Contact
Tom RegehrCAST Canada
regehr@cast-canada.ca
705-749-6145
When
Wednesday June 4th 2014. 8:30 - 4:30
10 Years and 100 Panels Later
June 4th, 2004 was the first CAST Canada 'Consumer panel'. The panels have since traveled across Ontario and we will be celebrating our 10th Anniversary with several panels with audience discussion! Join us for this amazing event - see how panel members are doing, explore ways in which panels affected direct service providers like yourself over the years.
June 4th, 2014
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
$90 +hst
Includes coffee, tea and all handout materials.
St Paul's United, 30 Main St. S
Brampton ON
The day will be a flurry of panels and room discussion.
Panel Themes:
We will explore the larger idea of using personal experience in panels, public speaking and poster campaigns - is it healthy and good or dangerous and exploitative. We know that it can be either. Come along and hear from people - on a panel of course - to look at both sides. Learn ways to hold panels and speaking events safely and productively
Understanding Trauma and Addiction - The nature of receiving help with an addiction, mental health concerns, trauma history and other factors that come into play with seeking help and support and choosing to make change.
Holding safe and Productive Panels
It is common to invite people with direct experience tosit on a panel or give a speech to an audience. This can be a productive and motivating event. It can also traumatize, alienate, belittle and stigmatize the person. How do you treat a person fairly and ethically - it is much more than an honorarium!
Ethics and Ideas
Just what is the value in personal experience? Can the voice of one person represent the entire helping experience? Who has valuable personal experience - or, more to the point, who does not?
"I told my story publicly and they raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, the only thing I know is that even with my college diploma I cannot get a job now" - How lived experience can come with accolades and stigma!
Who Should Attend?
Any frontline worker or helping professional who works with clients with addiction and/or trauma issues. The day is popular with all Ontario Works workers and staff, shelter and housing support workers, ODSP and Children's Aid workers, therapists, counselors, correctional, probation and parole officers, professors and students, EAP professionals, all hospital staff, all outreach, educators, occupational therapists, emergency room social workers etrc.
Also, people who are looking to safely and productively hold panels with people with direct expereince with addiction, mental health and homelessness where trauma is a constant factor.
The Organic Origin of the "Practical Tools"
Since 2004 CAST Canada has held more than almost 100 Consumer Panel discussions in which 3-5 people with direct experience of trauma and addictions discuss their journy with 20-50 helping professionals like you. Over 2,000 Ontario frontline workers worked directly with CAST Canada volunteer consumers to identify this concept of “Tomorrow Does Not Exist” and worked together to develop the tools from the positive - and negative - experience of the consumers. The tools are known to be simple and easy to apply but still very unique and powerful.
IN-HOUSE SESSIONS AVAILABLE
Questions?
regehr@cast-canada.ca becca@cast-canada.ca 705-749-6145