APTA Leadership Congress

APTA's Leadership Congress, July 19-23, in Kansas City, Missouri, is an annual event that brings together leadership groups for several days of meetings to advance the association.

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This includes the APTA Board of Directors, leaders of APTA's chapters, sections, and academies, APTA's standing committees and the in-person House of Delegates meeting on July 21 and 22.

APTA Event Commitment

Your event, your community, your experience.

APTA is committed to creating a safe, inclusive, healthy, accessible, and environmentally sustainable event experience for APTA Leadership Congress. Steps we are taking to meet this commitment include:

	Inclusivity: Making participants feel welcomed and included by ensuring the program venues are in compliance with ADA regulations; creating private lactation spaces; designating an all-gender bathroom; giving attendees the option to choose their pronouns on their badge; a land acknowledgement; and requesting attendee dietary restrictions during registration.
	Safety: Creating an environment where participants are physically safe, including working with local partners to monitor crimes occurring within a certain radius of our event venue; hiring security to safeguard our space; learning and sharing how the emergency notification system works, especially for those with disabilities; stocking emergency response resources; and establishing protocols for reporting personal safety concerns to APTA staff.
	Health: Providing health and wellness resources for attendees, including first aid and onsite EMTs; curating a list of the closest hospitals and urgent care locations, including women-specific health care options in Kansas and Missouri; documenting AED unit locations throughout the convention center; and establishing emergency response protocols for APTA staff.
	Accessibility: Seeking reasonable accommodations to help participants have a meaningful and engaging experience, including collecting requests for special needs during registration; securing ADA hotel rooms as requested; making closed captioning available in select programs; and identifying accessible street crossings between venues.
	Sustainability: Developing solutions to minimize our environmental footprint in the venues and throughout the surrounding community, including requesting all recycling, reuse, and food waste options from our venues; working with our caterers to donate all left over food to local food banks; providing event materials electronically; providing watercoolers at event venues and encouraging reusable water bottle use; and reusing signage as appropriate from year to year.