IACP's Home Safe team will be hosting this webinar on May 9th, 2022 at 2-3:30 PM ET. During this 60-minute webinar and 30-minute Q&A session, participants will hear from family members, law enforcement, and disability advocates who speak from personal and professional experience about implementing locative technology and other strategies to address wandering by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities. 

After this webinar, attendees will be able to:

• Describe multiple strategies to prevent wandering and locate individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities who have wandered.
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using locative or tracking technology to 1) prevent wandering, and 2) locate individuals who have wandered due to their intellectual or developmental disability.
• Identify options, including forms of locative technology, for successfully addressing incidents of wandering by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Speakers include:

• Officer Laurie Reyes: Coordinator and Creator of the Autism, IDD, Alzheimer’s and Dementia Outreach Unit of the Montgomery County, MD Police Department
• Sergeant Stefan Bjes (ret.): Sergeant with the Addison, IL Police Department and Parent of two children on the autism spectrum
• Tauna Szymanski: Founder of Communications First, Disabilities Advocate and Parent
• Russell Lehmann: Award-winning and internationally recognized motivational speaker with lived experience and poet contextualizing autism, mental health, and the overall human condition