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This is the recording of the Webinar held on May 8, 2020. It focuses on the current state of peer support in Canada and provides an explanation of peer support versus peer navigators.
Objectives : Peer Support - Clarity and Commonalities
Presenter: Debbie Sesula, MA, RTC, CPS, CPSM is coordinator for North Shore Peer Support Program, North Vancouver, BC. She has over 20 years of experience in peer support in a wide range of roles. Debbie is a member of the Certification Committee and mentor for Peer Support Canada, and a member of the Hallway Group, Mental Health Commission of Canada. She is a recipient of the Consumer Involvement Award through Canadian Mental Health Association, the Courage to Come Back Award through Coast Mental Health and the Resiliency Award through Psychosocial Rehabilitation BC.
Caring for Our Carers was developed by LOFT Community Services as a critical component of the COVID19 pandemic response.
Heather McDonald, CEO of LOFT, an organizational member of PSR Canada is the presentor.
The strategy focuses on better understanding sources of anxiety and fear of staff, doing all that is possible to address concerns and protect staff from infection, and assuring staff that if they did become infected, LOFT would unreservedly support them.
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Are you working in an acute care setting? Are you walking with a person who is in an acute care setting? Do you find that it is difficult to get the recovery principles embraced by staff members who follow a medical model? Come and join us to hear about this research!
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Recovery-Oriented Environments in Acute Care Mental Health Settings
Contemporary mental health service provision has embraced the concept of recovery-oriented care. However, acute care mental health settings continue to follow the medical model. Psychiatric and mental health nurses were invited to participate in a research project to answer: What strategies and resources do psychiatric and mental health nurses identify as being most conducive to fostering a recovery-oriented acute care milieu or environment? A recovery-oriented milieu was described as a safe, peaceful, and holistic environment with adequate space to balance clients’ needs for privacy, interaction, and activity. This type of setting was described as being fostered through healthy relationships among team members, clients, family members, and formal supports. Psychiatric and mental health nurses have the knowledge, skill, and desire to promote recovery-oriented environments. Unfortunately, acute care settings have experienced decreased funding and supports required to fully achieve this description. Contemporary acute care mental health settings must revisit and re-implement the principles of a therapeutic milieu to promote recovery in these environments.
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Although most attention has been directed to the development of recovery oriented mental health services in the community, a mental health inpatient hospitalization can also be designed and implemented to be experienced as recovery promoting. The purpose of this webinar is to introduce participants to an evidence-informed approach to delivering and strengthening recovery-oriented practice in inpatient settings. The approach includes an in-patient specific recovery competency framework, assessment of the inpatient context, and a strengths-based approach to transfer recovery knowledge into daily practice and to enable interprofessional problem solving to address dilemmas frequently experienced in practice.
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Evaluate and prepare the mental health inpatient environment for delivery of recovery-oriented services
Improve knowledge and skills related to delivery of recovery-oriented services in the inpatient context
Interpret real-life dilemmas experienced in inpatient settings from a recovery perspective and apply tension-based practice to manage these dilemmas
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The recording of the webinar on June 19 2020 COVID 19: Not the new normal but a chance to change our response to mental illness
The COVID 19 pandemic has many people experiencing a level of uncertainty. Many people may be struggling with mental health challenges that they haven't previously, such as feelings of a lack of control, anxiety, trauma, powerlessness and grief. This webinar discusses how people with lived experience of mental illness, already learning to cope with a certain amount of uncertainty and fear, may be able to guide other individuals unaccustomed to these feelings. The webinar also discusses how this pandemic may also assist to break down the stigma associated with mental illness as more people learn to cope with mental health uncertainty due to COVID 19.
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Dr. Rachel Herron is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Brandon University and a Canada Research Chair in Rural and Remote Mental Health. She is also the founding Director of the Centre for Critical Studies of Rural Mental Health where she works with other researchers, students and community partners to develop community-based solutions to rural mental health needs. Her current research examines the vulnerability and complexity of relationships of care, social inclusion and meaningful engagement for people living with mental health problems, and the diversity of lived experiences of rural mental health.
Candice Waddell is a Registered Psychiatric Nurse and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatric Nursing at Brandon University and a founding member of the Centre for Critical Studies of Rural Mental Health. Her research interests include: improving mental health and social equity in marginalized populations; the influence off gender on mental health and wellness; culturally sensitive mental health practice; and the lived experiences of individuals with mental illness, mental health concerns and trauma histories.
Richard Whitfield has been a mental health advocate in Manitoba for many years. His lived experience with mental illness has provided insight and understanding to numerous groups and individuals. Recently retired from a life-long career in both private industry and the Government of Manitoba, Richard is now focusing his energy on peer support and outreach to the community, as well as development of community resources. Richard is currently a Community Affiliate with the Centre for Critical Studies of Rural Mental Health
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Although most attention has been directed to the development of recovery oriented mental health services in the community, a mental health inpatient hospitalization can also be designed and implemented to be experienced as recovery promoting. The purpose of this webinar is to introduce participants to an evidence-informed approach to delivering and strengthening recovery-oriented practice in inpatient settings. The approach includes an in-patient specific recovery competency framework, assessment of the inpatient context, and a strengths-based approach to transfer recovery knowledge into daily practice and to enable interprofessional problem solving to address dilemmas frequently experienced in practice.
Objectives :
Evaluate and prepare the mental health inpatient environment for delivery of recovery-oriented services
Improve knowledge and skills related to delivery of recovery-oriented services in the inpatient context
Interpret real-life dilemmas experienced in inpatient settings from a recovery perspective and apply tension-based practice to manage these dilemmas
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In this period of Covid-19 we have been starkly reminded that hope is fundamental to life itself and to living a meaningful life in society. "Hope is a part of everyone’s life. Everyone hopes for something. It’s an inherent part of being a human being. Hope helps us define what we want in our futures and is part of the self-narrative about our lives we all have running inside our minds."Longtime mental health advocate and practitioner Chris Summerville, the CEO of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada, explores the concept of hope and howdemonstrating an understanding of the central role of hope in PSR and recovery is foundational to your work.
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Hope is a central philosophy in psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery. Wondering how PSR and Recovery are aligned?
Do you walk with people who have experienced intimate partner violence and have suffered brain injuries? They may have experienced mental health and/or addictions issues.
Very little awareness surrounds IPV-related brain injuries and many first responders, health practitioners, family members and survivors, mistaking brain injury symptoms for other sources such as substance use or emotional distress brought on by the abuse.
The Brain Injury Association of Waterloo- Wellington offers a community outreach program led by IPV Specialist, Christina Hennelly that specifically addresses this intersection and offers mitigating strategies to help reduce brain injury symptoms when working with these individuals.
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In this webinar Christina provides us with information on these issues which we may encounter.
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