2024 CCAO/CEAO Winter Conference
Registration is now open for the CCAO/CEAO 144th Annual Winter Conference!
The Hilton Columbus Downtown, 402 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43215 December 4, 5 & 6, 2024
CCAO will include topics on:
- Future Ready: Commissioners as Champions for Child Care Capacity Building
- Beyond Blight: Land Banks as Economic Development Partners
- Bridging the Mobility Gap: Innovation in Transportation
- Planning for Change: Tools for Innovative Partnerships in Housing
- Building a Strong Ohio Workforce
- Removing Barriers and Increasing Likelihood of Successful Reentry
- Sustaining Recovery: Programs That Make a Difference
- Expanding Emergency Response (Rural EMS/Fire)
- Prevention in Action: Effective Strategies for Substance Use Prevention
- Unlocking Cyber Defense: What’s Required, Tools and Resources You Need
- Child Welfare: County Strategies for Placement
- Navigating Crisis Messaging
- The Power of Pooling: Addressing One of Your County’s Biggest Budget Items
- Teamwork/Leadership
- AI and Accountability: Best Practices for Public Sector AI Use
CEAO will include topics on:
- AI
- Ethics
- Survey
- Petition Ditch
Sunshine Law Training will be held Friday, December 6 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Affiliate Associations will meet at the Hilton Columbus Downtown (unless otherwise noted).
- County Administrators Association
- Commissioners’ Clerks & Engineers’ Administrative Professionals Association
- Ohio County Dog Wardens Association
- County Loss Control Coordinators Association (location 209 E. State Street, Columbus, OH)
- County Planning Directors Association
- County Sanitary Engineers Association of Ohio
The onsite registration desk will open Wednesday, December 4, 2024, at 12:00 p.m.
Sessions will begin at 1:00 p.m. followed by the Opening General Session.
The full Schedule of Events will be released soon with additional information.
The Hilton Columbus Downtown check-in starts at 4:00 p.m. with baggage holds available at Front Desk.
On Wednesday, December 4th, CCAO Board of Directors and Newly-Elected CCAO Members will meet at 10:00 a.m. along with Real Colors Workshop by invitation.
For questions concerning our upcoming conference, please contact Robin Garrett at rgarrett@ccao.org or Amy Lowe at alowe@ceao.org.
None at this time.