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Hey all, COPCS has sent around a few links to upcoming free workshops
offered by Alzheimer Society of BC. There are webinars available as well! Check out the regional links below.
You can also sign up to receive their First Link Bulletin by email: info@alzheimerbc.org
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!
Plan Institute has upcoming training opportunities online in these topics:
Plan Institute adds new events and dates to their website, check it out here. You can also sign up for their newsletter! They will notify you of upcoming events.
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 |
Hey everyone:
Passing along the info for this workshop coming up January 29th on positive behaviour supports. Check out the flyer below.
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.
Thanks to Margaret from COPCS for passing this along.
This looks really great – monthly FoodSafe training offered in Kelowna. Check out the poster below and the Website of the trainer here.
Hey everyone, we have a few more spots available for home share providers and employees in our upcoming MANDT Training – see info below, contact Sue to register.
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.
Hey everyone:
Thanks to all for your patience as we have moved to two branches of our Community Support delivery: one-to-one and group services. In doing so, we hope to deliver services in ways that meet your needs better.
Thanks to Amit, Joel and Kathy (behind the scenes) who put together this excellent video that describes the groups we have going on as well as openings that we have in each of them. Please check it out below and ask your Facilitator at CLBC for more information about the groups that we have to offer and a referral if it sounds good to you!
See ya out there!
