NSTRA 2024 Conference

“TR Trailblazers: Together Towards Tomorrow”

6:30-8:30	Early Check-in Registration
6:30-9:00	Karaoke

7:15-8:15	Coffee Social
8:00-8:30	Check-in Registration
8:30-9:00	Welcome Ceremony
9:00-10:30	Session 1	Setting the Standards for Principled Therapeutic Recreation Practice
10:30-10:45	Nutritional Break
10:45-12:15	Session 2A	Supporting, leading, and being: A Recreation Therapy teams lived experience in a catastrophe.
	Session 2B	Brigadoon In-Hospital Program (BOP)
12:15-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:00	Session 3A	Navigating Challenges and Building Community: A Pilot Project of Young Adults in Long-Term Care
	Session 3B	Beyond Serious Leisure: A literature review on serious leisure and professional creatives
2:00-2:15	Break
2:15-3:15	Session 4A	Dementia-Friendly First Responders in NS
	Session 4B	Integrated Health Care: Bridging Pediatric Medicine and Recreation Therapy for Youth who Live in Care
3:15-3:30	Break
3:30-4:30	Session 5A	Therapeutic Recreation Role in Holding Space for End of Life
	Session 5B	It’s me, Hi, I’m the department. It’s Me: Developing the first CTRS position in acute care at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital
4:30	Wrap-Up
6:30-7:30	Awards Ceremony and Board Meet and Greet
7:30-10:30	Kitchen Party with Nacho Bar and Poutine Station
All sessions content is pending NCTRC CEU approval

7:00-8:00	Morning Walk/Yoga/Dance
8:00-8:15	Settling In & Welcome
8:15-9:45	Session 6A	Nova Scotia Health’s Early Mobilization Program and the role of Recreation Therapy
	Session 6B	Time Slips: Creating meaningful moments with and for people with memory loss
9:45-10:00	Nutritional Break
10:00-11::00	Session 7A	Exploring a Recreation Therapy community of Practice for Long Term Care in Nova Scotia
	Session 7B	Using Archery as a Therapeutic Tool for youth with Level 1 ASD and Comparable Diagnosis
11:00-11::15	Break
11:15-12:15	Session 8A	Creating Meaningful Opportunities for Young Adults Living in Long-Term Care
	Session 8B	Virtual Reality and Physical Rehabilitation
12:15-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:30	Session 9A	Adolescent Intensive Services: Where we are and where we want to be
	Session 9B	Recreation therapy in long term care, what’s going on?: Examining the guideposts to GOOD practice in your Long term care facility
2:30-2:40	Break
2:40-3:40	Session 10	Board Update
3:40	Wrap Up
All session content is pending approval by NCTRC