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Please join us at the CPRI Research Symposium, focusing on Current Evidence and Promising Practices for Complex Child and Youth Mental Health and Development on June 20th, 2024.

This hybrid event (hosted both in-person and virtually) will connect researchers, students, service providers, and policymakers to share strategies, findings, and experiences related to the following themes: 

• Beyond the Buzzwords: Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Action 
• Creating Safe Spaces: Supporting Families and Service Providers Using Trauma-Informed Approaches 

This symposium is ideal for audiences interested in children and youth with complex combinations of needs, including researchers, students, and those who work in allied health professions, medicine, education, justice, direct care, or policy. The symposium will include morning and afternoon plenary speaker sessions and workshop speaker panels, a lunch-hour research poster session, and networking opportunities. 

#About CPRI

The Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) is a tertiary service agency providing trauma-informed, highly specialized assessment, treatment, and targeted intervention provincially for children and youth with complex special needs. This includes children and youth with developmental disabilities, autism, and severe behavioural, emotional, and mental health challenges. CPRI also prioritizes research, program evaluation, and education related to serving and supporting this clinical population. To learn more about CPRI and our work, please visit our website: Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) | ontario.ca

 

#Overview

How can health promotion address the complex health problems of today and in the future?

Health Promotion Ontario (HPO) presents “Health Promotion - The Future is Bright”, a new webinar that will shine light on the value and relevance of health promotion in creating a robust and sustainable health system needed today. This webinar will focus on the “heart” of health promotion and the necessary practices to effectively prevent disease, promote wellness, and address inequities that lead to poor health outcomes.

Join our keynote speaker as they demonstrate how having a health promotion lens can bring invaluable insight to the complex solutions needed in today’s complex world. A health promotion approach can be applied to a variety of sectors, public or private, including healthcare, public health and social sciences.

You will also have the opportunities to ask questions during the Q&A panel.

#Learning Objectives

Through the webinar, attendees will:

• Understand the important and critical role that health promotion plays in preventing disease, injury, and poor health outcomes and the value it brings to reduce the burden on the healthcare system.
• Learn about the five components of health promotion action as set in the Ottawa Charter of Health Promotion.
• Explore the multifaceted array of knowledge, skills and abilities that are foundational to tackling today’s complex health issues.

Intended audience: undergraduate students, graduate students, and anyone interested in public health and health promotion. 

#Keynote Speaker: Andrea Bodkin

#Expertise

• Health promotion
• Capacity building
• Program design and implementation
• Partnership and collaboration

#Current work

Developing a new, six-module online health promotion course, designed to bring awareness of the value of health promotion and increase understanding of the foundational concepts.

 

This talk addresses the long-term impact of trauma on our way of being in the world and defines resilience as the human capacity to grow through adversity. This approach defies the separation between individuals and the social world, showing how we can all contribute to each other’s resilience and well-being. You will learn strategies for cultivating resilience in three areas: stress management and self-care, the quality of connection with others, and the support from one’s environment.

Presented by the National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4) 

#Learning objectives

• Understand the impact of trauma on your worldview and well-being
• Understand the factors that help build resilience through adversity
• Develop practices for stress management, self-care and compassion

#Presenter

• Dr. Bianca Briciu, Assistant Professor, School of Leadershiop, Ecology, and Equity, Saint Paul University

 

#About this webinar

The World Health Organization defines social prescribing as connecting people to a range of non-clinical services in the community to improve their health and well-being. It builds on the evidence that addressing social determinants of health, such as socioeconomic status, social inclusion, housing, and education, is key to improving health outcomes. But how can we use this healthcare approach in a public health setting?

Join this webinar to hear from experts in social prescribing and public health, who will discuss how social prescribing can be implemented within a public health context.

#Who should attend this webinar?

This webinar is intended for public health professionals and anyone wishing to explore social prescribing in a public health context.

#Learning objectives

In this webinar, you will explore:

• the research on social prescribing
• guidelines for using social prescribing
• what social prescribing looks like “on the ground”
• health equity considerations when implementing social prescribing

#The presenters

• Kiffer G. Card (he/him) is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and Scientific Director for the Canadian Alliance for Social Connection and Health. He received his training as a behavioural epidemiologist, social ecologist, and health services researcher. He leads research focused on multi-level, interdisciplinary public health responses to crises affecting mental health and wellness.
• Natasha Beaudin is a Social Prescribing Lead for the Alliance for Healthier Communities. She has worked in the Community Health Centre sector for almost 20 years, most recently as a health promoter at Centretown Community Health Centre in Ottawa. She has worked in food security, smoking cessation, stress reduction, and physical activity, and she leads the social prescribing project for her centre. She chaired the Health Promotion Network of Eastern Ontario for the past few years.
• Safiya Clarke-Mendes (she/her) is an Education and Learning Specialist at the Canadian Red Cross. Safiya is a passionate public health professional with expertise in design research methodologies. She has experience in health promotion and research across the public and private sectors in Canada and the Caribbean. Safiya has applied her skills to enable collaboration between diverse stakeholders to address various public health and systems issues, including sexual and reproductive health, chronic disease, and holistic health systems transformation. Taking an intersectional and anti-oppressive approach to research, Safiya works to break down complex health issues and their determinants into actionable insights that reflect community priorities and drive social innovation.

#About the organizers

This webinar is being presented by the Mental Health Promotion in Public Health Community of Practice, supported by the Evidence Exchange Network (EENet). The Community of Practice brings together public health practitioners from Ontario's 36 public health units working to promote mental health across the lifespan. Its purpose is to connect, share and explore evidence-informed practices and practice-informed evidence related to mental health promotion in public health.

EENet is part of the Knowledge Mobilization portfolio in the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s (CAMH) Provincial System Support Program (PSSP). EENet moves evidence to action to improve programming and inform policy change. Our team works closely with researchers, clinicians, policymakers, system planners, service providers, and people with lived experiences to mobilize knowledge and help people connect.