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SUMMARY:Working Alone and In Isolation in Social Services - November 26
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informative webinar focused on the safety and well-being of individuals who work alone. Learn about WorkSafeBC’s OHS Regulation Section on Working Alone and in Isolation\, including definitions\, responsibilities\, and response requirements. We’ll explore the hazards of working alone\, both physical and psychosocial and share mental health strategies for staying resilient on the job. Gain insights into best practices through an overview of an effective working alone program\, featuring real-world examples and solutions to common challenges. Plus\, discover services and resources available through CSSHSA\, including safety tools and support options. Whether you’re a worker\, supervisor\, or employer\, this session provides practical knowledge to help keep solo workers safe. \nSpeakers\nKori Gryschuk | WorkSafeBC \nIndustry & Program Specialist\, Prevention Programs and Services \nPrevention Programs and Services (formerly OHS Consultation and Education Services) serves the workers and employers of BC by positively influencing health and safety behaviours and through OHS consultation and education with industry associations\, labour organizations\, health and safety associations\, OHS programs and services\, funded partnerships\, and credentialing programs. \nTherese Barrozo | CSSHSA \nEngagement & Wellness Coordinator \nTherese is an Engagement & Wellness Coordinator with a background in psychology and project management. She brings trauma-informed\, client-centered expertise to health and safety in social services\, supporting workers facing mental health challenges and workplace risks. She’s passionate about creating inclusive environments through collaboration and meaningful\, practical tools. \nTigran Bajgoric | CSSHSA \nCEO  \nTigran brings extensive senior management\, healthcare\, and occupational health and safety experience to the role. He has a comprehensive background in organizational health and safety culture\, significant experience leading complex provincial projects\, and management of multi-disciplinary teams. \nHe is passionate about growth mindset\, collaborative leadership\, and helping organization achieve optimal health\, safety and wellness culture. \nIn his spare time\, he loves coaching fencing\, spending time with his family\, and traveling around BC and beyond. \nNatalia Rohraff | Coast Mental Health \nHealth & Safety Manager \nNatalia Rohraff is the Health and Safety Manager at Coast Mental Health (CMH). With a background in Management and Organizational Studies from Western University\, she has a strong focus on human resources\, labor relations\, and organizational psychology. Natalia joined CMH in 2020 and has since led the development of innovative safety programs across over 50 sites. Her leadership has resulted in CMH receiving multiple safety awards\, including Canada’s Safest Employers in both the Public and Non-Profit Sectors. Passionate about proactive safety\, Natalia’s work bridges strategic planning with frontline realities to protect and empower workers.
URL:https://csshsa.ca/training/working-alone-and-in-isolation-in-social-services-november-26/
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SUMMARY:Mindfulness Practices for Building Resilience
DESCRIPTION:For Community Social Services\n\n\n\n\nFrontline and community-based work is rewarding but often exhausting—especially with ongoing challenges like the opioid crisis\, increasing mental health needs\, and the lasting effects of the pandemic. In this session\, Brian shares his personal story of recovery\, and how mindfulness became a vital tool in his healing. \nYou’ll explore how mindfulness supports well-being\, the neuroscience behind how it works\, and some of its real-world limitations. Together\, we’ll try simple mindfulness practices\, discuss how to apply them in everyday settings\, and explore how they can strengthen team resilience and reduce burnout. You’ll also receive resources to help you\, and your team build or refresh skills that support long-term sustainability in your work. \nLearning Objectives:\nBy the end of this session\, participants will be able to: \n\nUnderstand how mindfulness impacts the brain and nervous system and recognize both its benefits and limitations.\nPractice and reflect on mindfulness techniques that can be used individually or with teams in high-stress settings.\nDistinguish between formal and everyday mindfulness and how to apply both to worker safety\, emotional regulation\, and therapeutic presence.\nIdentify resources and strategies to support sustainable personal and team care.\n\nAbout the presenter\nBrian Dean Williams is a registered clinical counsellor and approved clinical supervisor. Brian has worked on the frontlines for 28 years with folks struggling with mental health\, substance use\, housing\, and marginalization. He has worked in the downtown eastside in Vancouver\, and in small First Nations (Indigenous) communities. Brian’s main modalities are narrative therapy and Buddhist psychology\, although he also draws from other collaborative forms of counselling and community work. He has taught at Correctional Services of Canada\, Raincity Housing\, Vancouver Coastal Health\, the Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nation\, and many more. Brian lives on the traditional unceded territories of the shíshálh Nation with his wife and three kids\, where he loves mountain biking\, playing hockey / basketball\, and singing with his community. www.briandeanwilliams.com \nWatch Now
URL:https://csshsa.ca/training/mindfulness-practices-for-building-resilience/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Conversations That Inspire Change: Part 1 - January 15
DESCRIPTION:For Community Social Services\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHelping conversations can be a powerful turning point\, yet they can also feel drained when the balance between supporting others and protecting your own energy isn’t clear. This engaging one-hour session introduces Motivational Interviewing (MI)\, a collaborative communication style that inspires clients to explore change while allowing you to set healthy boundaries and sustain your energy. \n\n\n\n\nIn this session\, you’ll explore the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing\, the guiding mindset that fosters trust\, respect\, and collaboration. You’ll also dive into the essential communication skills of OARS: Open Questions\, Affirmations\, Reflections\, and Summaries. Through practical examples\, you’ll see what MI looks and sounds like in action and leave with tools you can immediately apply to navigate ambivalence and strengthen motivation for change. \n\n\n\n\nThis is the first in a two-part series on Motivational Interviewing\, though it can also be attended as a stand-alone session. \n\n\n\n\nBy the end of this session\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\n\nExplain the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing and how it strengthens both client engagement and helper well-being.\nIdentify the core OARS skills—Open Questions\, Affirmations\, Reflections\, and Summaries—and describe their purpose in guiding conversations about change.\nApply basic MI techniques to respond to ambivalence and encourage motivation for change.\nRecognize how MI skills sound and feel in practice and reflect on how they can make conversations more collaborative and energizing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the presenter\n\nSuncha Satney is a Registered Clinical Counselor with extensive experience in mental health and workplace wellness. Drawing on her background in Community Social Services as both a frontline worker and wellness educator\, she brings a practical\, down-to-earth approach to supporting employee wellbeing. Suncha is passionate about equipping people with tools and strategies they can immediately use to manage stress\, navigate challenges\, and create healthier balance in their work and lives. \n\n\nWatch Now\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://csshsa.ca/training/conversations-that-inspire-change-part-1-january-15/
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LOCATION:https://csshsa.ca/training/conversations-that-inspire-change-part-1-january-15/
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SUMMARY:Conversations That Inspire Change: Part 2 - February 19
DESCRIPTION:For Community Social Services\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding on the foundations of Motivational Interviewing\, this engaging one-hour session takes a deeper dive into how to guide conversations that spark lasting motivation. You’ll learn to recognize and respond to change talk\, the client’s own language in favor of change\, while also understanding sustain talk and ambivalence\, and how each influences motivation. \n\n\n\n\nThe session will also introduce advanced skills in Motivational Interviewing\, including using scaling questions\, deepening reflective listening\, and offering information or advice in a way that respects autonomy and strengthens collaboration. Through practice-oriented exploration\, you’ll leave with strategies you can immediately use to make helping conversations more effective\, energizing\, and impactful. \n\n\n\n\nThis is the second in a two-part series on Motivational Interviewing\, though it can also be attended as a stand-alone session. \n\n\n\n\nBy the end of this session\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDifferentiate between change talk\, sustain talk\, and ambivalence\, and explain how each shapes client motivation.\nApply MI-consistent strategies such as scaling questions and reflective listening to explore and strengthen motivation for change.\nRecognize and respond effectively to change talk\, helping clients articulate their own reasons for change.\nDemonstrate collaborative ways of sharing information and advice that support client autonomy\, enhance engagement\, and avoid resistance.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the presenter\n\nSuncha Satney is a Registered Clinical Counselor with extensive experience in mental health and workplace wellness. Drawing on her background in Community Social Services as both a frontline worker and wellness educator\, she brings a practical\, down-to-earth approach to supporting employee wellbeing. Suncha is passionate about equipping people with tools and strategies they can immediately use to manage stress\, navigate challenges\, and create healthier balance in their work and lives. \nWatch Now
URL:https://csshsa.ca/training/conversations-that-inspire-change-part-2-february-19/
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SUMMARY:Discover Care to Speak\, a Practical Support for Caregivers - February 25
DESCRIPTION:For Community Social Services\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an informative and heartfelt session introducing Care to Speak\, a free and confidential peer-based support service created specifically for healthcare and social service workers. \nIn this webinar\, we’ll explore how Care to Speak provides practical emotional support through phone\, text and chat\, offering a safe and understanding space for those who care for others every day. Whether you work in primary care\, long-term care\, community care\, or community social services\, you’ll learn to connect with trained volunteers who understand the unique challenges of your work because they’ve been there too. \nWe’ll walk through what happens when you reach out\, what “peer support” really means\, and how confidentiality to always protected. This is your opportunity to see how Care to Speak can be a valuable resource for you and your colleagues\, helping you take care of yourself while you continue to care for others. \nCome learn\, ask questions\, and discover how simple it can be to connect with someone who truly understands. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the presenter:\nTyler Thomas is the Program Coordinator for Care to Speak. He graduated from UBC with a background in Biochemistry and Psychology and has been working in the mental health field since 2018. Having personally experienced the challenges of working in a demanding social services role\, Tyler developed a strong passion for effective peer support. \nThrough his work with Care to Speak\, Tyler is dedicated to helping healthcare and social service professionals navigate the many challenges they face\, ensuring they can access the support they need—when they need most. \n\nWatch Now
URL:https://csshsa.ca/training/discover-care-to-speak-a-practical-support-for-caregivers-february-25/
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LOCATION:https://csshsa.ca/training/discover-care-to-speak-a-practical-support-for-caregivers-february-25/
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SUMMARY:Building Psychologically Safe Workplaces - March 18
DESCRIPTION:For Community Social Services\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPsychosocial hazards can quietly affect staff well-being and service quality in community social services. In this webinar\, we’ll unpack WorkSafeBC’s five psychosocial hazard categories: interpersonal environment\, job design\, workplace conditions\, need for employer support\, and exposure to traumatic events. \n\n\n\n\nUsing real-world examples\, participants will build confidence in recognizing psychosocial hazards in their own workplaces—such as unclear communication\, discrimination\, skipped breaks\, and exposure to inappropriate behaviours. We’ll also examine how different workplace roles—employers\, managers/supervisors\, the Joint Occupational Health & Safety Committee (JOHSC)\, and employees—can respond effectively to each hazard. The session will highlight preventive strategies that strengthen team resilience\, promote psychological safety\, and reduce risk. \n\n\n\n\nParticipants will leave with practical tools and strategies they can apply immediately in their teams and organizations. \n\n\n\n\nAt the end of this session\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\n\nIdentify psychosocial hazards and categorize them using WorkSafeBC’s five-category framework.\nDescribe the roles and responsibilities of employers\, managers/supervisors\, the Joint Occupational Health & Safety Committee (JOHSC)\, and employees in preventing and addressing psychosocial hazards.\nSelect and apply practical\, prevention-focused strategies that strengthen psychological health and safety\, support team wellbeing\, and reduce risk.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker\n\nTherese Barrozo \n\n\nTherese Barrozo is an Engagement and Wellness Coordinator with a background in social services and community-based work. She began her career in social services\, supporting community engagement and program development\, and later transitioned into health and safety. Her professional journey is informed by her lived experience of a workplace psychological injury\, which has shaped a trauma-aware\, systems-level approach to psychological health and safety. \n\n\n\n\nTherese holds a degree in Psychology with a minor in Law and Society\, as well as a certificate in Applied Project Management. She is a CMHA-certified Psychological Health and Safety Advisor\, Mental Health First Aid Facilitator\, and Wellness Exchange Facilitator. She is passionate about empowering individuals and organizations to build safer\, healthier\, and more supportive workplaces through education\, collaboration\, and practical guidance. \nWatch Now
URL:https://csshsa.ca/training/building-psychologically-safe-workplaces-march-18/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Building Belonging by Viewing DEI Through a Neuroinclusive Lens - May 27
DESCRIPTION:For Community Social Services\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMany DEI efforts focus on what we can see. This session expands the conversation to include how people think\, process\, and learn. Designed for community social services professionals\, this presentation connects the principles of diversity\, equity\, and inclusion to neurodiversity\, a dimension of diversity that’s often invisible and under-discussed. Through practical strategies and a neuroinclusive lens\, participants will explore how to build environments where belonging isn’t just a value on the wall\, but something people actually experience at work. \nBy the end of this session\, participants will be able to: \n\n Describe how neurodiversity expands conventional understandings of diversity\, equity\, and inclusion (DEI)\, including invisible differences in thinking\, processing\, and learning\nExplain how neuroinclusive practices contribute to a stronger sense of belonging in community social services settings\nIdentify common workplace barriers that may unintentionally exclude neurodivergent individuals\nApply practical\, neuroinclusive strategies to foster belonging in everyday work environments\n\nAbout presenter\nJackie Connelly (she/her) is a neuroinclusive leadership consultant\, speaker\, certified organizational coach and stroke survivor with over a decade of HR and DEI leadership experience across public\, private\, and non-profit. Through her practice\, Coaching That Belongs\, Jackie partners with organizations to build neuroinclusive leadership capability through engaging in-person and virtual programs that move beyond awareness into sustained development and systems change. She also works with individual professionals\, many of them neurodivergent\, to build confidence\, clarity\, and a felt sense of belonging at work through 1:1 coaching. \nJackie holds a Post-Degree Diploma in HR Management and Leadership (Camosun College)\, a Certificate in Organizational Coaching (UBC)\, a Coaching Neurodiversity at Work certification (PersonaGrata Consulting)\, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (UBC). She is a Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR)\, a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) BC Charter Chapter\, and is pursuing coaching accreditation through the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). \nJackie is grateful to be a guest on the island of S\,DÁYES\, the traditional territory of the Coast Salish Peoples including SENĆOŦEN speaking W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations and Hul’quimi’num Treaty Group\, also known as Pender Island\, with her husband and their two dogs\, Josie and Yuna\, enjoying the nature\, beauty and calmness it offers every day. \n\n\n\n\n\nWatch Now
URL:https://csshsa.ca/training/building-belonging-by-viewing-dei-through-a-neuroinclusive-lens-may-27/
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SUMMARY:It's Not You: The Impact of Nonprofit Systems on Leader Well-Being - June 24
DESCRIPTION:For Community Social Services\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe role of leaders in a non-profit organization is uniquely challenging\, and it is taking its toll – both on the well-being of those currently in these roles\, and on the capacity of the sector to invite new leaders to step in. There are systems at play\, and leaders are paying the price: \n\n\n\n\n\nThe exhaustion of never having enough admin support because of the ‘overhead myth’\,\nCorporate-colonial governance structures that lose sight of purpose\nThe constant expectations of funders\,\nThe tokenism of recruiting racialized and Indigenous leaders without addressing underlying racism and power dynamics in the organization\,\nThe stress of either staff unionization and/or employer/corporate -framed human resource systems and the “us vs. them” thinking this creates\, or\nThe chill of lobbying and advocacy laws that keep us from getting at core causes.\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar will explore those systems and offer practical tools for you to apply to support your well-being\, as well as highlight sector changes needed to reset the cycle of exploiting non-profits and their leaders to meet the world’s most challenging needs.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister
URL:https://csshsa.ca/training/its-not-you-the-impact-of-nonprofit-systems-on-leader-well-being-june-24/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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LOCATION:https://csshsa.ca/training/its-not-you-the-impact-of-nonprofit-systems-on-leader-well-being-june-24/
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