This partnership created the first SOAR (Seeking Opportunities Advocacy Revelation) Conference in Kansas City, Missouri in 2019 hosted by Insititute for Human Devlopment at University Missouri Kansas City.
SOAR became a biannual conference:
2021 Online Conference hosted by Iowa’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the University of Iowa
2023 in Kansas City, Kansas hosted by the Self-Advocate Coalition of Kansas (SACK)
2025 in Omaha, Nebraska hosted by Nebraska’s UCEDD at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe-Meyer Institute and People First of Nebraska in partnership with Nebraska DD Network