Widening The Welcome: The Community Summit 2014, Julie Kingstone, LiveWorkPlay
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The Community Summit June 18, Wenatchee, Washington Julie Kingstone LiveWorkPlay.ca (Ottawa, Canada) "If We Invite Them, They Will Come" "Engaging ordinary citizens in supporting welcoming and inclusive neighborhoods, workplaces, community venues, and reciprocal relationships" There are significant human resources challenges to providing person-centred and individualized supports and services. With individuals living, working, and engaging in social activity at different times and places, how can staff be all things to all people? For LiveWorkPlay, the answer has been to throw open their doors and invite community members and sub-communities (such as workplaces, sports leagues, and other gathering places) to welcome, include, and benefit from the contributions of people with intellectual disabilities in their lives and activities. With more than 150 volunteers and 80 partners, a team of just 12 full-time staff is able to facilitate a wide variety of housing, employment, and social outcomes for more than 100 individuals with intellectual disabilities every year. This experience demonstrates what can happen when a belief in community translates into action.
Transcript of Widening The Welcome: The Community Summit 2014, Julie Kingstone, LiveWorkPlay
If We Invite Them, They Will Come
Widening the Welcome
It All Starts with Person-Centered Thinking & Planning
What’s Working What’s Not Working
Person Centered Planning:Tools
What does your week look like? Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
What’s working well?
What’s not working?
What would you like to change or add?
Tell me about...
Some other examples: person-centered thinking tools we use
One page profiles for all!
Action Plan
Staff Matching
Community ConnectionsIt’s All About Relationships!
Asdfasdfads
Team Spirit!
Affordable Housing
Employment
Volunteers Are COOL!
Friday Night Meet-Ups
Opportunities at LiveWorkPlay
/ Cooking Companion (Downtown/Britannia/Kanata/Orleans/Barrhaven)
/ Friday Night Fun!
/ Do you have a hobby or interest you'd like to share?
/ Movie Companion (Kanata/Orleans/Downtown/Barrhaven/Lincoln Heights)
/ Like Video Games!?
/ Wanna shoot some hoops? (Vanier)
/ Do you love dinner, movies or shopping?
/ Bowling Companion (Merivale)
/ Workout Partner (Various locations)
/ Computer Companion (Lincoln Fields)
/ Interested in horses?
/ Walk & Chat (Kanata/Barrhaven/Baseline/Britannia/Orleans)
/ Calling All Movers and Shakers!
/ Be an Employment Champion!
1:1 Matches
Supporting the Private and Personal: Friendships and Romantic
Relationships
Travel
Annual Review
Working Together for Change
Person-Centered Teams
MEMBERS BOARD
Executive
Staff
Director of
Operations
Executive
Staff
Marketing &
Communications
1
Employment
Supports (2)
Community
Connectors (3)
Living
Supports (2)
Coordinator of
Volunteers and
Support
Networks (1)
100 Volunteers
1
Supports
Coordinator
(1)
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LIVEWORKPLAY ORGANIZATIONAL CHART 2014
100+ Volunteers
One page staff profiles
Team Purpose Statement
Positive & Productive Team Meetings
Purpose
Roles
Information
Building
Hope and
Resiliency
Evaluation
Attendee Facilitator
Bring snacks and sets room up
Rotates weekly
Facilitates agenda
Records action Items and posts
minutes on Sharevision
Prepared for meetings
Add to the items on the agenda
Be present - avoid texting,
emailing, cell phone, doodling,
during meetings
Make team meetings a priority
Decision Making
The team discusses if this is a team or an Executive Staff Decision. Team
decisions involve discussions building on and generating new ideas until
the best decision emerges. Individuals can agree to disagree by
acknowledging that they have unresolved concerns, but consent to the
proposal anyway and allow it to be adopted. Team members agree to
speak positively about the decision and take ownership for it outside the
meeting (e.g. we decided, not they decided) and do whatever is required to
make the decision to work.
Learning
Teambuilding
Communications
Creating and Sharing Meaning of Our Work
Problem Solving
Storytelling
Sharing Progress and Outcomes
What is Working and What is Not Working
What Needs to Change
Measuring Impact and Progression Towards
Mission
Team
Meetings
Wed
3-6 pm
RISK: STATEMENT OF INTENTThe people supported by LiveWorkPlay tell us that they want to be involved in the community, access opportunities, and to achieve their goals like everyone else in society.
With an ordinary life comes risk, and sometimes accidents may happen. The people we support, as with most people, will not always choose to live in a totally healthy and safe way. We will support people to manage the risks involved in exercising control over their own lives, through offering advice and guidance.
In managing risk, we will take sensible precautions to reduce the risk of harm to staff, the people we support and anyone else who may be affected by our work. Those precautions will effectively balance what is important to the people we support with what is important for the people we support.
Risk assessments will not be used to curtail or ban activity. Sensible risk management is not about generating useless paperwork mountains. Risk assessments should address real risk, in other words risk which actually exists. Written assessments should contain information essential for maintaining safety.
As part of our commitment to enabling people we support to take planned risks, LiveWorkPlay as an employer will always support staff who have used sound judgement and taken sensible precautions, even if these have not been sufficient to avert an incident.
1:1 Coaching
“A coach is someone who can give correctionwithout causing resentment.”
- John Wooden
How Do We Know It is Working?
We Went From Sheltering and So-Called “Skill Development” to…
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Flourishing In Community
