Behavioural Supports in Ontario (Phase 1)

The BSS project team has completed the Phase One report: Behaviours Have Meaning. We will not be sending out our usual email updates to the mailing list. The current mailing list will be kept and if you would like to be added to it you can sign up and will receive emails once mailings begin again.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their continuing enthusiastic support for the BSS project work. It is truly gratifying to know that there are so many people committed to creating a strong, integrated system of person centred supports for older persons with responsive behaviours and their caregivers. Please continue to check back on the website for new developments! Join the BSS Project Mailing List

Phase 2

Newsletters, FAQs, Announcements

• Keeping you in the know: Issue 1, Issue 2, Issue 3, Issue 4, Issue 5, Issue 6
• Frequently Asked Questions: Issue 1
• Announcements: Jan '10, April '11

Knowledge Exchange Events

BSS Series

• January 18th, 2011
  Environmental Changes to Improve Quality of Life on a Behavioural Unit
  Barb McCoy, Psychogeriatric Resource Consultant, Alzheimer Society Hamilton and Halton and Tamara Johnson, Manager of Health and Wellness Programs
• Special Behaviour Support Unit - Sheridan Villa
  Inga Mazuryk, Administrator, Sheridan Villa and Sara Kaur, Supervisor, Special Behaviour Support Unit, Sheridan Villa
• The Behavioural Intervention Response Team
  Stephanie MacKenzie, Social Worker, Behavioural Intervention Response Team, Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene and Gail Scott, Program Coordinator, Geriatric Services Program, Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene
• January 20th, 2011
  Individualized Seniors Supports and Supportive Housing
  Lisa Manuel, Director, Changing Lives and Family Violence Programs, Family Service Toronto
• Improving Geriatric Mental Health in Emergency Department
  Resources: Program Introduction Handout; Dr. Don Melady, Emergency Physician, Mount Sinai Hospital and Angelina Yau, Senior Project Manager, Seniors Mental Health and Addiction Services Project, Mount Sinai Hospital
• January, 25th 2011
  Preparing Carers to Take Care of Seniors with Alzheimer at Home: The Reitman Approach
  Dr. Joel Sadavoy, Director of the Cyril and Dorothy Joel and Jill Reitman Centre for Alzheimer's Support and Training; Head, Community and Geriatric services, Mount Sinai Hospital
• Supportive Housing Services for Seniors with Mental Illness & The Stepping Stone Project, William Shin, coordinator, Stepping Stone project and Maria Egervari, Program Director

Archive:

• BSS Project Update - Dec '20, Presentation
• BSS Project Kick Off - Feb '10, Presentation
• Behavioural Assessment Units Information Exchange - Apr 27 '09, Documents: Behavioural Assessment Units Information Exchange Post Event Communique; Bibliography; Building a Better System Report, Presentations: Community Mental Health, Hamilton; Dorothy Macham Home; St. Joseph's Health Care Group, Thunder Bay; St. Joseph's Health Centre, Guelph; T. Roy Adams Regional Centre for Dementia Care, Niagara

Community

• Behavioural Intervention Response Team Presentation

• Lakeland Community - Integration and Wellness Model; Overview