This webinar will present an overview of cannabis, with a focus on sex and gender influences. During this webinar, participants will become more familiar with cannabis fundamentals, risks and potential harms, therapeutic uses, and cannabis use and mental health. There will be a focus on sex and gender related factors influencing the prevalence, patterns, and effects of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder. Our presenter will also briefly discuss cannabis research studies happening at CAMH and how to get involved.

Our Presenter:

Gender, Race, SES & Gambling

Have you ever wondered if immigrating to Canada impacts a person's gambling behavior? Or maybe you've asked yourself how systemic inequity has impacted gambling trends? Perhaps you've even wondered how gambling awareness programming can be tailored to fit the needs of a specific community?

Linking Support on Intimate Partner Violence and Substance Use

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Presented by: Nancy Poole, PhD, LLD (Hon), Director, Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health & Lindsay Wolfson, MPH, Manager, Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health

Check out this new Research Snapshot!

Changes in alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

Here is a sneak peek:

War and Gender-Based Violence: Implications for Social Work Education and Practice

November 10, 2021 @ 3:30pm-5:30 pm EST

Presented by: Nancy Reeves, BSW, MSW, RSW, PhDc

Have you ever wondered if immigrating to Canada impacts a person's gambling behavior? Or maybe you've asked yourself how systemic inequity has impacted gambling trends? Perhaps you've even wondered how gambling awareness programming can be tailored to fit the needs of a specific community?

ECHO Ontario Child and Youth Mental Health
Three-Part Special Interest ECHO Sessions

Gender Diversity: Information for Primary Care Providers

ECHO Ontario Child and Youth Mental Health
Three-Part Special Interest ECHO Sessions

Gender Diversity: Information for Primary Care Providers

The Centre for Excellence in Women's Health has launched a new Sex, Gender and Cannabis Hub. This hub aims to be Canada's resource for reliable and up-to-date information on sex and gender factors related to cannabis use.

Explore the Sex, Gender and Cannabis Hub here.

As the Women’s Health Research Chair in Mental Health for the Faculty of Health at York University, Dr. Nazilla Khanlou says gender-based violence didn’t start with the pandemic, but the pandemic has made it worse.

“The ripple effects are going to continue for a long time to come.” she says.

There is an urgent need to address the devastating losses associated with the current drug-poisoning emergency in Canada. To that end, our presenters undertook a concept mapping study to obtain the perspectives of service users on key elements of effective safer supply programs. The Substance Use and Addictions Program webinar will present a model of safer supply informed by people who use drugs and include recommendations for programmatic and systemic changes.

Thanks to the work of Dr. [@mention:372869809257853525], with funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and in collaboration with partners from CAMH, Addictions and Mental Health Ontario, the Jean Tweed Centre, and Support House's Centre for Innovation in Peer Support...

A number of new resources are available to help women with substance use concerns and those who work with them make choices about the use of digital health resources like apps and web-based support tools. 

Webinar: Sex, Gender and Cannabis Use

Hosted by the Cannabis Knowledge Exchange Hub presents

Date: October 13th, 2020,  1-2 p.m.  EDT

Register at:  https://bit.ly/2ZszncJ

This webinar will be presented in English with simultaneous interpretation in French. To participate in the French  presentation, register here: https://bit.ly/33ljfuu

To register for this free webinar, click here.

More information will be available soon. 

If you have questions, please contact the hosts at: facmed.registration@utoronto.ca