| Thank you for your interest in The Ontario Summit to Prevent Work Disability, held May 12-13, 2010 in Toronto. The Summit was well attended and generated much enthusiasm to continue working together. A followup Action Group has been formed. Further information, including past meeting minutes and documents, appears on the Action Group page. The next Action Group meeting is scheduled - all are welcome! Date: Monday February 14, 2011 Time: (to be announced) Location: (to be announced - Toronto) See the Action Group page for further details of this meeting, and results of past meetings. The draft report of the Summit results, including appendices, is available to download from the links below: To read our Purpose Statement, click here. Who are we? We are a newly formed group of diverse professionals working together to effect positive change in preventing and lessening the impact of work disability in Ontario. We are physicians, employers, occupational health nurses, claims administrators, WSIB advisors, government advisors, union and labour representatives, workers, insurers, health professionals, human resources professionals, accommodation consultants, and rehabilitation workers. We have joined this effort because we are concerned about the human and business cost of the current practice in Ontario that manages disability rather than preventing it. The current system is not working, and we believe that the required systemic change is possible only by using the comprehensive and collaborative, multi-stakeholder approach of the 60 Summits Project. What are we doing? We are working together towards creating a long-term continuous process of change in Ontario that begins with a stakeholder summit conference, scheduled for May 12-13, 2010 in Toronto. Please read our Purpose Statement for more details. How are we doing this? Our method is based on the 60 Summits Project approach which promotes the adoption of a new workplace disability prevention paradigm reflected in the white paper "Preventing Needless Work Disability by Helping People Stay Employed" by the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). This change effort is different from others that have gone before: we are connecting through grass-roots and broad-based involvement to ensure that the various stakeholders in disability management have an opportunity to collaborate with other stakeholder groups and address issues pertinent to their individual stakeholder groups. We are confident that this approach will ensure positive systemic change. What do we need? We have established our steering committee, and are looking to populate our task groups and expand our database of stakeholders who would be interested in attending the summit conference. We also seek financial and marketing support for the summit conference. When and where is the Summit meeting? May 12 (evening) and 13 (all day), 2010 at Special rates are available at the Holiday Inn Midtown if you need to stay overnight - see hotel booking instructions What is the Agenda? The final agenda is available now: download the final agenda. Are you interested? To find out more about the 60 Summits Project, go to www.60summits.org. To read the ACOEM white paper, go to www.60summits.org/pdfs/ACOEM-Work-Disability-Prevention-Whitepaper-2006.pdf. To contact us and indicate your interest, please click here. See the press release backgrounder More information on the Ontario Summit will follow shortly. |
