U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2000-Present
Bill Benson hosts the First Person program for the public March through August (every Tuesday, and every Wednesday except in August). The program features a series of conversations with Holocaust survivors. These eyewitness accounts unite personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program is presented as a live interview with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions. The programs are available as a podcast series. Listen here.

CDC-AMA-AARP, 2008
Health Benefits ABCs facilitated the initial meeting of Steering Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/American Medical Association/AARP collaboration, “Building Clinical and Community Bridges to Promote Preventive Services for Adults Aged 50-64.” Participants included senior representations of: CDC, AMA, AARP, Agency for Health Care Quality and Research (AHQR), National Association of City and County Health Officers (NACCHO), Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO), National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD), n4a, Gerotological Society of America (GSA), Preventive Health Partnership, Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration (SPARC), National Association of State Units on Aging (NASUA).

National Association of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs, 2001
Health Benefits ABCs facilitated a national working retreat to examine the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program (LTCOP) and make recommendations for the future. This retreat was convened in 2001 by the National Association of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs. The conference became an all-encompassing review of the ombudsman program’s past, reflection on the present program, and consideration of its future. The format included commissioned white papers and a series of consensus-building sessions, involved all of the retreat participants in debates and discussions to a degree not commonly seen at a conference. The conference was highly interactive, using small as well as plenary group discussions. The result was a series of recommendations in six key areas that will help state and local long-term care ombudsmen shape their programs in the years to come. The conference was supported by a grant from the Helen Bader Foundation. The report issued from this meeting, The Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program: Rethinking and Retooling for the Future, is used today by the National Association of State Ombudsman Programs to guide their recommendations for changes in the Older Americans Act and by states to improve their ombudsman programs.

California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, 2008
Health Benefits ABCs facilitated a strategic planning retreat of the board of directors of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), San Francisco, CA.

National Adult Protective Services Association, 2008
Health Benefits ABCs facilitated a strategic planning retreat of the board of directors of the National Adult Protective Services Association, Washington, DC

AgeOptions, 2007
Health Benefits ABCs facilitated a strategic planning retreat of the board of directors of AgeOptions (formerly Suburban Area Agency on Aging), Cook County, IL

Center on Global Aging, 2008
Health Benefits ABCs facilitated Strategic Planning Retreat of the Board of Advisors, Center on Global Aging, National School of Social Services, Catholic University of America

CDC-Alzheimer’s Association, 2008
Health Benefits ABCs facilitated meeting of senior leadership of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Alzheimer’s Association to lay foundation for continuation of partnership between the two organizations to address cognitive health in the U.S. population.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Disability and Health Team, 2006-2007
Health Benefits ABCs facilitated the strategic planning process for the Disability & Health Team, CDC.