Natural Supports Framework Info Session Webinar

Learn about The Natural Supports Practice Framework!

Natural Supports are mutually beneficial relationships that include close connections, such as family and friends, and broader connections such as neighbours, coaches, community organizations and local businesses. Our natural supports: contribute to our feelings of belonging within a community function as safety nets when life does not go as planned provide valuable learnings we rely on to support our development across the lifespan.

The Natural Supports Practice Framework is a set of foundational constructs and principles co-developed by service providers that builds service providers capacity to support clients to rely on, and contribute to, a lifelong network of family, community, and peer relationships. Research suggests that practitioners understand the importance of natural supports but may not know how to effectively engage them. The Natural Supports Framework training:

· increases practitioners’ confidence to build their own skill set to engage, find, strengthen, restore, maintain, and transition people’s natural supports networks.

· results in less reliance on professional supports, and better transitions across the lifespan.

About the Speaker

Roseline (she/her) is a registered social worker in Calgary and has been working in the non-profit sector since 2004. She has been with the Centre for Sexuality for 13 years. She was part of the team of organizations who created the Natural Supports Practice Framework, she has been an active member of the Natural Supports Community of Practice and the Natural Supports Leadership table. She is a passionate advocate for sexual health and reproductive rights and believes all people should have access to information and tools to achieve healthy bodies, healthy relationships, and healthy communities- which includes the opportunity to build and rely on Natural Supports.