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Workshops for Social Workers
The Seven Keys to Good Case Management
This workshop will provide an organization with the basis for ethical practice for maintaining and improving quality of service. It is the process to plan, seek, advocate for and monitor services on behalf of the people we support.
Learn more:
The Seven Keys to Good Case Management – New Directions
Dates Offered:
Wednesday, March 1st from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $40.00 per registrant
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Using An Attachment Lens for Child Welfare Practice
This 3-hour workshop will deepen the understanding of attachment patterns in our clients, using Circle of Security as a model to understand our role in assisting our clients, and the clients’ defenses against our interventions. This knowledge will inform case planning decisions for the children of concern plus the adult clients. This workshop is aimed at front-line child welfare workers and their supervisors, or for those involved in child welfare matters in court.
Learn more:
Using Attachment as a Lens for Child Welfare Practice – New Directions
Dates Offered:
Thursday, April 20th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (virtual)
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Thursday, October 12th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (virtual)
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Cost: $40.00 per registrant
Critical Thinking in Case Management
This three hour presentation is about looking beneath the surface of knowledge and reason in order to see how that knowledge and reason is distorted in an unequal and exploitative society (Tilbury, Scott and Osmond).
Learn more:
Critical Thinking in Case Management – New Directions
Dates Offered:
Wednesday, February 22nd from 1:00 PM – 4:00PM
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Cost: $40.00 per registrant
Strategic Engagement: Creating a More Meaningful Focus with Families
This workshop examines some of the self-defeating solutions families attempt and ways this can confuse and distract helpers from establishing constructive working contracts with them. It will identify frequently encountered “process traps” and explore ways to increase maneuverability in creating a useful therapeutic focus.
Learn more:
Strategic Engagement: Creating A More Meaningful Focus With Families – New Directions
Dates Offered:
Thursday, April 20th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (virtual)
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Thursday, October 5th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (virtual)
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Cost: $40.00 per registrant
Workshops Open To Everyone
Surviving and Thriving in the Face of the Unknown
This workshop is for anyone who wants to enhance their relationship with the families they support, with colleagues, and with their own family members. The workshop will help you identify your survival coping patterns and the strengths hidden in them. This will allow you to take the next step of relating to the families you support from a place of inner power and choice, rather than from earlier habitual patterns
Learn more:
Surviving and Thriving in the face of the Unknown – New Directions
Dates Offered:
Thursday, May 4th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (virtual)
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Thursday, October 26th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (virtual)
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Cost: $40.00 per registrant
Barriers & Pathways to Connecting with Adolescents
A three-hour workshop that explores patterns of behaviors parents or professional helpers engage in that create barriers to connecting with adolescents. Ways in which relational ruptures can be repaired and connection can be restored will be discussed to present a path towards cultivating strong and healthy relationships.
Learn more:
Barriers and Pathways to Connecting with Adolescents – New Directions
Dates Offered:
Thursday, May 11th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (virtual)
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Thursday, November 9th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (virtual)
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Cost: $40.00 per registrant
Understanding Adolescents: Using Attachment to Support Adolescent Development
This is a three-hour workshop designed to help parents and professional helpers recognize the importance of parent-adolescent attachment. Adolescent development will be explored to demystify the teenage years and help adults identify the specific roles they need to fulfill to meet the needs of the youth they support. Anyone who supports youth and would like to experience a different way of being in a relationship with them should attend.
Learn more:
Understanding Adolescents: Using Attachment to Support Development – New Directions
Dates Offered:
Thursday, April 27th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (virtual)
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Thursday, October 19th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (virtual)
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Cost: $40.00 per registrant
Making Sense of Trauma: Practical Tools for Responding to Children and Youth
Making Sense of Trauma: Practical Tools for Responding to Children and Youth is comprised of two separate training opportunities.*
- A one-day in-person Workshop for anyone who works with children or youth. In this workshop, participants learn how to use a Trauma-Informed perspective to better understand the relational, neurobiological and developmental impact of trauma on children, youth and their caregivers.
- A 2hr and 20 min. free Webinar that is based on the full-day workshop Making Sense of Trauma: Practical Tools for Responding to Children and Youth. You will learn how to use a trauma-informed perspective to better understand the relational, neurobiological and developmental impact of trauma on children and youth.
Learn more:
Making Sense of Trauma: Practical Tools for Responding to Children and Youth – New Directions
Dates Offered: (all in-person)
Friday, March 3rd from 9:15 AM – 3:30 PM
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Friday, May 5th from 9:15 AM – 3:30 PM
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Friday, November 3rd from 9:15 AM – 3:30 PM
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Cost: $75.00 per registrant
OCD: Strategies for Support
OCD can present with symptoms like unwanted, intrusive, and repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and
behavioral rituals (compulsions) that feel urgent. OCD is a common, and often misunderstood mental health diagnosis. This training will include information regarding:
❖ Diagnosis in adults and youth
❖ Assessment and treatment of OCD
❖ Strategies for support for parents, caregivers, or support staff
Dates Offered:
Tuesday, March 14th from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – (virtual)
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Cost: $40.00 per registrant
You Are the Strategy!
*For Care Providers, Foster Parents, Frontline Workers, and Support Staff
This 3-hour workshop, designed for those who care for children, primarily foster parents but also support workers and those who directly support children in caregiving. Using material from attachment and Circle of Security, we will gain an understanding of a child’s attachment strategy for staying safe in relationship, understand how trauma affects this, and learn how we meet a child’s emotional needs. This workshop is aimed at foster parents, support workers, teachers, educational assistants and child care professionals.
Learn more:
You Are the Strategy! – New Directions
Dates Offered:
Thursday, April 6th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (virtual)
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Thursday, September 28th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (virtual)
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Cost: $40.00 per registrant
Additional Information
Internal Staff Registration:
New Directions staff can contact FTS Admin group to register
Enquiries can be sent to:
Email: family.therapy@newdirections.mb.ca
Ph: 204-786-7051 ext. 2520
