The Individualized Funding Family Coalition, The Family Support Institute,
and
The British Columbia Association for Community Living
are pleased
to present
A Two Day Workshop with
Michael Kendrick
“Exploring
Consumer / Family Governed Service Models for
People with Developmental Disabilities and their Families”
April 6 & 7,
2004
Richmond, BC
Historically, services for
people with disabilities have been designed and delivered by staff and
professionals on behalf of people with disabilities. While the role that people
with disabilities and families should play in determining and developing the
services they require has been acknowledged for quite some time, the ability for
this to be supported is now being realized.
Within the next few
months, the authority for community living services in British Columbia is set
to be transferred to a new provincial governance body which will be called
Community Living BC. While this will be very helpful for systems level citizen
governance at the Provincial and local level, it still leaves a gap at the level
of direct services as to the precise role of self advocates and families in
guiding and controlling their own direct services. Citizens in BC are well
positioned to develop some new models of optimal and high quality services that
are largely controlled by self advocates and families.
The workshop will
provide an opportunity to visualize how this can be achieved. It will explore
the strengths, ambiguities, dilemmas and challenges of services. The
workshop will provide a systematic overview of the many dimensions of good
quality self advocate and family guided services, and provide a clear picture of
the various technical, financial, and ethical strategies as well as managerial
issues. This kind of service is a desirable and feasible option to develop.
The question is how to do it properly and effectively.
There are many questions
that need to be addressed and these include:
§
The
decentralization and conditional delegation of public accountability
§
The ethics
and practices of a person-centered service
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The role of
service governance versus management
§
Hosting and
auspicing issues
§
Various forms
and dimensions of individualized financing
§
The coherency
and innovativeness of service
§
Wasteful,
costly and low yield individualization
§
Supporting
self advocates and families who need assistance
§
Crucial
capacity building supports
§
Clarity of
program concepts, principles and values
§
Leadership
requirements
§
Building
“right relationships” within and external to the service
§
Interfacing
with traditionally organized bureaucracies and regulatory bodies
§
Developing
tailor-made, intentional safeguards
Michael J Kendrick PhD
is a well known international consultant whose work is familiar to many people
in British Columbia on a wide range of leadership issues including quality,
advocacy, safeguards, empowerment, person-centred approaches and many other
timely subjects. This workshop will be supported by extensive materials and
writings, many of which can be obtained in advance at the Kendrick Consulting
International website at
www.kendrickconsulting.org
Who is this workshop for?
The concepts, theories and
practices covered in this workshop are some of the most progressive in the field
and constitute the leading edge of thinking and practice. Consequently, the
workshop will be of considerable challenge and interest to volunteer leaders,
executive directors, program managers, front line staff, advocates, government
representative as well as self advocates and their families. It is precisely
the combined efforts of all of these people that contribute to the evolution of
leading edge practice, so the absence of any would be telling. This workshop
should have value for anyone involved in trying to ensure the conditions of
peoples lives reach the potential they deserve.
Date:
Tuesday April 6 and Wednesday April 7, 2004
Time:
9:00 am until 4:30 pm
Location:
Executive Airport Plaza Hotel, 7311 Westminster Highway, Richmond, BC
Hotel
Rooms: Hotel rooms can be reserved at
the Executive Airport Plaza Hotel by contacting them toll-free at
1-800-663-2878, or at 604-278-5555 and by fax at 604-278-0255. The rates are
$109.00 for single / double occupancy, plus applicable taxes. Plaza Level rooms
are $119 for single / double occupancy, plus applicable taxes. The cut-off date
to secure these rates is March 19, 2004. Please say that you are with the BCACL
room block.
Costs: The
registration fee includes the cost of the 2 day workshop, lunch and refreshment
breaks. The registration fee for self advocates is half price.
Early Bird By March 21,
2004 $110.00 (self advocates $55.00)
By
March 31, 2004 $150.00 (self advocates $75.00)
Registration:
Closing Date is March 31, 2004. Please register by returning the attached
registration form to BCACL, 3rd Floor, 30 East 6th Avenue, Vancouver
BC V5T 4P4, fax: 604-875-6744, phone: 604-875-1119.
Subsidies:
BCACL’s Pathways to Citizenship Project is able to offer some financial
assistance to offset travel and registration costs to support the attendance of
self advocates, family members, volunteers and service providers at this event.
Applications must be received no later then March 21, 2004. For more
information and to apply, please contact Cindy Chapman at
cchapman@bcacl.org.
