Review criteria:  All submissions are reviewed and evaluated by the CALHEC Conference Education Committee comprised of experts from the California Homeless Education Technical Assistance Centers (HETACs), SchoolHouse Connection (SHC), the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE), and the California Department of Education (CDE).

Presentations will be selected based on their relevance to the field and target audience, ability to address policy/program areas, engaging format, interactive design and originality.

Your success in the selection process depends on how well your proposal supports these primary criteria:

●        The submitted proposal is thoughtfully and thoroughly completed.

●        Speaker(s) demonstrates relevant experience and expertise.

●        Practical application: Provides information that participants in their day-to-day work settings can use, offers lessons-learned and how-to-do-it strategies, and offers solutions for sustainability and resiliency of youth homelessness operations.

●        Leading-edge: Addresses emerging trends and technologies, innovative concepts and approaches, and solutions to improve the provision of children and youth homelessness.

●        Relevance and clarity: Content is interesting and useful to a significant number of expected attendees. Participant takeaways are clearly stated using active verbs that indicate how they will benefit from the information presented. (A minimum of three clearly defined learning objectives.)

●        Participant takeaways: All proposals must include learner objectives and learner takeaways. Indicate how the attendee will benefit from the presentation. The participant takeaways must be worded in response to the phrase: “At the conclusion of this session, participants will be better able to________.”