“Annual HR Checkup!”
Please join us for a day of informative speakers and networking with your Oregon CUPA-HR colleagues at beautiful campus of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon on Friday, October 14th, 2011. It is a great opportunity to get together as the Oregon Chapter of CUPA-HR for a fun and educational conference. This fall’s theme is “Annual HR Checkup!”. We’ll be taking the temperature of our HR departments and discussing a wide variety of topics from our aging workforce (A Challenge or an Opportunity?) to managing workplace health issues (Worker’s Comp, Anyone?) as well as HR topics around financial health, mental health and physical health.
In addition, there will be a small wellness fair for Oregon CUPA-HR members just after lunch with the opportunity to have a relaxing short massage to work away some of that workplace stress. 
How do I register?
***Update*** Registration has been closed as of Thursday, September 29th. We have reached maximum capacity. A BIG thank you to all of you who registered early. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Cost for the full day conference is $25 which includes light continental breakfast and lunch and of course the priceless opportunity to network with other HR professionals. Take this opportunity to provide training to all members of your HR staff at a very reasonable cost and don’t forget to bring plenty of business cards.
Due to room size constraints, space is limited for this conference so please try to register early to save your spot! Members who register before September 23rd will be entered in a special drawing for the chance to win a Starbucks gift card.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Where is the Conference going to be held?
The conference is scheduled from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm and will held on the 3rd floor of the OHSU Center for Health & Healing (CHH). The OHSU Center for Health & Healing is located at 3303 S.W. Bond Ave., on the west side of the Willamette River and just south of the Ross Island Bridge, in Portland, Oregon. CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS.
What is the Fall 2011 Conference Schedule?
October 14, 2011 – OHSU Center for Health and Wellness – 3rd Floor Conference Rooms
Schedule:
8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Welcome from Oregon Health Science University – Room 4
9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Icebreaker/Announcements
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. – Keynote
The Aging Workforce – A Challenge or an Opportunity?
A healthy conversation built around the aging workforce. Discussion begins with the question of “Why focus on aging workers?” Supervision and performance management challenges for an aging workforce, creative ideas to attract and retain older workers and building bridges between the generations will also be topics of conversation as well as what younger workers can learn from older workers, how to encourage respect and diversity and avoiding stereotypes.
Presenter:
Mimi Henniger, SPHR – HR Division Consulting Manager. Mimi is a leading expert in employee relations, retention and management development. With over twenty year’s experience in human resource management, her hands-on experience has helped her to understand the needs of her clients and help them to design and implement HR structure and programs that work. She has worked as a consultant with Ameriben/IEC Group for over six years. Mimi holds a Bachelors Degree in business from the University of Washington. Mimi provides client consulting and training on a variety of topics and manages the IEC Group’s HR Consulting Division.
10:30 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. Morning Break
10:40 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. – Morning Breakout Session A – Room 4
Workplace Health: Ergonomics for the workplace
This presentation will be covering ergonomic risk factors; anatomy and physiology; back injury prevention; controls; examples and practical approach to ergonomics; office ergonomics; and objective and subjective recommendations and approaches to ergonomics.
Presenter:
Chad Harvey is the Department Manager for Risk Management at Empire Pacific Risk Management. Chad has earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Montana Tech of the University of Montana — in Occupational Safety & Health with an Engineering and Industrial Hygiene focus. Over the last 18 years, his experience has primarily been in the insurance industry and has also been an independent consultant and business owner during that 18 year period. Chad has extensive experience with health care, construction, landscaping, manufacturing, colleges and universities, non-profits, and wood products. During his tenure, Chad has completed hundreds of ergonomic assessments.
10:40 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. – Morning Breakout Session B – Room 5
Navigating Disability and Reasonable Accommodation
This workshop is designed to create more awareness of HR’s legal obligations in regards to Disability and Reasonable Accommodation, including an overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Oregon statute – ORS 659A.139. We will identify “hot topics” and “red flags” related to disability and outline the steps necessary to manage reasonable accommodation requests. This will be an interactive workshop incorporating a case study, video examples and strong encouragement of audience participation. DISCLAIMER: Materials and presentation are not legal advice
Presenter:
Michael V. Tom, J.D. Interim Director of OHSU Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity Department. Mr. Tom has been at OHSU since 2006. Prior experience was at Hoffman Hart & Wagner where he worked in Federal and State Litigation Defense: Employment, Civil Rights and Municipal Claims. He received degrees from Willamette University College of Law 1993 and University of Washington, BA.
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch - Room 4 (Mini wellness fair – Room 5)
- Diabetes screening, education and counseling –Compliments of the Harold Schnitzer Diabetes Center: Kari Kohrs & 2 Senior Nursing students: Claire Richards & Kristin Belford
- Diet analysis and Anti-Inflammatory cookbook recipe samples – Compliments of the Oregon Clinical & Translational Research: Kate Haas & Angela Horgan
- Vision screening – Compliments of the Casey Eye Institute: Allison Bock
- Blood pressure and tinnitus scale (measures body fat %) – Compliments of March Wellness: Carl Davison
- March Wellness Massage Therapists (rooms 2&3) – 1min. massages – also from March Wellness
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Featured Presenter – Room 4
“The Healthy Team Healthy U Program: Bringing Science to Employee Wellness”
Eating a healthy diet and engaging in regular physical activity reduces risk factors for many illnesses. As a leading health and science university striving for excellence in patient care, education, research and community service, OHSU is bringing its own evidence based health promotion programs to its highly valued employees. Learn more about this program and how you can spearhead your own programs to capture the power of employees working together to improve their health.
Presenter:
Linn Goldberg, M.D., F.A.C.S.M., is a graduate of the George Washington School of Medicine (with Distinction), Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Health Promotion and Sports Medicine at the Oregon Health Sciences University and the Director of the Human Performance Laboratory. He is a practicing physician, teacher and research scientist. His team-centered drug prevention and health promotion intervention, the ATLAS Program, has won national awards from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Education, the United States Juvenile Justice System and Sports Illustrated.
2:00 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. – Afternoon Break
2:10 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. – Afternoon Breakout Session A – Room 1A
Financial Health: 403(B) Educational opportunities to share with employees
The presentation will focus on the concept of long term asset allocation and what individuals nearing retirement can do to make their portfolios more responsive to short term market volatility! We will discuss “defensive” and income strategies and a newer concept called “Liability Driven Investing”, a focused designed for more cautious investors!
The above concepts can easily transfer to younger investors also who are concerned with today’s market uncertainty! There will be a complete list of all of the educational presentations currently available from the presenter with details and a copy of presentation workbooks for each attendee!
Presenter:
John McPheron has been an educator and public speaker for thirty years. After receiving a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Education from National Lewis University in Evanston Illinois, John taught both public and private school in Illinois and California. John has been in the financial services industry for over twenty-seven years. His focus during this time has been on developing and delivering education programs both internally and for the public on financial planning, retirement planning and public speaking. In 2004, John joined Valic as a Financial Education Manager responsible for designing public financial seminars and internal training in the area of public speaking. He is currently Vice President and Northwest Regional Wholesaler for Valic. John resides in the mountains of Southern California, has been married for forty one years and has three adult children.
2:10 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. – Afternoon Breakout Session B – Room 1B
Healthy Compensation: Using CUPA-HR’s
DataOnDemand Analysis Tools
An detailed discussion and overview (with instruction) of CUPA-HR’s Data on Demand Analysis Tools. This session will start with a DOD overview and restrictions, and move onto demonstrations of such things as
- How to create a comparison group of schools to compare your institution to, either typing them by name or by setting your own selection criteria
- How to choose which DOD report to run for your compensation analysis and weighted vs. unweighted salary data.
- Demonstration of reports with examples : Multi-position report that shows focus on institutions salary compared to comparison group (average, median, min, and max), ordinal rank report that shows anonymous listing of salaries submitted by each institution by position or discipline by rank, faculty multi-discipline report that shows salaries by discipline and rank for 4-digit CIP codes , faculty 2-digit index report that calculates overall salary, salary by rank and salary by discipline and Two Year College Salaries by Level of Education.
Presenter:
Suzi Bowen has been with CUPA-HR since 2003 starting as the Customer Service Manager before moving to Research Coordinator in 2004. She attended George Fox University in Oregon, graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in Washington, and received her Master’s in Organizational Management from Tusculum College in Tennessee. Suzi worked as Operations Manager for Arch Wireless for 13 years in Bellevue, Washington before relocating to Knoxville, TN in 2001.
3:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. – Wrap-up, Prizes, and Networking Opportunities – Room 4
Are you interested in getting involved with the Oregon Chapter CUPA-HR? Please contact Linda Flamenco, lflamenc@willamette.edu for more information..
