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This training is presented by CAAN Communities, Alliances & Networks and Dr. Peter Center

This is part 1 of a 2-part, Indigenous-led trauma informed Harm Reduction training. This training is part of the national project, The Canoe and is free to attend. The Canoe aims to bring relevant, non-stigmatizing, context specific harm reduction practices for rural and remote indigenous communities to the national stage.

The objective of The Canoe is to :

• increase capacity of harm reduction service providers to provide culturally safe and stigma-free harm reduction services to Indigenous people.
• improve the cultural safety and stigma-free nature of the harm reduction services offered.
• Scale up wise practices nationally for culturally relevant, non-stigmatizing initiatives to meet the needs of target populations.
• Increase context-specific resources for harm reduction services that serve target populations in rural and mid-sized communities.
• Increase access to more spaces where Indigenous people are meaningfully engaged in harm reduction services.
• Nationally elevate the voices of Indigenous people and people with lived and living experience (PLLE)in responses to the overdose crisis; and
• Support Indigenous and non-Indigenous harm reduction organizations to increase their capacity to deliver harm reduction services to their Indigenous clients.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Project Lead Cherese Reemaul at creemaul@drpeter.org

#Facilitator: Patrick Smith

The facilitator for this session is Patrick Smith: I am an Indigenous Male from the Tlingit , Kwaguluth , Qualicum bands with many relatives from Alaska to Chile. I have worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for 24 years for a wide variety of non profits and numerous depts in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and the First Nation Health Authority . I am the founder and former Executive Director of Culture Saves Lives: a low barrier cultural Center at One East Hastings in Vancouver BC. I was also instrumental in bringing the Managed Alcohol Program to Vancouver from Toronto.

This event is hosted by the Tamarack Institute.

Social connections are fundamental to build strong pathways that help individuals and communities move forward, particularly during moments of uncertainty. In these times of increasing social isolation and disconnection, community champions are demonstrating bold leadership and a commitment towards achieving more equitable futures for everyone. As we reflect on the leadership of community champions, we want to celebrate youth leaders who continue to mobilize their communities to build belonging and improve outcomes for youth.

Join this webinar for a conversation with a group of inspiring youth leaders from the Tamarack Institute's Communities Building Youth Futures movement to explore what belonging looks like from their perspectives, uncover the conditions that are needed to build authentic relationships and a sense of connectedness between youth and their community, and share lessons learned on how communities can foster belonging among youth.

#The Tamarack Institute's webinars are free of charge. 

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Presented by the National Newcomer Navigation Network.

#Description

In this webinar, participants will learn about the experiences of refugee claimant youth and their families with navigating healthcare in Canada, and hear about how participatory research methods and co-design can be used to collaboratively develop tools that are designed by youth, for youth, to improve access to care.

#Learning Objectives

1. Understand the experiences of healthcare navigation for refugee claimant youth and their families
2. Explore how co-design and participatory research can be used to develop interventions collaboratively
3. Share a youth-designed toolkit to help refugee claimant youth better access care in Canada

Artificial intelligence (AI) and related decision-support tools show remarkable potential for turning vast health care datasets into usable knowledge. This, in turn, can foster new ways of collaborating and inform how we plan and tailor comprehensive care for the clients and communities we serve. 

The EPIC Practice-Based Learning Network (PBLN), part of the Alliance’s EPIC Learning Health System, is exploring how to harness value from electronic medical record (EMR) data by developing an AI-enabled decision support tool for use in Community Health Centres (CHCs) across Ontario. 

In this webinar, we'll review Phase 1 of the project, describing key decisions and lessons learned throughout the initial six stages of work, which iterated between discussion- and data-based work to identify the best challenge to start to address with a decision support tool, and how to develop it in a way that is tailored to the unique context and needs of CHCs. Phase 1 ended with a decision to proceed with development of a prediction model to support diabetes and mental health care capacity planning and advocacy. While case studies in Phase 1 show potential value, there is still work to be done to get the tool “real world ready”. 

This webinar will introduce plans for Phase 2, highlighting outstanding questions related to development and envisioned use within CHCs, and present opportunities to provide additional input towards the in-development decision support tool. This input will be gathered through interactive webinar activities and through an invitation to participate in a more in-depth follow-up focus group discussion. 

#Learning Objectives 

1. To understand how EMR-based decision support tools fit into a learning health system framework. 
2. To describe key stages taken in the development of a decision support tool around diabetes and mental health care support. 
3. To draw connections between care-related experience and technical development decisions. 

#Speakers

Dr. Jacqueline (Jaky) Kueper | Senior Research Epidemiologist, Scripps Research Translational Institute Dr. Jaky Kueper is a Senior Research Epidemiologist at the Scripps Research Translational Institute and a NAPCRG Phillips Futures Fellow. In 2022, she completed the first ever interdisciplinary/double PhD in Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Computer Science at Western University. Among many other projects, she is currently facilitating the co-design of a decision support tool with the Alliance's EPIC Practice-Based Learning and Research Network.

Sara Bhatti | Research & Evaluation Lead, Alliance for Healthier Communities Sara Bhatti has worked at the Alliance for Healthier Communities since 2018, when she co-led the evaluation of Rx: Community, Canada's first Social Prescribing Program. Sara is now the Research & Policy Lead, working closely with our Director of Research and Evaluation on numerous projects that advance measurement and learning in our sector. She is currently working supporting the Alliance's EPIC Practice-Based Learning and Research Network alongside Dr. Jaky Kueper.