|
CQL Canada in
partnership with Plainfield Community Homes
presents
Person-Centred
Thinking: Building Capacity
for Person-Centred
Supports and Services
a 2 day workshop with
Michael Smull
and Hilary Tugwood
9:00A.M. - 4:30P.M.
June 25 - 26, 2008
Belleville, ON
What’s it about?
This 2-day training serves as a foundation for everyone who
is involved in supporting people with significant
disabilities. Implementation and ongoing support of
person-centered plans and services is more likely where
staff have participated in this training. The skills and
tools taught strengthen employees’ ability to use any
person-centered planning model.
The training is designed and recommended for all paid staff
– regardless of their role. Managers need to attend if
they want those doing the direct support to use the skills
learned. Participants will need to commit to attending
both days of training to fully benefit from it.
Day One:
The focus of this day is on learning person centered
thinking skills that support choice while addressing issues
of health and safety. Using a series of stories
participants will learn how to:
-
strike a balance between what is important to and
what is important for each person supported;
-
clearly describe the roles and responsibilities of
staff in implementing plans;
-
evaluate their own efforts by looking at what is and
is not working within the lives of those supported;
and
-
lead change within their organizations by creating
optimistic discontent.
Day Two:
The focus of this day is to practice mindful listening and
using the information in describing what is important to
each person and how to best support her or him.
Participants will apply and enhance their person centered
thinking skills through a series of guided exercises, many
of which are done in pairs with a fellow participant.
Participants will learn skills that they will be able to use
on an every day basis when providing person centered
services and developing person centered plans. They
will see how to grow plans over time by using “learning
logs” and structured questions as well as practicing the
traditional approach of gathering and synthesizing
information. At the end of the day participants have a
first plan that they have completed on themselves.
WHAT WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS CAN EXPECT:
-
an understanding the basic concepts of person-centered
thinking and how to apply them
-
a desire and commitment to go back into the agency and
begin to attempt to apply what was learned
-
a beginning plan for how to do the applying
-
an understanding of where they are presently in terms of
being person-centered and where the people they support
are on the continuum toward full community life
-
a knowledge that person-centered thinking won't go
forward without an ongoing plan of support and learning
for those using the concepts
-
an awareness that a team of trained and supported
coaches is the best way to provide that support
-
a commitment to a supported coaches team that is able
to provide ongoing training for its members
-
an agreement from among staff who learned these concept
and way of thinking that they'll be the coaches
team; and
-
an
initial plan for providing ongoing support and training
to the coaches team
Who should attend?
Direct Support Staff, Support/Service Coordinators, Program
Managers, Clinical Staff, Program Directors
COST:
$199.00 + $9.95 GST = $208.95
The deadline for registration is
June 13, 2008.
Cancellation Policy:
Should
you find it necessary to cancel your registration, please
notify CQL Canada in writing. Cancellations received by June
13, 2008 are refundable, minus a $75.00 administrative fee
per person. After June 13, cancellations are subject
to the entire fee. Please note that if you do not
cancel and do not attend, you are still responsible for
payment. Substitutions may be made at any time.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
MICHAEL SMULL
 Michael
Smull is the Chair of The Learning Community for Essential
Lifestyle Planning (TLC-ELP), and Director of Support
Development Associates in Kensington, Maryland. Mr.
Smull has been working with people with disabilities for the
past 32 years. He has had extensive experience in
nearly all aspects of developing community services. He has
founded two community agencies, helped a number of agencies
convert from programs to supports, and helped states,
regions, and counties in changing their structures to
support self-determination. He has also worked to help
people leave institutions. He has written extensively
on issues relating to supporting people with challenging
behaviors, person centered planning, and the challenge of
changing our system to one that will support
self-determination.
As a consultant, Mr. Smull works
with agencies, regions and states on learning how to develop
person centered plans, implement the plans developed, and in
making the organizational changes needed for successful
implementation. As the Chair of TLC-ELP he is working
with others who do essential lifestyle planning to help
people with disability labels have positive control over
their lives. The activities that support this goal
range from developing training to developing and operating
organizations that demonstrate best practice. Mr.
Smull is the co-developer of Essential Lifestyle Planning
and has worked in 47 states, as well as Canada, the U.K. and
Belgium.
HILARY TUGWOOD
 Hilary
Tugwood has been a trainer/Reviewer for CQL Canada since
2002. She is certified in Personal Outcome Measures®
for Adults, as well as Personal Outcome Measures®
for Children and Youth. Hilary is also a trainer in
Essential Lifestyle Planning, Person Centered Thinking.
She has been a Reviewer on several agency reviews using both
the Quality Measures® 2005 and the Personal
Outcome Measures 2000 here in Canada and in the United
States. She has extensive experience facilitating
Self-Assessment Workshops and one-day Training Sessions; she
has provided Rights Training for both staff and people who
receive support, and reviewed organizational systems and
assurances. Hilary has facilitated Person Centered
Thinking workshops in Manitoba as well as Ontario.
Hilary has a B.A. in Psychology and Human Development from
the University of Guelph and has over 18 years of experience
in the developmental disabilities field, working with
children and families as well as with adults. She has
a personal philosophy in human services that is based on
respecting the dignity and rights of all people.
Hilary is currently the Director of Accreditation at
Plainfield Community Homes in Belleville, Ontario, who are
working towards accreditation in 2009. |
