The 23rd National Home and Community Based Services Conference will take place from Sept. 30-Oct. 3 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

We had a chance to present findings from our Waiver Review Project at the 2006 conference in Minneapolis; the presentation is available at the National Association for State Units on Aging website. If you are interested in sharing new tools used in serving individuals who receive long-term care services, we found the offerings very engaging and broad.

Also recently, we received a call for paper proposals from the American Evaluation Association. Marian presented a paper on cross-site evaluation at the 2006 conference, and was very inspired to learn new theories in participatory and developmental evaluation. The conference, Nov. 5-7 in Baltimore, has an emphasis on evaluation and learning.

One final conference to note is the American Planning Association's 99th National Planning Conference, April 14-18 in Philadelphia. I have attended this conference twice, and greatly enjoyed the offerings. One of the highlights each year are the mobile workshops, where local communities get to showcase some of their special projects.