Date and Time
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June 23 2020 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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Location
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Live on Rogers TV and streamed on www.rogerstv.com\midland
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Description
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Long before COVID-19 landed on our doorstep, an existing crisis continued to threaten the Healthcare system, the ever-increasing number of people struggling with mental illness and addictions takes a devastating toll on available resources throughout the region.
The panelists will provide insight into the support that is available for the most vulnerable in our community and how these services are evolving to be even more effective in the future.
This event will be broadcast live on Rogers TV channel 53 and streamed on www.rogerstv.com\midland.
SPEAKER BIOS:
Dave Webster is the CEO and CFO of Baytech Plastics, located on Elizabeth Street in Midland and has held this position for the last 11 years. He has lived in the Midland area for over 40 years. Dave will openly talk about his gut wrenching experiences with mental health, from a personal, family and business perspective.
In addition to his activities in the demanding business world, Dave has also been involved with many local organizations, including our hospitals (Penetanguishene General, Huronia District and Georgian Bay General), Wendat (finance committee and fundraising activities) and his church (Covenant Church, Penetanguishene).
Dave completed his undergraduate training at the University of Waterloo and obtained his Certified Professional Accountant degrees in Toronto and at the University of Illinois.
Dave shares his story as a person who spent the first 38 years of his life preparing for and becoming a young family man with a successful business career. He married a teacher and his high school sweetheart, Doris, from Penetanguishene Secondary School. In 1989 they had four boys aged 7 to 12, when a serious mental illness struck. Dave got so depressed that he attempted suicide. After 5 weeks in Huronia District Hospital and then 4 weeks in Homewood, a mental hospital in Guelph, Dave gradually recovered. He has spent the last 30 years attempting to help others with similar issues. However, 6 years ago, an unthinkable tragedy happened. One of his four sons was also tortured by depression, but unlike his father was unable to find a concoction of medications that would spare him the agony of chronic depression.
Jeff Graham has been the Community Health Worker at Chigamik Community Health Centre for almost 10 years. He provides community outreach, support and System Navigation to individuals and families in the communities Chigamik serves. He also coordinates Chigamik’s Harm Reduction Program as a Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit Exchange Works Partner. He facilitates The Quit Café Smoking Cessation Group and is Chigamik’s Mental Health and Addictions Counselling Intake Coordinator.
He is a graduate of Victoria Harbour Public School, Midland Secondary School and Canadian Career College Addictions Program. Jeff was part of the original team that designed developed and implemented the Simcoe Outreach Services, Town of Midland Street Outreach Pilot Program. Following this, he was part of the Salvation Army Street Outreach Program. He is also a member of several local organizations that are responsible for planning and oversight of community mental health services.
Jeff is a husband, father of three and grandfather of 4. He has lived, worked, and raised his family in the communities he now serves.
Dr. Laurie Wells is a Family physician with a mental health care practice at Wendat Community Programs. She is also the lead for the Outpatient Metabolic Program at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care. Her research at Waypoint looks at interventions to reduce metabolic syndrome and improve mental health.
Laurie trained at McMaster University and spent 15 years in Dundas in primary care: baby deliveries, office and hospital care, home visits, palliative care, psychotherapy, research, teaching and developing the computerization of health records. She took further training in Psychotherapy from McMaster and more recently, completed courses in Mindfulness and Mindfulness Meditation primarily through the University of Toronto.
Laurie and her daughter moved to this area in 2004. She has been engaged in work with First Nations people, health promotion at local high schools, teaching workshops from the Institute of Health Care Communication and health promotion through our LHIN.
She is grateful for her cherished daughter obtaining an excellent francophone education in Penetanguishene and for Indigenous Teachings to make canoe paddles and a birch bark canoe. Laurie has a love of remote river canoe travel.
Dr. Nadiya Sunderji was appointed Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care in 2019. She came to Waypoint from St. Michael’s Hospital where she served as the Medical Director, Quality, Mental Health and Addictions Service, a consulting psychiatrist with the Academic Family Health Team, a psychiatrist in the Mental Health and Addictions Service and an Associate Scientist at the Hospital’s Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.
Nadiya earned her Medical Degree from the University of Western Ontario and completed her residency in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto in 2008. In addition, she completed a Master of Public Health, with a Certificate in Quality, Patient Safety, and Outcomes Research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She holds an Associate Professorship in the division of Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems at the U of T.
She has been conducting research and quality improvement to implement integrated and collaborative mental health care in primary care settings. She has lectured internationally and is the author and co-author of numerous publications focused on integrated care.
Nadiya and her partner (Scott) and dog (Chloe) have greatly enjoyed their relocation to Tiny. They are embracing the outdoors, and Nadiya has even started a vegetable garden.
Keith Rose has spearheaded the “Our Health” series since its inception in 2016. He moderates individual events and chairs the Advisory Committee. He is a retired physician who was a family doc in Midland in the 70’s. He returned to Toronto for specialty training in anesthesia and held academic, clinical and administrative positions at St. Michael’s Hospital, North York General and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Post retirement (2013) he lives in Tiny. His favorite pastimes include visits with his 17-year-old and 7-month-old grandsons.
Contact information and Crisis Help Numbers:
• If you need advice, one of our speakers suggested that you should reach out to a trusted friend, caregiver, colleague or family member to discuss the issues. • The 2-1-1 HELPLINE is also a valuable and free resource, a "safety net" for non-emergency issues. This service is open 24-hour a day and information is confidential. Trained operators (Navigators) help callers connect with specialized services or counselors regarding a wide variety of life-challenging issues including mental health services, housing and food.
• If the situation is urgent call the Simcoe County Mental Health Crisis Line, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, (705) 728 5044 or 1 (888) 893 8333 or the Kids Help Line 1-800-668-6868.
Next Event: September 2020, LIVE and ONLINE, “WORLD of my BABY” Learn about babies, with a focus on the newborn to six month stages. All parents, grandparents, caregivers and future parents and grandparents are invited.
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