SEMINARS & COURSES
Christian Horizons Educational Services provides seminars and workshops in communities throughout Ontario, including areas ranging from Ottawa to Windsor, Toronto to Sudbury/Elliot Lake.
Education opportunities are available to family members, students, volunteers and social services professionals.
Christian Horizons Educational Services provides three OPTIONS to serve you:
1. Attend a course along with Christian Horizons staff.
2. Request an instructor to deliver sessions at your location.
3. Certify an instructor to teach our courses to staff within your base of employment.
Option One / Attend a course
Each year, Christian Horizons offers hundreds of courses to our staff across Ontario. Our courses are designed to be practical, interactive and fun.
Why choose this option?
- You are a family member seeking help on the course topic.
- You are just checking out the course to see if it might benefit your agency.
- You have a small number of people from your agency that need this topic.
Click here to view what courses are currently available in your area.
Option Two / On-site Course Delivery
Request an instructor to deliver sessions at your location to staff from one or more organizations.
Over the last 15 years, many agencies have invited Christian Horizons to provide our courses to their staff, including:
- Reena - Thornhill, ON
- Brampton Caledon Community Living - Brampton, ON
- Community Living West Northumberland – Cobourg, ON
- Community Living Owen Sound – Owen Sound, ON
- Community Living Wallaceburg – Wallaceburg, ON
- OCAPDD / Open Hands - Ottawa, ON
- Canadian Mental Health Association - Peterborough, ON
- Plus many more...
Why choose this option?
- You need a cost effective way to deliver a course topic to a group of 10-30 people or more.
- You would like the course content to reflect your agency’s policies.
PLEASE CONTACT:
For information on course overviews and price quotes to deliver a course to your agency…
Steve Snider / Manager of Educational Services, Christian Horizons
Email. ssnider@christian-horizons.org
Phone. (519) 650 0966 Ext. 3142
COURSES THAT CAN BE OFFERED TO OTHER AGENCIES:
Course Name: Documentation Developed by: Christian Horizons
Description: This course focuses on how to communicate a written message that is both clear and purposeful.
Course Length: 7 hours (1 day)
Recommended for: Social Service Professionals & Students |
Course Name: Reducing the Risk Developed by: Christian Horizons
Description: This course focuses on recognizing abuse, and responding to and report abuse towards the person with exceptional needs.
Course Length: 7 hours (1 day)
Recommended for: Social Service Professionals, Students, Family Members, Volunteers
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Course Name: Reducing Vulnerability Developed by: Christian Horizons
Description: This course focuses on reducing vulnerability of the person with exceptional needs while also reducing the risk of false allegations of abuse.
Course Length: 7 hours (1 day)
Recommended for: Social Service Professionals, Students, Family Members, Volunteers |
Course Name: Responding to Reports Developed by: Christian Horizons
Description: This course is mandatory for all Christian Horizons Managers and is offered to support workers who may be asked to serve on inquiry teams. It helps to navigate the complex challenges associated with allegations of abuse. The course addresses practical questions, and allows participants to apply course content to realistic case studies to make the learning both dynamic and relevant.
Course Length: 7 hours (1 day)
Recommended for: Social Service Professionals, Students, Family Members, Volunteers |
Course Name: First Aid/CPR (Emergency/Standard) Developed by: Canadian Red Cross
Description: The Emergency course provides simple First Aid & CPR techniques taught in an interactive environment, for individuals who want an overview of First Aid & CPR for the home or workplace. The course covers skills needed to recognize and respond to cardiovascular emergencies for adults, CPR Level A, and other topics such as choking, airway and breathing emergencies and prevention of disease transmission.
|The Standard course includes all elements of the Emergency course as well as more comprehensive First Aid & CPR techniques and more severe sudden medical conditions and injuries to the head and spine.
Course Length: Emergency 7-8 hours (1 day), Standard 14-16 hours (2 days)
Recommended for: Social Service Professionals, Students, Family Members, Volunteers, members of the general public |
Course Name: Fierce Conversations Developed by: Fierce, Inc.
Description: To be fierce means to be authentic, present, and real in our day-to-day conversations. The conversation is the relationship; careers and companies succeed or fail one conversation at a time. Fierce Conversations™ provides you with a foundational approach to confront your most pressing issues by having authentic, courageous, and clear conversations.
Course Length: 2 days
Recommended for: Anyone who finds themselves in conversation with others! |
Course Name: Fierce Accountability Developed by: Fierce, Inc.
Description: Leaders learn how to create a culture where people choose personal accountability as a way of life, delivering agreed-upon obstacles. This workshop is designed to help participants recognize the cost of blaming, protecting, defending and playing it safe. In contrast, the advantages of taking responsibility for their lives, relationships, challenges and results become clear.
Course Length: 1 day
Recommended for: Leaders & Managers |
Course Name: Fierce Generations Developed by: Fierce, Inc.
Description: Understanding what each generation thinks, values and desires is critical for a more collaborative and successful work environment. Perhaps even more important, long-term success requires the transfer of knowledge from one generation of leader to the next. Participants learn to nurture generational differences and create an atmosphere of inclusion, enabling them to leverage the diversity of their workforce.
Course Length: ½ day
Recommended for: Leaders & Managers |
Course Name: Personality Dimensions Developed by: Career/LifeSkills Resources Inc.
Description: Personality Dimensions® is based on leading-edge research into human motivation and behaviour and helps to explain what motivates behaviour in people with different personalities or temperaments. This interactive human relations and communications process enhances the basic values of self-esteem, dignity and self-worth. Through interactive activities and experimental learning, customizable topics such as communication, leadership, diversity can be explored.
Course Length: varies depending on program chosen
Recommended for: Anyone with a personality! |
Course Name: “I Don’t Have Time” Solutions Developed by: Christian Horizons
Description: Using practical tools and application, leaders will explore ways to make the most of their valuable resource of time. The workshop includes topics of priority setting and scheduling as well as common challenges such as procrastination.
Course Length: 1 ½ - 3 hours
Recommended for: Leaders & Managers |
Course Name: Mastering Competing Values Developed by: Christian Horizons
Description: Through interactive activities, group discussion and practical theory, this course explores how to master the following competing values:
• relational skills to meet the complex needs of the person receiving support, their family members and the support staff
• the call to be a great manager by stabilizing systems, implementing structure and maintaining control
Course Length: 1 ½ - 3 hours
Recommended for: Leaders & Managers within Social Services |
Course Name: Creating Optimal Work Environments for Employee Performance Developed by: Christian Horizons
Description: Participants will learn strategies to develop team individual team members and build an exceptional team. The stages of team development and various means of giving feedback are explored. This workshop incorporates Ben Zander’s inspirational DVD “The Art of Possibilities” as the background of how leaders can create an atmosphere of encouragement and growth.
Course Length: ½ day
Recommended for: Leaders & Managers |
Course Name: Foundations of Leadership Developed by: Christian Horizons
Description: Servant, Situational and Self Leadership implemented together can create great leadership characteristics. This framework is used for this workshop as each is expanded on and examined. Through a multi-media presentation the participants learn how to enhance their skills in each of these areas.
Course Length:½ day
Recommended for: Emerging Leaders, new and experienced Leaders & Managers |
Course Name: Australian Bushfire: Would your Team Survive? Developed by: Human Synergistics
Description: The bushfire survival simulation jumpstarts the team’s creativity and problem-solving and uncovers the working dynamic of the team. The group assesses their interactions and compares their profile against profiles of effective and ineffective teams. Through goal setting they set new ways of interacting with one another in group interactions.
Course Length: ½ day - 1 day
Recommended for: Teams |
Coming soon: Person Centred Support, Personal Plan Facilitator
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Option Three / Instructor Sessions |
Participate in instructor sessions that allow your staff to be certified to teach our courses within your base of employment.
As of 2010, Community Living Wallaceburg now has a certified instructor to deliver Reducing the Risk and Reducing Vulnerability.
Why choose this option?
You are committed to ongoing delivery of this course and you want your policies and practices embedded into the course content.
PLEASE CONTACT:
Steve Snider / Manager of Educational Services, Christian Horizons
Email. ssnider@christian-horizons.org
Phone. (519) 650 0966 Ext. 3142 |
