Category: Training Opportunity
Services Back in Full Swing – What’s New at New Directions?
We are happy to announce that 6 weeks after the fire at 717 Portage Ave. we have been able to re-locate some core services that were provided at our main site. We will be renting two floors of space at 720 Broadway.
Several of our Training, Therapy, and Education programs will be able to resume some on-site activities while awaiting the restoration of our main office building.
In terms of the progress at 717 Portage:
The good news is that most of the furniture and equipment is salvageable. Many of our paper files are being cleaned and will be useable, with a potential slight smoky odour.
We are looking at 9 months for full restoration- amazing how fast a fire can completely knock out a building!
For now, we are grateful for getting a temporary home at 720 Broadway and we are grateful we can still provide services to individuals in our community.
Adult Day Services – Opening Its Doors
With the recent loosening of COVID-19 restrictions, our Adult Day Services (ADS) programs are able to re-open their doors to new individuals.
Pandemic restrictions forced ADS to close its doors to new individuals who could benefit from its services and even restricted the number of individuals who could attend every day.
Staff are looking forward to seeing individuals coming back to the programs, as well as all the new faces in the future.
M.A.C.C. Offers New Therapy Groups
Our Multidisciplinary Assessment and Consultation Centre (M.A.C.C.) offered Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) groups to individuals in our community.
Two, eight-session groups were offered, one focused on Depression and the second on Anxiety.
Pink Shirt Day
February 23rd was Pink Shirt Day. A day to take a stand against bullying.
Our Adult Day Services programs spent the day learning about bullying in its many forms and spent time making pink shirts of their own and writing things they liked about each other across them. (left)
March Trainings & Workshops
Our 2022 Trainings & Workshops continue in March, with one workshop being offered: Understanding & Working with Children and Youth Who Have Been Sexually Exploited.
Check out our March opportunities, and all upcoming training opportunities below.
Donate Now
Our community has always shown tremendous support for us, which has only been made more obvious since the fire.
We appreciate any and all donations you can make in our effort to recreate and/or replace Indigenous items lost by our Opikihiwawin program.
Consider donating on our Donation Page.
November Trainings & Workshops
Check out the Trainings and Workshops we are offering in November.
Using Attachment as a Lens for Child Welfare Practice
Nov. 4 – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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 also the clients’ defenses against our interventions.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/using-attachment-as-a-lens-for-child-welfare-practice/
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Understanding & Working with Children and Youth Who Have Been Sexually Exploited
Nov. 4 & 5 – 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
This workshop will give you the understanding and skills to work with children and youth who have been sexually exploited/trafficked in the sex trade.
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Foundations in Person Centred Work
Nov. 16 – 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
This is a three-hour introduction into the core themes, values and skills front line staff need in the work they do. We will cover the importance of having a person-centered approach, about the importance of empathy and relationship building in the work we do, and how these approaches can be an effective way of mentoring youth and adults to build their social capacity in the world.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/foundations-in-person-centred-work/
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Barriers and Pathways to Connecting with Adolescents
Nov. 18 – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
This three-hour workshop explores behaviors parents or professional helpers may be inadvertently doing that creates barriers to connecting with adolescents. This is achieved by exploring and understanding the importance of a regulated nervous system to have the adolescent access their adult.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/barriers-and-pathways-to-connecting-with-adolescents/
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Understanding Adolescents: Using Attachment to Support Adolescents Development
Nov. 25 – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
This three-hour workshop is 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 parents be more present and connected to the youth they support. Anybody who is supporting youth and would like to experience a different way of being in relationship with them should attend.
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For more information on our trainings, visit: http://newdirections.mb.ca/trainings
October Trainings & Workshops
Check out October’s upcoming trainings and workshops we are offering.
The Seven Keys to Good Case Management
Oct. 6 – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Good case management will provide an organization with the basis for ethical practice for maintaining and improving quality of service.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/the-seven-keys-to-good-case-management/
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Barriers & Pathways to Connecting with Adolescents
Oct. 7 – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
A three-hour workshop that explores behaviors parents or professional helpers may be inadvertently doing that creates barriers to connecting with adolescents.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/barriers-and-pathways-to-connecting-with-adolescents/
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Understanding & Working with Children and Youth Who Have Been Sexually Exploited
Oct. 7 & 8 – 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
This workshop will give you the understanding and skills to work with children and youth who have been sexually exploited/trafficked in the sex trade.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/understanding-and-working-with-sexually-exploited-children-and-youth/
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Understanding Adolescents: Using Attachment to Support Adolescent Development
Oct. 14- 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
A three-hour workshop designed to help parents and professional helpers recognize the importance of parent-adolescent attachment.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/understanding-adolescents-using-attachment-to-support-adolescents-development/
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Surviving and Thriving in the Face of the Unknown
Oct. 21 – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
This 3-hour presentation/conversation is about Self Leadership using a systemic framework and invites you to own your power and step into it through taking action.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/surviving-and-thriving-in-the-face-of-the-unknown/
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Critical Thinking in Case Management
Oct. 26 – 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/critical-thinking-in-case-management/
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Strategic Engagement: Creating a More Meaningful Focus with Families
Oct. 28 – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/strategic-engagement-creating-a-more-meaningful-focus-with-families/
For more information on our trainings, visit: http://newdirections.mb.ca/trainings
Trainings & Workshops – Sept. 2021
Check out September’s upcoming trainings we are offering.
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You Are the Strategy!
Sept. 9 – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
A 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
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/you-are-the-strategy/
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Surviving and Thriving in the Face of the Unknown
Sept. 16 – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
A 3-hour presentation/conversation about Self Leadership using a systemic framework.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/surviving-and-thriving-in-the-face-of-the-unknown/
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Foundations in Person Centred Work
Sept. 21- 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
A 3-hour introduction into the core themes, values and skills front line staff need in the work they do.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/foundations-in-person-centred-work/
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Understanding & Working with Children and Youth Who Have Been Sexually Exploited
Sept. 23 & 24 – 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
This workshop will give you the understanding and skills to work with children and youth who have been sexually exploited/trafficked in the sex trade.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/understanding-and-working-with-sexually-exploited-children-and-youth/
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Strategic Engagement: Creating a More Meaningful Focus with Families
Sept. 23 – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/strategic-engagement-creating-a-more-meaningful-focus-with-families/
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Using Attachment As A Lens for Child Welfare
Sept. 30 – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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 also the clients’ defenses against our interventions.
More Info: https://newdirections.mb.ca/project/using-attachment-as-a-lens-for-child-welfare-practice/
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For more information visit: http://newdirections.mb.ca/trainings
Lodge Training Information
Training Opportunity: NO COST – Training provided in exchange for the commitment and dedication of professionals to address the issue of exploitation in their communities.
Due to Covid-19 — Space will be limited to a max of 20 per session
| Date | Location | Register By: |
| October 19 – 22, 2020 | Viscount Gort Hotel Viscount Room 1670 Portage Avenue | October 13, 2020 |
| February 22 – 25, 2021 | Viscount Gort Hotel Viscount Room 1670 Portage Avenue | February 14, 2021 |
Facilitator’s Training for the Butterfly Lodge Teachings is available for people who work with children and youth in a variety of settings. The Kapaapako Miikiwaap Lodge Teachings represents a culturally sensitive resource/curriculum focused on preventing the sexual exploitation of children and youth.
The impetus to develop a strategy for the education, prevention and intervention of school age children stems from this realization and is what underlies the foundation of the Lodge Teachings and the work that will come from its creation. The work that is required to provide children and youth with a good sense of their individual gifts means that we must:
• Reduce harm to children and youth from the impact of sexual exploitation,
• Create possibilities for healing the wounds of sexual exploitation,
• Restore balance to the self, family and community,
• Rebuild healthier communities to once again provide children and youth with the
“Good Life”.
In order to be prepared for this training it is important to familiarize yourself with the reading materials that will be sent out to you. Participants will NEED to read the Vision document, Note: It is critical to have read the Vision document by the time you arrive at training as the Vision document is based on the foundations of traditional knowledge that speak to why sexual exploitation was nonexistent, why it became an issue in contemporary society, and why prevention is so important.
The following experiences and knowledge are beneficial to have prior to taking this training
- Experience and knowledge about sexual exploitation through the sex trade.
- Previous intervention / prevention work.
- Teaching, group facilitation, or trainer experience.
- Have you taken Core Competencies 203/833: Understanding & Working with Children/Youth Affected by Sexual Exploitation?
To register please contact:
Cheryl Lynch, Administrative Assistant
TERF – New Directions
500-717 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3G 0M8
Cheryl.Lynch@newdirections.mb.ca
Or Fax: (204) 774-6468
A confirmation letter and reading material will be sent upon acceptance.