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Leading the way in Mental Health Training and Education

We are currently building out our 2020/2021 Training Calendar and we would love to hear from you. Thanks to our focus groups and advisory committee we have a fantastic starting point for new training opportunities to include in our up-and-coming calendar and now, we would like to continue to grow our offerings for you with training in areas that would best support your professional needs.

We are looking for:

Leading the way in Mental Health Training and Education

CAMH has teamed up with Trillium Health Partners and SickKids to launch a two-year pilot project, funded by the Medical Psychiatry Alliance (MPA), aiming to help youth with first-episode psychosis (FEP). The Technology-Enabled Collaborative Care for Youth (TECC-Y) project, brings together an interprofessional team —a psychiatrist, an occupational therapist, a dietician, and social worker—to provide holistic care to youth ages 16 to 29 with FEP, through a web-based platform.

Leading the way in Mental Health Training and Education

It's not too late to gain the skills to provide evidence-based to support children, youth, and families grieving the dying, or death of someone they care about.

A new study with a press release that claims "No safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy, suggest researchers" was published on Friday.

In this study, they did brain scans of "21 healthy teenage subjects and 19 subjects with prenatal alcohol exposure" (PAE). They found that people with PAE had different brain activation to touch and had reduced scores for cognitive measures. Ok, fine.

The workshop, "Transforming Resistance in an Accelerated Manner: Working with the Challenges of Defense & Anxiety,” will be taking place on June 1, 2019, at Oakham House, Ryerson University.  Please see the attached flyer for more information on this workshop.

To register for this workshop, please visit our website at www.AEDPToronto.org. Please note that the early bird registration fee ends on April 30th!!

EENet's new online course aims to increase knowledge and awareness of CTOs for CTO coordinators and physicians in Ontario. The course consists of five interactive modules that include learning activities, videos, and case studies on the following topic areas:

Thank you to all the members that participated in our member survey!

We enjoyed learning what you like about EENet Connect and how we can improve. The three main takeaways were:

The calendar is a main draw to EENet Connect, but can be clutteredThe site can be difficult to navigateYou sometimes receive too many emails

To address this, we have:

Published in Pediatrics and Child Health , a Canadian Pediatrics Journal is this case report of a newborn requiring 2 months of morphine withdrawal. I have not heard of kratom from the tropical  Mitragena speciosa tree, mitragynine the likely active ingredient. In low doseage it produces a stimulant effect and at higher doses sedation and nausea. Respiratory depression is not a feature.

It is a regulated Herbal Product in the USA, but illegal to sell in Canada. There is easy internet availability however.