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2024 Theme

Caring to Communicate to Connect

During the past few years, team members have given feedback across various areas within ATS. Your ATS leads have been listening! This year we bring you this theme to address areas YOU want to develop. Click the icons on the side to get an idea of each sub-topic we are hoping to address this year.

Feedback and Participation

Managing Community Navigation and Conflict

Tips for when traveling to Northern Indigenous communities:

• What to bring on trips and how to pack.
• Trip etiquette with coworkers/Finding a balance for your mental health and being a “team player”.
• Strategies for managing stress on a trip; Most information can be found in the Northern Community Travel guide ->

• The Travel Tips notebook here->

Staff self care

Helping staff to:

• Recognize the mind-body connection,
• Listen to their body's cues when challenged by physical and emotional stressors and
• Identify strategies to restore and optimize health.

ATS Interdisciplinary and Community Communication

Optimizing the communication:

• Within the Inter-D Team
• With our Community Collaborators.

This includes building relationships, navigating conflict, and identifying the best communication channels for each community.

Understanding Community Communication Styles

Communicating effectively in:

• Virtual vs In-person vs Non-verbal Environments
• Adjusting your Language for your target audience
• Understanding intercultural styles when communicating with members of Indigenous communities we work with.

Honouring Diversity

Optimizing Cultural competency within our Organization by:

• Embracing Indigenous speaking opportunities within sessions and when on community visits.
• Engaging ATS members in new and interactive ways to improve their history and understanding of First Nations/Metis/Inuit culture & history.

Appreciating Community Collaborators

• How we let our community contacts (e.g. E-helpers, Teachers, SERTS etc.) know we appreciate them
• What we can do on community visits to show our appreciation
• Other ways to connect/build rapport with our community contacts/collaborators when on community visits.

Tracking and Documentation

Using the new documents to record:

• Interdisciplinary Mtgs (IM)
• Circle of Care Mtgs (CC)
• Multi-Disciplinary Scheduling System

with Jane Templates to efficiently communicate client, caregiver, clinician visions and intentions.