Webinar: Perspectives on a Public Health Approach | Findings from a National Survey & Tools for Future Work
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Event type: Single day (a day or less)
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Description
CPHA’s Normalizing Conversations project launched a survey in 2021 to learn how Canadian public health, public safety, and health and social service professionals define and implement a public health approach to substance use. The survey findings provide an understanding of key stakeholder beliefs, attitudes, knowledge levels, and access to information about substance use.
To support the implementation of a public health approach, CPHA partnered with the Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (CEWH) to create and publish the Public Health Approach to Substance Use Handbook. This resource describes and illustrates the key principles of this approach, with relevant tools for future work.
Join CPHA, Dr. Tara Marie Watson, Dr. Nancy Poole, and Dr. Lorraine Greaves as we explore perspectives on a public health approach to substance use followed by a discussion with some of the project’s Expert Reference Group on this approach and its challenges and opportunities for implementation.
Details
📅 Date: October 18th, 2023
🕒 Time: 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM ET
📍 Where: Zoom!
AUDIENCE: This webinar is designed for public health, public safety, health and social service professionals, people who use drugs, researchers and policy makers.
SPEAKERS
- Dr. Tara Marie Watson, PhD Associate Director, Research Program, University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine.
- Dr. Nancy Poole, PhD Director of the Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health
- Dr. Lorraine Greaves, PhD Senior Investigator, Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health
Joining the discussion:
- Danielle Kouri, B.Soc.Sc (she/they), Outreach Coordinator, St. Leonard's Society of Canada
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About the Normalizing Conversations Project
CPHA has been funded by Health Canada through the Substance Use and Addictions Program to undertake a project to build the knowledge and capacity of decision-makers, health and social service providers, public safety and communities to implement a public health approach to substance use.
The primary objective of this project is to build the knowledge and capacity of communities to implement a public health approach to substance use. This is being accomplished through collaboration with individuals with lived and living experience of substance use, various professionals, and community organizations across Canada.
As part of this project, CPHA has developed a national, bilingual online substance use resource centre - the Canadian Substance Use Resource and Knowledge Exchange Centre (SURE). SURE provides a curated series of tools and resources to support you in implementing a public health approach to substance use in your community.