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Certified Eden Associate Training

Changing lives for over twenty years, Certified Eden Associate Training is an exciting and challenging 3-day journey into the world of person-directed care. As the most widely practiced, comprehensive approach to person-directed care, Certified Eden Associate Training has been proven to offer practical tools, resources, and inspiration that empower individuals and teams to initiate and maintain effective change in long-term care. Revised in 2017, the training incorporates principles of LEAN MANAGEMENT.

Dates: March 19 to 21, 2019

Hosted by: Drew Nursing Home

Location: Sackville, New Brunswick

Facilitated by: Kathy Weagle

Dates: TBD in 2019

Hosted by:TBD

Location: Nova Scotia

Contact Kathleen Burnett at 905-736-0084 OR edencan@cogeco.net to request a registration form.

Dementia Beyond Drugs, Nova Scotia

Facilitated by: Kathy Weagle

Based on the award-winning book by G. Allen Power, M.D., this in-depth 2 day learning experience uses the framework of culture change to create a new approach to caring for people who live with dementia. Learn from Kathy why the current paradigm for dementia care can never produce satisfactory results and explore an experiential model that facilitates growth, meaningful engagement, and improved well-being via the application of person-directed practices. Registration fee includes a copy of Dementia Beyond Drugs, training workbook, lunch and refreshment breaks.

Dates: April 4 & 5, 2019

Hosted by: Bay Side Home, Barrington, Nova Scotia

Contact Kathleen Burnett at 905-736-0084 OR edencan@cogeco.net to request a registration form.

Neighbourhood Guide Training (Two - 3 Day Sessions) - Ontario

Dates: Part 1: Spring, 2019

Part 2: Spring, 2019 (6 to 7 weeks following Part 1)

Hosted by:TBD

Location: Ontario

To accomplish this, a culture change team, led by Nancy Fox, has created a dynamic curriculum designed to help managers in culture change communities to make the shift from managing departments to guiding empowered self-managed teams. These Neighbourhood Teams are cross-department,cross-shift, and cross-management and staff. Each Guide is given a Guide’s Log that is composed of 29 one-hour modules that can be used to guide a Neighbourhood Team to self management. Each module is divided into a soil-warmer, a follow-up from the previous module, a main topic, and learning circle topic and homework assignment for the team. Each module is complete with all of the handouts needed to deliver the curriculum. This important tool assists the Guides in moving a team toward self-management, participation in process improvement, problem-solving, and decision making about their daily work. Never before has this kind of resource and training been available for long-term care communities.

Self-directed work teams achieve the following outcomes:

Increased organizational efficiency, effectiveness, and flexibility;
Redefined roles for formal leaders (managers to Neighborhood Guides);
Development of cross-functional, self-directed employee teams;
Consistent processes and quality improvement techniques;
Better quality of care and quality of life;
Higher satisfaction for Elders, their families, and employees;
Reduced employee turnover and absenteeism;
Best practices that drive sustained implementation of person-directed care.

If your organization is in pursuit of culture change, organizational redesign out of department and into team is the only path to deep and sustainable transformation. This is an opportunity you should not miss. Finally, the tools you need to grow empowered Neighbourhood Teams!

Person-Centered Leadership: Elevating the Art, NS

Facilitated by: Nancy Fox

Nancy retired from the position as Chief Innovation Officer for Vivage Senior Living in Lakewood, Colorado. Prior to her that position, Nancy served as the Executive Director of the Eden Alternative, an international not-for-profit person-centered care organization. Nancy holds a nursing home administrator’s license. She was recently appointed by the Governor of Colorado to serve on the Colorado Nursing Home Innovations Grant Board, and is a past Board Member of the Colorado Culture Change Coalition. In 2015, Nancy was awarded the Vesta Bowden Award by the Colorado Health Care Association as its highest honor in long-term care in Colorado. Nancy is a national and international speaker and educator and has presented at many major conferences. She is the author of a book, The Journey of a Lifetime: Leadership Pathways to Culture Change in Long-Term Care, published in March, 2007. Her second book, Lessons in Leadership for Person-Centered Elder Care is scheduled for publication in May 2017. Her most important role, however, is grandmother to Nicolas, age 10, and Riley, age 2.

Dates: TBD

Hosted by: TBD

Contact Kathleen Burnett at 905-736-0084 OR edencan@cogeco.net to request a registration form.

Reframing Dementia - An Eden alternative Perspective

This 1-day learning experience, available both as a do-it-yourself training kit and as an in-person training, explores the art of building meaningful relationships as the fundamental building block of care that puts the person living with dementia first. Participants gain a powerful appreciation for the role of sensitivity, awareness, and presence in identifying the needs of those living with dementia in long-term care communities. By reframing our perspective of what’s possible, we create a culture of care focused on the continued growth and development of people living with dementia and design a life worth living for all!

Dates: TBD in 2019

Hosted by:TBD

Location: Nova Scotia and Ontario

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