Mailing Address:
HUSITA8
c/o Polestar Meeting Group Inc.
284 Withrow Avenue,
Toronto, ON, Canada M4J 1B7
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HUSITA: An Overview
Husita8 Local Organizing Committee
 Robert J. MacFadden, M.S.W., Ph.D., RSW
Dr. Robert MacFadden is an Associate Professor at the Faculty
of Social Work, University of Toronto with an extensive background in
information technology (IT) in human services. He teaches at the graduate
level on IT in social work practice and has researched and published
extensively in this area. His current interest is on the role of emotions in
learning and particularly web-based learning. He has published two recent
articles in this area: MacFadden, R.J., Maiter, S., Dumbrill, G. (2002). High
tech and high touch: The human face on online education. In H. Resnick and P.
Anderson ( Eds). Innovations in technology and human services: Practice and
education. NY: Haworth and MacFadden, R. J., Herie, M., Maiter, S., Dumbrill,
G. C., (in press). Achieving high touch in high tech: A constructivist,
emotionally-oriented model of web-based instruction. Journal of Teaching in
Social Work. Dr. MacFadden is the senior editor of a book entitled, Web-based
Education in Human Services: Models, Methods and Best Practices that is being
published by Haworth Press in the summer of 2005. He is on the Editorial
Board of the Journal of Technology in Human Services and a member of the
Executive Board of an international group dedicated to the ethical and
effective use of IT in human services (HUSITA). He is President of the Board
of a large Children's Aid Society west of Toronto. Professor MacFadden is
leading the development of Husita's next international conference
(Husita8) in Toronto in the summer of 2007. He maintains a website at www.robertmacfadden.com .
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 Marilyn A. Herie, Ph.D., RSW
Dr. Marilyn Herie Marilyn Herie has been a therapist and
project leader at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) since
1992, and is currently an Advanced Practice Clinician in the Concurrent
Disorders Unit. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Social
Work, University of Toronto; Social Work Coordinator of the Collaborative
Program in Addiction Studies at the University of Toronto; and Sessional
Instructor at Ryerson Polytechnic University. Her focus at CAMH has been on
the development and dissemination of research-based practice protocols,
including Structured Relapse Prevention (1996), Guided Self-Change for
Employee Assistance Programs (1996), the Back on Track Mandatory Remedial
Measures Program (2000), as well as, more recently, the development,
facilitation and evaluation of online courses. In addition, Marilyn is a
clinical trainer and therapist specializing in the group and individual
treatment of adults with alcohol/drug problems. Marilyn has facilitated
hundreds of workshops in such areas as Motivational Interviewing, Addiction
Treatment, Presentation/Facilitation Skills, and Cognitive-Behavioural
Therapy; and has presented at academic conferences throughout Canada and in
other countries. She has co-authored books, book chapters and articles in
scholarly journals on brief treatment, alcohol dependence, relapse
prevention, dissemination research and online learning. Marilyn also teaches
online courses on addictions treatment and cultural competence in the Faculty
of Social Work, University of Toronto. She received her doctorate in social
work at the University of Toronto, where she conducted research on Web-based
continuing education for therapists and health care practitioners.
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 David
Schulz
David Schulz has been Executive Director of Mutual Support
Systems of the Niagara Region since 1988, an agency providing Residential
Care and Treatment for children. He served on the Board of Director's of
the Ontario Association of Residences Treating Youth from 1992 to 2004, was a
member of the Executive from 1993 to 2004 and President from 2000 to 2002,
and is Chair of the Information Technology Committee. He has taken a
leadership role in the design, development and implementation of information
technology (IT) solutions for use in children's residential services.
Projects have included the Integrated Residential Information System (IRIS)
which is an Internet based registry of residential services containing live
waiting list and resource profile information (www.oarty.net), and the OARTY Information System (OIS)
which is an information system designed to record and validate outcomes based
on treatment methodologies and to support case management and business
processes. Past involvement in IT related conferences includes the 2003
Canadian Symposium of Child and Family Services Outcomes (Ottawa),
participating in a panel presentation on the use of IT in Outcomes
Measurement. He has served on many human services related committees
including the Niagara Children's Services Committee Young Offender's
Sector Sub-committee and the Hard to Serve Sub-committee, CONTACT
Niagara's Children's Mental Health Network and the Residential
Placement Advisory Committee (RPAC), the Niagara District Network Planning
Group on Children's Mental Health Beds, and is Vice-Chair of his local
Community Policing Committee.
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 Casey
Pieterson, MSW, RSW, PMP
Casey Pieterson is a manager in the Public Services consulting
practice of BearingPoint LP with extensive social services and health care
experience. He has over 20 years of direct service, supervisory and
management experience in child welfare, with demonstrated leadership in
information management, systems planning and information services operations.
He has been with BearingPoint for the past five years and has worked in
social services and health care in the areas of strategy, research (e.g.
jurisdictional reviews and survey development/analysis), business
integration, change management, stakeholder management, stakeholder
facilitation and consensus building. He is also an accomplished project
manager.
Casey led the design and deployment of a Lotus Notes Case Management
recording application for child protection agencies in Ontario. He is
interested in information management and Child Welfare. He has co-authored a
number of publications in the area of information management and social
services including: MacFadden, R.J., Pieterson, C. (1998) Social work and the
Internet: Attached to the Web. Journal of the Ontario Association of Social
Workers; MacFadden, R., Pieterson, C. (1997) Child Protection Web Sites: New
Windows of Opportunity, Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies
Journal; MacFadden, R., Pieterson, C. (1993) CASnet: Linking Child Protection
Agencies Electronically, Computers in Human Services, Haworth Press Inc., and
Pieterson, C., Cousineau, A. (1993) An Involvement Continuum for Custom
Software Development, Technology in People Services, Research, Theory and
Applications (book edited by Leiderman, M. et al) Haworth Press, N.Y.
Casey is one of several Local Organizing Committee members leading the
development of Husita8 in Toronto, Canada. He designed and maintains the
conference website.
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Gerry Cooper EdD
Gerry Cooper EdD has worked in a variety of roles within the
mental health and addictions fields since 1976. Currently, he is based in
Sudbury as a Regional Unit Manager with the Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health's (CAMH) Northern Ontario Region and an Assistant Professor,
Clinical Education, Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM). Gerry has
produced or co-produced many educational resources (including course
curricula, videotapes, CD-ROMs and web pages). He has participated in the
planning and delivery of many training programs for adult learners, has
written extensively on various mental health and addictions related topics,
has taught at several post-secondary institutions and is a scientific
reviewer for two professional journals. He helped secure funding ($1.1
million) for the multi-year, multi-site Northeast Mental Health Public
Education Campaign, also known as the We all belong Campaign; in this
connection he helped oversee the Campaign as one of its Regional Steering
Committee Co-Chairs. His doctoral thesis from the Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education/University of Toronto won the US National Problem
Gambling Council's 2001 Outstanding Dissertation Award. His primary
research interest concerns the role of the Internet in help-seeking
behaviour.
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 Kelly Ernst, Ph.D., C. Psych., is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Outcomes Research Institute (CORI)
Kelly Ernst's Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, from the University of Calgary, included dissertation work that merged counselling models with program evaluation within a human services business management framework. The model was developed into an Internet information management system, the Hull Outcome Monitoring and Evaluation System (HOMES). This work eventually led to the founding of the Canadian Outcomes Research Institute. He recently completed the Harvard Business Schools' Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management.
His publications, conference work, and consulting work have occurred from Victoria to Halifax and internationally; it includes work in the areas of: ethics and human service business delivery, outcome model and IT systems development, program evaluation, not-for-profit organizational & business development, accreditation compliance, and human services program design.
He is a past director of 3 different community services to children and families and has worked in the not-for-profit industry for approximately 20 years. Kelly has sat on non-for-profit boards of directors, has experience fund raising for community-based organizations, and is a co-founder of an endowment fund for a youth service in Calgary. Most recently he has co-founded "Executive Directions," an executive coaching project for Executive Directors and CEOs of not-for-profit and charitable organizations.
This spring he will be publishing, "Serving for Public Value: A Reference for Servant Leaders on Coaching and Being Coached." He is currently co-editing a book for the University of British Columbia on outcome monitoring for human service organizations, "Accountability, Evaluation and Outcomes in Child and Family Services."
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 Betty Dondertman, Manager of Resources Development, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Ms. Betty Dondertman is Manager of Resource Development at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and has a background in adult education, technical communication and knowledge management. Betty manages a group of 20 education specialists, editors and publishing developers who translate evidence-based knowledge on addiction and mental health into print- and Web-based resources for both professionals and lay people. Ms. Dondertman was responsible for initiating and implementing an elearning program that supports the continuing professional education mandate at CAMH.
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 Simon Mielniczuk
A veteran information systems innovator in the not-for-profit and e-commerce/e-service sectors, Simon has an extensive background of more than 30 years in community development, non-profit management, project management, application development and consulting. Before starting ITS Co-operative, Inc., a employee-owed company, Simon held positions as Information System Manager with the Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse and the University of Toronto, Faculty of Social Work, Executive Director of Web Networks, and Director of development at MarketLink. He teaches business systems design and information architecture at Ryerson University's School of Information Technology Management. Currently his focus is on collaboration, knowledge management, decision support and communication applications for distributed groups with voluntary, autonomous members.
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Summer 2007 in Toronto, Canada
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