Time
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
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9:00 am - 9:30 am
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Opening Ceremonies
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9:30 am - 10:30
am
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Opening Keynote
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Floyd Wiebe
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10:30 am - 10:45
am
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Break
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10:45 am - 12:15
pm
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Workshops, Block A
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A01
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Miguel, Lecuyer, BSW
Addictions Foundation of
Manitoba - Youth Services
Winnipeg, MB
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Issues of Substance: Youth, Alcohol
and Other Drugs
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Substance misuse and abuse can be a significant barrier for youth in care and a challenge for those who care for them.
This session will examine current trends in substance use amongst youth, risk factors and protective factors for
substance abuse, how to identify youth at-risk for harmful or dependent substance involvement, and ideas for how youth
care workers can respond effectively to concerns they may be seeing in a young person around alcohol or other drugs.
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A02
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Natalie Irving, Jessica
Sanders, Jen Verrier,
Patricia Barun & Tara Hay
Edgewood Program,
Macdonald Youth
Services
Winnipeg, MB
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Cruel to be Kind: Power Off to
Empower Youth for Better Tomorrows
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If our youth are to move into “Better Tomorrows”, they are in need of connection, life skills, and self-development. Our
presentation will demonstrate how staff in any environment can engage the youth in activities that will help them find their
strengths and overcome their obstacles. We will demonstrate a variety of activities as well as display examples of
projects. We will explain the difference between an activity without a focus and a strength based, guided activity where
youth can gain an insight into their emotions, perceptions and thoughts.
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A03
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Frank Delano LMSW
J.B.F.C.S., New York, N.Y.
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Avoiding Power Struggles with
Children and Teens
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This highly interactive workshop will look at the dynamics surrounding power struggles with children and teens and help
participants develop more confidence and skills in avoiding unwanted power struggles with the children they are working
with. Participants are encouraged to bring real life examples from their practice for discussion.
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A04
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Erin Dowling Eating
Disorders Self Help
Program Winnipeg, MB
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A Better Weigh: An In-Depth Look at
Body Image, Eating Disorders and the
Pressures to be thin.
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Over one half of teenage girls and nearly one third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviours such as
skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, steroid use, vomiting, and taking laxatives.
Clearly our society’s relentless pursuit of thinness is taking a drastic toll in the lives of our youth. Together we’ll explore
the epidemic of dieting, disordered eating, weight obsession, and the impact the media has on body image and self-
acceptance in these young lives. It’s time to change course and examine our attitudes, beliefs, and concerns
surrounding weight and body image so we may lay a firm foundation for our youth to thrive in their bodies, and in their
lives.
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A05
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Tam Bachalo Addictions
Foundation of Manitoba -
Compass Residential
Youth Program
Winnipeg, MB
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Child and Adolescent Spiritual
Development: Dispelling Our Taboos;
Defining Our Tomorrows
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While there are few adults who do not have some sense of what Religion and Spirituality is or is not to them, new and
compelling research suggests how this understanding develops in children and adolescents, like other forms of
development, not only influences future understanding, but should be a factor in determining how we, as CYCWs, are
interacting with them. This presentation will offer participants an opportunity to analyze recent research trends; explore
Child and Adolescent Spiritual Development models and investigate overcoming barriers (ours and theirs), through
discussion, sharing of understandings and skills enhancing experiential learning.
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12:15 pm - 1:30
pm
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Lunch
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Lunch is self catered. There are many fine restaurants nearby.
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
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Workshops, Block B
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B01
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Marie Christian Voices:
Manitoba’s Youth in Care
Network
Winnipeg, MB
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Voices in the System
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Using multi-media tools such as video and digital stories, youth-in-care and from-care share their stories and
experiences to help child welfare professionals realize their impact (and potential impact).
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B02
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Cancelled
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B03
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Naomii Singer and
Addison Sandy
Just TV Project, Broadway
Neighbourhood Centre
Winnipeg, MB
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Just TV Project
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Operating out of the centrally located Broadway Neighbourhood Centre, the Just TV program provides an exciting
programming option for youth who are creatively minded and who demonstrate an interest in urban culture. The program
incorporates workshops and technical training into the curriculum, ensuring that Just TV graduates have the skills
necessary to continue to express themselves after program completion. In addition, life skills training is woven into the
program curriculum, imparting youth with valuable knowledge while at the same time maintaining their interest through
programming that is both fresh and captivating.
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B04
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Bev Wiebe
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How Can I Feed You When I am
Starving Myself?
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This workshop provides strategies for self-preservation or self-care using the definition of starvation as an analogy.
Provided is an understanding of how caregivers reach the stage of starvation or burnout and how they can take steps to
ensure they have the resources to reduce the risk that they will be too weak or starved emotionally, mentally, etc. to
adequately care for others.
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
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Break
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3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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Workshops, Block C
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C01
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Dee Bissonnette & Erin
Klimpke FASD Youth
Justice
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FASD Youth Justice Program:
Interventions Strategies and
Accomodations
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In 2004, The FASD Youth Justice Program (YJP) formed a partnership between systems in Manitoba to provide
diagnostic services for youth affected by prenatal alcohol exposure and who are involved in the criminal justice system.
The FASD YJP helps youth with FASD, and the people who work and live with them. This interactive session will explore
how physical brain differences influence behaviours and the types of strategies and accommodations youth with FASD
need. The presenters will draw on their experiences with youth involved in the criminal justice system and talk about the
projects the FASD JYP has been implementing to help people living and working with FASD.
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C02
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Tereza Gomes M.A.
Psychology, M.S.
Counselling
New Directions For
Children, Youth, Adults
and Families
Winnipeg, MB
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Befriending Yourself, Befriending
Your Child
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The presentation is for professionals who are interested in a style of leadership that accesses the brain’s power and the
heart’s intelligence; that is how to guide young people with clarity and one pointedness and balance this with loving
kindness, compassion and receptivity to the unique stories they bring. It draws on knowledge, from family systems, the
narrative approach, mindfulness, the wisdom traditions, somatic therapy, and the creative arts and from the sacred
stories shared by young people over the last 15 years and more.
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10:30 - 12:00 p.m.
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C03
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Cathy Rocke & Eveline
Milliken University of
Manitoba Faculty of Social
Work
Winnipeg, MB
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Handling the Big Questions: Talking
About Spirituality with Children and
Youth
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In the interest of promoting best practice in the care of vulnerable children and their families, this presentation will
challenge participants to consider how the issue of spirituality is incorporated into our work with children, youth and their
families. The purpose of this strength based presentation is to offer an opportunity to explore ways of helping children
and youth sort out what they are struggling with and to feel more comfortable in dealing with spiritual questions youth
may have This session will have an experiential component to practice opening up questions that children and youth
may bring to their CYCW.
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C04
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Dave Macpherson –
Program Manager, New
Directions for Children
Youth & Families
Karl Gompf – Child and
Youth Care Consultant &
former instructor - Child
and Youth
Care, Red River College
Winnipeg, MB
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More Than a Few Good Men
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This workshop will highlight various aspects of what it means to be a male child and youth care practitioner. With a
combined total of over sixty years in our field, the presenters will give a personal perspective on their work with children
and youth. Through storytelling, discussion, and workshop participation those attending this workshop will leave having
learned how important males are to our profession. Both females and males are welcome and are invited to gently share
their experience in working with males in the field. Some of the principles from the book ‘Men are from Mars, Women are
from Venus’ will be challenged.
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C05
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Kim Melnyk & Karen
Wilson The Laurel Centre
Winnipeg, MB
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Who's Got Your Back?
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It’s tough out there and we all need someone to watch out for us. The who’s got your back program is there for girls ages
12-16 who are struggling to make positive changes and decisions, need tools and supports to navigate lifestyles
considered unsafe or risky, wanting to learn about what it means to grow up safe in an unsafe world, have been involved
in street or gang lifestyles, have been in conflict with the law or other systems, and are involved in dangerous lifestyle
choices.
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