You may have noticed the following message appearing on the top of your page when logging into Kronos.
For those that punch in and out daily, the message appears when you enter into your profile page.
The “new look” will take effect June 14, 2021 when Kronos does their next release.
The new version will appear cleaner with tabs on the left to view different aspects of your profile and employee information demographics for supervisors/managers.
By selecting the yellow toggle on the upper right, you can view the new look to familiarize yourself with the view before it becomes permanent.
If you have any concerns, or experience issues with the update, please open an IT ticket.
Two out three Ontarians feel that COVID-19 has lasting and serious mental health impacts.
CLGW is teaming up with Andrea Groenewald and Linda Gould from Five Star Relationships, as well as Cathy Kuehni, Trauma, Grief and Loss Consultant, to provide mental health supports for our employees, the people we support and their families and caregivers. This team will be supported by our Behavioural Therapy team of Claire Jenkins M.Ed. (ABA, OCT, RBT) and Mirjana Vujosevic.
This mental health initiative will include various supports, including counselling, coaching, mental health talks, emotional regulation, behavioural strategies, and more.
To help us tailor the mental health talks, we are asking you to participate in this short survey.
We want to hear from you! We want to tailor these Mental Health initiatives to what you are seeing and experiencing so you get the most out of these supports.
Please complete by June 3, 2021. The survey is best accessed on a desktop, laptop or tablet.
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BONUS! Feeling creative? We’re looking for help naming this mental health initiative!
Visit the survey link above, complete the questions, and you will be given a link to submit a name idea. Name ideas will be capped at 50 submissions, or on June 3, 2021.
Name ideas will then be sent out for a vote.
The person who submitted the most popular name will receive a $50 Amazon Gift Card.
Please only one name idea per person. Should more than one person have the same great name idea, the person who submitted the name idea earliest will be eligible for prizing. If one person submits more than one name idea, their earliest submission will be eligible.
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If you have any questions about the mental health initiative, please connect with Mel Darke at melaniedarke@clgw.ca
Thank you for your participation and for helping us to understand how we can tailor our mental health talks. Your feedback will be included, and the overall trends will help us prioritize how we focus these talks.
Please share this information with any of the people we support, their families and caregivers, as well as consider printing and posting it to your worksite for employees who are not regularly monitoring email. We have sent this out through our COVID update email list, but it never hurts to make sure someone has received the opportunity to participate.
This post was also emailed to all @clgw.ca email accounts to join in!
Let’s come together over Zoom! There’s been a lot going on these past few months, and with the pandemic, we haven’t been afforded the opportunity to meet face to face. It might be one of my favourite parts of my role – being able to sit, listen, and talk with people about the work we do.
So let’s get
the ball rolling, virtually, and hopefully we’ll be meeting face to face real
soon!
These town
halls will include:
A little intro from me
A pandemic update (including having pre-submitted questions answered by WDGPH)
A Services and Organizational update
And Special Guest: People4People, giving us an update about their 2021 aspirations
Community Living Guelph Wellington would like to take this opportunity to thank Karenda Carpenter for her years with us as our region’s Passport Community Developer.
Karenda has accepted a new role as the Passport Coordinator with Central West Specialized Developmental Services and her last day as a Passport Community Developer will be Friday, March 12, 2021.
Once CWSDS hires a new Passport Community Developer for Wellington-Dufferin, we will be sure to let everyone know.
As always, if you have any questions about Passport funding for individuals supported through CLGW, please reach out to Lisa McCartney (rural) or Linda Carroll-Lyssy (urban).
For those individuals that manage their Passport funding privately or any new funding, please contact Jenn Hahn during the transition from Karenda to a new Developer.
A big THANKS again to Karenda for supporting CLGW and the areas of Wellington Dufferin. We will miss your creativity, collaboration, and support, but wish you all the best in your new role!
Empire Life, our Employee Benefits provider, has put together a helpful FAQ. It covers common questions asked about benefits, from receiving prescriptions at home to travelling while impacted by the pandemic.
Written by Laura Kirk, with collaboration from Paul Smook, Sarah Crawford and Jessica Martin
“I feel lonely. Nobody talks to me. I don’t want to go to ARC anymore.”
When these words were spoken by a person supported about a year ago, staff listened. We visited him at ARC a few times to see how he was spending his days and to better understand what was engaging him. The truth of the matter is, Paul was not happy there anymore.
He was imagining a life outside the building that was once an integral part of his daily routine, but over the course of a several months had become less and less important to him. Paul needed a change. Slowly, Paul began asking if he could just “stay home to relax” and we begun reducing the hours he spent at ARC.
We are inviting staff to watch PHO’s Cohorting During a COVID-19 Outbreak in a Congregate Living Setting.
Supervisors will be including this in their team meetings. However, we know that not everyone can attend a team meeting, and this information will be very helpful to understand.
Additionally, the 2021 Tax Forms are now available. If you claim the basic personal amount, there is no need to access these forms. However, if you are making an update or an edit, or you are claiming a non-standard amount, you are encouraged to download these tax forms, and complete the information, and submit to hr@clgw.ca by January 31,2021.
Written by Randy, with support from his Direct Support Professional Ashlyn Northfield
Pictures by Ashlyn Northfield
Randy loves rock and roll and exploring the outdoors. Randy receives passport funding and currently uses CLGW to help support him in his adventures.
Due to COVID-19, Randy feels safer
exploring his local community outdoors. This has allowed Randy to get in touch
with his “nature” side and reconnect with activities that he had once enjoyed,
like geocaching. Randy has been able to use his past experience to teach geocaching
to his passport DSP, inspiring her to explore nature and connect with the
amazing local opportunities.
Randy would like to continue using his
passport funding to explore the many great outdoor spaces that Wellington
County has to offer to build on his social skills and knowledge of nature
around him.
Randy has been able to learn the importance
of knowledge sharing and hopes to educate more people about the cool things in
nature and all the opportunity that lies within this great community.
“Keep
it rocked, keep it locked. Be safe, enjoy life and explore your local
community” – Randy
Written by Christopher Wilson, with support from his Direct Support Professional Ashlyn Northfield
Pictures by Ashlyn Northfield
Penny Ross is a resident of Mount Forest living at one of Community Living Guelph Wellington’s residential homes who receives passport funding. Penny loves animals and due to COVID-19, has not been able to connect with that aspect of her life.
While out at Mapleton’s Organics with her
Passport DSP, Penny got to visit with a donkey, a pig, a horse, cows, chickens,
dogs, and cats! Penny had a blast and said that she would like to work with
animals.
Penny is exploring the possibility of paid
work like dog walking where she can make her own schedule and work with dogs
best suited for her. Penny would also like to volunteer her time at the SPCA
once it re-opens again.
Passport funding is providing Penny an opportunity
to do meaningful things within her community and explore her interests and
passions.
“I like my passport worker, we have many
laughs and giggles. I really need that during this difficult time (sickness)
and I appreciate the opportunity to visit/work with animals. I am hoping to
work with animals within my community and passports will be able to help me
with that” – Penny Ross
