2024 Policy Pre-Conference Survey and Call for Proposals 

Greetings OMSSA Members and partners! Planning for the 2024 Policy Conference is once again upon us! 

This year, we are adopting an approach we’ve used to successfully build our Exchange Conference program over the years. While we will continue to invite you to complete our pre-conference survey as a way of understanding the topics and issues that you would like to have covered in this year’s conference, we are also asking interested parties to submit proposals for our conference breakout sessions.

Our Policy Conference is attended by senior leaders, managers and supervisors, and policy analysts from OMSSA member organizations. Additionally, every year our conference is attended policy-makers from partner organizations delivering or having an interest in human services.  

We welcome all those who are interested to submit a proposal for fully-fledged breakout session (90 minutes) or a partly conceived presentation that we can help you build.

These sessions can focus on policy issues in any of the following core areas: children’s services, housing and homelessness supports, employment and income assistance, emergency social services, and human services integration. Likewise, we welcome proposals connected to staff safety and well-being, equity, diversity, and community and partnership-building.  

The offer to submit proposals is open to both OMSSA Members and our partner organizations providing, researching, or otherwise connected to the human services. If you have any questions about your submission, please email education@omssa.com.

Due to our limited budget, we will not be accepting proposals from leadership or motivational speakers.  

We hope to notify all successful proposal candidates at the beginning of September.

Pre-Conference Survey Deadline: May 17, 2024

Complete Our Pre-Conference Survey

Proposal Submission Deadline: Friday August 2, 2024

Submit Your Proposal