September 2020 Innovation: Staff Development and Team Building
Learn how the LifeCourse is being used by service providers and other organizations to deliver and enhance quality supports and services.
Gather specific ideas and examples of how the framework and tools are being used for staff and leadership development, training and team building, organizational decision making, service delivery and strategic thinking.
This month’s content sponsored by Quillo.
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September 2020 Showcase LIVE Event
September 24, 2020
This month’s Showcase LIVE event features a panel of all of the September Friday Feature presenters discussing how they have used the Charting the LifeCourse framework and tools to provide quality supports and services. Panelists share how the framework and tools are being utilized by service providers and other organizations for staff recruitment, training and team building, leadership development, organizational decision making, service delivery and strategic thinking. Hear great examples, including how LifeCourse was used to support staff during the COVID lockdown. Find out who received the Innovation Award for this month, and don’t forget to check out the awesome Showcase 2020 sponsors, including this month’s featured sponsor, Quillo.
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Quillo: Inspire, Engage, Inspire, and Educate
Presented By: John Dickerson, CEO & Sue Gordon, COO • Quillo
September 25, 2020
In this Friday Feature, learn how Quillo is an exciting new platform that is now a Technology Partner with the CtLC Nexus. Designed around the key concepts of positive psychology and well-being, Quillo is focused on the workforce experience, helping to build better relationships and better lives. Launched in 2018, Quillo is now used by agencies in 13 states. Quillo Connect is now being developed for families, people with I/DD and their trusted friends to help increase expectations for a good life, using the tools.
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Building Relationships to Achieve Social Roles using Charting the LifeCourse
Presented By: Sharon Spurlock, Senior Director • Family Support at the St. Louis Arc
September 18, 2020
Charting the LifeCourse gives us resources to support our direct support team to build their relationship skills and provide more meaningful outcomes in the lives of people we support. This presentation will guide organizations and individuals to use their knowledge about people’s gifts and talents to systematically explore community membership and social roles.
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Using the 3 Buckets to Support Staff in Challenging Times
Presented By: Angie Bartels, CtLC Ambassador
September 11, 2020
In this Friday Feature, learn an organizational approach to using the three CtLC buckets as a way to structure staff supports during challenging times to assure all areas of their needs are met in order to support individuals in which they are providing service.
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Walking the Talk: CtLC in Organizational Action
Presented By: Kayla McCollum & Rebecca Auberry, Program Coordinators
September 4, 2020
In this Friday Feature, learn how Connections Abilities Resources/DDRBJC, an SB40 Board for Jasper County, began implementing CtLC within their agency in 2016. Since then, they have grown to not only use the tools for planning, but to be immersed in the language and principles of CtLC to lead conversations and meetings, grow their employees, and share data and information with stakeholders. Presenters Kayla McCollum & Rebecca Auberry of DDRBJC lead a discussion on how they use CtLC in their daily interactions with those they serve, and in their SB40 strategic planning.
Our September 2020 Innovation Award Winner
Kim Buckman
Director of Support Coordination
Macon County Commission for Developmentally Disabled Citizens
Kim Buckman is the September awardee for Innovation in Quality Supports and Services. Kim and her organization, County Connections along with their close partner Learning Opportunities Quality Works (LOQW), have been involved in Charting the LifeCourse since the inception. They were CtLC “early adopters” and Kim was instrumental in helping Nexus develop and pilot many of the LifeCourse tools that we all use today. Kim is a champion for quality supports and services for ALL, and continues to this day to be a champion for LifeCourse. Her passion and enthusiasm for Charting the LifeCourse and her commitment to providing quality supports to individuals and families has been an inspiration on the journey we are all on together.
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