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Indigenous Perspectives on the Mental Health of Children and Youth Events

We must consistently ask ourselves if our practices are appropriate for the Indigenous communities we work with. While strengths-based, anti-oppressive and evidence-based models may appear to be beneficial, these are Western models based on worldviews that may not be shared by Indigenous Peoples.

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CICMH Webinar: Just Get Over It: An Indigenous-led Approach to Learning about Colonialism Events

In this webinar, we will be joined by Dr. Dawn Lavell Harvard and Anjeni Lovelady from Trent University to introduce the Just Get Over It (JGOI) exercise that the First Peoples House of Learning developed. The JGOI is an experiential learning opportunity that allows participants to learn and understand the timeline of colonialism in Canada and its effects on Indigenous peoples across the country.

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In Between the Missing and Murdered: The Need for Indigenous Led Responses to Human Trafficking Events

Indigenous girls, two-spirit and trans women are the most vulnerable population for human sex trafficking, they access mainstream services the least, and present with the most complex trauma and life circumstances.

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Grassroots Voices: Black and Indigenous Experiences of the Child Welfare System Events

We’re excited to partner with our friends at the Youth Opportunities Fund at Ontario Trillium Foundation on a dialogue that centres Black and Indigenous lived and navigational experiences of the child welfare system!

How are grassroots communities organizing to tackle issues most prominent in the child welfare system? What are the challenges and opportunities they are experiencing?

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CICMH Webinar: Indigenizing Mental Health Care Within the Post-Secondary Setting Events

In this webinar, we are joined by Tyler Twarowski of CMHA-Cochrane Timiskaming on what decolonizing and Indigenizing mental health care can look like within the post-secondary context. Informed by his current PhD work, profession and his Métis heritage, Tyler will discuss key elements of Indigenous worldview that could be incorporated into services and programs and how this would benefit Indigenous and non-Indigenous students alike.

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From Wisdom to Treatment: Elder-Led Programming in Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Services Events

Join us on July 11, 2023 at 12 PM ET for a free webinar on integrating Elders in youth mental health and substance use programming: Research has shown how incorporating Elders into mental health programming can help indigenous people in reclaiming their cultural identity and reconnecting with their past.

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Webinar: From Wisdom to Treatment - Elder-led programming in youth mental health and substance use services Events

Join on July 11, 2023 at 12 – 1:15 PM ET for a free webinar on integrating Elders in youth mental health and substance use programming: Research has shown how incorporating Elders into mental health programming can help indigenous people in reclaiming their cultural identity and reconnecting with their past.

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Virtual Conference: Dialogue to Action – Registration now open Events

Registration is now open for the Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health (CICMH) virtual conference,Dialogue to Action.

The conference will be hosted virtually on Wednesday, November 1, 2023.

The conference will offer 25 workshops featuring best, promising and emerging practices in the sector.

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LUNCH & LEARN ~ Race-Based Data Collection Events

It was 3-Years ago yesterday that George Floyd’s public murder disrupted the status quo of racial inequity, causing organizations, institutions, and associations in Canada, the United States, and every continent of the world to acknowledge the need for change.
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Two-Spirit People Indigenous Knowledge Building Events

Two-Spirit People Indigenous Knowledge Building

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET

Presented by: Amy Smoke

This course will engage you in exploring traditional and modern roles and responsibilities of Two-Spirit people. The course will guide you through Two-Spirit Indigenous ways of knowing and being while also addressing the severe impact colonization has on Two- Spirit people.

Presented by: Amy Smoke

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Indigenous Expressive Arts in Practice Events

Indigenous Expressive Arts in Practice

March 14, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. ET

Presented by: Lori Flinders-McMillan, MSW/RSW, CFNHM

This webinar will explore the importance of spirit-driven arts, such as drumming and traditional medicine making, into practice..

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Black and Indigenous Solidarity Events

Black and Indigenous Solidarity

February 27, 2023 @ 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Giselle Dias and Viviane Saleh-Hanna

This webinar explores how to build and sustain pathways and strategies into Black and Indigenous solidarity towards collective freedom on Turtle Island, through African Diaspora, within local and global contexts.

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Beyond 'Getting Educated': Real Responses to the Calls to Action Events

Beyond 'Getting Educated': Real Responses to the Calls to Action

February 8, 2023 @ 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Jennifer Poole

So, you took some webinars, you're reading and reflecting, but you are still not actually responding to the TRC and the MMIWG report. And your agency/program/institution still feels pretty colonial. This seminar specifically focuses on action in reconciliation work and what that could mean in multiple social work spaces.

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CICMH Webinar: Evaluating Indigenous Needs on Ontario Post-Secondary Campuses Events

In this webinar, we invite Megan VanEvery, Indigenous Post-Secondary Knowledge and Research Lead at CICMH, to present the results of the Centre’s recent needs assessment for Indigenous staff and students in Ontario. Come hear about the barriers facing Indigenous students in accessing mental health services, Indigenous-specific mental health supports available on campus, as well as student and staff perspectives on how services can be improved. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer period.

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