Saturday Morning Sessions
28. Keynote: Moving Beyond Client-Centered CareCapacity : 780
Room : Grand Ballroom
Speakers
- Todd Leader, RPsych, RSW
Description
Social workers and allied professions work with a wide variety of people including those with addiction and mental health challenges. However, they often feel a disconnect between their training/desire to provide client-centred care, and the restrictions imposed by policies, procedures, and structures of the system and organizational culture they work in. In this presentation, social worker and psychologist Todd Leader will describe the difference between client-centred ‘care’ and client-centred ‘systems’. He will challenge us to view these concepts in a different way, and to identify how we can use that distinction to directly enhance the experience and well-being of the people we serve. Todd’s approach, based on real-life success transforming an addiction and mental health program, is documented in his book, “It’s Not About Us: The Secret to Transforming the Mental Health and Addiction System in Canada”. This keynote address is sure to empower us to approach our work with a new sense of creativity and optimism.
Capacity : 360
Room : Palisades
Speakers
- Todd Leader, RPsych, RSW
Description
In this workshop, social worker and psychologist Todd Leader will discuss common concerns regarding the provision of public services in Canada. He will examine what the public is demanding of us as leaders. The future of fields like social services, and addiction and mental health, must and will look fundamentally different in the years to come, in order to make any gains in the well-being of our population. The nature of those fundamental changes will require a paradigm shift in what we deem to be effective leadership in this field. It's time to embrace the kind of leadership change that's needed for the future, execute the major foundational changes needed in our systems, and create a healthier population and a healthier next generation. This is where theory and tradition end, and transformational change begins.
Capacity : 112
Room : Rundle
Speakers
- Audra Foggin, MSW, RSW
- Peter Choate, PhD, MSW, RCSW
- Chris Tortorelli, RSW, BA, MA
Description
Following a tortuous pathway, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and other parties have led the charge for the implementation of Jordan's Principle. How does social work fit in?
Capacity : 200
Room : Robson
Speakers
- Rita Yembilah, PhD
- Margot McKinnon, PhD
- Derek Cook, RSW, BA, MA
Description
Explore strategies to elevate children’s control over shaping an identity, living their passions, finding meaning and purpose, and developing connection and belonging in their community.
Capacity : 200
Room : Logan
Speaker
- Carrie McManus, SW Dip, RSW
- Amy Munroe, SW Dip, RSW
Description
In a world that feels progressively polarizing, we will demonstrate the power of brave engagement as a way to move away from viewing the world in dichotomies.
Capacity : 40
Room : Maligne
Speakers
- Kayla Das, BSW, RSW, BRec
Description
What is a low barrier practice and how can you incorporate it into your practice? A macro level approach in family violence shelters will be explored.
Capacity : 40
Room : Morraine
Speakers
- Dennis Whitford, MSW, RSW
- Barbara Pickering, Provisional Psychologist, MSc, PhD (c) Counselling Psychology
Description
Children affected by parental incarceration are an invisible, vulnerable population that experiences long-term psychological, social and economic disadvantages. Together we can listen, learn, and act.
Capacity : 40
Room : Amethyst
Speakers
- Charles Chenard, BSW, RSW, MPS, CCC, ATS
Description
Practice and learn ways to reset the mind by using mindfulness and self-compassion exercises. Learn how to transform a preoccupied mind into a quiet mind.
Capacity : 40
Room : Emerald
Speakers
- Layna Aschenmeier, MSW, RSW
- Esther Leung, MSW, RSW
Description
This presentation will focus on addressing some common misconceptions and beliefs that inform healthcare practices with respect to homeless patients.