The Community Summit Headliner Presentation June 18, Wenatchee, Washington Keenan Wellar & Julie Kingstone LiveWorkPlay.ca (Ottawa, Canada) After steadily accumulating site-based infrastructure and resources for more than ten years, this charitable organization based in Ottawa, Canada, made a radical shift in thinking and actions. Starting in 2008 and over a period of three years, the agency completed a full transition away from day programs and other sheltered activities, finding new energy and synergies through partnership with hundreds of individuals and partners in the community. For individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families, in addition to the enjoyment of concrete results that range from employment to the development of new friendships, they report dramatic new feelings of hope and possibility, finding new energy through escape from ongoing dialogues about systems limitations and scarcity. Informed by collaboration with other agencies and thought leaders that have embraced person-centred and social capital concepts and models, LiveWorkPlay now seeks to encourage and support other agencies and jurisdictions to pursue similar transitions. 

1. After steadily accumulating site-based infrastructure and resources for more than ten
years, this charitable organization based in Ottawa, Canada, made a radical shift in
thinking and actions. Starting in 2008 and over a period of three years, the agency
completed a full transition away from day programs and other sheltered activities, finding
new energy and synergies through partnership with hundreds of individuals and partners
in the community.
For individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families, in addition to the
enjoyment of concrete results that range from employment to the development of new
friendships, they report dramatic new feelings of hope and possibility, finding new energy
through escape from ongoing dialogues about systems limitations and scarcity.
Informed by collaboration with other agencies and thought leaders that have embraced
person-centered and social capital concepts and models, LiveWorkPlay now seeks to
encourage and support other agencies and jurisdictions to pursue similar transitions.
No need to take notes about what is on the slides, you will be able to download the show
http://presentations.liveworkplay.ca/

2. (Gratuitous effort to win over local delegates)

5. WHY did you decide to start
a charitable organization
for people with
intellectual disabilities????

6. When we get innovative in human services, sometimes we end
up with the equivalent of a car with square wheels!

7. http://j.mp/ablastfrompast

9. So why should people with
intellectual disabilities
all live together?
(Adapted from hope-house.org)

10. (Inspired by Dave Hingsburger)
Does our staff team want to perform like stars?
Sure! But we don’t want to be your world.

11. If you have an intellectual disability, it’s not such a good thing to be SPECIAL
SPECIAL PEOPLE
Stigmatized. Pitiable.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
Limited. Dream-Crushing.
SPECIAL PLACES
Isolated. Segregated.

12. Fear not, it’s the new millennium! New catchphrases are here!
• Person-Centred Planning
• Individualized Supports
Sometimes we are the doctors of hypocrisy…

13. Thank you for choosing Acme Support Services, where we proudly
facilitate individual independence through person-centered planning!
Now, let me start by outlining the list of fixed choices available to you!

17. We built it and they came….

18. It All Starts with
Person-Centered Thinking & Planning

19. Community Connections
It’s All About Relationships!
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ads
From Al Condeluci’s Blackboard

20. Phil: Home Sweet Home

21. THEN NOW
The way systems respond to a person with labels like those carried by Royce is almost always
reactive in nature: an increasingly restrictive approach that medicalizes unmet human
needs as “behaviors.” This approach tends to feed on itself by increasing the
likelihood and intensity of challenging behaviors.
Royce is now 23 and wants to live on his own,
says his father, Ralph.
But the family has been told he needs
constant care, and that there are no resources
available to meet his needs.

22. 20 years ago: “Matt will never walk or talk”
2 years ago: “Matt will never have paid employment”
Want to bet against Matt again?

23. “THIS IS TUESDAY NIGHT LEAGUE BOWLING. PLEASE COME BACK ON
THURSDAY NIGHT AND SIGN UP FOR SPECIAL NEEDS BOWLING.”

24. Remediating  Accommodating  Valuing

25. Person-Centered Teams
MEMBERS BOARD
Executive
Staff
Director of
Operations
Executive
Staff
Marketing &
Communications
1
Employment
Supports (2)
Community
Connectors (3)
Living
Supports (2)
Coordinator of
Volunteers and
Support
Networks (1)
100 Volunteers
1
Supports
Coordinator
(1)
2
LIVEWORKPLAY ORGANIZATIONAL CHART 2014
100+
Volunteers

26. RISK: STATEMENT OF INTENT
The people supported by LiveWorkPlay tell us that they want to be involved in the community, access
opportunities, and to achieve their goals like everyone else in society.
With an ordinary life comes risk, and sometimes accidents may happen. The people we support, as with
most people, will not always choose to live in a totally healthy and safe way. We will support people to
manage the risks involved in exercising control over their own lives, through offering advice and
guidance.
In managing risk, we will take sensible precautions to reduce the risk of harm to staff, the people we
support and anyone else who may be affected by our work. Those precautions will effectively balance
what is important to the people we support with what is important for the people we support.
Risk assessments will not be used to curtail or ban activity. Sensible risk management is not about
generating useless paperwork mountains. Risk assessments should address real risk, in other words risk
which actually exists. Written assessments should contain information essential for maintaining safety.
As part of our commitment to enabling people we support to take
planned risks, LiveWorkPlay as an employer will always support staff
who have used sound judgement and taken sensible precautions,
even if these have not been sufficient to avert an incident.

27. Celebrate!

28. Trying to
change the
world?
Don’t
forget to
tell others
about it!

30. 30
Instead of investing in segregation from life, we are investing in life.

31. Let us stop being innovative with people’s lives
by turning them into special people in
special programs in special places.
Let us stop building the infrastructure of segregation.
Let us start building the richness of an ordinary life.

32. Because an ordinary life has
extraordinary features like these:
Apartment.
Job.
Teammates.
Friends.
Spouse.
Thank You!

33. Please
don’t
reinvent
the wheel!
Instead, please visit:
buildingsocialcapital.org
helensandersonassociates.co.uk
liveworkplay.ca
You can learn more about our use of social media for
social change from Keenan at 1:45 in Golden Delicious
You can learn more about our community-building
approach from Julie at 3:30 (also in Golden Delicious)