META|PHI 2023 Conference Chair, Dr. Jennifer Wyman, is pleased to announce that META|PHI Virtual Conference 2023 is open for registration! If you are unfamiliar with META|PHI, it is a provincial ... Read more

LivingWorks safeTALK is a four-hour face-to-face workshop featuring powerful presentations, audiovisuals, and skills practice. At a LivingWorks safeTALK workshop, you'll learn how to prevent suicide by recognizing signs, engaging someone, and connecting ... Read more

Who should attend:People who are supporting adults who have a developmental disability and/or dualdiagnosis and are interested in increasing their skills and knowledge.The outcomes for ESR are: There is no ... Read more

This workshop will explore ideas about challenging behaviour among children and young persons in care. Direct care staff, such as child and youth care practitioners, group home staff and foster ... Read more

Join this webinar to learn about different approaches to collecting data at the system level in Housing First programs. You will hear from experts and practitioners in Canada and Europe, ... Read more

Most refugees experience difficult and traumatic events in their pre migration context and their response to these trauma may vary. However, as service providers we often assume that any and ... Read more

Presenters Michael Hollander and Janna Hobbs will provide an overview of self-injury and the functions it may serve for someone who self-injures. They will also provide strategies for families members ... Read more

This training will introduce participants to understanding concurrent disorders and youth substance use, exploring reasons why youth use substances to better facilitate engagement and interventions. Participants will have opportunities to ... Read more

We're still dealing with the aftermath of the pandemic, in which our world completely changed. Three years in which the need for mental health care exploded. Three years in which ... Read more

The focus of the training will be to examine how the principles of trauma-informed practice apply in the supervisory context.  The course will examine approaches to supervision and performance reviews, ... Read more

Robin Cuff: is a registered psychotherapist, with education and training that spans the fields of addictions/concurrent disorders, business/human resources, counselling, trauma, and spiritual care. She is a faculty member of the William Glasser Institute of Choice Theory and Lead Management. She is the manager of the Toronto Drug Treatment Court program, in addition to other ... Read more

Understand the difference between compassion fatigue, burn out, and vicarious trauma. In this workshop, participants learn practical strategies for self reflection, selfcare, and work through a personalized action plan to manage the effects of their own compassion fatigue, while inspiring meaningful changes in their lives. Register at tammywhelen@gmail.com

At Frayme, we deeply value the voices of survivors and aim to ensure meaningful decolonization among youth mental health and substance use organizations. For this reason, we have set out to amplify the stories of organizations working to decolonize services by embracing Two-Eyed Seeing and launching the Great Big Stories (GBS): Two-Eyed Seeing Grant Program. ... Read more

Case management plays a vital role in the helping professions, ensuring that service users receive the necessary services and access to the right resources to meet their unique needs and overcome challenges. This workshop is designed to equip people who work in the social services sector with essential skills and knowledge to effectively support service ... Read more

Attendees will: 1. Learn the basics of Primary Health Care provision with People Who Use Drugs (PWUD); 2. Learn about the developmental and neurobiological origins of problematic substance use; 3. Learn about the basic principles and applications of Harm Reduction in health care settings; 4. Gain an understanding of how Trauma-informed Care principles support the ... Read more

Working with hard to engage clients can be frustrating and challenging, even for seasoned clinicians. The challenge of working with younger clients in therapy can be further compounded by their fear of entering therapy, lack of control over the decision to attend therapy, feeling of being scapegoated for family problems, lack of motivation for treatment, ... Read more

In this training, participants will engage in a conversation about race-based historical trauma of Black & Indigenous communities, as well as the trauma responses and characteristics present among caregivers. We will also learn about the 3 processes in which ITT is transmitted to the next generation, educate ourselves on a few longitudinal studies that helped ... Read more

Did you know that self-harm impacts 14% to 39% of youth? In this advanced course clinicians will grow their understanding of effective interventions for youth who self-harm. Self harm is the result of an inability to cope in healthy ways with psychological pain. Youth may be struggling with feelings of worthlessness, loneliness, panic, anger, shame, ... Read more

Intergenerational trauma continues to manifest and to be evident in our First Nation communities, and in Indigenous peoples and families despite not directly experiencing the trauma. This trauma, passed down, and in some cases, layered with the individual’s own trauma experiences, has a compounding effect on the individual/families and their wellbeing.   With timely and ... Read more

Children and adolescents often present in confusing, inconsistent ways. They may struggle with emotional and behavioural dysregulation. Young people frequently respond poorly to non-specific treatment. They may have multiple diagnoses or be prescribed multiple medications, without consistent, positive results. Sometimes these children present as highly achieving, success oriented young people who are seen as “remarkably ... Read more