This interview with Dr. Kwame McKenzie of the Wellesley Institute, https://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/ sharpens the future plan for mental health system reform. Good medicine, a balm, for those of us who experienced a languishing of our mental health system before, Covid as well.

May 19 2021Our apologies: the presentation scheduled for 12:00 - 1:30 has been cancelled

Please join us at 1:30-2:30 PM

Public Health 2021 is the national conference where public health professionals, researchers, policy-makers, academics, students and trainees come together to strengthen efforts to improve health and well-being, to share the latest research and information, to promote best practices and to advocate for public health issues and policies grounded in research.

The Steering Committee invites oral and poster abstracts, didactic symposia and interactive workshop submissions to be presented 6-8 October 2021.

The Canadian Public Health Association is inviting public health, public safety, health and social service providers and other professionals and practitioners to participate in a short survey on substance use.

Your answers will help us to better understand your knowledge and perspectives of substance use, and topics you would like to learn more about.  Your participation in this survey will support the creation of tools, resources and online learning modules to support the implementation of a public health approach to substance use in Canada.

May 12 2021

12-2pm

TRANSITION PATHWAYS ACT, STEP DOWN CARE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FACT IN THE US

John P Ayers, MS, LPC-S  &  Christopher Masopust, MS, LPC; Family & Children’s Services, Tulsa Oklahoma

My son Pete died on Dec 23 2021 to an accidental Opioid Overdose. It will be TWENTY YEARS this year that he died.  I shake my head in absolute despair about this escalating crisis/epidemic.

From Jan 2020 to the end of November 2020…2167 people have died

59% increase over the same period in 2019

Le CAP offre le programme Entr’Aide, adressé aux jeunes de 12 à 17 ans, vivant dans la région d’Ottawa et présentant des problématiques apparentées à des traits ou à un trouble de personnalité limite (diagnostiqué ou non). Le programme est basé sur la thérapie comportementale dialectique (DBT) et permet aux participants de mieux réguler leurs émotions, de diminuer les comportements à risques tout en réduisant les méfaits.

Starting today, this week marks Mental Health Week 2021, led by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA).

This year's theme is #GetReal about how you feel. CMHA is encouraging people to name it, don't numb it -- "Because heavy feelings lighten when you put them into words."

May 5 2021

12-1pm

ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS ALRIGHT: GRIEF IN ACT TEAM WORKERS