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Special Projects
In parallel to our regular programming, the Valor Institute, in partnership with various local organizations, annually coordinates many special projects whose mandate varies from a few months up until several years, based on the extent of the project in question.
Featured in our Special Projects directory is the Enhancement of Mental Health Services for French-speaking Children in Ontario Project, which the Valor Institute has worked on for two years in close collaboration with Prescott Russell Services to Children and Adults (PRSCA) as well as the Ontario Ministry of Finance. In partnership with the Crisis Prevention and Intervention Program (CPIP), the Valor Institute regularly offers training and workshops via videoconference. These workshops mainly target workers and significant persons, but can also be of interest to clinicians and other professionals.
In collaboration with the Community Networks of Specialized Care (CNSC), the Valor Institute has led the Optimal Individual Service Design (OISD) course held in Ottawa from April 14 to 18, 2008 and from May 5 to 9, 2008. To obtain a detailed description of these special projects, you are invited to browse through the different links listed on our website.
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Optimal Individual Service Design (OISD) Course
The Two-Week Optimal Individual Service Design Course (OISD) was organized by the Community Networks of Specialized Care in collaboration with the Valor Institute and was led by Michael Kendrick PhD., assisted by Darcy Elks, M.A. This course has regrouped 29 individuals from various agencies of the Eastern Ontario. The 29 persons who attended the event were divided in 10 groups of 3. Each team was combined to a volunteer client that was considered having a major challenge. The group met with the client 3 times per week during the event which obligated the participants to be directly implicate into a real life case. All the participants had the chance to exchange their individualize experience on the field and build network with others. To learn more about the outcome of the event, consult the event report:
In order to prepare for the course, the participants were invited to proceed to some reading. The liste of all recommended lectures is found bellow:
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Communities that Care (CTC)
"Communities that Care" is a project that was setup in order to provide tools for teenagers and to implement good personnal and social values to facilitate critical decision-making. Designed by Drs J, David Hawkins and Richard F. Catalano, "Communities that Care", is a scientific planning system of validated approaches to guide the efforts of the community towards prevention and the improvement of youths' lives.
The Valor Institute oversees the initiative and becomes the first training institution to teach Lions Quest in both official Canadian languages. This course provides teachers with enabling techniques "to instruct their students with skills to better handle difficult situations" as published in "The Regional" newspaper of Prescott-Russell in September 2008.
"La Nouvelle", a french language weekly newspaper in Ontario has also published an article on the initiative which was launched in September 2008. This event was underlined by the presence of the Mayor of Hawkesbury, Jeanne Charlebois and Mr Syd Davie, Regional Chairman of Eastern Ontario District A4. Click here to learn more »
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"Consolidating Mental Health Practices
for Francophone Children" FORUM
In Ontario, hundreds of organizations provide mental health services to children of francophone families. (...)
Dr. Melanie Barwick was approached to conduct a study on mental health services available for francophone children and youth of Ontario. The results are found in her report entitled "Faire progresser les services de santé mentale
pour les enfants et les jeunes francophones de l’Ontario" written in two parts. See below to learn more about Dr. Barwick's studies:
Part 1
Faire progresser les services de santé mentale
pour les enfants et les jeunes francophones de l’Ontario
Part 2
Faire progresser les services de santé mentale
pour les enfants et les jeunes francophones de l’Ontario – Partie 2 : Pratiques prometteuses et traitements fondés sur des données probantes : Recommandations pour le secteur francophone
Michele La Roche, who is currently completing her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Ottawa was also approached to write a document on evidence-based approaches entitled: "Pratiques prometteuses et exemplaires - Guide de survie en matière de données probantes". She also produced a second work entitled"Vers une pratique fondée sur les données probantes". To consult her second work and learn more on evidence-based approaches:
These researches have also contributed to the setup of an inventory program which enumerates different mental health resources for the francophone children of Ontario. See below for further information on available resources for the francophone clientele of Ontario.
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