Okanagan Regional Library

It’s not as boring as it sounds! 
 
This presentation is about developing a strategic plan for library programming that aligns with your community’s social development goals. It features some fun interviews with community stakeholders, along with thoughts and insights on the power of connection, partnership, and community engagement in creating meaningful programming.

Physical Literacy

Like learning the alphabet is essential to reading, learning movement skills is essential to enjoying activities for life. In this half hour session, you will see how this program came to be, a definition of basic physical literacy, how it fits into a library program and some programming ideas. There is room in any story time for a bit of physical literacy.

Presentation for the 3rd Children and Teen Services Conference  (CATS) in Kelowna, B.C. in October.  Discussed all the Disability projects that I have done to help children and teens with diversabilities (disabilities).   Have sent the booklists across Canada for libraries and organizations to use and create their own.  Interior Health, MCYSN, eight school districts and Work B.C. are using them for staff and clients as well as doctors in the province have them on their websites FETCH and PATHWAYS.  Projects were done in my role as  Community Liaison for the provincial LDABC, South Central Okanagan Community Council member  and Self-Advocate Advisor for the Okanagan Self-Advocate Group.  Lists and resources are very highly used and appreciated by the staff, families and professionals across the province and Canada.

This was presented for the 3rd Annual Children and Teen Services Conference (C.A.T.S.) which was located in Kelowna, British Columbia. We had 67 participants from across B.C. and some from Alberta.
The presentation was to encourage other librarians to create their own Diversabilitiy Service Provider lists, and Teen and Children's bookslists, do programming and workshops on this topic in their communities.
All these lists have been sent across Canada. Interior Health, MCYSN, and Work B.C. are using them, as well as Doctors on the provincial website - Divisiont of Family Practice FETCH and PATHWAYS.