ONIWG Conference Update, October 17-19, 2008

This year's well-attended conference, Using Research to Make Change for the Injured Worker Community, focussed on aims, techniques, successful projects and research in progress.

Summary agenda [Full agenda - pdf]:
Friday, October 17th

  • 9:30 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks - Building our movement in local communities
  • 10:00 Plenary - Working together with researchers - RAACWI (Research Action Alliance on the Consequences of Work Injury) Experience
  • 11:15 Plenary -Sharing the knowledge - Research Studies
  • 3:30 PM Workshops - Research studies - examine in detail - Social structure of WCB - Employment following injury - Injured worker survey - Migrant Workers - Knowledge transfer in Injured Worker Groups - Complex claims

Saturday, October 18th

  • 9:45 AM Panel: Participatory Action Research - Making Change
  • 11:00 Plenary - Injured Worker Poverty report - how we did it - Thunder Bay & Hamilton
  • 1:00 PM Workshops: What research do you do now? What are our needs for research? Connection to action? What are the issues facing your group locally?
  • 3:00 Workshops: Delivering the message. Getting the word out to our communities.
  • 4:30 Plenary/Wrap Up Day #2 - Skit & Training opportunities

Sunday, October 19th

  • 9:35 AM Plenary - Panel - building partnerships on common issues.
  • 10:30 Plenary session - How to build to the future

Papers & presentations:

Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group, Karli Brotchie & Becky Casey. "Poverty in Motion, The Rippling Effects." Feb. 2008. [pdf]

McLaughlin, Janet, "Falling through the Cracks: Seasonal Foreign Farm Workers' Health and Compensation across Borders," The IAVGO Reporting Service, October 2007, Vol. 21, No. 1. [pdf]

Tompa, Emile; Claire de Oliveira, Heather Scott-Marshall & Miao Fang, "Does permanent impairment from a workplace accident increase the risk of marital break-up?" [Presentation]

Research Action Alliance on the Consequences of Work Injury : Challenges Workshop [with Steve Mantis, Emile Tompa, Marion Endicott, Sabrina Pacini, Pat Vienneau [Presentation]