Training: The Fundamentals and More of EAP / EFAP

The Fundamentals and More of EAP / EFAP
Online Web Training
www.ClaireSuttonCoaching.com

Call 604.742.1178

This online course is for anyone with or without experience in the field of EAP / EFAP. Clinical social workers are in demand by quality EAP provider companies for EAP knowledge as well as the particular skill-set conducive to EAP. The field of EAP keeps you on the pulse of today’s workplace and client issues. There are many career opportunities within Employee Assistance Programs.

This 8 Module course covers:

• A thorough understanding of the essence of EAP;
• How to begin to do a comprehensive assessment;
• Most important questions to ask an EAP client;
• How to do your best work within tight session-limits;
• Maintain the highest ethical standards of confidentiality;
• Sample case studies will be explored;
• The course will also address how to market yourself to EAP providers
• Participant interaction for Q&A via Email;
• Two individual 40 min. coaching session ( value $140.00 ea)
• Workbook and Notes with every Lesson;
• And more…

www.clairesuttoncoaching.com

Regional Social Workers for Child Welfare, Youth Justice & More - Yukon

Regional Social Workers

Regional Program Management

Department of Health & Social Services

Play an integral role ensuring a safe and supportive environment for children and families living in rural communities

Location: rural locations throughout Yukon

Closing date: until positions filled

Requisition: #2522

Salary: $76,820 to $88,809 per annum

This is an exciting opportunity to experience life in rural communities while you use your skills to support a Yukon where all children and families can thrive. With travel to other communities as required, you will provide residents with a range of collaborative, generalist social work services, including child welfare, youth justice, social assistance, adult protection and community development. Your aim will be to ensure a safe and supportive environment for children and their families.

Your delivery of child welfare and youth justice services will include child protection, family support, child-in-care services, foster care and adoptions along with youth probation. You will also assist adults at risk of abuse and provide social assistance in the form of income support, adult services and emergency services. Additionally, you will work alongside First Nations, RCMP, health units, schools and other groups to respond to emerging and existing issues and to build capacity within these communities to promote, strengthen and sustain the well-being of their residents.

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelor of Social Work
• Social work experience in providing child welfare services
• Experience in youth justice, social assistance and adult protection (an asset)
• Experience in community development (an asset)

Candidates who meet the educational requirements, but have limited training, and/or experience may be considered on an underfill basis.

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Suitability

• Self-awareness
• Strong knowledge of, and experience in, social work principles and practices in child welfare and case management
• Effective two-way communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships and partnerships
• Strong organization and time management skills to manage a diverse caseload
• Ability to take a broad-based, strategic approach to community development in response to mandated client service
• Sound ethical decision-making skills and practice that is guided by the Canadian Association of Social Work code of ethics
• Commitment to protecting children and supporting family units
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment with an emphasis on First Nation’s culture.

Conditions of Employment: Security Clearance with vulnerable sectors and a valid Class 5 driver’s licence.

Approved candidates will be provided reimbursement of interview/relocations expenses, if required, in accordance with the Interview & Relocation Expense Directive.

We are the Yukon public service. Every day, we come together to serve the people who live here, and to make a difference in so many ways—from simple to extraordinary and everything in between. Here, you will find the diverse opportunities you desire to develop your career while enjoying a warm sense of community and vibrant artistic, cultural and recreational amenities, all set in a spectacular natural environment.

For more information, please visit our website or contact Amy Campbell at 867.667.5685 or email Amy.Campbell@gov.yk.ca

To apply, please visit our website at www.employment.gov.yk.ca.

UBC Continuing Education/Professional Development - Vancouver, Kelowna & Online

Motivational Interviewing in Psycho-Educational Groups

Health and helping professionals who have group leadership experience and/or currently run psycho-educational groups can complement their MI knowledge with this practice-based training. Participants will have opportunity to observe and co-facilitate group conversations in the spirit, communication style, and strategies of Motivational Interviewing.

May 24 & 25, UBC Robson Square

Introduction to Motivational Interviewing in Health Care

Gain basic familiarity with MI core elements, clinical style, and strategies that are proven helpful in decreasing resistance, increasing readiness, and guiding conversations that support health-related change.

June 7 & 8, UBC Robson Square in Vancouver

June 14 &15, UBC Okanagan in Kelowna

Summer Institute on Addiction

Join other professionals working in the field of addiction and benefit from cutting edge research, practical strategies and shared experience. The plenaries and workshops feature unique examples of evidence-based practice and practical skills that can directly enhance your client care.

July 18-20, UBC Point Grey

New 100% online learning opportunities

Individualized Motivational Interviewing Feedback and Coaching

Messages that Matter: Knowledge Translation Strategies for health and Helping Professions

      Find out more and register or call 604.827.4234.

Training: Reducing the Impact of Compassion Fatigue Using the Satir Model - Surrey, BC June 8 and 9, 2013

Reducing the Impact of Compassion Fatigue
Using the Satir Model

conducted by Robin Beardsley, MD, CCFP,
Family Physician and BP Psychotherapist

June 8 and 9, 2013
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: Phoenix Center Boardroom
13686-94A Avenue, Surrey, BC V3V 1N1

Dear Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Students,

I am taking this opportunity of Cindi's email to share with you my excitement about this topic of Compassion Fatigue. I am very interested in this topic of wellness for caregivers, whether that be personally or professionally. My sense is that if therapists are congruent, in touch with their Life Force and work with impact rather than stories, then impacts on the therapist will be less. We are not immune, however, to compassion fatigue. I recently hit the "red zone" of Compassion Fatigue and had to make some adjustments in my life. Having the experience and the tools of what I have learned through all my Satir training, I believe, made it easier to come through this chaos.

It is my hope to share with you what I have learned and to explore together how we can be more resilient in our lives and this wonderful work that we do with clients as they transform. If you are interested in this topic, then please register early or at least before May 17, 2013. Hope to see you June 8-9, 2013 at this level 3 workshop.

Robin Beardsley

Early Bird Deadline April 26, 2013
SIP Members $200 Non-Member $225

Program Cancellation Deadline May 17, 2013

To register or for more information see the attached brochure or contact:
Cindi Mueller, Administrator, SIP 604-634-0572 or admin@satirpacific.org

DBT Training - Vancouver - June 28th

"Practical Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Strategies for the Assessment and Treatment of Self-Injury." 

The DBT Center of Vancouver is co-sponsoring a pre-conference workshop on June 28th, at SFU Harbour Centre, downtown Vancouver, entitled "Practical Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Strategies for the Assessment and Treatment of Self-Injury."

This workshop occurs the day before the 8th Annual Convention for the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury (June 29 & 30).

Please see the attached brochure or go to http://dbtvancouver.com/other/ISSSjune2013 for
more information (to register, go to http://www.regonline.com/2013issspreconf).

Participants are welcome to register even if they are not planning to attend the ISSS
conference.

If you have any questions about the pre-conference workshop or the ISSS convention, please
e-mail perl@sfu.ca. Thank you.

Supervisor, Regional Services: Department of Health and Social Services - Whitehorse, YT

Supervisor, Regional Services - North

Department of Health and Social Services

Regional Program Management

Bring skilled leadership and extensive social work experience to this full-time, term position (to August 2014) meeting the needs of residents in rural Yukon

Location: Whitehorse, YT

Closing date: April 30, 2013

Requisition: #2361

Salary: $81,281 to $94,023 per annum

As a qualified professional with extensive social work experience, you are invited to join in our commitment to seeing individuals and families reach their full potential. A capable leader, mentor and coach, you will be called on to provide leadership and clinical supervision for a broad range of social work services in rural Yukon, including child welfare and youth justice as well as social assistance, adult protection and community development. Your collegial work style and ability to communicate effectively at any level of the organization——will enable you to ensure a high standard of service delivery.

Essential Qualifications:

• a Bachelor of Social Work
• extensive social work experience providing child welfare services
• clinical experience supervising social workers in a child welfare setting along with mentoring and coaching experience
• the willingness and ability to travel extensively and work in rural communities.

Candidates who meet the educational requirements, but have limited training, and/or experience may be considered on an underfill basis.

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Suitability:

• supervisory experience
• good self-awareness
• knowledge of youth justice, social assistance, adult protection and community development
• a strong knowledge of, and experience applying, social work principles and practices in child welfare and case management
• effective two-way communication skills
• the ability to build and maintain effective work relationships and professional partnerships
• strong organization and time management skills and ability to manage a diverse caseload
• ability to take a broad-based, strategic approach to community development
• sound ethical, decision making and practices guided by the Canadian Association of Social Work Code of Ethics
• a commitment to protecting children and supporting family development
• an ability to work in a multicultural environment with a respectful emphasis on First Nation’s culture.

Conditions of Employment: Security clearance with vulnerable sectors and a valid Class 5 driver’s licence

Approved candidates will be provided reimbursement of interview/relocations expenses, if required, in accordance with the Interview & Relocation Expense Directive.

We are the Yukon public service. Every day, we come together to serve the people who live here, and to make a difference in so many ways—from simple to extraordinary and everything in between. Here, you will find the diverse opportunities you desire to develop your career while enjoying a warm sense of community and vibrant artistic, cultural and recreational amenities, all set in a spectacular natural environment.

For more information, please visit our website or contact Amy Campbell at 687.667.5685 or via email at Amy.Campbell@gov.yk.ca.

To apply, please visit our website at www.employment.gov.yk.ca.

DBT Loved Ones & BPD group - Vancouver

DBT Centre of Vancouver presents Loved Ones & BPD group

The DBT Centre of Vancouver's 12-week Loved Ones & BPD group is due to start on April 26.

This special 12-week course, taking place on Fridays from 10am to 11:30am, is designed to
provide partners, family, and friends with tools for better understanding and assisting
loved ones who have Borderline Personality Disorder or related problems (eg. self-injury).

This group will also teach participants some of the practical skills commonly covered in the
DBT groups to effectively manage emotions, communicate to others, and tolerate overwhelming
distress.

If you know of anyone who might benefit from this group, we would appreciate you passing
this information on to them. They can find further information as well as how to register at
http://dbtvancouver.com/services/12weekFFcourse.php

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to let me know. Thank you.

DBT Centre of Vancouver, Inc.
1040 - 1200 Burrard St
Vancouver BC V6Z 2C7
P: 604-569-1156
F: 604-569-1230

Using Social Media to Enhance your Professional Image & Employment Search

How to use social media to enhance your social work job search

Community Care, April 2, 2013.

Make sure your profile is complete. Having a 100% profile shows you are thorough and that you care. Crucially, it also makes it easier for potential employers find you. They will be searching according to keywords and if all your expertise is listed, it increases the probability of them finding you.

Join social work groups. These are sometimes used directly for recruitment, but will also help you build up your network and show that you have an interest in wider social work issues. Search for relevant groups, such as Advanced Social Work Practice Network or Social Care Leadership, and keep an eye on which groups your contacts are members of. Engage with the groups, but remember that certain topics, such as specific cases, are off-limits.

Make an approach, indirectly. If there’s an organisation you wish to approach and you have a broad network, you probably already have a connection who works for that organisation, one or two degrees removed. An advanced people search will reveal this and your mutual contact, who you should politely ask for an introduction. Never ask anyone directly for a job, but instead seek their general advice on opportunities or the best person to approach.

Use it regularly. Send LinkedIn invitations to connect after you meet new contacts. That way, when you find yourself job searching, you will already have a network in place. If you neglect your profile until you have to find a job, you’ll have the bigger task of building it from scratch.

Choose recommendations with care. Recommendations are powerful – but only if they are credible. If your profile is cluttered with too many, they become devalued. Similarly, too much ‘you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours’, will come across as weak. Ideally, a recommendation should be from someone for whom you have provided a service, so an employer.


Keep a professional voice. Don’t tweet anything you wouldn’t want a current or future employer seeing. Tweets about social life excesses will definitely not impress a future employer. Remember, everything can be traced back to you.

It’s all about the conversation. Remember this is a professional conversation, which should consist of listening, contributing your own thoughts and responding to others. Make sure your tweeting reflects this etiquette with a mix of tweets, retweets and mentions.

Engage directly. The joy of Twitter is that it is so immediate and direct. It could give you access to the head of HR for an organisation you admire without a formal introduction, so take advantage of that fact.

Tool up. If you get into Twitter for the sole purpose of finding a job, you’ll probably want to use one of the free tools available such as TweetDeck or TrueTwit. These will manage updates to other accounts such as LinkedIn and show who has responded to your tweets. It’ll help you focus on the goal of getting a job, rather than drowning in tweets. Finally, don't forget to follow @ComCareJobs.



Be picky about the organisations you 'like'. You want to be perceived as passionate about social work, not just looking at working for any organisation that will give you a job. ‘Like’ social work-related groups, including Community Care's, of course, and Social Work.

Say something sensible. The beauty of social media is that you can get involved in debates and discussions about things that matter to you and the social work profession. Get involved, but make sure you have something relevant and reasoned to say. It's a good way to get noticed and develop strong contacts.

Smile for the camera. These days it is almost inevitable that a potential employer will check your online profile. Employers aren't expecting to see you in a professional surrounding, but avoid 4am "worse for wear" pictures.

Keep your private life private. Bear in mind that many people see Facebook as a way to keep in contact with friends and family, so only add professional contacts if their Facebook profiles are work-focused. If you consider Facebook to be for your social life, not your career, make sure potential employers can't access your profile. Check your privacy settings on a regular basis, as these can change.

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If you want to join me on LinkedIn, I can be found here:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/traceyyoungbc

If you have a profile on LinkedIn, this will maximize hits when people are doing a search for you. When you are in private practice, it is essential to find ways to optimize your public presence. This is known as SEO, or search engine optimization. When people search for your name, or someone providing your type of services, you want to show up on the first page, in the first few links. 

Letter to the Editor: Status quo on mental health unacceptable

Status quo on mental health unacceptable

Tracey Young, Vancouver Courier, April 3, 2013. 

To the editor:

 

Re: "Urgent response centre still lost in transition," March 20.

The dismissive and ill-informed comments of Margaret MacDiarmid, B.C.'s Health Minister, about Vancouver's need for an urgent response mental health centre is a great example of the reckless disregard the B.C. government has perpetuated over the last decade toward citizens who require acute psychiatric care.

The story did not report that it was some time ago that the generous Segal family offered their $12 million donation to build this new centre at Vancouver General Hospital but the B.C. government did nothing with it. It's only with an election less than two months away that the province did anything to move this important project forward.

Assertive community teams (ACT) exist in many regions around the province and the inter-disciplinary professionals that work on these teams perform admirable, difficult work to support some of the most high-risk, vulnerable people who are living in our communities. However, it is a serious mistake to think that ACT teams take the place of acute care facilities and it is pure sophistry to suggest that an urgent care centre would constitute a duplication of services.

The youth and adult forensic psychiatric systems are filled with people who did not receive the urgent mental health care they required, including assessment, stabilization, treatment and supportive case management and discharge planning because the civil mental health system continues to be underfunded, under-resourced and understaffed by the B.C. government and the Health Authorities.

Over the past decade, mental health services for children, youth and adults have become fragmented and very difficult to access, as many individuals and families can attest. In this time, the B.C. government has provided little in the way of strategic leadership, monitoring, accountability or responsibility for how mental health services are being delivered across the province.

As a result of these structural and systemic conditions, people who should be receiving care often become more and more ill, sometimes posing a risk to themselves and others. These people are also more vulnerable and at-risk of harm, exploitation and maltreatment from others with few avenues to seek support.

B.C.'s social safety net, which includes a strong mental health system of care, adequate disability assistance and a continuum of housing, has become so frayed that organizations like the Vancouver Police Department and B.C.'s jails and prisons are becoming the de facto first responders for those who are experiencing acute mental health crisis. 

With the loss of resources such as Riverview Hospital and less tertiary psychiatric care beds in the province, communities such as Vancouver are facing the realities of these political decisions which download responsibility onto municipalities to manage increased homelessness, increased use of policing resources for mental health calls and insufficient resources to support the numbers who require a higher level of care.

Like many voters in B.C., I'm waiting impatiently to see what leadership, solutions and strategic action each political party will be promising in their election platforms to improve and strengthen the mental health system of care and B.C.'s social safety net. The status quo is no longer an option because far too many people are suffering.

A civil society ensures that all of its citizens, especially its most vulnerable, have access to timely, competent and responsive care. People with mental illness deserve the same human rights and dignity as everyone else in B.C. It is time for our government to act as though they believe that, too.

Tracey Young, MSW, RSW Vancouver

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