Call for Contributions
We are inviting you to contribute to the 3rd 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 focus on:
- Complexity: The nature of the world we are in seems increasingly complex, and this is mirrored in our services and the lives of the children, youth and families that come to us for help. Explore how the philosophy and key components of CAPA can help you navigate these multiple complex systems. Share your experience of working with challenging problems, both clinical and in your system.
- Flexibility: Understand more about how components of CAPA can be adapted to your unique circumstances. CAPA is very much like cooking, you can tailor the recipe to work for you. Teams that use CAPA describe flexibility and agility in the way the team works to meet challenges.
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? How do we become flexible, collaborative partners in care?
- 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? How do we work with complex problem?
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? How do we be flexible when we work with goals, while being mindful of a clearly agreed path?
- Job Planning: More than just numbers. What is the purpose of a job plan? What do helpful job plans look like? How do we factor in clinical complexity?
- Leadership: Leading in times of complexity and uncertainty. How do we navigate through crisis and everyday challenges? How do we support teams to be flexible and agile when needed?
- Choice: How does Choice lead the way in treatment planning? How do we know what Choices are available and suitable? How does Choice work with in complex or risky situations?
- 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. Tips for working in complex systems.
- CAPA over time: how partnering is an on-going conversation. Building flexible relationships.
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
- CAPA, individual and family crises
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: October 9, 2024
Call for Contributions Closes: November 15, 2024
Notification of Acceptances: December 11, 2024
Registration opens: January 2025
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