Level One Core QoC Workshop Series

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Dates

Part One: Friday, November 12, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
Part Two: Friday, November 19, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
Part Three: Friday, November 26, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Location

Hosted via Zoom. Participants will be able to attend online or call in over the phone.

The RNAO Addressing Substance Use Level 2 Virtual Workshop consists of 2 sessions, each being 2 hours in length use the Zoom platform; these live sessions must be completed in sequential order by Novmeber 25, 2021 in order for you to become a Mental Health Champion and receive your Champion's certificate. 

Workshop prerequisite:  Completion of Mental Health and Addiction Level 1 workshop or the Engaging Clients Who Use Substances e-learning at https://elearning.rnao.ca/ (Under Addiction and Mental Health)

Learn the skill of mindful living in a small group setting!

Starting, Sept. 1, we are gathering for 8 consecutive weeks, each Wednesday at 8:30PM, to learn and practice mindfulness. This course will be facilitated by our experienced instructor and strong meditator, Lou Carcasole – P. Eng., MBA, M. Ed.

Level One Core QoC Workshop Series

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Dates

Part One: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 | 1:00-3:00 PM EST
Part Two: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 | 1:00-3:00 PM EST
Part Three: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | 1:00-3:00 PM EST

Location

Hosted via Zoom. Participants will be able to attend online or call in over the phone.

Course Description

Direct Registration Link: https://teach.camhx.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=66

Level One Core QoC Workshop Series

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Dates

Part One: Thursday,  January 13, 2022 | 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Part Two: Thursday, January 20, 2022 | 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Part Three: Thursday, January 27,  2022 | 4:30-6:30  PM EST

Location

Hosted via Zoom. Participants will be able to attend online or call in over the phone.

Course Description

You’re invited for EHN Canada’s next educational webinar:

Managing Acute Opioid Withdrawal

With Dr. Speranza Dolgetta, MD, PhD, CCFP, Medical Director, Bellwood Health Services

Behavioural and technical competencies describe the necessary behaviours, skills and knowledge required for both regulated and unregulated professionals who work with people who use substances.

Substance use and emotion regulation in youth

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute as part of our Summer Sprints Microlearning series

This interactive webinar will offer a practical and evidence-based introduction to Congruence Couples Therapy (CCT). CCT is a humanistic, systemic, trauma-informed approach that utilizes the couple relationship as a resource to create significant clinical outcomes for addiction and mental health. It offers a conceptual shift away from focusing solely on the individual and symptom reduction to address the complex and relational issues that often underlie gambling and addictive disorders.

You’re invited for our next educational webinar:

Pharmacology of Alcohol Use Disorder

With Dr. Tim Ayas MD FRCPC CCFP MPH BSc

Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Calgary

Psychiatrist, EHN Sandstone

Check out this new Promising Practice!

Gerstein Crisis Centre: Mobile Crisis Team

Here is a sneak peek:

A courageous story of drug addiction and recovery before, during and after participation in a Drug Treatment Court program.

This is a story told by Paulette Walker, a person with lived experience. A story about addiction, sobriety, hope and the resilience of the human spirit. The perils of addiction. The hope of sobriety. How one courageous individual engaged in drug addiction treatment, how she has maintained her sobriety and how she has worked in a drug treatment court to help others engage in treatment towards achieving and maintaining sobriety.

What you need to know

Drug prohibition (i.e., the banning of drugs) and criminalization (i.e., making using, selling or having drugs illegal) is costly and ineffective. It is time for these failed policies to end and to invest in the most heavily affected racialized communities.

Pandemic-related stress is having a greater impact on people, especially women, living in households with young children, a

Public Health 2021 is the national conference where public health professionals, researchers, policy-makers, academics, students and trainees come together to strengthen efforts to improve health and well-being, to share the latest research and information, to promote best practices and to advocate for public health issues and policies grounded in research.

The Steering Committee invites oral and poster abstracts, didactic symposia and interactive workshop submissions to be presented 6-8 October 2021.