All workshops listed have already been developed and are ready for presentation. If you are interested in a particular workshop, please contact the person listed at the bottom of the workshop description for further information. All workshops can be delivered online (via zoom) or in person.
We are open to developing additional training upon request, please contact the person below for further information.
Rebecca Matias – Rebecca.Matias@newdirections.mb.ca
FT & MACC
Workshops for Social Workers
The Seven Keys to Good Case Management
This workshop will provide an organization with the basis for ethical practice in 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. We will highlight 7 keys aspects of good case management.
o Empathy based person centered language.
o The role of the case manager in the social service system
o Developing a person-centered support plan
o Developing a cohesive model for assessment
o Direct and indirect functions of case management
o The importance in ongoing monitoring and assessment
o Effective evaluation
This three-hour presentation is best suited for individuals learning the complicated world of case management in the social services community.
The Seven Keys to Good Case Management – New Directions
To request this training, please contact macc@newdirections.mb.ca
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
To request this training, please contact FamilyTherapyServices@newdirections.mb.ca
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).
We will discuss how critical thinking skills in case management can help us:
• Organize and analysis information in order to improve quality of care
• Determine what information is relevant to improve outcomes
• Better understand the narrative of the person we support
• Gain a better understanding of how change can happen
• Be more mindful of the complexity of people’s lives.
• Find meaning in interactions, being more mindful of one’s own bias in thinking
• Be more open to potential errors in thinking
• Look for structural causes that challenge the status quo and challenge inequality
Ultimately, critical thinking in case management becomes thinking with a purpose. This three-hour presentation is best suited for individuals learning the complicated world of case management in the social services community.
Critical Thinking in Case Management – New Directions
To request this training, please contact macc@newdirections.mb.ca
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
To request this training, please contact FamilyTherapyServices@newdirections.mb.ca
Beyond Coping in Relationships
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
To request this training, please contact FamilyTherapyServices@newdirections.mb.ca
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
To request this training, please contact FamilyTherapyServices@newdirections.mb.ca
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
To request this training, please contact FamilyTherapyServices@newdirections.mb.ca
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.*
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- 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.
Dates Offered:
- Friday, March 15th, 2024
- Friday, May 3rd, 2024
- Friday, November 1st, 2024
Cost: $70 per person
Learn more:
Making Sense of Trauma: Practical Tools for Responding to Children and Youth – New Directions
To register, please contact msot@newdirections.mb.ca
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Strategies for Support (3 Hours)
OCD can present with symptoms like unwanted, intrusive and repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and behavioural rituals (compulsions) that feel urgent and impact our daily life. 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.
To request this training, please contact macc@newdirections.mb.ca
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
To request this training, please contact FamilyTherapyServices@newdirections.mb.ca
Towards Independence
Towards Independence is a 2-hour workshop facilitated by a registered occupational therapist. This workshop is about strategies to help your individual become more engaged, independent, self-sufficient, and reach their potential. We will discuss foundational beliefs about independence for neurodiverse people and includes hands-on teaching strategies how to support someone to develop and practice new skills. This workshop applies to anyone who supports a person who is neurodiverse or who lives with a mental health diagnosis.
To request this training, please contact macc@newdirections.mb.ca
Kapaapako Miikiwaap – The Butterfly Lodge
Butterfly Lodge Teachings is available to 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.
Learn more:
Kapaapako Miikiwaap (Lodge Teachings) – New Directions
Training provided in exchange for the commitment and dedication of professionals to address the issue of exploitation in their communities.
Additional Information
Enquiries can be sent to:
Email: FamilyTherapyServices@newdirections.mb.ca
Ph: 204-786-7051 ext. 2520
