WHITBY SUNRISE – 14-20 November 2010 - BLOG
What we did...
Cultural/Social/Hospitality
Sunday - So the journey began with a Whitby, wildly, whacky, warm welcome by PDG Doug Byers – (MD of Fakanal Culture) appropriately ensconced in black stretch limousine, courtesy of Rotarian Rocky Varcoe (owner of this special vehicle and the Class Act Dinner Theatre), champagne, nibblies with Whitby Wisdom flowing freely with flamboyance
Home Hosts met each member at the Class Act Dinner Theatre
Dinner at our home hosts, followed by...
“Welcome to Whitby” Get together at the home of Rotarian Andrew Butterworth and his wife, Helen, President of the Rotary Club of Whitby Sunrise. We were joined by members, wives/partners and families – a great welcome and induction into Whitby Sunrise hospitality
Monday - Social Hour Get Together – AG Brian and Karen Thompson – after our visit to Ontario Shores – also included were those we met during the day also together with our home hosts.
Dinner at the Mandarin Restaurant for many and their hosts, followed. There is a chain of these restaurants and the buffet caters is wall-to-wall with every type of culture and food available.
Tuesday - following another busy day at Ontario Shores, Police and Durham School Board we were entertained for
Dinner at “De Siam” Restaurant hosted by Rotarian George Punyaprateep – absolutely delicious
Wednesday - Dinner and Show at the Class Act Dinner Theatre, hosted by Rocky Varcoe – Fund-raiser to Oshawa/Parkwood – home club of DG Ted Morrison. Great night – lots of laughs
Thursday – dinner at home
Friday – our last was one everybody both our hosts and our team will always remember: we travelled to the city by GO Train to the 68th floor of the Bank of Montreal where
PDG Mike Cooksey, Vice-President and Regional Director, Sales, GTA, hosted our team, DG Ted, DGE Bob, DGN Ted, PDG Doug; VTT/GSE Chair Hilary; VTT Team Leader Val; Whitby Sunrise Host PP Linda
Farewell Party - Following lunch we returned to our homes then on to the home of VTT Team Leader Val and her husband Mark Farewell to the inbound team. The evening was full of much laughter, sharing of the most amazing stories about our experiences, opportunities to further network; chance to catch up with Rotarians from both Whitby and Whitby Sunrise and were entertained by PP Jeff Collery, of Whitby Club - vocal and guitar, just fantastic.
This was a wonderful chance for all to personally express our special appreciation to those who made our VTT/GSE programs so successful.
The photo tells the story...
The photo tells the story...
Vocational visits:
- Ontario Shores (OS) Centre for Mental Health – tour of facilities; welcome by Medical Director and staff about the range of services
- GSE team presented about each of his/her roles/workplace/s.
- OS – Job Sharing with a staff member – 5 of the team were given a 1/1 work-shadowing program through each service applicable to his/her vocation.
- Durham Regional Police Service x 2 days – service operates with OS Nursing staff providing a response service across the DRPS region – Matthew Ireland
- Frontenac Youth Services – this is the workplace of Jill and Brenda who were part of the District 7070 outbound team. We visited two residential facilities for children; pot luck lunch and had a full day discussing and sharing information about programs and services.
- Durham District School Board - Melissa
- CMHA – Matthew James
- TAMI Project, 40 students from All Saints Catholic Church High School are facilitated by staff at OS to working to develop a plan to “Stamp out Stigma”
- Tour of Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto City
Rotary Presentations:
Whitby Club – meets Tuesdays 7am; approx 40 members, 75 years young and mature; team presentation personal profile about their families, qualifications and their role in the organisation in which they are practising.
Whitby Sunrise Club – 22 yrs young – meets 7 15am – approx 68 members - President does wear a collar - not usual in Canada as it is in Australia; team presentation - the same as for District Conference – the journey of a young man, Heath from diagnosis to ongoing management of his mental illness.
In summary, this, our last week was action packed - not only amazingly different to but also built on each of the wonderful program specially developed for each of the locations where we were hosted and visited.
Culturally, Vocationally, the hospitality and from a Rotarian perspective, as a Group Study Exchange perspective, the program was exceptionally sound in every respect and exceeded all expectations. Our reports, presentations and feedback will continue and provide further details where possible.
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences – 15 November 2010 – summarised by Dot
Tour of Facility by Sandy Ravary – photos to come...
Welcome and Clinical Structure presented by Dr Phil Klassen. Chief Medical Officer
Policing and Mental Health – Ruth Lawrence (Nurse employed by Ontario Shores; Constable Scott Logan – Ontario Police)
Community – Maxine Mann
Adolescent Services – Teresa Sheppard, Cynthia Weaver joined during the presentation an updated current staffing and availability of beds. Teleconferencing facilities used to assist with access into communities.
LHIN network and demographics explained
Psychology – Dr Pamela Wilansky-Traynor – talked about psychology in OS; quals need to have PhD; different types need to specialise – which foci – children, adolescents, adults, geriatric; mood, disorders, anxiety, etc.
Psychologists v Psychotherapist – people in community re difference; what is therapy? Fit well with the MD team as OS
Act 1991 – practice defined – assessment etc – see slides
Research is not included in Act.
Service covers number of areas – OS 90% on assessment.
Students have access to range of programs
Research – forensic and adolescent opportunities explained
Nursing and Recovery Initiatives – Joanne Jones, Clinical Educator; mental nurse for whole of career
Large team just under 600 – various levels determined under scope of practice
Practice responsible to College of Nurses and OS practice
CFMHN Standards
Holistic approach, ethical practice
Vision – leaders in MHN – making a difference – differentiating HOPE
Program – Our Shared Journey – Recover and Rediscover was covered by a number of slides which addressed/covered the following:
Mental Health Strategy – Prime Minister initiated research
Report Out of the Shadows at last – 1st review of MHC in Canada
Lens should have been focus 20 yrs ago
Framework – recovery is peppered throughout whole document
What is Recovery was explained – person can re-cover life without recovering from health
Began...
We had a Dream
Recovery Oriented care
Recovery Education to all staff
To re-discover the passion of our practitioners
Strategic Direction from top down.
Dr Lindsay Oades and Dr Trevor Clodes – UOW have developed a model which has been adapted and adopted into the culture – 18 months to complete to date – March 2012 – Research measures – every 6 months measures are collected and analysed
Collaborative Recovery Model – included non-clinical support staff
Vision
Guiding Principles
Clinical staff 5 days training – see points covered
Non-clinical staff – half day
Research measures
ON-going sustainability plan
Experiential learning around strengths rather than negatives
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