policy and strategy

Webinar: Advancing Housing First in Canada: Policy, Practice and Research Recommendations Events
Join this webinar to hear a presentation about the learnings and insights from the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s (MHCC) recent in-person workshop, Housing First—What’s Next? This workshop featured expert panels and interactive discussions and focused on advancing Housing First in Canada. The aim of the event was to generate policy, practice, and research recommendations.
Building on this webinar presentation, a panel of experts will discuss Housing First successes, challenges and opportunities in the Canadian context.

CAMH’s Gambling Policy Framework: A Public Health Approach to Problem Gambling Events
This webinar will explore CAMH’s Gambling Policy Framework, which advocates for a public health approach to problem gambling. The public health approach focuses on addressing the broader context gambling takes place in, with the goal of modifying environmental factors to reduce risk of gambling-related harms. We will contrast this approach with the responsible gambling model, which focuses on individual characteristics that increase risk and providing tools for safer gambling behaviors.

META:PHI Conference: April 4–5, 2025 Call for Abstracts Forum topic
META:PHI is excited to announce that they are inviting abstract submissions for their 2025 conference! This year’s conference will again be entirely virtual, with two days of interactive learning for clinicians, community workers, administrators, researchers, learners, community members, and advocates. The theme of this year’s conference is Substance use health is community health.

Assessing and addressing the hidden crime of stalking: Implications for coercive control Events
Join the Waypoint Research Institute for the third and final session of our Waypoint Talks Coercive Control series, supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This session will be hosted by Dr. TK Logan, a Professor in the Department of Behavioural Science at the University of Kentucky, and will explore what stalking is, why it matters, and a tool that has been developed to help those being stalked. A certificate of attendance will be provided to participants upon request following the session.

Improving prediction of intimate partner violence by identifying coercive controlling behaviours in police reports Events
Join the Waypoint Research Institute for the second session of our Waypoint Talks Coercive Control series, supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This session will be hosted by Dr.

Responding to coercive control in the UK: What have we learned? Events
Join the Waypoint Research Institute for the first session of our Waypoint Talks Coercive Control series, supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This session will be hosted by Dr. Amanda Robinson, Professor of Criminology from Cardiff University, and will explore how the criminalization of coercive control in the UK has impacted policy, practice, and service delivery. A certificate of attendance will be provided to participants upon request following the session.

Call for study participants: Improving Mandated Community Treatment for Mental Illness through Inter-sectoral Collaboration. Forum topic
This research project follows up on the work of Fiona Jager https://www.stlawrencecollege.ca/programs/school-of-baccalaureate-nursing-faculty-profiles on Community Treatment Orders -CTO’s, where she examined the experience of CTO’s from an on the ground perspective.

Webinar: Older People and Health Issues – What Are the Benefits and the Challenges of Housing First Programmes? Events
About this Webinar
On May 22 from 5:00-6:00 a.m. EDT, join a webinar on ‘Older People and Health Issues – What Are the Benefits and the Challenges of Housing First Programmes?’.
Juha Kahila, chair of the Housing First Europe Hub Community of Practice for Housing First managers and Head of International Affairs at Y-Säätiö, moderates this webinar.
During this engaging session:

Creator of Housing First Model – Sam Tsemberis – on the Time list of Most Influential People of 2024 Forum topic
The creator of the Housing First Model, Sam Tsemberis, has been named as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2024.

Fentanyl Drug Test Strips Education Video Forum topic
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Spring webinars: Housing First in the Netherlands and Italy Events
About the Webinars
Sign up to watch two free webinars about homelessness, Housing First and systems change, in two different national contexts:
Housing First as a System Approach: What Does This Require from the Netherlands?
Date: April 4, 6:00 - 7:00 am EDT (CET: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; GMT: 10:00 - 11:00 am)
Featuring Anke Jansen, co-founder and CEO of Housing First Netherlands. Arturo Coego, Coordinator of the Housing First Europe Hub, will moderate.

Spring webinars: Housing First in the Netherlands and Italy Events
About the Webinars
Sign up to watch two free webinars about homelessness, Housing First and systems change, in two different national contexts:
Housing First as a System Approach: What Does This Require from the Netherlands?
Date: April 4, 6:00 - 7:00 am EDT (CET: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; GMT: 10:00 - 11:00 am)
Featuring Anke Jansen, co-founder and CEO of Housing First Netherlands. Arturo Coego, Coordinator of the Housing First Europe Hub, will moderate.

FREE Webinar - Improving health outcomes related to tobacco use Events
Free registration here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webina...vk8m2lSlm-E-ZeYEu6Sg