DAY 1
WEDNESDAY MAY 4, 2016
8:00 A.M. – 8:30 A.M.
Registration & Networking Session
8:30 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.
Keynote: Common Practices That Most Positively And Negatively Impact Performance – Centennial Meeting Room
Speaker: Frank Pastizzo
Seeing all services as human services, Frank draws upon over thirty years of experience as an Emergency Room Technician, a high school English and Drama and Special Education Teacher, a Health Care Administrator, Marketing Executive, Professional Actor, Comic, and Musician. His energetic programs are sparked with comedy, live music, and poignant stories from the arenas of business, health care, and education to assist our workplaces in reflecting the values of kindness and respect.
9:40 A.M. – 10:40 A.M.
Supportive Leadership: An Employer’s Guide To Developing An Inclusive Culture
Speaker: Brian Rochat
Supported employment outcomes are dependent on business leaders understanding the value of hiring people with intellectual disabilities and the application of applying that value to their business. Workplace inclusion, like workforce diversity, hinges on a dual onus. This session offers a guide to employers on developing an inclusion management strategy. From exploring inclusive and accommodating interviewing guidelines to performance management and communication techniques, this session examines inclusive employment through a human resources lens and offers input to sustainable support. By focusing on the development of supportive leadership in the organization, inclusion can be embedded within the community and organizational culture.
Learning Objectives:
- This session offers a guide to employers on developing an inclusion management strategy. From exploring inclusive and accommodating interviewing guidelines to performance management and communication techniques
- this session examines inclusive employment through a human resources lens and offers input to sustainable support
- By focusing on the development of supportive leadership in the organization, inclusion can be embedded within the community and organizational culture
Making Time Work for You (Part 1)
Speaker: Harold Taylor
If you have trouble getting everything done and still having enough time for yourself, this session is for you. Find how to get organized, manage your workload and stay on top of your priorities. You will learn how to minimize interruptions, schedule projects and tasks, delegate effectively and reduce the impact of stress in your life. This basic course in personal organization and time management also covers meeting management, handling e-mail, developing good work habits, reducing the tendency to procrastinate, saying no without guilt, managing technology and maintaining balance in your life.
Learning Objectives:
- Minimize interruptions to be more effective
- Delegate effectively to be more effective
- Reduce the impact of work stress on your life creating a better work life balance
Moving Beyond the Barriers (Part 1)
Speaker: Sean Wiltshire
Barriers are different for everyone and how we overcome them is as individual as our fingerprints. This session will inform entertain session and will share how we may move past our barriers; those that are placed there by others, and those that we place there ourselves. Find a better Work Life Balance and learn how maybe changing an approach can change the outcome.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize and be aware of personal barriers to success
- Strategies on moving past barriers
- Find a better work life balance
Warm up the Workplace (Part 1)
Speaker: Frank Pastizzo
Participants will evaluate common practices that most positively and negatively impact performance and readiness, and then select specific behaviors to enhance their effectiveness, productivity and resilience as team, family, and community members. Through the entertaining vehicles of music, comedy, and powerful storytelling, they will learn to recognize their personal responsibilities for the social outcomes of their own behaviors, attitudes and choices.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify common practices that impact performance
- Select behaviour to enhance effectiveness resilience
- Recognize individual personal responsibilities for social outcomes of own behaviour attitude and choice
How to Dialogue on the “Tough Stuff” (Part 1)
Speaker: Jim McLaren
A great tragedy is seeing good people flounder because they are not told about the “growing edges” that are holding them back. This interactive session will support participants in exploring ways to hold unencumbered dialogues with individuals. Participants will practice dialogues that “set the table” for learning, growth and accountability to occur.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore methods to hold unencumbered dialogues with indivduals
- Understand compoinents of dialogue that set the table for learning growth and accountability
- Identify what is holding a person back from growth.
Vulnerable Persons Act-Substitute Decision-Making Information and Ethical Considerations
Speaker: Marnie Barker & Robin Stephanyshyn
This session will have an overview of the requirements and ethical considerations for the application and appointment of a Substitute Decision Maker. Discussion of key topics include guiding principles of the Vulnerable Persons Act, supported decision-making, scope and effect of decisions, duties and responsibilities and limitations of an appointment under the Act.
Learning Objectives:
- A description of the Vulnerable persons act
- This session will have an overview of the requirements and ethical considerations for the application and appointment of a Substitute Decision Maker.
- Deeper understanding of key topics include guiding principles of the Vulnerable Persons Act, supported decision-making, scope and effect of decisions, duties and responsibilities and limitations of an appointment under the Act.
Comprehensive Health Assessment Program: How to Change your Health Care World by Incorporating CHAPS (Part 1)
Speaker: Nick Lennox
10:40 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.
MORNING BREAK
11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
Science & Attachment
Speaker: Helga Berger & Megan Land McCarthy
Attachment Theory helps us understand “why people do what they do”, and is based on infant strategies for protection and survival. Every human being requires a secure base from which to become an individual, learn about the environment and learn about the multitude of feelings we are equipped with, and how to manage them. Healthy attachment promotes adaptive responses to their experiences. When children do not experience a secure attachment with their parent or caregiver, they develop patterns of avoidant or reactive behaviours. Attachment strategies or behaviour patterns develop throughout the lifespan. Through therapeutic intervention, individuals can learn to become more secure and balanced in their responses to daily experiences.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain an understanding of the nature and definition of Attachment Theory.
- Understand the ramification for people when attachment is not attained.
- Awareness of therapeutic intervention strategies.
Making Time Work for You (Part 2)
Speaker: Harold Taylor
If you have trouble getting everything done and still having enough time for yourself, this session is for you. Find how to get organized, manage your workload and stay on top of your priorities. You will learn how to minimize interruptions, schedule projects and tasks, delegate effectively and reduce the impact of stress in your life. This basic course in personal organization and time management also covers meeting management, handling e-mail, developing good work habits, reducing the tendency to procrastinate, saying no without guilt, managing technology and maintaining balance in your life.
Learning Objectives:
1. Minimize interruptions to be more effective
2. Delegate effectively to be more effective
3. Reduce the impact of work stress on your life creating a better work life balance
Moving Beyond the Barriers (Part 2)
Speaker: Sean Wiltshire
Barriers are different for everyone and how we overcome them is as individual as our fingerprints. This session will inform entertain session and will share how we may move past our barriers; those that are placed there by others, and those that we place there ourselves. Find a better Work Life Balance and learn how maybe changing an approach can change the outcome.
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize and be aware of personal barriers to success
2. Strategies on moving past barriers
3. Find a better work life balance
Warm up the Workplace (Part 2)
Speaker: Frank Pastizzo
Participants will evaluate common practices that most positively and negatively impact performance and readiness, and then select specific behaviors to enhance their effectiveness, productivity and resilience as team, family, and community members. Through the entertaining vehicles of music, comedy, and powerful storytelling, they will learn to recognize their personal responsibilities for the social outcomes of their own behaviors, attitudes and choices.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify common practices that impact performance
- Select behaviour to enhance effectiveness resilience
- Recognize individual personal responsibilities for social outcomes of own behaviour attitude and choice
How to Dialogue on the “Tough Stuff” (Part 2)
Speaker: Jim McLaren
A great tragedy is seeing good people flounder because they are not told about the “growing edges” that are holding them back. This interactive session will support participants in exploring ways to hold unencumbered dialogues with individuals. Participants will practice dialogues that “set the table” for learning, growth and accountability to occur.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore methods to hold unencumbered dialogues with indivduals
- Understand compoinents of dialogue that set the table for learning growth and accountability
- Identify what is holding a person back from growth.
12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Lunch Break
1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
Diversity Benefits the Workplace
Speaker: Sean Wiltshire
How does diversity affect your work? How does diversity affect your community? This session will show you how the common goal we all need is more diversity. Not only is it a community issue, it is an economic issue. Workplace diversity allows us to be innovative and be better decision makers. Better decisions make better organizations. We all want better organizations and workplaces. From front line staff and management to individuals finding their first job, the value is in being different.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how diversity affects your work and community
2. Examine diversity as an economic and community issue
3. Strategies for attaining a diverse work place
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Feeding Problems in Developmental Disabilities
Speaker: St. Amant Clinical Team
This session will consist of abbreviated material from a half day workshop available through St.Amant called “Eat Your Peas: Feeding Problems and Developmental Disabilities”. The presenters will review some of the issues faced by caregivers and families of individuals with developmental disabilities who present with problem eating behaviours. Using the perspective of an interdisciplinary treatment team, attendees will learn how to distinguish between “picky eating” versus “problem eating” behaviours, as well as how to set realistic goals for change. General recommendations will be reviewed and a table of resources will be available.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand issues faced by caregivers and families
2. Attendees will learn how to distinguish between picky eating and problem eating
3. Strategies for attaining realisitic goals to invoke change
Home Care Nursing in Winnipeg: Past, Present , and Future Directions
Speaker: Kathleen Klassen & Michelle Todoruk-Orchard
Reflecting on the rich history and impact of home care nurses to the health of Manitobans, this presentation will discuss current and future directions within the WRHA Home Care Nursing Program. New approaches to nursing care service delivery and evidence informed practice models will be highlighted.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the history and impact of home care nurses to the health of Manitobans
2. Examine current and future directions within the WRHA home care nursing program
3. Awareness of evidence informed practice models
2:00 P.M. – 3:20 P.M.
Mid-Afternoon Break Session
3:30 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.
Keynote: Community Living Movement in Canada – Centennial Meeting Room
Speaker: Don Gallant
Don Gallant is Principal Consultant with Don Gallant and Associates – a social policy and planning agency providing support and consultation to both public and private sectors so as to advance and promote social well-being and inclusion, especially for persons with disabilities. Don has had a long-standing relationship with the community living movement and the Canadian Association for Community Living in particular. He has served as CACL Senior Policy Advisor and for many years was the National Coordinator for the CACL Community Inclusion Initiative. Today he serves as National Director for the Ready Willing and Able initiative.
4:30 P.M. – 6:30 P.M.
Networking Cocktail Event: Join us following the end of day speaker for a free networking event to include live music, appetizers, and a cash bar.
DAY 2
THURSDAY MAY 5, 2016
8:00 A.M. – 8:30 A.M.
Registration & Networking Session
8:30 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.
Keynote: Humor In The Workplace: Staying Light When The Work Is Heavy – Centennial Meeting Room
Speaker: Lorraine Fox
Lorraine holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and a doctoral certificate in organizational development, and is a Certified Child Care Worker. She walked into the world of child and youth care in September, 1964 and found her calling working with children and youth who were declared “emotionally disturbed” as a result of abuse and neglect. In addition to extensive work with private service agencies, Lorraine is a contract instructor with the University of California, Davis, and the San Diego State University Foundation, training public service employees serving welfare and child protective clients and their community partners.
10:40 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.
Morning Break
11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
- Learning From Centre: Personal Resilience (Part 2)
- Facilitating Dialogue To Promote Equity And Inclusion: A Workshop About Workshops (Part 2)
- Health Promotion Knowledge of Support Workers
- What’s your Story? (Part 2)
- Supporting People with Disabilities to Experience the Benefits of Yoga (Part 2)
- Ethical Challenges in Managing Complex Medical Care
- Autism: Assessing and Teaching Perspective Taking Skills to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Lunch Break – Centennial Meeting Room
1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
- Communication at its CORE
- A Practical Plan for Moving Towards Allied Supports
- Safety and Me
- Advance Care Directives and Assisted Suicide
- Specialized Services or Capacity Building. A False Choice?
- Communication, Consent, and Pain Management in the Care of Severe Disabilities (Part 1)
2:00 P.M. – 3:20 P.M.
Mid-Afternoon Break Session
3:30 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.
Keynote: Journey To Be Fearless – Centennial Meeting Room
Speaker: Loretta Claiborne
Loretta Claiborne grew up during the Civil Rights era partially blind with a developmental disability. She was the middle child of seven siblings born to a single mother. The odds were stacked against her. Loretta did not walk or talk until the age of four. Once a child with little hope, who doctors did not think would amount to much, she has completed 26 marathons and travels the world speaking to all ages and educational levels about bullying and the importance of inclusion.
Loretta’s mother was told to put her child in an institution and forget about her. Even after her mom refused, Loretta was bullied so much at school by her peers, her only outward recourse was to use her fists to fight back, or sometimes use her feet to run away. But one day, she found Special Olympics and everything changed. Her anger was channeled to excelling as a world-class runner and becoming an advocate for people with intellectual disabilities. Today, Loretta holds honorary doctorates from Villanova University and Quinnipiac College, converses in five languages, has a black belt in karate, was the recipient of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award and sits on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors.
Loretta utilizes the power of sport to create social change and inclusion and to promote development and peace. She speaks from the heart. Her strong faith, genuine love and compassion for all people, her vibrant personality and sense of humor make you want to be in her company.