Concurrent Disorder: Supporting Recovery Using The Stages Of Change

This workshop is designed to help participants gain skills and knowledge to better identify, assess and provide support to people with co-occurring addiction and mental health concerns. The practical application will be reinforced through large and small group discussion using various client studies. 

Learning Objectives

• Understand characteristics of addiction
• Examine key concepts of harm reduction
• Review addiction assessment tools and examine their application to client support
• Discover how Stages of change inform client intervention and goal planning

Target Audience 

Participants can include frontline community workers, addictions workers, team leaders, and supervisors in community mental health and addictions agencies.

Workshop Details

This is a full-day workshop. It can be delivered via webinar, with modifications.

Improve your Client Notes

Clear, concise, factual, and timely client documentation is foundational to the provision of quality human services. This workshop offers a framework for writing client documentation as a standard of practice required by most regulatory colleges in the Province of Ontario.  Participants will learn about the importance of: collecting and maintaining accurate client documentation to support client privacy, client progress and outcomes while balancing legal and professional risk. These standards are discussed in depth and are linked to common scenarios.

Participants will:

• Understand the purpose of a client record
• Understand and Operationalize Five Standards
  of Client Record Keeping
• Operationalize the use of Inclusive Language
  in the Client Record

Target Audience 

This workshop is designed for individuals working in a variety of human services and who are interested in improving their client documentation skills, and that ensure client documentation meets regulatory standards. This workshop is a mixture of presentation and experiential learning.

Participants can include frontline community workers, clinicians, team leaders, managers, consultants, and people who are required to document and/or supervise client interactions as part of their role.

This workshop is offered in a half-day workshop module. It can be delivered via webinar, with modifications.

Parallel Realities:

How To Support Clients Who Experience Psychosis

This workshop will provide participants with an experiential and reflective opportunity to learn to support clients who hear voices, or experience other types of parallel realities (visual, tactile, etc. hallucinations) using a client- centred, recovery-based theoretical framework.  Parallel realities will be explored and defined. Foundational concepts and skills are explored and linked directly to practice.  These are then applied to examples of clients who may experience distressing voices or parallel realities.  The workshop includes a mixture of lecture and small/large group discussions.

Participants will:

• Understand the meaning and stages of parallel realities
• Understand the experience of hearing voices
• Examine foundational concepts and skills required to better support clients
• Understand and apply the Interview Process in client support

Target Audience

This workshop is designed for people who are interested in learning how to support clients from a client centred recovery-based theoretical framework.

Participants can include frontline community workers, team leaders, managers, educators, consultants, police officers, first responders, family members and people interact with those who experience alternate realities.

This is a full-day workshop. It can be delivered via webinar, with modifications.  

Recovery-Based Assessment

This workshop is designed to provide participants with a
foundational understanding of Recovery Oriented Practice
in community mental health and addiction settings. The assessment process is discussed using a recovery-oriented lens. The practical application of the framework is reinforced through large and small group discussion using various client studies.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the importance and role of assessment in community mental health and addiction services
• Recognize the importance of client participation in the assessment process
• Differentiate recovery/client centered practice principles from medical approaches
• Examine Recovery Practice’s application to client assessment

Trauma-Informed Practice

Participants will explore how a trauma history relates to interpersonal conflict. This will be linked to an overview of trauma informed support. Followed by a  foundational discussion of what trauma is and how people may respond to traumatic events. The workshop will conclude with practical skills and interventions to support clients who may have experienced trauma. These interventions are meant to decrease, or minimize conflict between staff and client.

Participants will:

• Understand trauma-informed support
• Understand trauma
• Understand the physiological responses to trauma
• Identify symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  and its long-term effects
• Identify direct service skills key to trauma informed support
• Understand the importance of self-care

Target Audience 

Participants can include front-line community workers, customer service representatives, team leaders, managers, educators, consultants, police officers, and people who are required to negotiate through conflictual situations will all benefit from this workshop.

This workshop is designed for those with a beginner to novice level of understanding about trauma.

Workshop Details
This workshop is a full-day workshop. It can be delivered
via webinar, with modifications.