• 8:00 -9:30 pm Reception at the Barking Parrot Bar, Penticton Lakeside Resort

April 27, Saturday

• 8:30- 9:00 am-registration
• 9:00 am Opening remarks
• 9:30 am OPENING PLENARY: Five Generations in the work force:

(And they aren't talking to each other). Bev Roest is retired from a long career in corrections. She was the Local Manager of several Probation Offices, Regional Staff Development Officer, Director of Twin Maples (women's prison camp) ARU, Stave Lake, Burnaby Women's Custody Centre. She is currently working as a coach and trainer.

• 10:00 am Questions and Answers
• 10:30- Dr. Darryl Plecas-Is it really worth doing that? Prof Plecas teaches criminology at the University College of the Fraser Valley. Dr. Plecas will present his penetrating analysis of where provincial correctional services have been going during the last ten years and look at how this has affected employees and offenders. His workshop will focus on how a new perspective on the EVALUATION of correctional work can have positive results.
• 11:30PM Breakout discussion
• Noon-1:30 pm Lunch: Guest Speaker: Rick Childerhose, Regional Executive Director, Okanagan Region of Ministry of Children and Family Development: How Regional Governance in the Ministry will affect Youth Probation Officers.
• 1:30-2:30 pm Deb Foster, BCGEU Component 6 Chair, of (our component that is Social Health and Educational, Component #6), will brief members on union info, actions and recommendations. Our component is made up of members who directly deliver services to the public in the form of Youth and Adult Probation, Family Justice, Child Protection and Community Living for disabled adults as well as Financial Assistance Work. There are other members: library services and certain information technology services which come under the aegis** of our component. We can be said to be the "social conscience".
• 3:30 - 4:30 pm A facilitated brainstorming session designed to assess the impact the governments cuts to jobs and contracted services has had, and will have, on line workers, their clients and the communities they serve. Flowing from this discussion will be a detailed strategy for constructive response: to develop a coherent, viable plan. We need to brainstorm what strategies and position(s) the BCPOA should adopt for the coming tumultuous year(s). We need a focus and we have to focus as our capacity to produce results is extremely limited.
• 6:00 - 7:00 Safety Meeting in the Barking Parrot Bar.
• 7:00 pm Dinner with guest speaker-- Cass Crest (Program Director, Alternate Programs SD#23 Kelowna) at a recent PARCA conference in Kelowna, Grandma Cass gave a hilarious, earthy and inspiring speech which had a focus on the immense social value of the work we do with disadvantaged clients.

British Columbia Probation Officers Association (Agenda available upon registration)

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