CPHA’s Normalizing Conversations project team has partnered with CAPSA to develop a workshop titled “Challenging Structural Substance Use Stigma” for health and social service providers. Over the last few months, CPHA and CAPSA have worked with community partners across Canada to pilot this workshop online. We are excited to invite those in the Ottawa area to attend our first in-person session!
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Challenging Structural Substance Use Stigma In Person Pilot Workshop
Event Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 09:00Event Type: Learning EventsInternal/External: Community EventTime: 9am - 4pmCost: FreeEvent description: -
Office Hours: Support for your Community Health & Wellbeing Week planning
Event Date: Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 12:00Event Type: CHWW/CHWMInternal/External: Alliance EventTime: 12-1 pmCost: FreeEvent description:Are you looking for support with your organization's Community Health & Wellbeing Week activities? Want to bounce some ideas off someone or ask a question? New to all this and want to understand what the Week is all about?
We've got you! Drop into our Zoom Room on September 14 between 12:00 and 1:00 pm.
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8th Annual Privacy Officers’ PLE - VIRTUAL
Event Date: Monday, September 11, 2023 - 17:15Event Type: Learning EventsInternal/External: Alliance EventTime: 9:00 amCost: Please check the registration linkEvent description: -
Citizen-backed evidence – Engaging citizens in providing evidence synthesis and support
Event Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2023 - 08:30Event Type: Learning EventsInternal/External: Community EventTime: 8:30 am - 9:30 amCost: FreeEvent description:Imagine that citizens had the opportunity to work in partnership with the very groups that government policymakers, organizational leaders and professionals rely on for evidence synthesis and support. Join our August 30 webinar as we examine ways of engaging citizens in evidence synthesis and support, with examples drawn from around the globe.
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Research Spotlight Webinar: Women’s experiences in injectable opioid agonist treatment programs in Vancouver, Canada
Event Date: Monday, August 21, 2023 - 15:00Event Type: Learning EventsInternal/External: Community EventTime: 3:00 - 4:00 pmCost: FreeEvent description:How do social and structural factors impact women’s engagement with Injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT)? Guest presenters Samara Mayer and Jules Chapman will draw from a qualitative study of iOAT programs in Vancouver to explore this question. Presented by the National Safer Supply Community of Practice.
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Promoting Vaginal Health to Reduce Risk of HIV in ACB WomXn
Event Date: Friday, August 18, 2023 - 10:00Event Type: Learning EventsInternal/External: Community EventTime: 10 am - 2 pmCost: FreeEvent description:
Event poster #Let's Talk About it: Vaginal Health
This KTE will inform on certain bacteria that may impact vaginal health and report on related cutting edge research.
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OSSU 2023 Annual Research Day
Event Date: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - 15:15Event Type: Learning EventsInternal/External: Community EventTime: 9:00 am - 3:00 pmCost: FreeEvent description:The day will highlight what is new in data access, hear further conversations around how Ontario continues to navigate within a learning health system and hear a patient experience panel share their thoughts.
This is a hybrid online/in-person event. The in-person component has reached capacity and registration for it has been closed. Registration for the online component is open at the link below.
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PxP: For patients, by Patients
Event Date: Saturday, August 12, 2023 - 09:00Event Type:Internal/External:Time: September 12 - 14, times vary by dayCost: FreeEvent description:PxP is a brand new conference about patient engagement, led and designed by patients, specifically for patients. Unlike other patient engagement resources, which are designed primarily for researchers, this one is tailored for patient partners and other individuals with lived experience. Researchers are also welcome to attend!
Check out the online PxP Resource Hub online hub or sign up for the PxP newsletter for more patient-developed resources about patient engagement.
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Service Providers Workshop Series on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
Event Date: Friday, August 4, 2023 - 09:45Event Type:Internal/External:Time: 9:45 am - 12:30 pm, weekly from August 4 through 25Event description:Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is recognized internationally as a human rights violation and a form of gender-based violence. Over 200 million women and girls globally have undergone some form of FGM/C, and it is estimated that over 100 thousand reside in Canada.
Service providers play a key role in ensuring survivors receive the proper care that addresses their unique physical and mental health needs, but many are inadequately equipped to provide culturally appropriate, sensitive, respectful and dignified care.
This 4-part hybrid workshop series aims to strengthen health, social and community service providers' knowledge about FGM/C and the provision of quality care to survivors.
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Gender Identity, Sexual Diversity and Health Equity in Public Health
Event Date: Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 13:00Event Type: Learning EventsInternal/External: Community EventTime: 1:00 - 2:30 pmCost: FreeEvent description:This webinar, presented by the National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health, will feature a panel of experts who are working in the 2SLGBTQI+ space to support community and public health action on inequities related to gender and sexual identity. This webinar will review foundational concepts and practical applications to support the Canadian public health.
This webinar will be of interest to anybody looking to build individual and organizational capacity to improve health inequities for 2SLGBTQI+ populations, including health practitioners, professionals, policy makers and decision makers, instructors and educators, students and researchers and service providers.