The Ontario Association of Non-Profit Homes and Services for
Seniors (OANHSS) is inviting proposals to present at our 2010 Annual
Meeting and Convention. This event is an opportunity to share your
expertise and experiences with senior staff from the long term care,
seniors’ housing and community services sectors.
This year’s theme is Get
Inspired! To
submit an online proposal, click here. To download a submission form (Word
format) to save to your desktop, click
here.
Delegates attending the 2010 convention will be looking to:
- Be refreshed, rejuvenated and inspired
- Learn how to manage and embrace change.
- Receive the latest information on key issues and developments.
- Be provided with “tools” they can use.
- Learn from others and share best practices.
- Celebrate their successes.
Your presentation will be designed to set us on the road to
achieving these goals. Your audience will include:
- Administrators
- Board members
- Senior managers
- Food services/dietary managers
- Program managers
- Housing managers
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- Environmental services managers
- Financial managers
- Community service managers
- Nurse managers
- Business managers
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We welcome and encourage all OANHSS members, as well as speakers in
the academic community, consultants and others providing services in the
seniors’ care, housing and community services sectors to share
innovative and practical ideas and programs, research or other relevant
content.
Education Program
Concurrent sessions are 90 minutes in length and organized into the
following four streams:
Submissions should incorporate adult learning techniques and
interactive presentation methods.
Keep in mind that long term care refers to the full continuum –
long term care homes, seniors’ housing and supportive housing and
community-based services. It should be clear whether your presentation
is intended for a specific sector or is broad enough to be applicable to
the entire continuum.
Sessions are intended to educate and support learning and
therefore should not sell or promote any specific products or
services.
Submission Process
To express your interest in presenting, please complete a Call
for Presentations online submission form, ensuring that your
submission:
- Clearly fits into one of the identified streams.
- Includes relevant, practical and replicable concepts for the long
term care sector.
- Demonstrates that participants will take away ideas, tools and
techniques they can use in the workplace.
- Clearly identifies three learning outcomes.
- Incorporates creative instructional methods (e.g. case studies,
panel presentations, interactive discussion, plays, etc.).
You may submit more than one proposal for consideration, either as an
individual, co-presenter or as part of a panel.
OANHSS does not generally provide fees or honorariums for speakers or
cover travel or other costs. Exceptions may be granted at the discretion
of the Association.
New Date: Please
complete the Call for Presentations submission application by
January 4, 2010.
All presenters are required to provide OANHSS with an
electronic copy of any handout materials in advance for review and
copying. These handouts will be included on a CD to be provided to all
conference registrants and hard copies will be provided to workshop
participants.
Prospective presenters will be notified of the status of their
proposal by January 2010.
Education Streams
CARE AND SERVICES
- Meeting the care and service needs of residents, tenants and
clients.
- Use of technology to increase efficiency and enhance care (e.g.
e-health, MDS, MIS, etc).
- Best practices related to quality of life for tenants, residents and
clients.
- Building care continuums.
- Aging in place.
- Putting research into practice.
- Standards and accountability.
- Specialized care and services (e.g. mental health, dementia care,
palliative care, etc.).
- Changing expectations of consumers.
- Housing options (e.g. life lease, retirement homes, supportive
housing, affordable housing, etc.).
INTEGRATION AND COLLABORATION
- Working with Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) –
integration and coordination of services, programs, resources and the
benefits achieved.
- Working with government on solutions (pandemic planning, compliance,
alternate level of care, etc.).
- Joint initiatives with community partners, consumer groups and
others.
- Building community support (e.g. fundraising, foundations,
etc.).
- Working with Community Care Access Centres (CCACs).
- Building relationships with families.
MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS
- Building dynamic staff teams (e.g. conflict management, team
building, leadership training, attendance management, etc.).
- Recruiting, retaining and recognizing staff and volunteers.
- Benchmarking - measuring your success.
- Quality improvement programs.
- Physical plant management (e.g. energy management, capital upgrades,
reserve funds, etc.).
- Creating healthy living environments and safe workplaces.
- Stress and work life balance.
- Risk management, financial management.
- Restructuring organizations to meet the needs of the future.
GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP
- Strategic partnerships and alliances.
- Understanding the legal environment.
- Leadership and organizational change.
- Legislation, regulations, and public policy.
- Provincial quality initiatives.
- Government, media and public relations.
- Building board/committee of management support.
- Branding, image and reputation management.
- Promoting unique aspects of not-for-profit delivery.
- Marketing and corporate communications.
- Strategic planning, future directions for seniors' care and
services.
- Corporate communications.
To submit a Call for Presentation
proposal online, click here. To download a Call for
Presentation form (Word format) and save to your
desktop, click
here.
