Summit Summary

Support Worker Summit2009

120 participants

from all

over

Participants with four months to five generations of support work experience

Check out the NING site to see who was there…

We started a community of

practice using a NING

NING? it’s a social

networking site where you can

communicate with other support

workersask questions, get

ideas, give advice, share tools

and information, progre

ss stuff that is important to you

The ning site is one week old

70 support workers

have already joined

http://supportworkers.ning.com/

Want to be part of the national support worker network?

Over the last two years support workers had

noticed…

More acceptance of the support worker expertise

More training available, but still not as easily accessible

Still a need for more services for young people, people with serious need

Still recognition issues and need for more pay

Still a lack of a career path

More collaboration across services and disciplines

At the summit, support workers talked about…

SupervisionNational Body

Professional Health Registration under HPCA ActMoney debt and mental illness

Presenting at conferences – T.H.E.M.E.S.Special roles calm and restraint

MoneyOur own self care in this demanding field

Better pay and conditions – including trainingWhanau participation

Access to quality education for all MHS workersLets get real

Taken seriously as a professionalEducating key workers around what we do

Support WorkersWays we can help towards recovery

Sharing more ideas with different servicesHow can organization empower and encourage a support

worker roleHow can we support them in being heard?

TrainingService user/Consumer workforce

Job clarity, inpatient unitPeer Support

Getting youth into groups/working with groupsCollaboration

The relationship between AOD services with Community Mental Health Services – How can this relationship be

recognized and improved.Measuring what makes a difference – what are standard

assessments?Networking in the areas we specialize in –

Youth, employment, etc.

Heaps!

The top topics that support workers want to get traction on…

Pay & Recognition 1

Training, development and supervision

2

National body 3

Registration 4

Service Access and development 5

Whanau participation

Services for young people

Peer support

What would be your

top topics for action?

See all of the conversations on http://supportworkers.ning.com/

Small print thanks to…

our sponsors

all the support workers and employers that made the attendance at the summit possible

pattillo for design and facilitation

Megan Hosking for NING design