On-screen drinking drives viewers to the bottle, study finds - Globe and Mail article (url)

March 7, 2009

HEALTH: ALCOHOL: MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO

SHERYL UBELACKER

The Canadian Press

March 4, 2009

For the first time, researchers have shown that watching characters knock back a beer or quaff another alcoholic beverage in films, TV shows or advertisements can have an immediate effect on how much people imbibe.

A study by researchers in the Netherlands and Canada found that young males watching films and commercials that prominently featured alcohol drank twice as much beer or wine on average than those watching movies and TV ads in which booze was less evident.

 continued at 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090304.LBOOZE04/TPStory/?query=on-screen+drinking

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“What is the Fit between Mental Health, Mental Illness and Ontario’s Approach to Chronic Disease Prevention and Management?” CMHA, Ontario

at http://www.ohpe.ca/ebulletin/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10362&Itemid=78
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Resource Launch: Women’ Health Circles Handbook (Toronto)


 
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Toronto, Ontario
March 31, 2009

9:30-11:00 a.m.
Parliament Library, 269 Gerrard Street East (just west of Parliament), 2nd floor, Community Room

Are you a health or social service provider, community worker, policy maker or community member? Are you interested in conducting Women’s Health Circles in your community with women who experience marginalization?

Please join us for the launch of the Women’s Health Circles Handbook and the companion Key to Women’s Health: Stroke Resource Guide for Women’s Health Circles.

Women’s Health Circles are
    * Collective education forums for women: participants determine the health topics of discussion, engage with other women to learn from each other’s thoughts and experiences, ask questions of health and social service providers and learn about community resources.
    * + Learning spaces for health and social service professionals: health and social service professionals learn about the lived experiences of women to create more appropriate and sensitive care.

The Women’s Health Circles Handbook demonstrates approaches from three pilot sites to coordinating and conducting Health Circles and offers examples to help you meet the needs of women in your community.

The Key to Women’s Health: Stroke Resource Guide illustrates how to link discussions on the social determinants of health or other topics chosen by women attending Women’s Health Circles to the risk factors, signs and symptoms of stroke.

For more information please contact the Ontario Women’s Health Network at owhn@owhn.on.ca or (416) 408-4840.

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“Binge-fest”

 at http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/03/06/binge-fest.aspx

 

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crack use and homelessness forum - Toronto

November 21, 2008

**** please circulate to your networks ****

Please join us for a public forum to discuss the concerns and needs of
marginalized crack cocaine users in Toronto.

DATE: Friday, December 12th, 2008
TIME: 9:00 am to 11:00 am
PLACE: Toronto City Hall, Committee Room #2

The findings of a community-based survey of homeless adults in Toronto
about crack use, health and access to health care will be released at
this forum. The study, conducted by Street Health, revealed that
nearly half of homeless adults in Toronto report regular crack use.
The study presents a detailed picture of the difficult lives of
homeless people who use crack cocaine including findings on health
problems, social isolation and poor access to health care and shelter.

A panel of health care providers, researchers, community activists and
crack users will discuss the study recommendations for improving
services and supports for this stigmatized and marginalized group.

Please R.S.V.P. to Holly Kramer at torontoharmreduction@yahoo.ca.

This forum is being hosted by the Safer Crack Use Coalition of Toronto,
Street Health and the Toronto Harm Reduction Taskforce.

The Homelessness & Crack Use Research Bulletin #3 will be available at
the event and at www.streethealth.ca after December 12th.

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“What’s With Weed” (website)

November 11, 2008

at http://www.whatswithweed.ca/weed/

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a documentary about hoarding

November 8, 2008

see http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/framesofmind/my-mother’s-garden

 

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“When Hoarding Causes Suffering - What Works”

November 7, 2008

 

The Speaker 

Elaine Birchall, MSW, RSW 

Elaine Birchall is a Program Manager 

with Lanark Health and Community 

Services.  As the Social Worker and 

Community Developer with Ottawa 

Public Health for over six years she 

developed intensive knowledge and 

insight into Hoarding behaviour. 

During this time she worked 

closely with Dr. Randy Frost PhD 

and Dr. Gail Steketee PhD, leading 

international researchers and hoarding 

intervention experts. 

Elaine has facilitated numerous 

Hoarding workshops across Ontario 

and was a guest speaker and 

panel participant at the Obsessive 

Compulsive Foundation of America’s 

2002 conference held in Nashville 

Tennessee. 

 

Keynote Speaker: 

Elaine Birchall, MSW, RSW, Hoarding 

Specialist, a leader in the development 

of the Ottawa Community Response 

to Hoarding Coalition and Past Co- 

ordinator.  

You will get an in-depth 

understanding of: 

• What hoarding is and isn’t – a 

working defi nition 

• Hoarding vs. cluttering 

• Types of hoarding – what research 

tells us 

• Prevalence of common hoarding, 

Diogenes, animal hoarding 

• Characteristics of hoarding 

• Patterns of saving 

• What works? Motivating change 

• Hoarding cleanup interventions 

• Tools for intervention – eg. The 

“Three-and-a-Half-Box technique” 

• Relapse prevention 

• The Ottawa experience 

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Ottawa Blue Book of Community Resources (on-line url)

at http://www.cominfo-ottawa.org/English/Main.htm

 

 

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websites to help victims of bullying

September 3, 2008

www.bullyingincanada.ca (created by two youth who were bullied and has an interactive chat room)

www.bullying.org (created by Bill Belsey)

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