Future Ready: Commissioners as Champions for Child Care Capacity Building

Key Takeaways:
• Explain the child care access and capacity landscape in Ohio.
• An example from Ashland County of a community-wide effort
involving public and private investment to increase child care
capacity.

Brittany Boulton, VP, Groundwork Ohio
Presentation

Rick Carfagna, Senior VP of Government Affairs, Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Presentation

Kristin Aspin, COO, Ashland County Community Foundation
Presentation

Removing Barriers and Increasing Likelihood of Successful Reentry

Key Takeaways:
• Identify gaps in services needed to assist returning citizens
with reentry.
• Highlight successful programs to assist returning citizens with
access to resources and employment.

Trina Jackson, Director, Hamilton County Office of Reentry
Presentation

Jaime Lutson, Deputy Director, Clermont County CASC
Presentation

Sarah Baldridge, Associate Director, Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services
Oral Presentation Only

Unlocking Cyber Defense: What’s Required, Tools and Resources You Need

Key Takeaways:
• Current landscape of cyber security threats.
• In depth understanding of cyber security resources available
to counties through CCAO Service Corporation Cyber Defense
Program, CyberOhio (state), and CORSA.
• Where the cyber insurance industry is headed.

Hamilton Gottschall, HG Consulting
Oral Presentation Only

Sherry Barbosky, Underwriting Manager, CORSA
Presentation

Kirk Hearth, Cybersecurity Strategic Advisor, CyberOhio
Presentation

Beyond Blight: Land Banks as Economic Development Partners

Key Takeaways:
• Learn how Land Banks can partner with private developers
and community financial institutions to promote community
redevelopment projects.
• Understand how to use a land bank to redevelop commercial
and industrial properties that are not receiving private
investment.
• Key communications strategies to promote understanding of
land bank success and lay the groundwork for greater buy-in
from the public and key partner organizations.

Sam Filkins, Knox County Land Bank
Oral Presentation Only

Alex Iarocci, Ashtabula County Land Bank
Oral Presentation Only

Shawn Carvin, Ohio Land Bank Association
Presentation

Sustaining Recovery: Programs That Make a Difference

Key Takeaways:
• Learn from Hamilton County about the implementation and
impact of the Recovery Friendly Workplace model.
• Knowledge of recovery housing landscape and operations,
including the economic and community impact.

Tyler Meenach, Hamilton County Public Health
Presentation

Danielle Gray, Executive Director, Ohio Recovery Housing
Presentation

Reba McCray, Pastor and Executive Director, ARC Recovery Services
Presentation

Child Welfare: County Strategies for Placement

Key Takeaways:
• Understand reasons for rising cost of foster and residential
care placements in child welfare.
• Successful county strategies for appropriate and cost-effective
placement.
• State initiatives to address the placement and treatment
crisis.

Mary Wachtel, Director of Public Policy, PCSAO
Presentation

Stephanie Kowal, Director, Ottawa County JFS
Presentation

Sarah Newland, Executive Director, Allen County Children Services
Oral Presentation Only

Jerry Coleman, Executive Director, Stark County JFS
Oral Presentation Only

Bridging the Mobility Gap: Innovation in Transportation

Key Takeaways:
• Highlight successful county programs that assist citizens with
access to employment and services.
• Build capacity for a greater range of transportation options
that counties can implement.

Andy Volenik, Executive Director, Delaware County Transit

Howard Stewart, Jr., Transit Director, South East Area Transit
Joint Presentation

Expanding Emergency Response (Rural EMS/Fire)

Daniel Swords, Deputy Director, Ohio Division of EMS
Presentation

Chief Josh Martell, South Central Fire District
Presentation

Chief Kyle McDonald, Rittman Fire and Rescue
Presentation

Thrust into the Spotlight: Crisis Communication Lessons from a County Leader

Key Takeaways:
• How to use a public platform to quickly change a negative
narrative.
• Being the leader your community needs (courage and wellbeing).
• How to authentically address issues of diversity, equity and
inclusion during crisis.

Melanie Flax Wilt, Clark County Commissioner and CCAO Board Member
Presentation

Planning for Change: Tools for Innovative Partnerships in Housing

Key Takeaways:
• Learn what commissioners can do to promote the construction
of new workforce housing in their community.
• Strategies for commissioners to convene their community to
create shared housing goals.

Kevin Boyce, Franklin County Commissioner
Oral Presentation Only

Jamie Greene, Principal, Planning Next
Oral Presentation Only

Jeffry Harris, Partner, Bricker Graydon LLP
Oral Presentation Only

The Power of Pooling: Addressing One of Your County’s Biggest Budget Items

Key Takeaways:
• Sharing of risk to contain costs.
• Member owned and governed.

Dan Dean, Fayette County Commissioner and CORSA Board Member

Tony Roberts, AON Senior VP of Health and Wellness
Joint Presentation

Building a Strong Ohio Workforce

Key Takeaways:
• Case studies of workforce development programs yielding
positive results.
• Ideas for leading and collaborating with other public and
private entities to achieve workforce growth successes.

JoAnn Breedlove, Executive Director, Stark Tuscarawas Workforce Development Board
Oral Presentation Only

Carolyn Stout, Workforce Program Supervisor, Delaware County OhioMeansJobs
Presentation

Prevention in Action: Effective Strategies for Substance Use Prevention

Key Takeaways:
• Examples of strategies to prevent individuals, including youth,
from engaging in substance use.
• Information about drug recognition training for law
enforcement.

Carey McKee, Project Coordinator, Clark County Partners in Prevention
Oral Presentation Only

Jack Legg, Prevention Program Manager, Wellspring
Oral Presentation Only

Chief Jeff Spence, City of Gahanna Police
Oral Presentation Only

Shaping the Future Through Transformational Leadership

Key Takeaways:
• Transformational Leadership: What it is and what it isn’t.
• May I ask you a question? How to get the information you seek
to do your job, or to help another do theirs.
• I really didn’t do that badly, did I? How to give feedback vs.
criticism.

Harry Brady, Huron County Commission and CEBCO Vice President
Presentation