 hour day program. You must specify the length of material in your proposal. Please note, you may be asked to limit the hours in your material to fit our time constraints.

• Submissions may be individual presentations, group presentations or panels. NHHCA reserves the right to combine proposed topics and presenters.

• Individuals or groups may submit more than one proposal; but are limited to 3 (three) proposals per conference.

• Submitting a proposal does not guarantee that your presentation will be selected.

• Speakers that are selected agree to abide by ALL deadlines set forth by the NHHCA.

Submission Policies:

• Proposals must be free of any commercial or promotional content.

• Do not include any additional materials such as brochures, articles, or DVD’s. No PowerPoint presentations will be accepted as a proposal.

• If mailed, proposals must be submitted with no staples or binding of any kind.

• Proposals must be complete upon submissions, incomplete proposals will not be reviewed.

• Proposals can be submitted to the NHHCA by:
  Completing the form online (we strongly suggest this method)
  Emailed to spichett@nhhca.org or
  Mailed to: NHHCA, Attn: CFP, 5 Sheep Davis Road, Suite E, Pembroke, NH 03275.
  Faxed proposals will not be accepted.

• All proposals must be received by the NHHCA no later than 3:00pm on the specified deadline date.

Timeline:
Please note we will be selecting speakers for different events throughout the year. If you would rather present for one of the following conferences you must specify that on your application and adhere to the deadline.

Spring Conference, May 20, 2010
Proposal due: March 5, 2010
Speaker notification by e-mail: March 26, 2010

Annual Convention & Trade Show, September 29-30, 2010
Proposal due: July 1, 2010
Speaker notification by e-mail: July 15, 2010

Individuals submitting a proposal will be notified by the dates mentioned above. Prior to that date the New Hampshire Health Care Association cannot accept phone calls regarding the status of particular proposals.

Consider Exhibiting:
You can expand your visibility by exhibiting at our Annual Convention & Trade Show held on September 29 & 30, 2010. While keynote and breakout sessions must be informative in nature, you can showcase your products or services in the Exhibit Hall. For more information on how to become an exhibitor please contact Shannon via e-mail at spichett@nhhca.org.