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Tuesday, October 8, 2024
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
7759 Auburn Rd
Utica, MI 48317
Learn, grow, connect and have FUN!
You’re invited to join our NEW and IMPROVED East Michigan Scaling Up Conference on Tuesday, October 8, 2024 with an AFTER CONFERENCE MIXER sponsored by Guardian Pharmacy!
Learn strategies to save wasted time, increase facility income, reduce frustration, and win AMAZING prizes.
Whether you want to improve your current organization or open one or more new locations, we will show you how to streamline your staffing, audits, residents, and licensing procedures.
Drastically reduce your stress and re-discover the joy of caring for your residents, staff – and yourself!
West Michigan’s Scaling Up Conference delivered!
Care Provider Solutions and Enriched Living are proud to announce the NEW and IMPROVED East Michigan Scaling Up Conference with an AFTER CONFERENCE MIXER!
Join us as we teach and train adult foster care (AFC) owners and operators how to scale up their operations through resources, connections, and best industry practices.
Join us to learn, grow, connect, and have FUN!
This conference is for you
if you are a current AFC owner, licensee, administrator, or manager who………
What You’ll Learn
It doesn’t have to be this hard!
Whether you are experienced or new to owning an AFC, this course is for you if…
Meet your keynote speakers
Nadine Carlson
Co-Founder and Consultant for Care Provider Solutions.
My passion is to help owners and operators reduce the stress associated with running and operating Specialized Licensed Adult Foster Care homes. I understand running an AFC home and providing care can be overwhelming. My 12 years of experience running award-winning homes and 2 years of AFC consulting have given me an in-depth understanding of many common issues AFC residential assisted living homes face.
It is my privilege to partner with Enriched Living and other industry experts to help AFC owners grow and collaborate at the Scaling up Conference. This event is fun and filled with the tools to prevent burnout and eliminate the fake-it-until-you-make-it syndrome. It is so valuable to have many AFC Owners supporting each other, sharing resources and encouragement.
Laurie Labie
Executive Director of Enriched Living
& Breakout Session Presenter
Enriched Living was founded in 2017 with the mission of making premium care accessible to all and to create warm and welcoming homes for adults with disabilities.
She and her team create communities of support for their residents through advocacy, education, and activities. They foster hope for vulnerable adults and their families by offering premium care and opportunities for growth.
Through Scaling Up and her collaboration with Care Provider Solutions, she uses her skills to mentor and teach. We share some of what we and other industry experts have learned over the many years of being in the business. This helps the attendees avoid wasting time figuring it out on their own.
In addition to contributing her expertise to the event, Laurie will teach the breakout session topic of activities in and out of the AFC – options and ideas.
Breakout Session Presenter
Amber Bunce, MBA
Chief Operating Officer of Cornerstone AFC, Inc
Amber Hernandez-Bunce is the Chief Operating Officer at Cornerstone Adult Foster Care. She was inspired to pursue her career in adult foster care because her family has a rich, passionate history of serving individuals with disabilities. Cornerstone is now operated by Amber and her sister Karmen along with an amazing team of administrators.
Cornerstone has a reputation of rehabilitating some of the state’s most challenging behavioral cases. The organization’s team currently operates 20 specialized residential and semi-independent programs in Michigan serving 26 Community Mental Health agencies.
Amber has a passion for inspiring direct care staff and providers to be the very best they can be for the benefit of the individual served. She will use this enthusiasm to teach the breakout session topic of assessing, employee skill- building, advocating and compliance for residents with behaviors.
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Frequently Asked Questions
If you don’t find the answer to your question below, reach out to us and we’ll happily help you find the answer!
We heard the suggestions and are applying them to this Scaling Up Conference.
Our new and improved format has coffee, topics to address the pain points of many providers and an after conference mixer!
Science shows it takes the average person 2-7 time to hear the same message before taking action. Join us again because “repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishement.” Zig Ziglar
Care Provider Solutions courses are for any soon to be or existing, AFC Owner, CFO, AFC Director of Operations, Director of Admissions, or House Facility Manager operating one or more adult foster care facilities.
Have you ever said, “I have too many things to work on, I don’t have time to go to this event”
Consider the quote from Albert Einstein, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Scaling Up can provide a resource roadmap to getting your life back.
If you value learning and continuous improvement for both you and your staff, this course will benefit your organization.
If you’re like most adult foster care home owners, you started your business because you wanted to…
But now that your business is up and running, you’re stuck in an endless cycle of tasks.
The “big dream” feels more like a big burden that keeps you up at night.
How can you start enjoying the fruits of your labor – instead of just “laboring” all the time?
Well… you know how to open and run AFC homes, but is it enough to accomplish your goals and continuously improve?
That’s what Scaling Up is designed to help you do.
Whether you are new to the adult foster care industry or are an experienced owner/operator, we can help. We know the frustration of not having enough time in a day to get everything done.
Your time is short and precious. Let us shorten the learning curve so you experience more financial success sooner. For experienced owners/operators, let us save a valuable resource, time, to maximize your financial success.
Conveniently located in Utica, Host has generously donated their space to accommodate the conference.
The location is at 7759 Auburn Rd, Utica, MI 48317
Coffee and lunch is provided at NO extra charge and is included in the price of the ticket.
There is a public parking lot across the street from the event location. There is also street parking available.
Testimonials
Hear how Scaling Up training impacted participating residential assisted living homes.
At Care Provider Solutions we’re here to help you succeed!
These downloadable free resources are a great place to start if you haven’t taken the “Scaling Up – Adding Additional Homes” Mentor Led Course yet.
The time is now to benefit from “How to Make Money and A Profit at Your AFC”.
Looking for more?
Care Provider Solutions offers a variety of courses tailored to the most common pain points of new and experienced AFC owners. Check out these additional courses to help you succeed.
Free downloads and tips to reduce operating stress and increase profitability.
Our free resources vault contains downloads and tips to help you reduce operating stress and increase profitability.
