Introduce Yourself!

Hi Jason!

I'm Stephanie, and as you know I'm a community manager here at EENet Connect as well. This online community seems like an exciting opportunity to bring together diverse stakeholders spread out across Ontario. So far it's simple and straightforward to use - I hope the other members feel the same!

Looking forward to hearing everyone's feedback.

Stephanie

Hi everyone!  I'm Keri West.  I'm a Knowledge Broker with Evidence Exchange Network at CAMH and I'm so pleased to be part of this wonderful community.  Looking forward to CONNECTing with you! 

Hi Everyone:

I am the Director of Knowledge Exchange at CAMH with the Provincial System Support Program. I keep myself busy by thinking about how to support connecting people from different backgrounds and roles in the system and supporting the use of evidence in decision making in Ontario. I am hopeful that this will support this goal!

HI Everyone;

I am a member of the Eenet steering committee, with  a long history of involvement stemming from the early days of OKANEN.  I am the SDI Co-Lead for Mental Health and Addicitons, and the Lead for the Aboriginal Strategy at the Central East LHIN.  We have a number of QI initiatives underway here, including our innovative H2H, (Hospital to Home Initative), ACTT VSM, Sched 1 CAT and Bed Registry and others.  CAMH is supporting a new Collaborative in the Durham area.

Hi!

I am the project manager for Portico, a Knowledge Exchange project, powered by CAMH and with generous funding from Bell, which aims to be the intersection of MH&A professionals, patients and the public. In knowledge exchange it's all about connections, I'm looking forward to seeing a whole range of networks develop and challenge each other and grow together.

Hello from London,

i am a Regional Implementation Coordinator with CAMH, based out of London, working on the Service Collaborative initiative in both London and Waterloo Wellington. I look forward to future chats!

Hi from London (the office beside Marla - see above) I too am a Regional Implementation Coordinator and look forward to chatting about anything addiction, mental health and service collaborative.

Hi everyone,

I work as the Manager of Knowledge Exchange with EENet, and I'm really excited to be a part of this community. I'm looking forward to seeing how the community grows and develops over time. I think there'll be lots of opportunities for online collaboration and discussion. Have a great day everyone!

Hello, everyone! I'm Heather Ennis, the communications manager at the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health. www.excellenceforchildandyouth.ca / www.excellencepourenfantsados.ca

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Hi everyone,

I'm MaryAnn Notarianni and I am a manager of knowledge exchange at the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health. I'm interested in how this community supports knowledge exchange and I look forward to connecting with new and familiar people in the forums and chats.

Hello, I'm a front line worker in Ottawa working with the STepdown from ACT program - Royal Ottawa MHC with interests in transitions and recovery which encourage clients, workers, leaders to engage with each other to discover "on the ground, real time" to use cute terms, approaches in recovery and community involvement.

Hello!  My name is Katherine Stewart.  I am a non-clinical OT in Thunder Bay.  My current role title is Psychosocial Rehabilitation Coordinator and my main focus is on supporting the transformation of an inpatient mental health rehabilitation program.  I am also on the board of PSR Ontario.  I am excited about this community and am looking forward to linking and collaborating with many people across Ontario.

Hello Everyone! I am Cam McTaggart, a frontline addictions counsellor at Rockhaven here in Sudbury. I coordinate the intake of bothmen at Rockhaven and our non funded level 2 facility next door called "Beyond the Rock" and keep a caseload of half a dozen of the guys. I sit on the volunteer selection committee for all housing requests to our local Canadian Mental Health Association including trasitional, permanent and supplemnets. This is our first foray into this type of endeavour and am looking to share contacts and experiences with our peers in Northwestern Ontario.

My name is Susan Morris and I work in the Dual Diagnosis Service at CAMH. I am interested in both the SISC and Justice forums and look forward to connecting through this new (for me) medium.

Hi folks

I'm Kathy Kilburn, in private consulting in health systems and structures related to substance use and mental health.

This is such a great initiative for sharing information, experience, and ideas--thanks to EENet for establishing it.

K

Hello everyone!

Glad we already have so many people signing up! This will be a great forum for us to discuss the Service Collaborative initiative and others across the province. As Senior Project Manager for the Systems Improvement through Service Collaboratives initiative I look forward to your input, comments and feedback.

Alexia

Hi everyone,

I'm Pauline Fogarty, Mental Health Coordinator at the Ontario Native Women's Association in Thunder BAy.  I work frontline with clients, primarily referrals, and host programming and workshops around the province of Ontario.

I am also a young adult team member for Mobilizing Minds: Pathways to Young Adult Mental Health, where I am part of the community partnership and social media teams.  

Pauline

Hi,

As an educator with the Durham District School Board, I work in a Section 23 program in the Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences. I work with clients (18 -21 years old - both inpatients and outpatients) who are learning about their illness by participating in groups offered through the CONTACT centre at Ontario Shores. My role is help students earn high school credits while they are learning to manage their mental illness.We offer a blended credit that allows students to earn high school credit for the work they are doing in their CONTACT groups.

I am a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Professor and Chair of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario-"Western".Clinically I work at both the Adolescent Unit at Regional Mental Health Care with an outreach team of nurses and a part time social worker in a very neat model of care that our youth enjoy because they have very little need for "office"visits.

I also have a presence in acute care at London Health Sciences Centre.Program development is one of my roles and I am specially interest in transitions at all developmental points along the early life trajectory:from infancy to early adulthood.Stage rather than age should dictate these transitions.

Another passion of mine is the illness journey and the voice of the person and their family with this experience.I am on the Provincial Management Committee for the AMS Phoenix Project whose goal is to re calibrate person centred compassionate care in health care delivery.This allows me o "marry"my interest in promoting the patient/family voice in the transformation of health care(physical and mental.....which don't separate very well anyway!