Registration starts @ 8:30 AM
Auxiliary Theatre
Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital
700 Priestman Street
Fredericton
Presenter Tom Regehr
Biography
Tom Regehr is a successful consultant and health educator who speaks directly to the professional mind about sensitive issues. Regehr is the founder of CAST Canada, an organization with the goal of helping professionals and corporations to better understand the roles of trauma and unresolved grief in addictions, homelessness, chronic unemployment and mental illness through the coordination of workshops, conferences and keynote speaking.
Regehr has developed his material by condensing the learning from over 80 panel discussions whereby other individuals in recovery from trauma and addictions offer feedback to helping professionals and combining it with work from several trauma experts, distilling much evidence based material and developed unique trauma based workshops for service providers and clinicians and involved many trauma experts . It is popular material that many agencies have hired for ‘all staff’ events and the material has been adopted as curriculum at McMaster University. Regehr has been contracted by various organizations, government agencies and first nations communities to deliver his presentations.
Tom resides in Peterborough Ontario and offers workshops and speeches throughout small town, rural and remote areas. He is often contracted by Provincial organizations, such as Ontario Works, to offer trainings to their staff as well as hosting large-scale National conferences. Regehr works as a consultant on many government level initiatives and travels extensively throughout Ontario High Schools to educate youth about addictions in their communities and their homes.
You Will:
- Receive a set of practical, usable tools that help you be more comfortable and effective in your work
- Be able to share the tools with colleagues
- Have more hope, focus, skill and patience
The Tools:
” Easy to remember - Easy to use - Holistic - Helpful - Respectful”
- Developed in direct conversation with consumers by workers like you at over 80 panel discussions
- Designed to empower your client in safe and healthy ways
- Presented with background and tips and language suggestions from consumers
What will be covered? A sample:
Background:
- Addiction treatment - What are we trying to achieve?
- Just what is addiction? Exploring addiction, substance use/abuse etc.
- Exploring trauma, unresolved grief, complex trauma, ‘trauma-informed’ etc.
- The connection between trauma and addiction.
- It is as important to talk about chaos and urgency as substances.
Tools:
- The Nature of Cravings - Understand & empower your client
- Applied Harm Reduction - Learn what specific language and tools worked from the consumer perspective
- Boundaries – The client needs them. How to create and maintain a healthy container for healing
- Talking about and dealing with ‘Relapse’ - Learn to approach this volatile but common subject early, safely and productively. Why ‘failure’ is a word we need.
Approach:
- Role of self. The ability to be present as key to success.
- Authenticity and Connection as critical therapeutic tools
Who Should Attend?
You are a frontline worker or any helping professional where your clients often have addiction and/or trauma issues. The day is popular with shelter and housing support workers, Children's Aid workers, therapists, counsellors, correctional and probation officers, professors and students, EAP professionals, hospital staff, employment support, disability supports etc.
The Organic Origin of the Trauma Informed Harm Reduction Tools
Since 2004 CAST Canada has held more than 80 Consumer Panel discussions in which a panel of people in early recovery from trauma and addiction held discussion with 30-40 professionals. Over 2,500 frontline workers have worked directly with CAST Canada volunteer consumers to identify these ideas and worked together with them to create relevant, practical tools.
www.cast-canada.ca
