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Monday, 16 November, Half-Day Sessions
M1 – M7
2 pm – 5:30 pm
M1: Assessing Board Performance
This session will help boards appreciate the importance of self-assessment and provide them with ideas, direction, and resources to get it done – in ways that suit the culture of the organization and are as natural a process as making a motion at a board meeting.
Presenter: Susan Rogers, President, Rogers Leadership Consulting
M2: Choices That Lead to Peace
This workshop interactively explores the key principles and processes that promote peace in our personal lives, foster peace in our workplaces, and manifest peace in the world around us.
Presenter: BCNPHA Certified Instructor Donald King, Certified Mediator, United Nations Peace Negotiator, and Executive Director, 411 Seniors Centre Society
M3: Housing with a Tenant-Centered Approach
This workshop will identify and examine the varying issues that non-profit-housing providers face in their operations as a result of tenant challenges and barriers and the behaviours associated with these challenges.
Presenters: BCNPHA Certified Instructor Claudette Plante, Manager, Prince George & District Elizabeth Fry Housing Society; and Robyn Stoy, Tenant Support Worker, Prince George & District Elizabeth Fry Housing Society
M4: The Only Constant Is Change – How To Navigate the Shifting Seas
In this interactive and experiential workshop, participants will:
- Be trained in the ground conditions for effective organizational change;
- Identify their own responses to change and the impact these have on others;
- Gain tools to manage change in their own workplaces and communities; and
- Develop plans and strategies for implementing change applying these cutting-edge methods.
Presenters: Mary Ellen Sanajko, Executive & Team Coach, Conduit Coaching; and Juhree Zimmerman, Executive & Team Coach, Strategy for Synergy
M5: How Do I Protect the Asset and the Tenants?
This workshop is appropriate for property managers and program directors. Participants will learn how to perform a simple and practical risk analysis of their property and tenants. Attendees will also learn how to apply that knowledge to develop, evaluate, and document an overall loss-reduction strategy, including a fire and life safety plan to minimize those risks by combining the three “Es”: education, enforcement, and engineering solutions.
Presenter: Earl Diment, Chief Safety Officer, Pioneering Technology Corp.
M6: Project Development Case Studies
In this panel presentation, participants will learn how different housing societies have made use of available opportunities and have partnered to leverage funding and create innovative housing solutions for their communities.
Panelists: Karyn French, Executive Director, Pacifica Housing Advisory Association; Genesa Wheaton, Director of Resource Development, Union Gospel Mission; Annette Sharkey, Executive Director, Social Planning Council for the North Okanagan; and Genevieve Bucher, Senior Project Officer, BC Housing (Moderator)
M7: From Research to Resources – How to Better Meet the Housing Needs of Seniors
This forum will address questions within the context of the dramatic increase in the number of people over age 65 in BC and their desire to “age in place.” Information will also be presented on the specifics of making a home “aging friendly” and the special community resources available for housing providers.
Panelists: Eva Wadolna, MA, Envisioning Retirement, Seniors’ Housing Consultant; BCNPHA Certified Instructor Angela Sealy, CEO, Westcoast Facilitators Group; Gloria M. Gutman, PhD, OBC, Gerontology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University; and Natasha Jategaonkar, Research Director, BC Non-Profit Housing Association
This session is sponsored by Heritage Health Care.