Call for Contributions
Let’s build this together
We are inviting you to contribute to the first CAPA International Conference hosted by IWK Health.
The CAPA conference is for care providers, youth and families, researchers, and leaders interested in collaborating and learning about the CAPA model, values and fundamentals.
The conference will provide opportunities to:
- Deepen understanding: Share our learnings so we see ourselves in the philosophy and practice of CAPA. Participate in discussions around the use, benefits and stretches of the CAPA model.
- Develop skills: Build skills in CAPA related processes to enhance the experience for clients and families.
- Strengthen connections: Create opportunities for collaboration and networking.
We have exciting sessions planned and are now seeking contributions to this conference.
New to CAPA? Experienced in CAPA?
We want to hear from you!
We are looking for people to share their experiences, facilitate discussions, teach others a skill, or pass along research findings. This will help us bring everyone’s ideas together to create a conference program that reflects all attendees.
We especially welcome sessions led by or including people with lived experience of mental health – including youth and families.
Send us your ideas of things you’d like to share. If it’s inspiring to you – we’re guessing it will be for others too! We aren’t looking for examples of “perfect practice” just things that you have tried or been inspired by. Even if you’re not sure how your idea fits with the Choice and Partnership Approach, we encourage you to join this process and submit your ideas.
Need ideas?
Here are some things we’ve thought about.
CAPA Values: Bringing values to life in our care and approach.
Examples of sessions could include:
- Working together with families: What does real engagement look like? How do we make sure we are working on things most important to families?
- Thinking about complexity: Keeping the client in the centre and responding with flexibility.
- What next? Talking with clients about evidence based options and other choices available.
CAPA Fundamentals: Sessions related to CAPA core components
Examples of sessions could include:
- Letting Go: Why is it so hard to say good-bye? What helps?
- Job Planning: More than just numbers. What is the purpose of a job plan? What do helpful job plans look like?
- Leadership: Leading in times of complexity and uncertainty. How do we put good ideas into practice?
- Choice: Developing joint formulations using a whiteboard.
- Team Away Day: Share ideas of topics you’ve focused on team away day.
CAPA and collaborations: Working together across communities and systems.
Examples of sessions could include:
- Smoothing transitions between levels of care.
- Collaborating across boundaries – health, schools, justice, community agencies.
- CAPA over time: Lessons learned from mistakes and other good things.
CAPA when we didn’t plan for it: When the world throws you things and you have to respond.
Examples of sessions could include:
- CAPA and COVID
- CAPA, community and natural disasters
Measuring what matters: How do we understand and measure the important parts of what we do?
Examples of sessions could include:
- When child, youth, and parent feedback informs treatment, what happens?
- Youth perspectives on using outcome measures in practice.
- Integrating quantitative and qualitative information to understand client outcomes and experiences.
Important Dates
Call for Contribution Opens: February 22, 2021
Call for Contributions Close: March 12, 2021
Notification of Acceptances: March 26, 2021
Registration opens: April 5, 2021
International perspectives are important to us.
Offering sessions during the waking hours of our southern hemisphere colleagues
is a priority. The conference schedule will be extend to 18:30 – 20:30 ADT on
May 11 & 12 to welcome participants from Australia and New Zealand.
Please send us your contributions and we’ll make the time zones work.
Call for contributions is now closed
This conference is hosted by IWK Health with the planning support of uOttawa, Office of CPD
Office of Continuing Professional Development
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
725 Parkdale Avenue, Loeb Research Building, Room WM158, Ottawa, ON K1Y 4E9