We were honoured and humbled by a standing room only turnout for our presentation at this year's Community Living Ontario annual conference. Anna Nelson was able to take some photos as she was experiencing a very sore throat and could not present, but she did a great job preparing the notes about employment and Julie filled in - the employment presentation generated many moments of spontaneous applause! At this event we revealed that our Just Enough Support principles has expanded from 6 to 7! We explained why we realized that Autonomy needed to be overtly stated as the central principle underlying all others. We enjoyed a great audience and have already made plans to visit and be visited by other organizations to talk about Just Enough Support.

1. Community Living Ontario 66th AGM & Conference
September 19. 2019
PATHWAYS TO AUTONOMY
A practical guide to the Six Principles for Providing "Just Enough Support"
Keenan Wellar
Julie Kingstone
Anna Nelson
Rebecca Coxon
LiveWorkPlay.ca
Where possibilities take flight!

2. PATHWAYS TO
AUTONOMY
• LiveWorkPlay Background in Brief
• Why “Just Enough Support”
• A Change Since Last Year (Surprise!)
• 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 into 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)

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.
CORE VALUE: PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES ARE VALUABLE CONTRIBUTORS TO
THE DIVERSITY OF OUR COMMUNITY AND TO THE HUMAN FAMILY.
LiveWorkPlay.ca
Where possibilities take flight!

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

7. • 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…
LAST YEAR

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

10. HONOURING PERSONAL AUTONOMY

11. PERSON-CENTRED THINKING

12. COMMUNITY-FIRST APPROACH

13. ALWAYS BUILDING BRIDGES

14. BARRIER BUSTING TECHNOLOGY

15. AUTHENTIC VALUED ROLES

16. ASSETS-BASED SOLUTIONS

18. PICTURE
START
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvLQRHnptyU&list=PLMHULlwKhR-zQ4igL0Zb-od7sMJ7nFTdu
NOTE THAT YOU CAN ACCESS ALL OF THE FULL VIDEOS FROM THE ABOVE
LINK AND IN PARTICULAR THE FINAL VIDEO (INTERVIEW VIDEO) GOES
THROUGH AND EXPLAINS ALL OF THE PRINCIPLES EXCEPT FOR THE
AUTONOMY PRINICIPLE WHICH HAS JUST BEEN ADDED AND WE WILL
UPDATE THIS IN FUTURE.

23. PATHWAYS TO
AUTONOMY
• LiveWorkPlay Background in Brief
• Why “Just Enough Support”
• A Change Since Last Year (Surprise!)
• 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!)

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

25. 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

26. 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…

27. 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.

28. 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?

29. 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!

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