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International Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10 — the anniversary of the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Available in more than 500 languages, it is the most translated document in the world.

Join Elder Abuse Prevention Ontario as our keynote speaker, Jane Meadus, Barrister & Solicitor, Institutional Advocate for the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, provides a comprehensive overview of the Legal Rights of Residents residing in Long-term Care Homes.

https://www.theglobeandmail.co...lou-kristy-draws-on/

Laura Stone,Queen's Park Reporter July 6 2020

The Centre for Innovation in Peer Support is pleased to announce the virtual expansion of our popular communities of practice!

On Tuesday Mar 3 2020, I did the opening speech at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences for the Deputy Premier & Minister of Health Christine Elliot (pic attached) and also the Associate Minister of Mental Health & Addiction, Michael Tibollo (pic attached).   Deputy Premier and Minister of Health Christine Elliot announced the Roadmap to Wellness: A Plan to Build Ontario's Mental Health and Addictions System.  Government, healthcare leaders and media from across Ontario listened as I shared from my personal experience of the system gaps, unmet ser

Serious rock stars over here at the Centre for Innovation in Peer Support @ Support & Housing-Halton.  Please see Ontario Health (Quality Business Unit) Quorum feature of the Centre's Peer Support Integrity, Quality & Impact Survey.  The link is below.

No words lately...

Just frustration, pain & grief....

Below is Pete's memorial for the 18th year of his overdose death-Dec 23 2001

This Globe & Mail opinion piece reminds us that very few Canadians can access good mental health care, and those that can are the ones that have the financial means to afford it.

Those most in need are the most consistently failed by the system.

Yup. Me. And 7 other provincial peer support & lived experience (patient)/family (caregiver) advisers/advocates on Monday April 8th 2019.  It was very exciting to have a full 90 minutes with Hon.

Supervising Peer Workers: A Toolkit for Implementing and Supporting Successful Peer Staff Roles in Mainstream Mental Health and Substance
Use/Addiction Organizations

Development of Community of Practice (CoP) for Peer Support Research and Evaluation in Canada being led by The Centre for Innovation in Peer Support (embedded in Support & Housing-Halton) and Simon Coulombe (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Robyn Priest (Robyn Priest Live Your Truth)

Another exciting training opportunity being offered by the Centre for Innovation in Peer Support and Robyn Priest Live Your Truth.  

INTERACTIVE ONLINE TRAINING
A 6 hour Training split into two 3 hour sessions!
February 27 & 28 2019 from 12 noon until 3 pm ET

This blog was originally posted on CATIE. The CATIE Blog hosts the views and opinions of people and organizations working and volunteering in Canada’s response to HIV and hepatitis C. For more info visit: http://blog.catie.ca/  

02/04/2019

By Dane Griffiths

I am involved in a process to expand capacity to authentically "meet people where they are at".  It originally started with attempting to build capacity for understanding and bridging substance use, harm reduction, housing first philosophy.