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2005 World Mental Health Day Forum...


 


Program

Moderator: Ben Chin
9:00-9:30 a.m.

Welcome
Anne Sado
President, George Brown College

Opening Remarks
Senator Vivienne Poy

Kathleen Wynne, MPP

9:30-10:00 Dr. Jasmine Zine
Re-Thinking Cultural Competency from an Integrative Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression Framework
10:00-10:30 Dr. Morton Beiser
Mental Health and the Immigrant Experience
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Chioma
One Immigrant's Experience
11:15-12:00 Town Hall Meeting
Panelist discussion and Q & A
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-2:45

Workshop #1
Halim Amini: Advocating for Culturally & Linguistically Competent Mental Health Programs - the Experience of Immigrant/Refugee Communities

Workshop #2
Latha Sukumar: Law, Ethics and Cultural Responsiveness

Workshop #3
Dr. Ted Lo: Traditional healing for Mental Health

Workshop #4
Wanda Marsman: Strategies for Employability

Workshop #5
Amna Ashraf: Resettlement Stress

Workshop #6
Ann Pottinger & Rani Srivastava: Clinical Cultural Competence: Understanding Through Culture

Workshop #7
Jasmine Artis: Dialogue with Employers

2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-3:30 Reading and Reflection
Wayson Choy
  Closing remarks

 

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