Webinar: Building resilience: Supporting refugee men's mental health
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Event type: Single day (a day or less)
This presentation will focus on the mental health challenges refugee men may face as they adjust to life in a new country. It will explore critical risk factors, protective elements, and effective coping strategies to enhance their well-being. Aimed at settlement workers, this session offers trauma-informed tips to respond to refugee men and refer them to appropriate mental health services.
Join this webinar with Vince Pietropaolo and after attending you will:
- know the common aspects of the refugee experience
- identify the trauma experiences of refugee men
- learn their risk and protective factors for mental health
- adapt and employ trauma-informed tips for responding to refugee men.
Presenter’s bio:
Vince Pietropaolo is the General Manager of COSTI’s Family and Mental Health Services. In his position, he works with ethnocultural communities in program design, development, research and implementation in the areas of mental health, gender-based violence, problem gambling and excessive technology use and dementia.
Vince is a Subject Matter Expert with the Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Project at CAMH.
Vince has presented extensively on the issue of Gender Based Violence, Mental Health Caregiver Stress, Trauma Informed Practice and Problem Gambling and Excessive Technology Use at conferences in the United States and Canada.
He has guest lectured at York University, Ryerson University, University of Toronto and is a part time faculty member at Seneca College, Toronto.