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Community voices and knowledge sharing


Case Studies and Personal Experiences

 

Bill ---

Strengthening the Strengths Model in community mental health recovery practices

Maryann Roebuck’s linkedin.com/in/maryannroebuck research A Qualitative Study of the Working Alliance in the Strengths Model of Case Management with People with Severe Mental Illness written with Tim Aubry and Stephanie Manoni-Millar examines client perceptions of the working alliance to advance client recovery in

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Elaine Uskoski ---

Podcast Interview with a Recovering Video Gaming Addict

Many of you are familiar with my son's story of gaming addiction, as told by me in my speaking, webinars, and my books. Podcaster and recovered gambling addict, Brian Hatch recently interviewed my son, Jake, on his own, so he could share his journey through gaming addiction and recovery. Jake discusses what led him down the rabbit hole, how he struggled to overcome his compulsion, the support he received, and how he now manages his life, as well as his relationship with the internet, as a gaming sober young man.

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Bruce Ballon ---

FYI: Board Game with Mental Health Awareness Built In

Hi all,

I hope this may be of interest to you… if not, my apologies!  Delete away!

BOARDGAME FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION

Would you please spread the word to those you might think would be interested in this?  Maybe you might be!

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Bill ---

A refocus on Institution’s roles in community health and justice, … we have a choice to make

Cormac Russell https://www.nurturedevelopment...-are/cormac-russell/ in “Does more medicine make us sicker? Ivan Illich revisited” helps us to refocus on our efforts to improve individual care and advance system and social change through our organizations and institutions as the drivers of change. For me the practices of implementation science, has greatly brought needed light, tools and analysis to pulling organizations towards practice change.

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Julie King ---

Giving youth alternative Activities to cannabis

Hello!

I'm a cannabis education outreach worker for the Six Nations Reserve. I'm toying around with a workshop idea that will essentially keep idle hands busy and away from cannabis, while also educating about cannabis. The target audience would be children and youth. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on activities for this?

Thanks in advance,

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Bill ---

Remembering Don Weitz, 1930-2021, Resistor of the "psychiatric machine"

Please see Irit 's tribute to Don Weitz in Mad in America as well as information about Don Weitz's book Resistance Matters: The Radical Vision of an Antipsychiatry Activist

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Bill ---

Principles to support organizations to change their cultures, each day

Keith McCandless of Liberating Structures community of practice shared this post on principles to guide organizational changes on the Integration and Implementation Insights site. This set of principles and what not to do, is going to save having to sit through more and more trainings as the way to advance change and instead get us to everyday practice. The “must not’s are fun to read as well.

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Community ---

The "replication crisis" is worth revisiting

On Saturday, The Globe and Mail ran an opinion piece by Susan Pinker, a psychologist, about a replication crisis in science. The past year and a half has brought hundreds of thousands of studies about COVID-19, along with an unusual level of enthrallment in science by the media and the public.

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Community ---

Give us a virtual "Hi" at next week's "Innovations in the Science of Cannabis" conference!

The Cannabis Knowledge Exchange Hub will have a virtual presentation at next week's Innovations in the Science of Cannabis conference, hosted by the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research.

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