Originally presented to a live audience of family members and staff from Community Living Grimsby, Lincoln and West Lincoln. From person-centred thinking to barrier-busting technology, Keenan Wellar explains the Just Enough Support approach to facilitating inclusion and belonging for people with intellectual disabilities and autistic persons in authentic community settings. Original presentation includes videos that can be viewed from the Just Enough Support playlist at youtube.com/liveworkplayvideo

1. JUST ENOUGH SUPPORT
A practical guide to the Seven Principles
Keenan Wellar
Co-Leader
LiveWorkPlay.ca
Where possibilities take flight!

2. PATHWAYS TO
AUTONOMY
• LiveWorkPlay Background in Brief
• Why “Just Enough Support”
• A Change Since Last Year (Oops!)
• Overview of Principles
• Principles as Action (Videos)
• Living the Principles
• Employment that Works
• It’s All About Value (Gifts)
• Good for the Goose (Staff Team)
• Terrific Tech
Wrap Up (Questions? Maybe!)

3. LiveWorkPlay.ca
Where possibilities take flight!
• Ottawa is a big city of 1,000,000 people with 16 agencies in DS
• LiveWorkPlay is a small fish (or busy bee) making a big impact
• The largest DS agencies in Ottawa have as much as 17x our $2m budget!
• Started in 1995 with no staff, now 25 full-time heading in our 25th year

4. In addition to hundreds of community partners
and employment partners, individual volunteers
are critical: we have more than 150 who are
mainly involved in supporting social inclusion.
What we don’t do and don’t have: we’re not a
landlord and we don’t have any day programs
or other group programs
We provide individual support (we do support
people to spend time with others – but only in
authentic community).
LiveWorkPlay direct support by the numbers:
• 40 individuals supported in homes of their own and community life
through traditional DSO/MCCSS funded placement
• Another 60-70 supported via fee-for-service including Passport
• More than 100 individuals receive help each year with employment
(we are an ODSP employment supports provider)
• Total: support about 200 individuals each year

5. VISION: A COMMUNITY WHERE EVERYONE BELONGS.
MISSION: HELPING OUR COMMUNITY WELCOME AND INCLUDE PEOPLE WITH
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, AUTISTIC PERSONS, AND INDIVIDUALS WITH A DUAL
DIAGNOSIS TO LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY AS VALUED CITIZENS.
LiveWorkPlay.ca
Where possibilities take flight!

6. CORE VALUE: PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES ARE VALUABLE CONTRIBUTORS
TO THE DIVERSITY OF OUR COMMUNITY AND TO THE HUMAN FAMILY.
LIVE: WITH RESPECT TO HOMES, HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, PERSONAL DIGNITY, AND
PERSONAL PRIVACY, PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES HAVE THE RIGHT TO THE
REMOVAL OF BARRIERS PREVENTING THEM FROM EXPERIENCING THE COMMUNITY ON AN
EQUAL BASIS WITH OTHER CITIZENS.
WORK: WITH RESPECT TO PAID WORK AT MINIMUM WAGE OR BETTER, SHORT-TERM
UNPAID WORK, AND VOLUNTEER POSITIONS, PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
HAVE THE RIGHT TO THE REMOVAL OF BARRIERS PREVENTING THEM FROM EXPERIENCING
THE COMMUNITY ON AN EQUAL BASIS WITH OTHER CITIZENS.
PLAY: WITH RESPECT TO CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE, SPORTS AND RECREATION,
POLITICAL LIFE, AND THE FULL RANGE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, PEOPLE WITH
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES HAVE THE RIGHT TO THE REMOVAL OF BARRIERS PREVENTING
THEM FROM EXPERIENCING THE COMMUNITY ON AN EQUAL BASIS WITH OTHER CITIZENS.
“IF YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN THE CORE VALUE,
GOOD WORK WILL FOLLOW”

7. IS IT JUST ME OR IS THERE SOMETHING
VERY FAMILIIAR ABOUT ALL OF THIS!

8. • MCCSS Housing Task Force Project
• From Presence To Citizenship
• Charting our own path, informed
by Al Condeluci, David Pitonyak,
Helen Sanderson, Bruce Anderson,
David Rock (NeuroLeadership),
David Chalmers, and more…
2018 and 2019 Community Living Ontario

9. If you are not intentionally including, you
are probably accidentally excluding…

11. HONOURING PERSONAL AUTONOMY

12. PERSON-CENTRED THINKING

13. COMMUNITY-FIRST APPROACH

14. ALWAYS BUILDING BRIDGES

15. BARRIER BUSTING TECHNOLOGY

16. AUTHENTIC VALUED ROLES

17. ASSETS-BASED SOLUTIONS

18. LiveWorkPlay.tv
FULL VIDEO SERIES

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27. PICTURE
START

32. PATHWAYS TO
AUTONOMY
• LiveWorkPlay Background in Brief
• Why “Just Enough Support”
• A Change Since Last Year (Surprise!)
• Overview of Principles
• Principles in Action (Videos)
• Living the Principles
• Employment that Works
• It’s All About Value (Gifts)
• Good for the Goose (Staff Team)
• Terrific Tech
Wrap Up (Questions? Maybe!)

33. JUST ENOUGH SUPPORT…for employment!
For the job seeker and for the employer….
Key principles: person-centred, assets-based, authentic roles

34. Your Core Gift is a unique offering that you have to share with others. It is connected to and strengthened by your life
experiences — particularly your challenges….It develops throughout your lifetime, touches all parts of your life, and
becomes more impactful each time you face new challenges or give your Core Gift in service to others. – Bruce Anderson

35. What’s good for the goose…
Our principles aren’t a “program” they are a way of life, embedded throughout
the culture of our organization, applicable for and by everyone, from a new staff
member to a 15-year staff veteran to the chair of the board…

36. What Does Neuroscience Tell
Us About Evaluating
Performance?
Threats:
Avoidance vs
Approach
SCARF
Human
Biases
What Fires Together
Wires Together
Self-Fulfilling
Prophecy
How to give
(good) feedback
Not
That
Kind!
Status – our relative importance to others.
Certainty – our ability to predict the future.
Autonomy – our sense of control over events.
Relatedness – how safe we feel with others.
Fairness – how fair we perceive the exchanges between people to be.
NVC

37. Monthly Coaching Agenda
What To Expect?
Exchange personal updates!How are you? What’s New?
1) What's on your mind?
2) And what else is on your mind?
3) Tell me about how you have impacted some one in your work?
4) How did that impact you?
5) Share something you did since the last time we met?
6) How did you do this?
7) What would you do differently next time?
8) What did you learn from the experience?
9) Why are you doing this?
10) What can I do more of or differently to support you?
11) What was most useful or more valuable for you here?

38. I really do love the staff team at LiveWorkPlay, but sometimes it
feels a bit obtrusive to have you on my sofa just to make
sure I don’t forget milk or eggs on my grocery list!

39. AI: STARTED AS A TOY
NOW USED FOR AUTONOMY

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41. goodthingsinlife.org