Conscious Care & Support (CCS) Training Deliverables

St. Clair Tri-County Staff Training & Development Committee Presents…

Conscious Care & Support (CCS) Training Deliverables

What is the Conscious Care and Support (CCS) Program?
Conscious Care and Support (CCS) is a training, development and consulting program for community support professionals, parents, family members, teachers, case coordinators, and psycho-social professionals – supporters who provide service and support to individuals of all ages who have autism or other developmental disabilities (ASD/DD).

The program has demonstrated to significantly improve the skills of supporters beyond what is currently considered best practice in Ontario. As a result, individuals with ASD/DD get much better treatment and support as reported by measures of improved quality of life, learning, emotional well-being and significantly reduced self-injurious behaviour and aggression. CCS does not replace existing practices which are primarily behavioural interventions and traditional medical protocols. It does however significantly enhance the effectiveness of these approaches

Overall, CCS addresses two key components to complement and enhance current approaches, namely:
1. Biomedical, energy balancing and protection, sensory and neurodevelopment interventions.
2. Development of supporters’ emotional maturity and mindful self-regulation skills.

What Will Be Covered?
1. Biomedical, energy balancing and protection, sensory and neurodevelopment interactions.
Responding to real “on the ground” needs experienced in community-based support agencies and in families, CCS has been developed over the past 15 years to enhance behavioural interventions and traditional medical protocols and bring a comprehensive model of support and service.

To develop more caring and competent supporters and significantly improve treatment and support practices, CCS applies well-researched strategies and tools from the relevant applications from the disciplines of:

As part of the training, participants will learn to identify the primary causes, optimal prevention, and awareness-based calming strategies for de-escalation for people who can engage in self-injurious behaviours and aggression.

The training will provide an overview of the CCS model, how the CCS model compliments current/future work being done in the sector (i.e. directions provided by Journey to Belonging), and some interactive reflections in small groups.

2. Development of supporters’ emotional maturity and mindful self-regulation skills. 
Enhanced self-awareness enables supporters to further develop mindful, emotional self-regulation skills. This can be done through reframing some cognitive thinking traps/patterns, and by better regulating their autonomic nervous system to increase their capacity to be calm through the tool of mindfulness.

Participants will explore what A Centre for Conscious Care calls “The Human Prison Within”- innate vulnerabilities and barriers that prevent supporters from consistently bringing their “A-game” as they provide support. Participants will then learn how the tool of B-FIT Mindfulness supports breaking out of their internal prisons/vulnerabilities.

About the Facilitators
Adriana McVicker, Senior Facilitator, A Centre for Conscious Care

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) Adriana has over 20 years of experience working with children, adults, and their families. For the last 17 years, has worked with Community Living Windsor in various roles including direct support and in positions of management including support services, staff development, communications, community relations, and project management. She is a true believer that all of us are interdependent and that we each carry a responsibility to help one another be the best we can.

Xavier Noordermeer, Senior Facilitator, A Centre for Conscious Care

Xavier is the former Executive Director of Community Living Windsor, an organization that provides supports to over 600 people who have an intellectual disability and their families in the Windsor community. Retired in 2020 after 30 years and has been working with people and families since 1981. From 2003 to 2020, also led the work of Capacita, a special volunteer project providing medical aid to children with disabilities and their families in Nicaragua. In 2018, was a founding board member of Microboards Ontario, a provincial organization that is committed to promoting and supporting the development of microboards across Ontario through education, advocacy and support to people and communities. He remains involved today as a volunteer board chair. Xavier believes strongly in the importance of respectful and ethical leadership and the benefits that it provides on both a personal and organizational level.

COST: $40 (Lunch Included)
DATE: Thursday, May 8, 2025
TIME: 9 am – 3 pm
LOCATION: Hidden Hills Golf & Country Club (25393 St. Clair Road, Dover Centre)

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