CARE Conference 2024 Recap

Compliance and Regulatory Education: Best Practices for Athletic Training

The BOC hosted the CARE Conference 2024, from July 9-10, 2024, in Omaha, Nebraska. Nearly 70 attendees (in-person and virtual), representing 40 states, the District of Columbia and Canada, from the athletic training and regulatory industries participated. The two-day event focused on regulatory best practices for the Athletic Trainer regulatory industry. The CARE Conference is designed to assist regulators in developing strategic initiatives and resolutions to protect the public.

Attendees participated in roundtable discussions and multiple presentations over the two-day event.

The 2024 event featured the following speakers:

• • Dale Atkinson, Esq from The Atkinson Firm, LLC presented on Recent Regulatory Activities and Innovations
  • Keith Buckhout and Carl Sims from the Council for State Governments presented on the development of the AT Interstate Compact
  • Hannah Maxey, PhD, MPH from Veritas Health Solutions presented on how state regulators benefit from collecting and using workforce data and using the Cross Profession Minimum Data Set as a tool

Other presentation topics included handling misinformation on social media, investigating reports of sexual misconduct, CAATE updates on the evolution of AT education, BOC updates and an interactive session on states reporting trends and pertinent successes/challenges facing their state regulatory agency/board. Presentation slides from CARE Conference 2024 are available on the BOC website.

CARE Conference Renamed

At the end of the event, it was announced that the CARE Conference would be renamed to the Brad Sherman Regulatory Conference.  More information on Brad’s legacy at the BOC https://bocatc.org/newsroom/the-boc-mourns-the-passing-of-bradley-j-sherman/.

Attendee Feedback

Here is what attendees had to say about the CARE Conference 2024:

• The conference was well run and very worthwhile attending. Not only will it help me fill my role better as a regulator, but I have also gained a much better appreciation and realization for the multiple roles that the BOC fills in our profession. Thank you for allowing me to attend.
• It is obvious the BOC takes care of planning and all involved items for this conference.
• Overall, excellent programming. I enjoyed it very much.
• I am excited to take some of this information back to my state DHHS board.
• Glad I’m attending this conference. A lot of great info and I’m learning a lot as someone who serves the profession but not at the state board level.
• I enjoyed this conference and what was presented at it. I appreciate all that was done to be inclusive of virtual participants and found the content to be greatly informative.
• Great conference. Please continue to invite all states to attend. These were an awesome two days of learning!

This year’s conference was sponsored by Lineup, Meazure Learning, Venable, LegiNation, SqOne and Quadterion. Programming for the 2024 CARE Conference was developed by volunteers on the BOC Regulatory Affairs Advisory Panel (Missy Anthony (OH), Tom Ryan (WI), Jamie Musler (MA), Jim Winkler (MI) and Kristen Streeter (IL)).