Hi everyone, we have MANDT courses coming up for home share providers in Cranbrook and Creston – check out the dates and let Mike know if you’re able to attend!
CRESTON & CRANBROOK: MANDT training coming up!
Home Sharing – CLBC Feedback
Here’s a email from Ross Chilton, CEO of CLBC
| View this email in your browser January 8, 2020 Happy New Year. I hope you enjoyed the holiday season with your family and friends. In June of 2019, CLBC and the BC CEO Network, together with the members of the BC Home Share Providers Association and the Central Okanagan Professional Caregivers Association, came together to form a Home Sharing Working Group. The Group works to find solutions for issues identified in home sharing and has implemented a 3-year work plan. Improving CLBC’s referral and matching process of individuals to home sharing providers as well as finding better systems around helping to prevent, avert and respond to crises in home sharing services were identified as priorities in the plan. Hearing directly from someone with lived experience or those who support someone living in home sharing is vital to the success of this work. CLBC is hosting eight consultation sessions across the province to hear first hand how we can improve our approaches. I am writing to ask for your help to spread the word by distributing the consultation invitation found here to your staff, home sharing providers you’re connected to, individuals living in a home share and their families / personal support networks. We are also launching an online survey later this month so we can make sure we reach as many people as possible. CLBC will send you the link to the survey when it is online. If you have any questions about the consultations or this project, please feel free to contact Zainum Bahadshah, Project Manager, at Zainum.Bahadshah@gov.bc.ca or Jack Styan, VP Strategic Initiatives, at Jack.Styan@gov.bc.ca. I appreciate your support in sharing this information with your networks. Sincerely, Ross Chilton CEO Community Living BCI |
CLBC Invitation – Home Share Consultation
Hey everyone, passing along another great piece of information received from COPCS. CLBC has issued an invitation to provide input on home share – check out the PDF! Participation is first-come, first-served.
WE HEARD YOU…
Hey everyone, we have put together a summary of what you told us this past year: we wanted to let you know that WE HEARD YOU.
Here is what we did about what you told us:
Thanks helping us improve! Remember we have online compliments and complaints forms that you can use anytime. We look forward to hearing from you.
Sad news…
Hi everyone:
It is with a very heavy heart that we let you know that we lost James Croston to cancer on Saturday. James, for those that may not have known him, was a Home Share Provider, Home Share Coordinator, Senior Coordinator and the Service Coordinator for Home Share at Community Connections. He literally performed every role with respect to Home Share at the agency and developed many great relationships with coworkers at the agency, Home Share Providers and our communities in his various roles along the way.
I will miss his tremendous sense of humour, his persistent quest for knowledge, constant commitment to improve things, his intensity and, most of all, his friendship.
James is survived by his loving family who were by his side throughout his illness, particularly his young son and daughter. A Go Fund Me page has been set up with the proceeds going to James’ kids. The link is here should you wish to donate.
As you can imagine, it will take us a few days to catch up on work that we had promised, my apologies particularly for the delay in getting out the breakdowns of the recent Home Share increases and retroactive payments if they applied to you. I will get those out to you as soon as I can.
Thank you all for your support of the CCSS team and especially your support of James.
He will be dearly missed.
Jackie and Brian (on behalf of the whole Home Share Team at Community Connections Support Services)
Update: James’ obituary is here.
IncludeMe! 40 and counting!
Hey everyone:
Don’t forget about your IncludeMe survey – we want to get as many people participating as possible. We’ve got 40 completed already, is yours done? If not,
connect with one of our Community Support workers or Home Share Coordinators to arrange you appointment.
Let’s keep it rolling!
Creston: October 1, 2019 – Mandt Training!
Hey everyone:
Please see below for the poster for the Mandt Training organized for Creston. Please see the attached posters for more information and contact Mike (contact info is on the poster) for more info and to register. More information on the Mandt System can be found here.
See you there!
Cranbrook: September 30, 2019 – Mandt Training!
Hey everyone:
Please see below for the poster for the Mandt Training organized for Cranbrook. Please see the attached posters for more information and contact Mike (contact info is on the poster) for more info and to register. More information on the Mandt System can be found here.
See you there!
Cranbrook: Home Share Barbecue!
Hey everyone:
Great article and pic of the crew at our barbecue in Cranbrook celebrating the tremendous impact Home Share Providers make in the lives of the people we support.
Thanks so much to our East Kootenay Home Share team for organizing!
Our 5th (!) CARF Survey…!
Hey Everyone:
Our intrepid reporter, Amit Ghosh, got a chance to sit down with Linda Siino from CARF to talk about accreditation, CARF and how it impacts Community Connections Support Services. Linda, Colleen and Paul (in the West Kootenays) were here the week before last surveying the organization.
More info about CARF is here. Check out the video below and hit us up with any other questions you may have. Thanks to Amit, Linda and Kathy for making this happen.
