Spring Conference Agenda

SARC Spring Conference 2021

May 26 & 27 Virtual

Opening and Closing Speakers

Denise Bissonnette

Joe Roberts

Training Consulting Services Leadership

OPENING PRESENTATION

May 26 9:30 - 11:30 am

THE MOSAICS OF WORK: MOTIVES, VALUES, & PERSPECTIVES Denise Bissonnette What keeps us in a job? By understanding a person’s work motives, values, and perspectives, we have insight into how to guide, supervise, and coach a person to achieve success based on their own definition.

In this session, Denise will share what she knows about the complex and multi-layered relationship each of us have with the world of work. Denise will share her thoughts on creative ways to assist someone to identify their abilities, gifts, values, and work preferences, demonstrate how our narratives, stories, and beliefs regarding work ultimately affect our experience, and what keeps us in a job, and adds to our sense of satisfaction in the workplace.

This session promises to be as enlightening personally as it is professionally, as Denise will inspire us to ask these questions with regard to our own work lives.

PERSON-CENTRED WEBSITE The new Person-Centred Saskatchewan Website has launched!

Starting at 12:00 p.m. on May 26, join members of the Person-Centred Culture Committee as they take you on a tour of their website.

In this Lunch and Learn session, you will be introduced you to the new website personcentredsk.ca. This is a website created in partnership with Saskatchewan disability service sector representatives with the goal of promoting person-centred culture.

The purpose of the website is to provide tools and resources to support Saskatchewan’s disability service sector in strengthening person-centred practices and culture.

The resources on this site can be used by

individuals, families, advocates, service providers, and anyone looking to learn more about the person-centred journey; there is something for everyone.

The Person-Centred Culture Committee is a proud collaboration of Inclusion Saskatchewan, SARC, Community Living Service Delivery and representatives from third-party service providers to promote person-centred practices in Saskatchewan.

WEDNESDAY MAY 26

Concurrent Session 1 - 1:30 - 3:30 pm A: SUPPORTED DECISION-MAKING AND HEALTHCARE: PERSPECTIVES OF SELF-ADVOCATES IN SASKATCHEWAN Inclusion Saskatchewan and the ICAN Network In this session with Inclusion Saskatchewan and Self-Advocates from ICAN (Individual and Collective Advocacy Network), we will learn about their groundbreaking work in supported decision-making.

This session will provide you with practical decision-making tools (including the Health Passport and supporting someone with medical decisions). The group will discuss the experience of supported decision-making from the perspective of self-advocates, how to support people with decision-making in challenging situations, including the importance of “doing with, not for”, and common issues and myths around supported decision-making and the role of substitute decision makers.

The group will also share about their work on the upcoming release of the Supported Decision-Making Handbook.

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B: THE COST OF CARING Cara Taylor, Oaks Mental Health In this session, Cara Taylor will guide you through some practical strategies for preventing and addressing compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout.

Compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout are occupational hazards. We will look at each of these in more detail and learn about strategies that can be used to address them, such as mindfulness, self-reflective practice, and selfcompassion, and discuss things such as professional grief, boundaries, and value-based work.

Join Cara as she will provide you with a means to assess yourself to apply practical strategies to deal with the stress, fatigue, and other occupational emotional hazards that we all may be experiencing during and beyond the pandemic.

THURSDAY, MAY 27

Concurrent Session 2 - 10:00 am - 12:00 pm A: HOW TO LAUNCH A SUCCESSFUL VIRTUAL MEETING (LIMIT 20) Rita Gupta, Facilitation First Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations have made the move to virtual meetings and training with their teams. This session will equip you with tools and techniques for successfully launching a meeting or training event virtually!

You will leave this session with an understanding of how to get buy-in for a meeting’s purpose and outcomes with the group. You will gain an awareness of ‘who needs to do what’ in virtual meetings, and how to define a group’s level of empowerment.

Join Rita as she shares her extensive knowledge with facilitating virtual meetings and training.

This session is interactive and will require you to have a camera, microphone, and a basic understanding of Zoom.

This session is limited to 20 people - register early!

B: DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Joseph Macbeth, Dan Hermreck, John Raffaele, NADSP When the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP) staff have an opportunity to speak to direct support professionals (DSP) around the country, one of our key messages is that DSPs are highly skilled professionals.

The NADSP Competency Areas describe a set of professional skills that DSPs use in their work each and every day. Those same skills will also be needed, although possibly used in new and different ways, during and after the current COVID-19 pandemic. Join Joe Macbeth, Dan Hermreck, and John Raffaele as they share information about the best ways for DSPs to utilize competencies and ethics during a pandemic (and post COVID-19, too).

We will also discuss self-care for all of us during this crisis, but direct support professionals have been some of the last people to look after themselves. We will explore the physical, emotional, and psychological needs of the direct support workforce in a crisis, and offer practical and useful strategies that can ensure that direct support professionals are supported to be their best.

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THURSDAY, MAY 27

Concurrent Session 3 - 1:00 - 3:00 pm

A: MANAGING AND ENGAGING PARTICIPANTS IN VIRTUAL MEETINGS (LIMIT 20) Rita Gupta, Facilitation First Many of us are making the move to virtual meetings and training because of the COVID-19 panedmic. Meeting organizers don’t only need to plan for going virtual, but they also need to be able to engage with those that they are meeting with. This session will equip you with tools and techniques for maximizing engagement in virtual meetings and training.

You will leave this session with an understanding as to why team member participation is critical in virtual meetings and training, and tips for preparing, starting, and managing great virtual meetups. You will then apply your learning to mitigate some common dilemmas in holding meeting participant’s attention.

This session is interactive and will require you to have a camera, microphone, and a basic understanding of Zoom.

This session is limited to 20 people - register early!

B: SUPPORTING PEOPLE DURING A PANDEMIC TO STILL EXPERIENCE COMMUNITY AND CONTRIBUTION Cara Milne, M-Powered Planning Cara Milne of M-Powered Planning will explore the value of community and contribution even during a pandemic. Her stories of how we can support people to be ‘in the community’ will bring hope to the disability service sector - since community is right where you are.

Participants will come away with real and practical ideas! Come and be inspired!

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CLOSING SPEAKER May 27 3:30 - 4:30 pm INSPIRING POSSIBILITIES DURING A PANDEMIC Joe Roberts During the last year, every one of us has been confronted by adversity, challenge, and change.

We have faced it with our families, work, health, and finances. Success in the face of adversity and change depends on our level of resiliency.

In this virtual keynote, Joe teaches how to build the resiliency needed to overcome life’s challenges and embrace change. As you walk with Joe through the tough streets of East Vancouver in the 1980’s, you will experience the depths and degradation of a former hopeless, homeless drug addict, to the heights and triumph of a successful entrepreneur.

Joe is a treasured Canadian whose life story embodies the resiliency of the human spirit. His message is inspiring, energetic, humorous, honest, raw, and unforgettable.

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WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU (VIRTUALLY) AT THE CONFERENCE!

SARC Member Early Bird Rate - $125 until May 14 SARC Member Conference Rate - $139 after May 14 Other Organizations - $145