With support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, a new collaborative we have formed made up of the Krasman Centre, Gerstein Centre and Houselink Community Homes has been funded with a four-year grant to develop and coordinate a team of peer recovery educators to develop a series of wellness recovery education programs to their peers in order to support and advance employment and skills development. The project will cover South Simcoe County, York Region and the Greater Toronto Area.
We see our employment focus as educating/preparing the potential workforce of consumer/survivors or people with mental health labels/lived experience; strengthening the recovery-supporting abilities of the workforce; and supporting a culture shift for employers/organizations that is grounded in honouring and working from lived experience perspectives and disciplines such as peer support. All training will be free to participants.
Although we are not offering jobs, this program will offer the skills-training and knowledge that helps get jobs in a new and emerging field of service delivery, as well as transform the current helping system based on lived experience and the knowledge of service users.
If you are interested in participating in this exciting project, please take a look at our brochure and visit our online application form for details. Keep up-to-date by visiting our website at: www.cultureofrecovery.org.
Information sessions will be held in Toronto and in York Region on the following dates:
Wednesday September 1, 2010 6:30-7:30pm at Houselink, 805 Bloor St. West, Toronto FULL
Wednesday September 8, 2010 6:00-7:00pm at Krasman Centre, 10121 Yonge St., Richmond Hill FULL
Please let us know as soon as possible if you want to attend so that we can guarantee your space and send you up-dated information. Register for one of the upcoming information sessions by emailing your name, contact information, and any accommodations you require to e.carvalho@krasmancentre.com or by leaving a message at: 905-780-0491, ext. 125 or calling toll-free 1-888-780-0724
The application deadline is September 13th, 2010. Please help us spread the word about this exciting new education and training initiative!
Click here to complete the online application.
This forum is for stakeholders from across the city of Toronto, including consumer/survivors, family members, service providers, researchers, and LHIN representatives.
The morning will include:
- Descriptions of findings from focus groups with Caribbean,
- Somali and Tamil communities;
- Presentation of an enhanced model of recovery;
- A panel of service providers discussing implications for practice;
- Opportunity for participant dialogue.
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 9:00 am – 11:30 pm Location: Debates Room, Hart House 7 Hart House Circle (University of Toronto)
Space is limited. To register please send an email to Deqa Farah at: dfarah@crct.org or Call: 416 482-4103 ext. 223.
Is there ‘Hope for Recovery’?Every Door Is the Right Door is the Ontario government’s discussion paper on mental health reform. The paper speaks positively of the recovery approach, but the document is rather general and short on specifics. In the interest of clarity, we are holding a public forum that will shed more light on the future of the recovery approach in our province. Public hearings relating to the ‘Every Door’ discussion paper are underway; however, we believe it is necessary to have a focused dialogue on the future of recovery at the local, provincial and federal levels to ensure its coordinated implementation. This event includes formal presentations from government/policy representatives, who will address how they see the recovery approach being implemented in Ontario, followed by responses and questions from a panel of community discussants, and then a moderated discussion with the audience.
Speakers include: Allan Strong – Self-Help Alliance, OPDI (Keynote) Howard Chodos – Mental Health Commission of Canada David Kelly – ON Federation of Community Mental Health & Addiction Programs Jai Mills & Candy Williams – Central East LHIN, MoH Policy representative – TBA Toronto Central LHIN representative – TBA
Community Discussant Panel: Deqa Farah – Community Resource Connections of Toronto Karyn Baker – Family Outreach & Response Program Kate Storey – Centre for Building a Culture of Recovery
Wednesday December 9th, 1-4pm Debates Room, Hart House, U of T (7 Hart House Circle, near Hoskins and Queen’s Park Circle)
This event is organized by the Leadership Project, and the sponsors are Alternatives, Community Resource Connections of Toronto, and the Family Outreach and Response Program. For more information, contact, Brian McKinnon, 416-285-7996, ex. 227; bmckinnon@alternativestoronto.org
The Leadership Project and
International Network towards Alternatives and Recovery
present the
RECOVERY PSY”COZY”UM 2008
Community Revitalization through Mental Health Recovery
Wednesday, June 4th 2008
May Robinson Auditorium
20 West Lodge Avenue, Toronto – Ontario
For more psychosium information contact:
Brian McKinnon at bmckinnon@iprimus.ca or 416 285 7996 extension 227.
To Register, please download and fill-out the following form:
Recovery Education for Mainstream Service Providers: Building & Supporting Recovery Orientation for Clinical Services
The Culture of Recovery (www.cultureofrecovery.org) project advances an agenda for change to systems as well as for people experiencing mental health problems and substance abuse. The Culture of Recovery project intends to form a new set of values and principles consistent with a recovery perspective: autonomy and empowerment; building hope and living from a position of wellness not illness. Recovery Education for Mainstream Providers builds on investments in education for people in recovery and public education.
This workshop is intended for service providers working in the field of Mental Health and Addictions.
Please plan to attend this one day education session for Mainstream Providers who plan
for, lead/manage and deliver clinical services!
Where:
Elgin West Community Centre, Palisade B 11099 Bathurst Avenue, Richmond Hill (Ontario) (Bathurst Avenue, just north of Elgin Mills)
When:
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 10am-5pm Cost: $25.00 (light lunch provided)
To Register: Contact Tanya Shute: 905-780-0491, ext 114
Funded by the Culture of Recovery Project!Autonomy; choice; hope; wellness; empowerment
