Call for Contributions
We are inviting you to contribute to the 2nd CAPA International Conference
The CAPA conference is for care providers, youth and families, researchers, and leaders interested in
collaborating and learning about the CAPA model.
The conference will provide opportunities to:
- Experiences: Share what we’ve learned over the past two years and how we see ourselves in the philosophy and practice of CAPA. Participate in discussions around the use, benefits and stretches of the CAPA model.
- Curiosity + Hope: Build skills in CAPA related processes to enhance the experience for clients and families and brainstorm through challenges.
- Connection + Regeneration: Create opportunities for collaboration and networking with teams local to you or across the globe. See connections in the way we work and ignite new ideas.
We have exciting sessions planned and are now seeking contributions to this conference.
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.
We especially welcome sessions led by or including people with lived experience of mental health – youth and families are valued partners.
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” – share ideas that inform your practice that you have found helpful or discoveries of things that you have tried or been inspired by. Over the past two years, we have often by necessity, invented new ways of working. Now is a chance to play with these ideas and grow from these experiences (like trees do after a fire).
Curious? Need ideas?
Here are some things we’ve thought about but the sky is the limit (and even that might be pushed with a virtual platform).
CAPA Values: Bringing values to life in our care and approach.
Examples of sessions could include:
- Working together with families: How does the expertise of clients and caregivers inform our way of working?
- Strong teams: How do we support and strengthen our teams in meaningful ways?
- Becoming really responsive: Keeping the client and family in the centre of care in flexible and workable ways.
- Building relationships: With clients? With each other on a team? With community partners?
CAPA Fundamentals: Sessions related to CAPA core components
Examples of sessions could include:
- Letting Go: How do we think about letting go from the start? What gets in the way of our plans?
- 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 navigate through crisis and everyday challenges?
- Choice: How does Choice lead the way in treatment planning?
- 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:
- Using CAPA principles to plan for different populations.
- Collaborating across real and perceived boundaries – health, schools, justice, community agencies.
- CAPA over time: how partnering is an on-going conversation.
CAPA when we didn't plan for it: Navigating through crisis in a responsive way
Examples of sessions could include:
- CAPA and caring through a pandemic
- 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:
- How does youth and parent expertise inform the process of setting the direction for care and treatment?
- Keeping the conversation going over time: Youth and family perspectives on using outcome measures in practice.
- Integrating quantitative and qualitative information to understand client outcomes and experiences.
Important Dates
Call for Contribution Opens: November 1, 2022
Call for Contributions Closes: November 25, 2022
Notification of Acceptances: December 12, 2022
Registration opens: January 2023
International perspectives are important to us.
We have created 3 sessions over two days to ensure there are waking hours for all of us in those days.
Please send us your contributions and we’ll make the time zones work.
This conference is hosted by IWK Health and their partners 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