OHCA Spring Expo 2025: Growing Together

We hope you can join us at this year’s Spring Expo, which will be held April 23-24, 2025 at the Salem Convention Center.

Opening Keynote Speaker

Ubuntu Leadership: Operationalizing Belonging and Building Resilience

In today’s smaller, flatter, and multicultural world, it is imperative that we understand and embrace each other’s strengths. Long term care facilities throughout the US recognize the value of inclusive teams who are culturally competent and capitalize on effective team dynamics. To embrace the diversity your community has to offer, we must first value it in ourselves. United by Differences is a comprehensive, fun, and transformational presentation that establishes foundational communication tools by introducing concepts such as, “I am not different FROM you. I am different LIKE you.”

Audience members will:

• Recognize and value the variety of strengths within themselves, colleagues, and residents.
• Explore nurturing a culture that promotes empathy and genuine curiosity when embracing differences.
• Operationalize belonging by building psychological safety and resiliency.

Education Sessions include:

• Thriving in Changing Times: Boosting Morale in an Inclusive Work Environment
• Recognizing Inappropriate Meds for Those Over 65 Years Old: Utilizing the BEERS Criteria
• Person Centered Care Planning for People Living with Neuropsychiatric Disease
• Putting QAPI Into Action: Strategies for Successful Quality Improvement Programs
• Empowering Women in Leadership: Breaking Barriers and Leading with Confidence
• Addressing Resident-to-Resident Bullying and Aggression
• Oregon Employment Law: Top 5 Things Employers Need to Know
• Evidence Based and Holistic approach to Optimal Brain Health
• Falls Management and Interventions
• And more!