ONTARIO HEALTH PROMOTION SUMMER SCHOOL

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ONTARIO HEALTH PROMOTION
SUMMER SCHOOL
JUNE 25- 29, 2006
«HEALTH PROMOTION IN ACTION»
BMO INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING, TORONTO
WORKSHOP SUMMARIES
&
PRESENTERS’ BIOGRAPHIES
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PRESCHOOL (OPTIONAL)
WHO PARTICIPATES? PRE-REGISTERED HPSS PARTICIPANTS
PRESCHOOL SESSION (OPTIONAL)
«Health Promotion 101»
Sunday, June 25,
10:30 a.m.- 12:30
Suzanne Jackson, PhD, Director
Centre for Health Promotion,
University of Toronto
SUMMARY: This workshop is designed for those who need a basic introduction to the field of
health promotion as it is understood in Canada. The major concepts, definitions, distinguishing
features, and strategies will be presented and discussed within an historical context. Examples
will be presented that apply to community and agency work in Ontario. In addition handouts
and other resources will be available for those who wish more information.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY:
Suzanne Jackson is the Director of the Centre for Health Promotion at the University of
Toronto. She has conducted research in community capacity indicators, economic evaluation in
health promotion, empowerment indicators, indicators of health promotion for international
use, and community systems. She specializes in participatory planning, research and evaluation
consultations with grassroots community groups and community health organizations. Suzanne
has worked in health promotion research for almost ten years in Canada and internationally and
she has eleven years accumulated experience working in the public sector for the Ontario
Ministry of Health and the Toronto Department of Public Health. Suzanne received her PhD
from the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Waterloo. She has been
President of the Ontario Public Health Association, vice-president of the Canadian Public Health
Association and chair of the Board of Directors of ICA Canada (a community development and
facilitated group decision-making organization). She has been invited to speak on health
promotion topics in various parts of Canada, USA, Jakarta, Australia, Mexico, Colombia,
Germany, and Brazil.
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«Evaluation 101»
Sunday, June 25,
1:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Josie d’Avernas, President
Health Promotion Consulting, Inc.
SUMMARY: Designed for newcomers to the field and those who require a refresher, this
workshop provides an introduction to general concepts in evaluation in health promotion.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Josie d’Avernas is President of Health Promotion Consulting, a
Kitchener-based consulting company specializing in training, research and evaluation in health
promotion.
Josie has worked in various aspects of tobacco control programming and
evaluation for over 20 years. One of her major projects is working with the Program Training
and Consultation Centre, a resource centre of the Ontario Tobacco Strategy formed in 1993
and funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
Josie has a Master of Science degree in Health Studies from the University of Waterloo. She has
planned and delivered numerous workshops at the community level, and has done presentations
and training sessions at the provincial, national and international level.
«Developing Health
Sunday, June 25,
Promotion Policies»
1:30 - 5:00 p.m.
The Health Communication Unit,
Nancy Dubois ,
Health Promotion Consultation
SUMMARY: Policies define and support particular values and behaviours. "If implemented well,
policy can profoundly influence the way people live and the choices that they make. In terms of
health promotion, policies should make healthier choices easier, and unhealthy ones more
difficult." A significant aspect of policy is that it is long-lasting and difficult to change, once in
place.
This workshop is intended for public and community health practitioners with an interest in
policy as a strategy for bringing about health promoting change. It will provide a practical,
‘hands-on’ orientation to the process of developing and implementing health-promoting policies.
Topics addressed in the workshop will be addressed via the “Policy Roadmap” framework and
will include: assessing the need for policy, building support for policy among key stakeholder
groups, and writing policies. Through a combination of lectures, examples and a short small
group exercise, the workshop will address the development of community-wide policies (e.g.,
active transportation supports), as well as the development of policies for specific settings, such
as workplaces and schools.
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By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
understand the purpose of policy as a health promotion strategy
apply a practical model of policy development based on identified
community health needs and stakeholder involvement
set policy goals and objectives
identify strategies to influence decision-makers in the policy development
process.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Nancy Dubois brings to THCU over twenty years of experience
as a trainer and group facilitator, most often with community-based groups or organizational
teams interested in various aspects of health promotion.
In addition to her consulting role with THCU, Nancy provides on-going consultation services to
the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion and is very involved in developing the Best
Practices in Chronic Disease Prevention system with the Public Health Agency of Canada.
She teaches in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at York University, is a
board member of the national Coalition for Active Living and represents them on the
Steering Committee of the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada, for whom
she also chairs the Evaluation Committee. Nancy is also a board member with the Canadian
Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute. She has enjoyed working internationally in Finland,
Chile, and Pisa but spends most of her time traveling across Ontario and Canada working with
community groups.
Scotland, a small rural Southwestern Ontario town in the heart of tobacco country, is home for
Nancy.
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OPENING AND CLOSING SESSIONS
WHO PARTICIPATES? ALL HPSS 2006 PARTICIPANTS
ABORIGINAL OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONIES
Jan Kahehti:io Longboat, Elder, Traditional Teacher, Herbalist,
Keeper of Indigenous Knowledge
Ann Wilson, (Bebaamijiwebiik), Elder/Grandmother
Fred Kelly, Kizhebowse Mukwaa – Kind Walking Bear, Lynx Clan,
Midewe’in- The Sacred Law and Medicine Society, Elder
Monday, June 26, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
and Thursday, June 29, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
ORIGINAL PEOPLES' CEREMONIES
The Opening and Closing is done in a traditional Anishnawbek manner. It is Ceremony. We
generally have four sacred medicines that are burned: tobacco, cedar, sage and sweet grass.
This particular ceremony is as old as time. All original Nations have their own ways to do this. It
is not acceptable to consider one ‘way’ better than another.Instead, all ceremonies are highly
regarded and respected for their sacred nature.
Anishnawbek Way brings a holistic approach that integrates spiritual, physical, mental and
emotional aspects of ourselves and the world around us. Through the process of opening and
closing, we literally explore what surrounds us and what is inside us. We want to ensure that
we are gathering everything we need to carry out the tasks ahead.
It is to help bring the body, mind and spirit of each of us together. Ceremony also reminds of us
how we are to behave in a balanced manner for the benefit of ourselves and generations that
will follow.
We welcome everyone to join in ceremony as we open the Health Promotion Summer School.
ELDERS’ BIOGRAPHIES: Jan Kahehti:io is the mother of three daughters, one son and ten
grandchildren. She is the keeper of Earth Healing Herb Gardens and Retreat Centre at Six
Nations.
During her life she has experienced the many losses of our values, culture, language and
traditional healing arts and medicines. For most of her life, Jan has worked in education and the
healing arts to bring back what she has experienced in loss.
She has focused on the `power of the Good Mind` to bring about well-being in her life and now
teaches in her community and in learning institutions around the country.
Jan Kahehti:io believes our ancestors have left us a great legacy of knowledge in how to have
`good well-being`. Our responsibility is to go back and pick up the pieces that we have left along
our journey of 500 years.
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Jan Kahehti:io presently services First Nation communities in Indigenous practices of Healing
and Well-being. .
Elder/Grandmother Ann Wilson (Bebaamijiwebiik) is a member of the Awaazisii (Bullhead)
Clan and is from the Rainy River First Nation. She is a mother, grandmother and greatgrandmother. As well, she is an Auntie, Awe’e and friend to many whom she is close to.
Ann was born in her Rainy River First Nation’s home in the 1920’s. Her mother, grandmother
and extended family ensured she learned her language, traditions and culture. As a child her
traditional upbringing was interrupted for a short period to attend Residential School in Fort
Frances. True to her clan, she was determined to hold her language, traditions and culture
close when told to let it go. She maintained these teachings and returned home bilingual and
stronger.
As a married woman and mother, she lived on the trap line, learning the habits of the animals
and the dominant society. During her mid-life, Bebaamijiwebiik recorded the stories of her
elders and continues today to pass their teachings on.
Currently, Ann works with students in the Seven Generations Education Institute Masters of
Indigenous Philosophy and Knowledge where she addresses many groups wanting to hear her
teachings. She has traveled extensively throughout Canada and the United States to share her
knowledge and teachings. As a wise grandmother who held on to her Way of Life, she has been
asked to speak about the Way of Life for the Anishinaabe by many organizations and committee
members.
Such organizations include: the Ontario Native Women’s Association, Ontario
Federation of Indian Friendship Centres, Health Canada, the Mic’maq Nation of Nova Scotia,
Algoma University, North Shore Tribal Council Health Program, Native Mental Health
Conference 2004.
Ann has truly learned the value and importance of a balanced lifestyle. She ensures that the
body, mind, heart and soul all work together to keep the spirit strong as Anishinaabe.
Elder Fred Kelly is a member of the Ojibways of Onigaming and a citizen of the Anishinaabe
Nation in Treate #3. He is a member of Midewe ‘in, the Sacred Law and Medicine Society of the
Anishinaabe and is a practitioner of all traditions and customs. He is a custodian of Sacred Law
and has been called upon to conduct healing and other ceremonies across Canada, in the United
States, Mexico, Japan, Argentina and ost recently in Israel. He is head of Nimishomis-Nokomis
Traditional Healing Group, a consortium of spiritual Healers and Elders that combines
traditional healing and western medical practices.
Fred is fluent in the Anishinaabe and English languages and is a sought-after resources person on
the history and cultures of indigenous nations of the western hemisphere. With forty-nine years
of service to the original peoples of Turtle Island, he is also an experienced executive, political
leader and an exceptional communicator who has been a guest speaker at numerous functions;
colleges and universities; and television and radio in Canada and the U.S. He has served as Chief
of his own community; Grand Chief of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3; and Ontario
Regional Director of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. And he has and
continues to function as personal advisor to First National leadership in Canada most notably
Phil Fontaine, National Chief o the Assembly of First Nations; Angus Toulouse, Regional Chief
for the Chiefs in Ontario; Stan Beardy of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation; and Arnold Gardner,
Grand Chief of Grand Council Treaty #3. In 1965 he led a march in Kenora, Ontario that has
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become to be known as the birth of the indigenous civil rights movement in Canada. He played
a prominent role in the constitutional negotiation s that led to the recognition of Aboriginal and
Treaty rights in the Canadian Constitution of 1982.
Fred is a consensus builder and among other activities, he successfully enjoined Indian and
Northern Affairs Canada, Harvard University and Motorola into a Partnership for Excellence in
Education, a major overhaul of Onigaming’s education system focusing on Governance,
Leadership, Technology Infusion, and Effective Schools Correlates. He is also a practitioner of
traditional methods in conflict resolution including mediation and other cultural strategic
intervention approaches. He will be a special guest presenter at the Vienna Conference for
Mediation in May 2006.
He has worked with many Tribes and First Nations on nation building, constitutional and
governance renewal. He has served as the principal advisor for the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty
#3 that is seeking to restore its government and jurisdiction based on Sacred Law, Traditional
Constitution, and its Treaty with the Crown in right of Canada.
He has been the proprietor of a successful consultancy in strategic planning and management,
negotiation and policy development and corporate governance for over thirty years. He was the
principal advisor on the establishment of Bimose Tribal Council, Kenora Chiefs Advisory,
Anishinaabeg of Kabapikotawangag Resources Council, and numerous other Aboriginal
institutions in Economic Development and Education. He developed the strategic plan for
Treaty Implementation for the Assembly of First Nations. He also developed a comprehensive
strategic plan for the Chiefs in Ontario that incorporated the revitalization of nationhood and
Pre-contact Treaties among the indigenous nations in Ontario. He is also an Elder Advisor to
the United Tribes and First National of the Great Lakes on water and environmental protection
of the Great Lakes Basin.
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OPENING AND CLOSING PLENARY SESSIONS
OPENING PLENARY SESSION
Monday, June 26,
«Creating Health Where We Live –
11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
Healthy Buildings in Healthy Communities
in a Healthy World »
Trevor Hancock, Public Health Physician and Independent Health Promotion Consultant
SUMMARY: Based on the fact that we spend 90% of our lives indoors, 80% of us live in
urbanized settings, and we live 100% of the time on the Earth. I will explore settings approach
(physical place + social space), understanding links to national and international setting, including
the WHO Commission, and Aboriginal perspectives. The session will be illustrated with
examples and stories illustrating broader social transformation and that change is possible
KEY ELEMENTS OF PRESENTATION
• Healthy Buildings: Homes; Schools; Workplaces; Care facilities;
• Healthy Communities: Neighbourhoods
• Cities: urban form; transportation; energy use
• Healthy World: climate change; pollution and ecotoxicity; resource depletion; loss of
biodiversity and species extinction
• Societal Transformation: reforming governance; re-inventing capitalism; re-thinking
values
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Trevor Hancock is a public health physician and health
promotion consultant who has worked for local communities, municipal, provincial and national
governments, health care organizations and the World Health Organization. . His main areas of
interest are health promotion, healthy cities/communities, healthy public policy, environmental
health, health policy and planning, and health futurism.
He is currently a Public Health Consultant at the Ministry of Health in British Columbia, where he is
working to implement core programs in public health, to increase preventive services in primary care, to
foster a population health promotion approach, and to develop a comprehensive self-care strategy. He
has recently been appointed to the Knowledge Network on Urban Settings (part of the new WHO
Commission on the Social Determinants of Health), is co-chair of the new Population Health Promotion
Expert Group of the Public Health Network of Canada, and is a member of the National Advisory
Group for the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.
He has been actively involved in the public health movement in Canada, having been on the Board of
Directors of the Ontario Public Health Association for a number of years, serving as President in
1986/7. Honours he has received include Honourary Life Membership in the Canadian Public Health
Association (1990); Canadian Vice-President of the American Public Health Association (1991-2); an
Honourary Award from the US Healthy Cities and Communities Coalition (1998); Life Membership in
the Ontario Public Health Association (1999), appointment as a Regents Lecturer at the School of Public
Health, University of California at Berkeley (2000) and the President’s Award, Public Health Association
of BC (2004).
His major work in recent years has been in the area of healthy cities/communities, an area he helped to
pioneer. He has consulted to healthy city/community projects in several countries (notably Sweden and
the USA) as well as in Toronto and across Canada. He was the principal consultant for the Healthy
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Toronto 2000 project; a consultant to the Canadian and the WHO Europe Healthy Cities Projects; the
founding Chair of the Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition; a member of the judges panel for the
Healthcare Forum’s “Healthier Communities Award" for four years, and a member of the Advisory
Committee for the (Ontario) Trillium Foundation's "Caring Communities Award" for three years. He
has recently helped to re-establish the BC Healthy Communities Initiative.
Dr. Hancock is particularly interested in the health implications of public policy in non-health fields, and
in what he calls healthy public policy. In 1984 he organized "Beyond Health Care" – the first major
conference ever held on healthy public policy, and in 1986 led a CPHA study tour on the topic to the
Nordic countries. He currently chairs the BC Population Health Network.
In recent years his views on the place of hospitals in their community and their role with respect to
health promotion and healthy communities has led to consulting work with hospitals and to a number of
articles and speeches on the topic. In partnership with Claude Halpin, he established Planetree Canada
to further develop the concept of healthy and health-promoting hospitals. He is a founder of the
Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care and authored a major report on environmentally responsible
health care in Canada.
Dr Hancock also has a longstanding interest in health and the environment, in the "conserver society"
concept and the health and political implications of sustainable development. In 1989, he organized a
national conference on health, environment and economy and continues to work to bring together the
themes of health and sustainable development. He is a founder of the Canadian Association of
Physicians for the Environment and chaired the Board from 1993 - 2003.
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION
« Return to the Walkable City »
Thursday, June 29,
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Ken Greenberg, Architect and Urban Designer
SUMMARY: In the post-war decades we transformed our cities to suit the automobile and in
the process lost the art and the habit of walking. A movement is now underway to make our
cities walkable once again.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Architect and Urban Designer Ken Greenberg has played a
leading role on a broad range of assignments in highly diverse urban settings in North America,
and Europe. Much of his work focuses on the rejuvenation of downtowns, waterfronts,
neighborhoods, and campus master planning. His projects include the award-winning Saint Paul
on the Mississippi Development Framework, the Brooklyn Bridge Park on the East River in New
York, the East River waterfront in Lower Manhattan, the Fan Pier in Boston, the Southwest and
Southeast Waterfronts in Washington, D.C., the Vision Plan for Washington D.C., Kendall
Square and North Point/Lechmere Square in Cambridge, the Downtown Hartford Economic
and Urban Design Action Strategy and the Downtown Master Plan for Fort Lauderdale. In each
city, with each project, his strategic, consensus-building approach has led to coordinated
planning
and
a
renewed
focus
on
urban
design.
Current efforts include an interim role as Chief Planner at the BRA (Boston Redevelopment
Authority) for the City of Boston including oversight of the Crossroads Initiative which builds
on the 'Big Dig' and the Rose Kennedy Greenway; implementing the Master Plan for the renewal
of Regent Park, a major public housing project in Toronto; the implementation of the
Convention District Master Plan in San Juan, P.R., the preparation of a Strategic Framework for
Midtown Detroit surrounding the Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University; the
preparation of a Master Plan for the NoMA District (North of Massachusetts Avenue) of
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Washington D.C.; work with the City of Toronto and the Province of Ontario on the
integration of Ontario Place and Exhibition Place, the implementation of the Harbourfront
Master Plan and Plans for the new FilmPort (Toronto Film Studios complex) on the Toronto
Waterfront.. Ken Greenberg continues to play a role as strategic advisor to Saint Paul, Hartford
and Columbus, Ohio.
SERIES 1, 2 and 3
WHO PARTICIPATES? ALL HPSS 2006 PARTICIPANTS –
SERIES IS SELECTED AT REGISTRATION.
NB: An integrated set of workshops and lectures will be offered within each series.
Participants are advised NOT to consider attending workshops within different series.
SERIES 1
THE MEDICINE WHEEL - ABORIGINAL CURRICULUM
SERIES 1: GENERAL SESSION 1 (Introduction)
Monday, June 26,
« Medicine Wheel: Models and Theories:
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Four stages of growth and development:
Birth to Elder »
Earth Healing Herb Farm and Retreat Centre
Jan Kahehti:io Longboat,
Elder, Traditional Teacher, Herbalist,
SUMMARY: The workshop will focus on the cultural teachings of the male and female from
Birth to Elder.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Jan Kahehti:io is the mother of three daughters, one son and ten
Nations.
traditional healing arts nad medicines. For most of her life, Jan has worked in education and the
Jan Kahehti:io presently services First Nation communities in Indigenous practices of Healing
and Well-being.
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SERIES 1: GENERAL SESSION 2 (Emotional)
Tuesday, June 27,
«Pimatiziwin -- Walking a Good Way of Life
9:00-10:30 a.m.
A First Nation Perspective
Relating to Well-Being»
Dave Courchene, Jr.
Neeghani Aki Innini (Leading Earth Man)
Anishnabe Nation, Eagle Clan
SUMMARY: Balancing the four elements of our nature needs to be qualified in a model. Dave
Courchene’s presentation will qualify a holistic approach to balance in life using an Indigenous
perspective.
BIOGRAPHY: In 1967, Dave Courchene was invited to be one of 10 Aboriginal youth who
would carry the torch to the Pan American Games. After running the torch over 800 km in 10
days from Minnesota, the final runner Dave Courchene was stopped outside the door to the
Winnipeg Stadium, and the torch was taken from him. Instead of being given a place of honour,
the 10 young runners were taken to a small restaurant across the street, where they watched
on TV as a White runner lit the Flame for the Pan Am Games.
Thirty years later, in 1999, when the Pan Am Games returned to Winnipeg, Dave Courchene
and other original runners were asked to return. This time they carried the torch into the
stadium, where they passed it to a young Aboriginal runner who ignited the Flame. This event
was symbolic of the spirit of survival, strength and perseverance of Aboriginal people. Although
they have endured many generations of deep suffering and hardship because they were displaced
from their connection to the land and traditional spiritual way of life, Aboriginal people have
survived. Aboriginal people are now are returning to and being acknowledged for their original
role as leaders and peacemakers.
Dave Courchene (Nii Gaani Aki Inini) carries out ceremonies and gives teachings to respect life
and the earth, and offers an Aboriginal perspective on various issues at world gatherings in
Brazil, Japan, Israel, the Philippines, the USA and Canada. He is also spiritual advisor to the wellknown Canadian documentary series The Sharing Circle, and co-creator of the 2003 Parent's
Choice Gold Award-winning children's TV program, Tipi Tales. A son of former Manitoba
Grand Chief Dave Courchene Sr., he learned at an early age the responsibilities of leadership
from a long line of leaders and chiefs of his people. Dave sought a vision that led him to his
present quest to bring healing to young people of the world by giving them hope based on the
prophecies of the Elders.
Dave Courchene has worked for the past 25 years toward the fulfillment of a vision - the Turtle
Lodge. The Turtle Lodge is a sacred environment where young people are being reintroduced
to a way of life, based on natural and spiritual laws, that has worked for and sustained Aboriginal
people for thousands of years. The Turtle Lodge also offers workshops for organizations and
government to learn the truth about the history, and the traditional spiritual and land-based way
of life of Aboriginal people. The raising of the Turtle Lodge building in 2002 and 2003 by a
group of committed and gifted volunteers working together on a labour of love, is a testament
to the survival of an ancient way of life.
"It is our belief that Indigenous People have an equal contribution to make toward
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the survival of humanity and also offer a new direction that mankind will have to consider if
there is to be a future for the Earth and the generations yet to come. This belief is premised on
peace and brotherhood for all peoples of the world."
-- Nii Gaani Aki Inini
SERIES 1: GENERAL SESSION 3 (Physical)
«Anishnaabe Kweg (Aboriginal Women)
Tuesday, June 27,
Water Project»
11:00 a.m.– 12:30 p.m.
Native Human Services,
Ghislaine Goudreau,
School of Social Work,
Health Promoter
Laurentian University (Sudbury)
and member of the
Waabishki Mkwaa Singers
SUMMARY: As part of the Sudbury Children's Water Festival, several Aboriginal women set out
on a journey carrying a container of water around Lake Ramsey. They undertook this project to
fulfill their role as caretakers of the water and to pass on the message of the importance of
looking after water to the public and, most importantly, the children. Two Anishnaabe Kweg
(Aboriginal women) will share how they involved the Aboriginal community in the project and
describe the media attention that it generated. They will also share Aboriginal teachings about
the water and ways to keep it sacred.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Ghislaine Goudreau is a member of the Algonquin of
Pikwàkanagàn. She works as a Health Promoter at the Sudbury & District Health Unit. Ghislaine
recently completed her Master of Science Degree in Health Promotion through the University
of Alberta, via distance education. The title of her thesis is "Exploring the Connection between
Aboriginal Women's Hand Drumming and Health Promotion (Mino-Bimaadiziwin). Ghislaine
believes in building on the strengths of the Aboriginal community and practices traditional ways
as a way of maintaining her culture and promoting wholistic health. She has been a member of
the Aboriginal women's hand-drumming circle, the Waabishki Mkwaa Singers, for seven years.
One of Ghislaine's proudest accomplishments was being the Aboriginal Committee Chairperson
for the 1999 (HPSS) Health Promotion Summer School in Sudbury where an Aboriginal stream
was introduced for the first time.
SERIES 1: GENERAL SESSION 4 (Mental)
«Addressing Mental Health Needs
Wednesday, June 28,
in Aboriginal Communities»
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Cornelia Wieman, M.D., FRCPC
Canada’s first female Aboriginal psychiatrist
SUMMARY: There are many factors, both historical & contemporary, that are related to the
current mental health status of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Suicide, particularly for youth, is
an issue of primary concern. Contemporary indigenous identity and its relation to suicide will
be discussed. Community-based and national initiatives, including new emerging research into
suicide prevention, that are directed toward reducing and preventing suicide in the Aboriginal
population will be described. It is hoped that participants may also share information they have
regarding community-based endeavors or local ‘success stories’ of suicide prevention programs.
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Cornelia Wieman is Canada’s first female Aboriginal psychiatrist. She is a
member of the Little Grand Rapids First Nation (Anishnawbe) in Manitoba. She attained an
Honours Bachelor of Science degree (Kinesiology - 1988) and a Master of Science degree
(Biomechanics – 1991), both from the University of Waterloo. She graduated from the medical
school at McMaster University in Hamilton in 1993. She completed her specialty training in
psychiatry in 1998 at McMaster University.
From 1997–2005, Dr. Wieman practiced as a consultant psychiatrist with Six Nations Mental
Health Services, a community mental health clinic based on the Six Nations of the Grand River
Territory. In July 2004, she joined the University of Toronto as Co-Director of the Indigenous
Health Research Development Program (IHRDP) and as Assistant Professor in the Department
of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine. She continues to hold an academic appointment
as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences,
Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University. She is a co-investigator on several research
initiatives funded through the Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health (IAPH), Canadian Institutes
of Health Research (CIHR) including the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health
Research (NNAMHR) and a New Emerging Team (Suicide NET) investigating aspects of suicide
in Aboriginal populations. Her clinical, academic & research interests include Aboriginal health
and mental health issues including HIV/AIDS, Aboriginal health care policy and Aboriginal health
workforce development.
From 2000-2004, Dr. Wieman was the Director of the Native Students Health Sciences
Program for the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster. She served as the Acting Director of
Emergency Psychiatry Services for the Hamilton-Wentworth Region during 2000-2001. She
continues to provide independent consulting services to various F/P/T agencies (government &
NGOs) involved in the delivery of health services to Aboriginal communities. She travels
widely, speaking about relevant Aboriginal health and mental health issues in order to advocate
for the improved health status of the Indigenous Peoples of this country. In 2001, she was
appointed to the Suicide Prevention Advisory Group jointly by the Federal Minister of Health
and the Assembly of First Nations National Chief. From 2002-2005, she served as a Member
and Deputy Chair of Health Canada’s Research Ethics Board. In 2003, she was appointed as a
Member of the Drug Utilization Evaluation Advisory Committee for the Non-Insured Health
Benefits Program, First Nations & Inuit Health Branch. She takes a special interest in Aboriginal
youth and tries to encourage them to achieve their dreams. She has worked with Creative
Wellness Solutions since 2002 as part of their ACT NOW Role Model Program for First
Nations. She has also participated in many activities of the National Aboriginal Achievement
Foundation including the Blueprint for the Future Career Fairs, the Taking Pulse Initiative and
the Annual Suncor Energy Foundation Luncheons for Youth. Since 2002, she has worked with
leaders from the Six Nations community on the Vision 2020 Strategy, an Ontario-wide proposal
to train more Aboriginal physicians in this province.
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Dr. Wieman has won numerous research scholarships and awards, including a National
Aboriginal Achievement Award that recognized her career achievement in the area of medicine
(1998). She was one of only two recipients in North America of an Association of Women
Psychiatrists Wyeth-Ayerst Fellowship (1998). She was the inaugural recipient of the University
of Waterloo, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences Alumni Achievement Award (2002). Her work
and experiences have been featured in the media, including CBC radio & TV, the Aboriginal
Peoples Television Network, and TV Ontario.
SERIES 1: GENERAL SESSION 5 (Spiritual)
Thursday, June 29,
« The Sacred Four in Traditional Therapy and
9:00-10:30 a.m.
WellnessGanaandawe Bimaadiziwin – Minwaadagitowin »
Fred Kelly, Kizhebowse Mukwaa – Kind Walking Bear, Lynx Clan,
Midewe’in- The Sacred Law and Medicine Society, Elder
SUMMARY: To the Anishinaabe people, the source of all life in creation is the Great Spirit.
Stored within the knowledge of sacred elders, traditional doctors and midwives, therapists and
herbalists is humanity’s lifeline to the time when people lived in harmony with nature’s authority
conferred by the Creator.
The Anishinaabe thrived through their sacred relationship with the land and the environment –
the plants, the forest, the waters, the mountains, the soil, and the wetlands of the four earths,
the four skies and the four winds.
With the four pipes and four drums, the four spiritualities and the four lodges, the Anishinaabe
developed their health sciences, medicines and therapies. And thus, they came to understand
living the wholeness and wellness of life that is practiced to this day.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Elder Fred Kelly is a member of the Ojibways of Onigaming and a
citizen of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treate #3. He is a member of Midewe ‘in, the Sacred Law
and Medicine Society of the Anishinaabe and is a practitioner of all traditions and customs. He is
a custodian of Sacred Law and has been called upon to conduct healing and other ceremonies
across Canada, in the United States, Mexico, Japan, Argentina and ost recently in Israel. He is
head of Nimishomis-Nokomis Traditional Healing Group, a consortium of spiritual Healers and
Elders that combines traditional healing and western medical practices.
Fred is fluent in the Anishinaabe and English languages and is a sought-after resources person on
the history and cultures of indigenous nations of the western hemisphere. With forty-nine years
of service to the original peoples of Turtle Island, he is also an experienced executive, political
leader and an exceptional communicator who has been a guest speaker at numerous functions;
colleges and universities; and television and radio in Canada and the U.S. He has served as Chief
of his own community; Grand Chief of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3; and Ontario
Regional Director of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. And he has and
continues to function as personal advisor to First National leadership in Canada most notably
Phil Fontaine, National Chief o the Assembly of First Nations; Angus Toulouse, Regional Chief
for the Chiefs in Ontario; Stan Beardy of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation; and Arnold Gardner,
Grand Chief of Grand Council Treaty #3. In 1965 he led a march in Kenora, Ontario that has
become to be known as the birth of the indigenous civil rights movement in Canada. He played
a prominent role in the constitutional negotiation s that led to the recognition of Aboriginal and
Treaty rights in the Canadian Constitution of 1982.
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Fred is a consensus builder and among other activities, he successfully enjoined Indian and
Northern Affairs Canada, Harvard University and Motorola into a Partnership for Excellence in
Education, a major overhaul of Onigaming’s education system focusing on Governance,
Leadership, Technology Infusion, and Effective Schools Correlates. He is also a practitioner of
traditional methods in conflict resolution including mediation and other cultural strategic
intervention approaches. He will be a special guest presenter at the Vienna Conference for
Mediation in May 2006.
He has worked with many Tribes and First Nations on nation building, constitutional and
governance renewal. He has served as the principal advisor for the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty
#3 that is seeking to restore its government and jurisdiction based on Sacred Law, Traditional
Constitution, and its Treaty with the Crown in right of Canada.
He has been the proprietor of a successful consultancy in strategic planning and management,
negotiation and policy development and corporate governance for over thirty years. He was the
principal advisor on the establishment of Bimose Tribal Council, Kenora Chiefs Advisory,
Anishinaabeg of Kabapikotawangag Resources Council, and numerous other Aboriginal
institutions in Economic Development and Education. He developed the strategic plan for
Treaty Implementation for the Assembly of First Nations. He also developed a comprehensive
strategic plan for the Chiefs in Ontario that incorporated the revitalization of nationhood and
Pre-contact Treaties among the indigenous nations in Ontario. He is also an Elder Advisor to
the United Tribes and First National of the Great Lakes on water and environmental protection
of the Great Lakes Basin.
SERIES 1: GENERAL SESSION 6
«Medicine Wheel: Wrap-up:
Thursday, June 29,
Circle of Life Teachings»
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Earth Healing Herb Farm and Retreat Centre
SUMMARY: The workshop will focus on the natural doctors for optimum wellbeing.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Jan Kahehti:io Longboat-Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan, Six
Nations of the Grand River Territory. She is presently Keeper of Earth Healing Herb Farm and
Retreat on Six Nations.
Kahehti:io is a Teacher, Herbalist, Healer, Keeper of the old ways. She travels extensively to
share her Indigenous Knowledge of «Now, Now, Now» and how the Now continues to sustain the
Seven Generations to come.
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SERIES 2: PROGRAMME FRANCOPHONE
SÉRIES 2 : PROGRAMME FRANCOPHONE
« Santé, environnement et
Le lundi, 26 juin, 13 h 30 – 17 h
pensée systémique »
Charles Antoine Rouyer, BA, MES,
Journaliste spécialisé en santé
et environnement
Hygeia Healthy Communication saine Inc.
SOMMAIRE : La Charte d’Ottawa (OMS, 1986) et sa démarche socio écologique de promotion
de la santé incarne le mode de pensée systémique, une tournure d’esprit qui 20 ans plus tard est
certes encore marginale, mais qui est toutefois davantage répandue et acceptée de nos jours.
Promouvoir la santé, c’est-à-dire améliorer la qualité de vie en créant des
sociaux favorables à la santé, implique d’appliquer ce mode de
multidisciplinaire, multidimensionnelle et interactive. Cela implique aussi
cette pensée concrètement et pouvoir la communiquer aux décideurs,
publiques saines.
milieux physiques et
pensée systémique,
de pouvoir traduire
pour des politiques
SURVOL
Cet atelier présentera :
- les principaux concepts de promotion de la santé dans la perspective de la pensée
systémique et de la communication ;
- divers exemples pratiques de création de milieux physiques et sociaux favorables à la
santé, à l’échelle locale, régionale, nationale et internationale (qualité de l’air, qualité de l’eau;
diversité et intégration culturelle; logement; écotourisme, ecodesign et consommation
durable, investissements socialement responsables.)
POUR EN SAVOIR PLUS (Cliquer sur les hyperliens)
. «Santé urbaine et villes-santé», Ch.-A. Rouyer, Réseau canadien de la santé
. «Triangles of Health», Ch.-A. Rouyer, Ascent Magazine (en anglais)
. «Les bourses du futur», Ch.-A. Rouyer, Conseiller.ca
RESSOURCES GÉNÉRALES (Cliquer sur les hyperliens)
. Promotion de la santé, Réseau canadien de la santé
. Déterminants de la santé, Réseau canadien de la santé
. Qu’est-ce qui détermine la santé?, Agence de santé publique du Canada
. Santé de l’environnement et milieu du travail, Santé Canada
BIOGRAPHIE : Charles-Antoine Rouyer est journaliste spécialisé en santé et environnement.
Il est également chargé de cours au Collège Glendon, Université York (Communication,
Health & Environment, Programme d’Études sur l’environnement et la santé –
http://glendon.yorku.ca/carouyer.)
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Charles-Antoine Rouyer est journaliste indépendant depuis plus de 15 ans et a collaboré à
différents titres en presse écrite, radio, télévision et sur Internet (Le Devoir, Libération,
L’Express de Toronto, Objectif Conseiller, Canadian Architect, Corporate Knights,
Ascent; la radio de Radio-Canada et de CBC ; la chaîne TfO, CBC Television ; le Réseau
canadien de la santé).
Charles-Antoine Rouyer est titulaire d’une maîtrise en Études de l’environnement en Hygiène du
milieu urbain et journalisme (MES - Master of Environmental Studies, Urban Environmental
Health Journalism) de l’Université York à Toronto. Il possède un B.A. spécialisé en Économie
(mineur en psychologie) du Collège Glendon, Université York et a suivi divers cours en
journalisme à Ryerson Polytechnic University (formation continue).
Petit groupe francophone
Le mardi 27 juin, 9 h – 10 h 30
Comité francophone
SOMMAIRE : La session "petit groupe" offre l'opportunité de discuter des réalités des milieux
respectifs des participantes et participants, d'échanger au sujet des besoins et de la mise en
oeuvre des apprentissages quant à la création d'environnements physiques et sociaux favorables
à la santé.
« Promotion de la santé :
Le mardi 27 juin, 11 h – 12 h 30
la bonne communication est essentielle »
André Picard, journaliste
Globe & Mail
SOMMAIRE : Promotion de la santé: La bonne communication est essentielle. Les canadiens et
canadiennes dépendent largement des médias pour l’information relié à leur santé. Mais les
médias donnent-ils l’heure juste? Y a t’il trop d’emphase sur les ‘miracles’ et trop peu sur les
stratégies de santé publique? André Picard, journaliste au Globe and Mail, mène une discussion
interactive, et offre des conseils pour mieux communiquer votre message santé.
BIOGRAPHIE : Un des meilleurs rédacteurs canadiens dans le domaine des affaires
publiques, André Picard travaille pour le journal The Globe and Mail depuis 1987, où il cumule
actuellement les fonctions de journaliste scientifique et de chef du bureau de Québec à
Montréal.
Il est également l'auteur de nombreux succès de librairie, dont les suivants : CRITICAL CARE:
Canadian Nurses Speak For Change; THE GIFT OF DEATH: Confronting Canada's Tainted Blood
Tragedy et A CALL TO ALMS: The New Face of Charity in Canada.
M. Picard a reçu de nombreux hommages et s’est vu décerner plusieurs prix pour ses travaux,
entre autres, le Prix Médias de l’Association des infirmières et infirmiers du Canada pour
l’excellence en 2000 et 2001, le Prix Michener de journalisme en reconnaissance de services
méritoires rendus au public, le Prix pour la recherche sur les politiques au Canada, le Prix des
sciences et de la société ainsi que la Bourse Atkinson en matière d’affaires publiques. Il a été
trois fois finaliste au Concours canadien de journalisme, finaliste au Prix de la Société québécoise
pour la promotion de la littérature de langue anglaise - catégorie études et essais et proposé
comme lauréat du Prix Gordon Montador – catégorie affaires publiques. M. Picard a également
été honoré par la Société canadienne de l’ouïe. M. Picard vit à Montréal.
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« Les notions de santé et de bien-être au sein
Le mardi 27 juin, 13 h 30 – 15 h
des collectivités viables »
Véronique Jampierre,
Vivre en ville, le regroupement québécois pour
directrice de développement
le développement urbain,
villageois et rural viable
SOMMAIRE : Étroitement liée à la notion de viabilité, la santé fait partie des principales
préoccupations de Vivre en Ville en tant qu’organisme prônant les principes du développement
durable appliqués à l’aménagement du territoire et l’urbanisme.
Au même titre que la protection de l'environnement, chaque projet de Vivre en Ville intègre
dans ses objectifs l'amélioration du bien-être et l'accès à un environnement sain pour tous. Les
questions de santé environnementale concernent notamment la qualité des habitats, de l'air, de
l'eau des sols et de l'environnement sonore. La santé et le bien-être dépendent également d'un
juste équilibre psychologique favorisé par la recherche d’une plus grande équité sociale. À titre
d'exemple, en initiant le projet Calend'AIR, Vivre en Ville répondait à un besoin d'information du
grand public sur les interrelations entre la qualité de l'air intérieur des bâtiments et la santé des
individus. Fréquemment en contact avec la population dans le cadre d'un programme
d'intervention à domicile en efficacité énergétique, les intervenants de Vivre en Ville ont souligné
la récurrence des problèmes de santé liés à la mauvaise qualité de l'air des logements visités
(moisissures, infiltrations d'air, sur-isolation, etc.). Aussi, le Calend'AIR a permis d’expliquer ces
liens de cause à effets et de donner des conseils simples pour y pallier concrètement au
quotidien.
Indirectement, les autres projets de Vivre en Ville en faveur du développement des transports
alternatifs à l'automobile, des toitures végétales ou de jardinage écologique induisent également
une amélioration de la santé de chacun.
DESCRIPTION DE L’ORGANISME : Vivre en ville est un organisme d’intérêt public qui a vu le
jour en 1994. La portée de son action est nationale tout en étant fortement implantée dans sa
communauté.
Vivre en ville est une coalition d'individus et d'organismes qui s'attarde à la promotion du
développement durable et dont la présence est essentielle à l'échange d'idées et l'élaboration de
solutions novatrices. Vivre en ville souhaite renforcer la qualité de vie en milieu urbain par
l'application des principes de développement urbain viable de façon à rendre celui-ci plus
attrayant et à faire en sorte qu'il réponde à une gamme plus étendue de besoins et de clientèles.
Vivre en ville poursuit son action par la sensibilisation de la population et des décideurs publics,
par sa participation à des colloques, à des audiences ou à des consultations publiques, ainsi que
par la réalisation de projets d'amélioration de la qualité de vie inspirés d’expériences
internationales mais appliqués tant à l'échelle des quartiers urbains, des villages, que des milieux
ruraux.
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BOÎTES À OUTILS (an anglais)
Boîtes à outils – Séries A (en anglais)
Le mardi 27 juin, 15 h 30 – 17 h
REMARQUE : Les personnes qui participeront à la série 2 (programme francophone) se joindront aux
autres participants à l’École d’été. Tous les participants doivent inscrire leur premier et second choix sur
le formulaire d’inscription. (Pour consulter les descriptions détaillées de la Série A des séances « Boîte à
outils », voir la section BOÎTE À OUTILS ci-dessous).
« Le Reseau CORPS :
Le mercredi 28 juin, 9 h – 10 h 30
À votre service en français! »
Anne Meloche, présidente,
Réseau CORPS
Comité des services en français
Hélène McCuaig, consultante,
Réseau CORPS
Comité des services en français
Mario Corbeil, Centre de ressources
Meilleur départ
SOMMAIRE : Les professionnelles et professionnels en promotion de la santé ont de multiples
besoins afin de rejoindre leurs clientèles francophones, autant sur le plan de la communication
que sur le plan stratégique.
Le Réseau CORPS (Centres ontariens de ressources en promotion de la santé) est en mesure
de soutenir les intervenantes et intervenants ainsi que les organismes afin d’offrir des services de
qualité aux collectivités.
Venez explorer la panoplie de ressources offertes par le Réseau et les stratégies qui visent à
développer les capacités en français des organisations faisant partie du Réseau CORPS.
Suite à cette session, les participantes et participants pourront :
1.
2.
3.
4.
Identifier la mission du Réseau CORPS et ses associations-membres;
Explorer les ressources offertes par le Réseau et ses membres;
Adapter des ressources pour répondre aux particularités de leur collectivité;
Adapter les processus menant à l’amélioration de leur capacité d’offrir des services en
français et
5. Découvrir les organismes-clés qui desservent la francophonie en Ontario et au Canada.
BIOGRAPHIES : Hélène McCuaig I.A., B.Sc. Inf., M. Ed. (en cours) Professionnelle bilingue
avec plus de 20 ans d'expérience dans l'éducation de la santé, œuvrant dans le développement, la
réalisation et l’évaluation de nouveaux programmes. Animatrice d'ateliers, de présentations de
groupes variés et développement des ressources complémentaires. Formation en gestion des
professionnels avec différents niveaux d'éducation.
Anne Meloche : Madame Meloche œuvre dans le domaine de la promotion de la santé depuis
10 ans. Elle travaille présentement comme agente de projets au sein du Centre de formation et
de consultation (CFC). Le CFC est un centre de ressources de la Stratégie ontarienne de lutte
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contre le tabac. Elle a œuvré en matière de prévention, protection et cessation du tabac au
niveau local, municipal, provincial et international. Elle est aussi consultante indépendante en
matière d’abandon du tabac.
Madame Meloche agit comme présidente du Comité des services en français du Réseau des
Centres ontariens de ressources pour la promotion de la santé. Dans ce rôle, elle participe au
développement des capacités de service en français des associations-membres.
Mario Corbeil : Maîtrise en santé communautaire et Baccalauréat en nutrition avec quinze15
années d'expérience dans les domaines de la santé et des services sociaux (organismes
gouvernementaux - santé publique, CLSC au Québec, ministères variés); fondation privée et
organisme en développement international. Intérêt et expertise dans les domaines suivants:
services à la petite enfance et maternité; intervention en milieu de la pauvreté et clientèles
vulnérables; sécurité alimentaire; développement communautaire; économie sociale; etc.
« VIE ACTIVE 2010 : la stratégie en matière du
Le mercredi 28 juin, 11h – 12 h 30
sport et de l’activité physique de l’Ontario »
Direction des sports et des loisirs
Jean- Serge (JS) Bidal,
Ministère de la Promotion
Conseiller en politiques
de la santé de l’Ontario
SOMMAIRE : L’impact d’un mode de vie sédentaire sur notre système de santé est troublant.
Selon des estimations effectuées en 2001, le fardeau économique associé à la sédentarité est
évalué à 1,8 milliard de dollars en dépenses directes et à 1,6 milliard de dollars en dépenses
indirectes. De toute évidence, il est grand temps de prendre les mesures qui s’imposent pour
réduire la sédentarité.
VIE ACTIVE 2010 est la stratégie adoptée par l’Ontario pour encourager l’activité physique et
sportive. Élaborée en consultation avec des groupes d’intérêt de toute la province, la stratégie
VIE ACTIVE 2010 précise les principales approches stratégiques qui vont nous permettre d’offrir
davantage de programmes d’activité physique et sportive dans la collectivité.
VIE ACTIVE 2010 est une ambitieuse entreprise. Le Canada se prépare à accueillir les Jeux
olympiques d’hiver de 2010 et nous voulons faire en sorte que les athlètes ontariens aient
toutes les chances d’entrer dans la compétition au plus haut niveau possible. Il faudra consolider
le système sportif dans la collectivité et prendre les mesures nécessaires pour mettre toutes les
chances du côté de nos athlètes. Nous avons en outre fixé pour l'an 2010 un objectif tout aussi
ambitieux en matière d'activité physique. Grâce à diverses initiatives éducatives et
promotionnelles, et à une augmentation des occasions et possibilités d’activité physique au sein
des collectivités, nous avons tracé la route pour porter à 55 % le niveau d’activité physique d’ici
la fin de la présente décennie.
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BIOGRAPHIE : Jean-Serge Bidal s’est joint à la fonction publique au mois de mai 2005. Il
occupe présentement le poste de conseiller en politiques à la direction des sports et des loisirs,
au sein du Ministère de la Promotion de la santé.
Avec le Ministère, Jean-Serge participe à plusieurs des programmes et des initiatives de la
stratégie VIE ACTIVE 2010, dont le Fonds Collectivités actives, le programme de l’utilisation
communautaire des locaux scolaires, et le programme Sport pour tous. De plus, il participe
présentement aux efforts de la province en matière de la Politique d’accueil des événements
internationaux de sports amateurs, ainsi que le développent du dossier de l’infrastructure
municipale et provinciale pour les loisirs et les sports communautaires, ainsi que pour le sport
amateur d’Ontario.
Avant ce poste, il était Vice-président du développement stratégique pour la compagnie
canadienne True Gravity Sports and Entertainment, s’occupant des divisions de représentation
d’athlète, dont Mélanie Turgeon, Ben Cahoon, Jennifer Botterill, Stéphanie Dubois, et Pat Quinn,
de gestion d’événement dont la Coupe Vanier, et de consultation stratégique pour des
organisations tels l’Association des officiels de la ligues nationale de hockey, le temple de la
renommée du baseball canadiens et RONA.
Jean-Serge a aussi évolué en tant que Directeur des opérations commerciales et du
développement pour la fédération de surf des neiges du Canada. Ses responsabilités incluaient
les interactions avec les gouvernements, les commanditaires/partenaires, les télédiffuseurs, le
comité olympique canadien, ainsi que le bon fonctionnement de la fédération.
Son entrée dans le monde du travail commença avec les Expos de Montréal en tant que
Coordonnateur des opérations du stade. Jean-Serge possède un baccalauréat spécialisé en
commerce avec une spécialisation en administration des sports, de l’Université Laurentienne.
Natif de Sudbury, Jean-Serge et sa femme Chantal habite présentement à Whitby.
BOÎTES À OUTILS (an anglais)
« Boîte à outils – Séries B (en anglais)
Le mercredi 28 juin, 13 h 30 – 15 h
outils », voir la section BOÎTE À OUTILS ci-dessous).
ATELIERS DE DÉVELOPPEMENT PERSONNEL (an anglais)
« Séances de développement personnel
Le mercredi 28 juin, 15 h 30 – 17 h
(en anglais)
outils », voir la section ATELIERS DE DÉVELOPPEMENT PERSONNEL ci-dessous).
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SÉRIES 2 : PROGRAMME FRANCOPHONE – SÉANCE 3
Le jeudi 29 juin, 9 h – 10 h 30
« Principes et pratiques des services en
français en milieu minoritaire - les leçons du
Centre francophone de Toronto :
comment croître un organisme de services en
français »
Jean-Gilles Pelletier, directeur général
Centre francophone de Toronto
SOMMAIRE : Plusieurs facteurs et variables influent sur la qualité des services en français
disponibles en milieu minoritaire :
L’offre de services en français est guidée par des cadres législatifs fédéral et provincial, et parfois
par des politiques municipales.
L’offre de services en français est modulée par des facteurs exogènes tels la composition sociodémographique des personnes voulant recevoir des services en français, et les réformes
gouvernementales importantes qui ont affecté les organismes de services depuis les dernières 15
années.
Cette offre de services est également déterminée par des facteurs endogènes, tels les structures
organisationnelles, les modes de livraison de services, la disponibilité de personnel bilingue, etc.
Le présentation fera ressortir comment ces facteurs et variables peuvent être mis à profit pour
développer et soutenir un modèle viable de provision de services en français en milieu
minoritaire.
Elle démontrera comment les développements organisationnels qu’a connu le CFT (issu de la
fusion de l’ancien Centre francophone de Toronto et du Centre médico-social communautaire)
correspondent à la mise en place d’un modèle efficace et réplicable pour d’autres communautés
de langue française en Ontario.
BIOGRAPHIE : Jean-Gilles Pelletier est le directeur général du Centre francophone de
Toronto (CFT), le centre de services multidisciplinaires en français de Toronto. Le CFT est le
résultat d’une fusion en 2004 de l’ancien CFT et du Centre médico-social communautaire de
Toronto (CMSC) qu’il dirige depuis 1997. Sous sa direction, en plus des services de santé
clinique et de promotion de la santé, le CFT a mis en place des services sociaux et
communautaires, des services à la petite enfance, des services de santé mentale et des services
d’aide juridiques. Depuis 2004, le CMSC et le CFT ont combiné leurs opérations et activités ce
qui permet d’intégrer l’offre de services d’aide au logement, de conseils à l’emploi, de services
en établissement pour nouveaux arrivants, ainsi que la coordination d’activités culturelles et
artistiques. Mandaté par plusieurs bailleurs de fonds fédéraux, provinciaux et municipal, le
Centre dispose d’un budget de plus de 5. M$ et emploie une équipe de 60 intervenants
multidisciplinaires offrant des services à cinq points d’accès à Toronto.
Jean-Gilles avait préalablement travaillé pendant une dizaine d’années à titre de conseiller en
programme et politiques pour l’Office des affaires francophones et pour le ministère des
Finances du Gouvernement de l’Ontario.
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Il a étudié la sociologie et les sciences politiques à l’Université Laval, l’Université Simon Fraser et
l’Université de Toronto. Il étudia précédemment au Collège du Pacific Lester B. Pearson, près
de Victoria, C.-B. Au cours de ses études, Jean-Gilles voyagea pendant deux ans au Canada, en
Europe, en Amérique centrale et en Amérique du Sud.
Jean-Gilles habite Toronto depuis 1988, avec sa partenaire et ses deux enfants.
SÉRIES 2 : PROGRAMME FRANCOPHONE – SÉANCE 3
« Retour à La Ville Piétonne »
Le jeudi 29 juin, 11 h – 12 h 30
Ken Greenberg, architecte et urbaniste
SOMMAIRE : Dans les décennies d’après-guerre nous avons transformé nos villes pour nous
conformer aux besoins du déplacement en auto et perdu l’art et l’habitude du marche à pied.
Actuellement il existe un mouvement pour rendre nos villes « marchable ».
BIOGRAPHIE : Architecte et urbaniste, Ken Greenberg a joué un rôle de premier plan dans
une variété de travaux réalisés dans des milieux urbains divers tant en Amérique du Nord qu’en
Europe. Son travail est principalement axé sur le rajeunissement de centre-villes, de secteurs
riverains ou de quartiers, et sur la planification générale de campus. Au nombre de ses
réalisations figurent de nombreux travaux d’aménagement : Saint Paul on the Mississippi;
Brooklyn Bridge Park, en bordure de l’East River à New York; le front du fleuve East River du
Lower Manhattan; la jetée Fan Pier à Boston; les fronts de fleuve sud-ouest et sud-est de
Washington, D.C.; le plan d’aménagement futur de Washington D.C.; la Kendall Square et la
North Point/Lechmere Square à Cambridge, le plan d’urbanisme du centre-ville de Fort
Lauderdale et le plan stratégique de développement économique et urbain de Hartford
(Connecticut). Dans chacune des villes où il a travaillé et pour chacun des projets auquel il a
participé, son approche stratégique fondée sur la concertation a permis d’aboutir à une
planification coordonnée et de susciter un nouvel intérêt marqué pour le design urbain.
Ken Greenberg assume actuellement les fonctions de chef intérimaire de la planification générale
pour la Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) de la ville de Boston et supervise à ce titre la
Crossroads Initiative, avec la construction du 'Big Dig' et de la Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Parallèlement, il travaille à toute une série de projets : mise en oeuvre du plan directeur de
régénération du logement social du quartier Regent Park à Toronto et de celui du Convention
District de San Juan au Puerto Rico; préparation d’un cadre de développement stratégique des
quartiers intermédiaires de Détroit qui entourent le Detroit Medical Center et la Wayne State
University; préparation d’un plan directeur pour le NoMA District (situé au nord de la
Massachusetts Avenue) de Washington D.C.; collaboration avec Toronto et la province de
l’Ontario au projet d’intégration de l’Ontario Place et de l’Exhibition Place; mise en œuvre du
plan directeur de Harbourfront et des plans du nouvel ensemble de studios cinématographiques
qui va être installé sur le front de lac de Toronto. M. Greenberg continue de participer à titre
de conseiller d’orientation stratégique au développement de Saint Paul, de Hartford et de
Columbus, Ohio.
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SERIES 3: GENERAL CURRICULUM
Monday, June 26, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
«Creating Supportive
Physical and Social Environments
in Rural and Northern Communities»
School of Health Studies, Research Affiliate,
Frances E. Racher, RN, PhD,
Rural Development Institute,
Associate Professor
Brandon University
SUMMARY: Traditionally, health practitioners have come to rural and northern communities to
`rural and northern communities to ‘do to’ or to ‘do for’, by taking on the role of expert. More
frequently today efforts are shifting to be consistent with the attitude of ‘doing with’ and
practitioners are taking on a role of partner and resource to the community. Community
members and health practitioners are working together to build and extend community
capacity, social cohesion and social capital. In this workshop participants will discuss attitudes,
beliefs and characteristics of rural and northern communities; principles for working with these
communities; as well as processes, strategies and tools for community health promotion and
community development ato create supportive environments. Examples of effective approaches
will be shared.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Racher is an associate professor in the
School fo Health Studies at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba and
research affiliate with the Rural Development Institute at the University.
She is actively engaged in research and teaching related to the health of
rural and northern populations and communities. Her interests include:
community and population health promotion, community development,
access to health services, rural gerontology and nursing leadership.
As a co-investigator on the four-year SSHRC project Determinants of Health of Rural
Populations and Communities. Dr. Racher is co-editor of Rural Community Health and Wellbeing: a Guide to Action. Recently she has been using photovoice with northern and rural youth
to engage youth in community planning and increase understanding of youth’s perspectives
‘community’. Dr. Racher is currently a co-investigator working with northern communities on
the three-year CIHR project Community Collaboration to Improve Access to Health Services
by Northern Residents. She holds a B.Sc.N. and B.A. (Psych) from Brandon University, an M.Sc.
in Community Health from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba and Ph.D. from
the Faculty of Nursing from the University of Calgary.
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«Engaging Community to Improve Children’s
Tuesday, June 27,
Health and Learning Environments»
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
M. Ann Phillips,
South Riverdale Community Health Centre
Environmental Health Promoter
Maria Miller
Indoor Air Quality Work Group
SUMMARY: This workshop will present lessons learned from a health promotion process which
engaged community around improving indoor air quality at a local school and produced a video
documenting the process. The video is being used as part of a community engagement process,
to raise awareness about the issue of children’s environmental health and indoor air quality.
The workshop will include:
- a screening of the video Children Breathe Easy
- a discussion of the issues of children environmental health, indoor air quality in schools and
- lessons learned regarding participatory strategies to engage community in health promotion in
action
PRESENTERS’ BIOGRAPHIES: M. Ann Phillips, PhD has been an environmental health
promoter and researcher at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre for over 5 years
working on issues of children’s environmental health; pregnancy, reproduction and the
environment and indoor air quality. As well as her background in community based
participatory action research which she integrate into her health promotion work, Ann also
draws on her experience as a women’s health and anti-racist advocate and a natural health
practitioner in doing environmental health promotion work .
Maria Miller, MA, has been a member of the Indoor Air Quality Work Group since 1992. The
IAQWG is a community organization formed under the auspices of the South Riverdale
Community Health Centre to raise awareness of and advocate for improved indoor air quality
in the community. Projects have included the publication of a book for parents on how to
protect children from exposure to pollutants, a series of entertaining skits to raise awareness of
the issue and the Blake/EAST Indoor Air Quality Project to improve air quality in a Toronto
school.
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Tuesday, June 27,
«Social and Political Challenges of Reducing
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Pesticide Use in Ecuador:
Implications for Ontario»
Dr. Donald Cole, Associate Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences &
Centre for the Environment,
SUMMARY: Like much market oriented agricultural production globally, pesticide use in
highland Ecuador is concentrated in the high risk, commercial production of potatoes and other
vegetables. Small farm families experience considerable exposure and adverse health
consequences. I will discuss a three pronged strategy we have been promoting to reduce health
impacts: 1) a community-based process of education and provision of personal protective
equipment to reduce exposure; 2) farmer field schools to increase agro-ecosystem
understandings, particularly of integrated pest management, and to reduce pesticide use; and 3)
policy interventions through multi-stakeholder platforms to restructure incentives and to
reduce availability of highly toxic insecticides. I will discuss the challenges we have faced,
parallels in Canada, and the ongoing need for integrated interventions both to reduce adverse
pesticide health impacts and to promote sustainability of agricultural production globally.
Donald trained as a physician at the University of Toronto (1978). He then practiced primary
care, public health, occupational health and environmental health in a variety of settings in
Canada and developing countries. In a community medicine residency at McMaster University he
completed a Masters in Design, Measurement and Evaluation of Health Services (1991), and
went on to quality as a Royal College fellow in Occupational Medicine (1990) and Community
Medicine (1992). A Tri-Council Eco-Research fellowship in environmental epidemiology and the
role of Interim Director of Research followed by Senior Scientist at the Institute for Work &
Health fostered his focus on research. Through the International Potato Centre, he is involved
in action research aimed at changing agriculture-related determinants of health. As a tenured
Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto and Associate
Programme Director for the Community Health and Epidemiology field of the Masters in Health
Science Programme, he currently teaches, mentors, does research, and contributes research
evidence to public health practice both in Canada and internationally.
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Wednesday, June 28,
« Making a Sustainable City Happen »
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
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« Children, Public Space and Play »
Jane Welsh, Acting Project Manager for
City of Toronto’s City Planning Division
Environmental Policy
Robert Stephens, Principal Urban Designer
SUMMARY- « Making a Sustainable City Happen »: This will be a joint presentation with
Robert Stephens, Urban Design. My presentation will focus on the social and health benefits of
sustainable development and City’s work towards making a sustainable city happen – protecting
green spaces and natural heritage, encouraging more green roofs in Toronto, and the
identification of a ‘green’ standard for city –owned facilities and sites and private sector
development.
SUMMARY: « Children, Public Space and Play » Children occupy their built and natural
environments more imaginatively than adults. To them, a wall can be a pirate ship; a tree can be
a castle. Adults are especially careful about the kinds of places they will allow their children to
go, which can often restrict imagination and lead to the segregation of children’s activities from
the overall public realm and life of a community. Research has shown that greener environments
can generate considerable social benefits for children. Research also shows that greener
environments are safer environments. My illustrated presentation will look at how the fuller
integration the needs of children into public spaces, along with the City’s green development
standards, can create healthier environments for children that will ultimately lead to a healthier
and safer environment for all members of society. Examples will be taken from places all around
the world.
PRESENTERS’ BIOGRAPHIES: Jane Welsh is acting Project Manager for environmental policy
with the City of Toronto’s City Planning Division. She has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
from the University of Guelph and a Masters of Science in Planning from the University of
Toronto. Her 20 years of municipal experience in environmental planning have included
preparing environmental policies for the Metro Toronto and new City of Toronto official plans,
and the harmonized city-wide Ravine Protection and Tree by-laws for the newly amalgamated
City of Toronto. More recently she has been a key player in developing a City policy for Green
Roofs and in preparing Green Development Standards for the City of Toronto
Robert Stephens has a degree in Biology from the University of Lancaster in England and
degree in Architecture from the University of Toronto. He has practised architecture in
Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta and is currently Principal Urban Designer with the City of
Toronto’s City Planning Division. Robert is particularly interested in Crime Prevention through
Environmental Design (CPTED) and regularly gives presentations at the International CPTED
Association’s international conferences.
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« Effectiveness of Community Interventions
Thursday, June 29,
Project: The Story Thus Far »
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Public Health Agency of Canada
Sylvie Desjardins,
Manager, Policy Research Unit
Office of Public Health Practice
SUMMARY: The Effectiveness of Community Interventions Project (ECIP) is a three-year,
interdepartmental initiative of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and Health Canada.
Launched in 2003-2004, ECIP aims to advance our understanding of what makes community
based interventions successful, and to develop resources for measuring effectiveness. By
allowing the assessment of the overall effects of investments in community-based health
promotion interventions, the index of effectiveness will help to guide policy and funding
decisions in the future, and thus to ensure program accountability.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: As Manager of the Policy Research Unit, Office of Public Health
Practice, at the Public Health Agency of Canada, Sylvie leads a multi-disciplinary team that is
developing a tool to measure systematically the effectiveness of health interventions at the
community level, as well as an on-line system too. Sylvie is a PhD candidate in Public Health at
the University of Montreal. She has degrees in law, economics and health administration. Her
main research interests are analysis of the health system (determinants of health, organizational
performance, planning of medical resources, and international health systems); program
evaluation; and methods for community-level interventions in public and population health. As a
teacher, researcher and health economist, Sylvie brings a unique and practical lens to population
health discussions on the effectiveness of interventions and evidence-based policy making. Her
expertise lies in researching the linkages between investments in health promotion and the
reduction of economic burden in illness/disease.
«Wrap-up»
Thursday, June 29, 11:00-12:30
Suzanne Jackson, Director
SUMMARY: In this session, participants will have an opportunity to reflect on the key messages
and applications to practice presented at the Summer School in relation to the overall theme.
Dr. Jackson will present an overall framework for understanding the role of creating supportive
environments in relation to the other Ottawa Charter strategies in health promotion that was
presented at the World Health Organization health promotion conference in Bangkok in 2005.
The session will focus on summarizing the highlights and moving to action.
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Suzanne Jackson is the Director of the Centre for Health Promotion at the University of
Toronto. She has conducted research in community capacity indicators, economic evaluation in
health promotion, empowerment indicators, indicators of health promotion for international
use, and community systems. She specializes in participatory planning, research and evaluation
consultations with grassroots community groups and community health organizations. Suzanne
has worked in health promotion research for ten years in Canada and internationally and she
has eleven years accumulated experience working in the public sector for the Ontario Ministry
of Health and the Toronto Department of Public Health. Suzanne received her PhD from the
School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Waterloo. She has been President of
the Ontario Public Health Association, vice-president of the Canadian Public Health Association
and chair of the Board of Directors of ICA Canada (a community development and facilitated
group decision-making organization). She has been invited to speak on health promotion topics
in various parts of Canada, USA, Jakarta, Australia, Mexico, Colombia, Germany, and Brazil.
TOOLBOX SESSIONS
N.B. THERE ARE TWO TOOLBOX SESSSIONS – A AND B -PARTICIPANTS MUST SELECT ONE IN
EACH SESSION.
(OFFERED IN ENGLISH ONLY)
SERIES A: TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 3:30 – 5:00 P.M.
TOOLBOX SESSION A - ABORIGINAL STREAM
«Medicine Wheel Teaching»
Tuesday, June 27, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Annie Wilson, Elder and Grandmother
SUMMARY: The term “medicine” as it is used in the term Medicine Wheel refers to a healing, a
teaching, to an enlightening, to spiritual energy. A Medicine Wheel can best be described as a
mirror within which everything is reflected.
This Medicine Wheel concept is ancient, passed through the generations. It is a spiritual,
emotional, psychological & physical improvement model. To be used by and for those who seek
inner peace, spiritual strength and a healthier mind and body.
In this workshop Annie Wilson will share the teachings of the Medicine Wheel with participants.
BIOGRAPHY: Elder/Grandmother Ann Wilson (Bebaamijiwebiik) is a member of the
Awaazisii (Bullhead) Clan and is from the Rainy River First Nation. She is a mother,
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grandmother and great-grandmother. As well, she is an Auntie, Awe’e and friend to many
whom she is close to.
Ann was born in her Rainy River First Nation’s home in the 1920’s. Her mother, grandmother
and extended family ensured she learned her language, traditions and culture. As a child her
traditional upbringing was interrupted for a short period to attend Residential School in Fort
Frances. True to her clan, she was determined to hold her language, traditions and culture
close when told to let it go. She maintained these teachings and returned home bilingual and
stronger.
As a married woman and mother, she lived on the trap line, learning the habits of the animals
and the dominant society. During her mid-life, Bebaamijiwebiik recorded the stories of her
elders and continues today to pass their teachings on.
Currently, Ann works with students in the Seven Generations Education Institute Masters of
Indigenous Philosophy and Knowledge where she addresses many groups wanting to hear her
teachings. She has traveled extensively throughout Canada and the United States to share her
knowledge and teachings. As a wise grandmother who held on to her Way of Life, she has been
asked to speak about the Way of Life for the Anishinaabe by many organizations and committee
members.
Such organizations include: the Ontario Native Women’s Association, Ontario
Federation of Indian Friendship Centres, Health Canada, the Mic’maq Nation of Nova Scotia,
Algoma University, North Shore Tribal Council Health Program, Native Mental Health
Conference 2004.
Ann has truly learned the value and importance of a balanced lifestyle. She ensures that the
body, mind, heart and soul all work together to keep the spirit strong as Anishinaabe.
TOOLBOX SESSION A - ABORIGINAL STREAM
«Exploring the Connection between
Aboriginal Women’s Hand Drumming and
Health Promotion
(Mino-Bimaadiziwin)»
Sudbury & District
Ghislaine Goudreau, Health Promoter
Public Health Unit
and member of the
Waabishki Mkwaa Singers
SUMMARY: The presenter, a member of the Waabishki Mkwaa Singers, an Aboriginal women’s
hand drumming circle located in Northern Ontario, will describe how her study uncovered the
importance of traditional activities, such as hand drumming, in promoting balance and well-being
within the Aboriginal communities. Building on strengths and utilizing the community are
common to both Aboriginal beliefs and health promotion theories. Health promotion to
Aboriginal people is described simply as living the good life (Mino-Bimaadiziwin) and practicing
the traditional ways within the Circle of Life also known as the Medicine Wheel. An adapted
Circle of Life model was utilized for this study. It incorporated the main elements of self: the
physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual as well as the appropriate determinants of health:
culture and social support networks. All of these elements, as well as the importance of utilizing
an Indigenous Research Methodology, will be discussed.
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PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Ghislaine Goudreau is a member of the Algonquin of
TOOLBOX SESSION A - GENERAL STREAM
«Implementing and Evaluating
Tuesday, June 27,
a Pesticide Reduction By-Law»
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Rich Whate, Health Promotion Consultant
Toronto Public Health,
Environmental Protection Office
SUMMARY: This workshop will explore the range of health promotion tools being used to
support the City of Toronto’s Pesticide By-law. It will discuss public and stakeholder
perspectives to lawn and garden care and pesticides, the outreach programs devised to promote
pesticide reduction and the indicators being used to evaluate success.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Rich Whate is a Health Promotion Consultant with the
Environmental Protection Office at Toronto Public Health. He is a lead with the
communications and policy team that is implementing the city's Pesticide By-law. Prior to
joining Public Health, Rich spent 10 years working on environmental health issues with nongovernmental organizations, including the Toronto Environmental Alliance, the Toronto Cancer
Prevention Coalition and Health Care without Harm.
«Working Together to Integrate Transpeople
Tuesday, June 27,
into our Organizations & Communities»
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Rupert Raj, Transactivist, Therapist, Trainer,
Sherbourne Health Centre
Researcher, Consultant and Gender Specialist
SUMMARY: In this workshop the presenter will review the need for Trans Inclusion in: Health
Care; Housing; Social Services; Education; Employment Services; Government Services; Legal
Services; Law Enforcement; Diverse Communities (Mainstream, LGBTT, Ethnic, Faith);
Research; Academia (Law; Medicine, Theology); and the Media. Participants will also learn about
what is being done and what still needs to be done, working together to develop strategies for
Trans Inclusivity (core competencies: alliance building, community consulting & accountability,
advocacy, policy making & implementation).
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Rupert Raj is a 53-year-old, Eurasian, pansexual, transman,
transactivist, therapist, trainer, researcher, consultant and gender specialist.
From 1971 to 1990, Rupert provided peer education, counselling, support and advocacy to the
transsexual/ transvestite and medical/psychological communities across Canada (Ottawa,
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Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary) and in the USA. In 1999, he came back as a mental
health practitioner-in-training.
Mr. Raj has recently published two trans-related research papers: “Towards A TransPositive
Therapeutic Model: Developing Clinical Sensitivity and Cultural Competence in the Effective
Support of Transsexual and Transgendered Clients” and “The Trans Health Project Position
Paper” (co-authored with Susan Gapka - in collaboration with the Ontario Public Health
Association), with two more in press.
He established “RR Consulting” in April 2002, which provided a formal vehicle for offering
trans-related consultations and transpositive training sessions to health care and community
service providers, researchers, academics and students.
Rupert has been working at Sherbourne Health Centre since November 2002 as a
psychotherapist in the LGBTT Program. He counsels transsexual and transgendered people, gay
men, lesbians, bisexuals and their loved ones. He provides individual, couple, family and group
therapeutic support, and also health promotional workshops for queer and transpeople.
Tuesday, June 27,
« Attitude Adjuster:
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Sexual Health Education
with Hard-to-Reach Youth»
Michele Chai, Community Health Promoter
Planned Parenthood of Toronto
SUMMARY: This interactive workshop examines the challenges of engaging hard to reach youth
in sexual health education. Explore strategies for dismantling mainstream attitudes and values
around sex and sexuality to better equip us to work with diverse groups of youth. This
workshop also examines our own stereotypes and biases toward youth and sexuality that may
prevent us from providing non-judgmental youth focused services.
The facilitator uses a
creative and exciting approach to working with hard to reach youth using a feminist, anti-racist,
anti-oppressive, youth positive framework.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Michele Chai is a Community Health Promoter with Planned
Parenthood of Toronto. She works with diverse youth aged 13-25 in a variety of community
settings. Michele facilitates interactive sexual health workshops, including workshops on healthy
sexuality and building healthier relationships.
« The Role of the Media
Tuesday, June 27,
in Creating a Healthy Society »
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
André Picard, Journalist
Globe & Mail Newspaper
SUMMARY: The role of the media in creating a healthy society. Canadians get most of their
health information from the media. But how good is that information? Is there too much
emphasis placed on medical miracles and not enough on sound public health strategies? André
Picard, public health reporter at The Globe and Mail, leads an interactive session, and offers
advice on how to get out your health message.
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PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: André Picard is one of Canada's top public policy writers. He is
currently the public health reporter at The Globe and Mail, where he has been a staff writer
since 1987. He also serves as the paper's Quebec Bureau Chief. He is the author of the bestselling books CRITICAL CARE: Canadian Nurses Speak For Change and THE GIFT OF DEATH:
Confronting Canada's Tainted Blood Tragedy. He is also the author of A CALL TO ALMS: The
New Face of Charity in Canada. André has received much acclaim for his writing, including the
Canadian Nurses' Association Award of Excellence in 2000 and 2001, the Michener Award for
Meritorious Public Service Journalism, the Canadian Policy Research Award, the Science and
Society Prize, and the Atkinson Fellowship for Public Policy Research. He has been a three-time
finalist for the National Newspaper Awards, a nominee for the Gordon Montadour Award for
Public Policy Writing, and the QSPELL Award for Non-Fiction. His work has also been
honoured by the Canadian Hearing Society. André lives in Montreal.
Tuesday, June 27,
« Empowerment Evaluation: Building
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Community-based Evaluation Capacity»
Michelle Everest, Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine and PhD Candidate,
Wilfrid Laurier University (Community Psychology)
SUMMARY: This toolbox will introduce the concept of “Empowerment Evaluation” and how it
compares to other participatory evaluation approaches. A case study will be used to
demonstrate the ways in which the principles of empowerment evaluation can be applied
towards providing utilizable evaluation outputs while simultaneously building evaluation capacity
within organizations. It is intended that this session will assist evaluators and evaluation
stakeholders alike in working together towards a more inclusive and equitable distribution of
power and input throughout evaluation activities.
PRESENTERS’ BIOGRAPHY: Michelle Everest is a licensed Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine
and PhD candidate in Community Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her commitment to
health and well-being is practised and promoted at micro, meso and macro levels of society.
Michelle has worked as a consultant to organizations requiring evaluation assistance to meet
funding requirements and to promote sustainability since 1996.
Tuesday, June 27,
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
«Creating Optimum Health:
Peel Region’s Commitment to
Safe Environments for Women»
Julie Pehar, Community Coordinator
Lenora Sleep, Project Manager
Vicki Vopni, Social Worker, Sexual Assault
Care and Counselling
Sandeep Gill
Peel Committee on Sexual Assault
Peel Committee Against Woman Abuse
Trillium Health Centre
Peel Health
SUMMARY: This interactive workshop will highlight the Collaborative structure of The Peel
Committee on Sexual Assault and the Peel Committee Against Woman Abuse and their
partnerships with The Peel Regional Health Department and Trillium Health Centre around
health and safety issues for women. Healthy communities require a common commitment to
identify the unique needs of women, advocate, bridge gaps and build capacity to ensure optimal
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physical, emotional, sexual, economic and spiritual health. Women experience safety differently
from men, are vulnerable to violence and fear crime more than men and as a result do not often
share the same quality of physical and social community life. This is particularly true for
marginalized women, women with disabilities, poor women, the elderly, immigrant women,
lesbian women and racialized women.
Participants will learn about the framework of Regional partnerships where supporting women’s
physical and social environment is the focus. Participants will have an opportunity to engage with
each other and will take away practical strategies to implement similar initiatives in health
promotion in their own communities. Many examples of resources, successful workshops,
ongoing advocacy, educational initiatives, media strategies, consultations with survivors of
violence will be presented.
PRESENTERS’ BIOGRAPHIES: Julie Pehar is the Coordinator of the Peel Committee on
Sexual Assault, a community collaborative that responds to best practices, protocol and victim
response to sexual assault in the Region of Peel. She is the past Education Coordinator for the
Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Services of Halton and is the Co-owner of “Equity
Vision” an Independent Consulting Firm in the field of Equity Education.
She holds a Respiratory Technology Diploma from the Michener Institute in Toronto, a
Bachelor of Arts Degree from McMaster University in Sociology and Women’s Studies and a
Masters Degree in Education from the University of Toronto in the discipline of Sociology and
Equity.
Her areas of research and publications include; Women in Sport, Gender and Reproductive
Technology, Women and the Internet and most recently, Cyberbullying and Gender Differences
and the Use of the Internet.
Julie sits on the Board of Director of the Halton Organization for Pride and Education, Halton’s
only organization that offers support and education around the issue of Homophobia.
Lenora Sleep has an M.A. (Sociology) with the University of New Brunswick. For over ten
years, she has been teaching, consulting, and conducting research for the VAW field. She is
currently the Project Manager of the PCAWA, a collaborative of over 30 agencies whose
mandate is to provide a coordinated response to woman abuse in the Peel Region.
The Peel Committee on Sexual Assault (PCSA) is a program of Trillium Health Centre’s
Women’s and Children’s Health. PCSA has been a coordinating committee since 1995 and
coordinates prevention, awareness-raising and educational initiatives as well as service
coordination for victims/survivors. PCSA is a group of concerned individuals and service
providers working collaboratively to establish a comprehensive and effective community
response to end sexual violence including a sexual assault emergency response protocol,
coordinated service delivery, education, advocacy, consumer consultation and media interaction.
PCSA strives to find a balance between prevention initiatives as well as improving the
coordination of support services and agencies ability to meet the needs of women from diverse
life experiences.
The Peel Committee Against Woman Abuse (PCAWA) was first established in 1984
when a group of individuals from various VAW agencies came together to consider ways of
working collaboratively towards the elimination of violence against women living in the Region
of Peel. At this time, PCAWA's core operations consisted of networking, advocacy for
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increased funding, raising public awareness via education and outreach campaigns, community
development, and building the organizational capacity of the membership.
The Committee now consists of over 30 agencies in Peel, representing shelters, legal and court
services, support and counselling services, settlement services, health services, community
collaboratives, and research and public education bodies. The vision of the PCAWA is to
eliminate violence against women in the Region of Peel. Its mission is to facilitate and advocate
for a coordinated and effective community response to violence against women in the Region of
Peel.
SÉRIES B: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1:30 – 3:00 P.M.
TOOLBOX B – GENERAL STREAM
«Creating Enabling Environments»
Wednesday, June 28
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Esther Ignani, Researcher
Department of Family and Community
Fran Odette, Program Manager,
Women with Disabilities and
Deaf Women’s Program
Medicine,
Education Wife Assault
SUMMARY: This workshop explores how disability is created in work environments. Taking a
broad view of 'work', participants will map how the places in which they work not only fail to
accommodate physical and mental difference, but exacerbate and fosters a hierarchy among
these differences.
PRESENTERS’ BIOGRAPHIES: Esther Ignagni is a community-based researcher and worker,
primarily around disability, youth and community health issues. She lectures on disability and
community work at Ryerson University and is currently completing her doctoral thesis in the
Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto.
Fran Odette is the Program Manager of the Women with Disabilities and Deaf Women’s
Program at Education Wife Assault. She has been working in the area of violence prevention for
approximately 15 years, with a focus on access to services and service delivery/programming for
women living with disabilities fleeing violence. She has also co-authored a book with Cory
Silverberg and Miriam Kaufman entitled The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For
All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain and Illness by Cleis Press, 2004.
TOOLBOX SESSION B - GENERAL STREAM
«Health Promotion at Dufferin Grove Park in
Wednesday, June 28
Toronto»
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Mayssan Shuja, Dufferin Park Staff
Parks and Recreation, City of Toronto,
SUMMARY: The presentation titled Health Promotion at Dufferin Grove Park will cover a
variety of ways in which healthy activities and lifestyles are promoted at Dufferin Grove Park. It
will discuss how the community and park staff have been collaborating for the last ten years to
create a friendly and inviting atmosphere at the park. I will highlight the various projects that
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were started, some of which are ongoing. These range from the creation of fire pits at the park
to the building of a cob wall. The talk will cover how our health promotion activities adapt to
changing environments and other social elements relative to the community around Dufferin
Park.
Arrived in Canada 1997
1997-2002 Trent University (Bsc Biology with an interest in Sociology)
2004- Present Lead staff person at Dufferin Grove Park
TOOLBOX SESSION B - GENERAL STREAM
Wednesday, June 28
«Children's Health and the Environment:
1:30-3:00 p.m.
the Need for Protection and Action
for Prevention»
Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg,
Environmental Health, Global Education and Film Consultant,
Volunteer Education Coordinator,
Women’s Healthy Environments Network
SUMMARY: In recent years, the rise in environmentally related children's conditions has
become a cause for concern among many parents, health professionals, educators, government
policy makers and the Canadian public who realize that children need protection from an
environment which has become increasingly toxic. The key Canadian/North American health
outcomes with epidemiological evidence of links to environmental hazards are: asthma, cancer,
neuro-behavioural and developmental effects, low birth weight and birth defects (Rod Raphael,
Director General, Safe Environments Programme, Healthy Environments, Consumer Safety
Branch, Presented at Canadian Association of Physicians for Environment (CAPE) public
meeting, Nov.2000).
This workshop will highlight issues in the growing public debate about the implications of our
contaminated world on children’s' health in the context of primary prevention on these issues.
"Clips" from If You Love Our Children: Children will be shown and discussed. Participants
will engage in addressing the question: if many children's adverse health conditions are largely
environmentally linked, can they therefore be largely preventable?
The workshop is designed to raise awareness, explain the issues and present safe alternatives to
harmful substances in the air, water, food and soil with the aim of education and action for
prevention. Resources will avail participants with tools to engage in education and action for
healthy homes, communities, workplaces and the earth - intended to encourage engagement in
personal, social, and policy change.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg holds a Masters in Environmental
Studies (York University) and a PhD (University of Toronto). An education and film consultant,
she researches, writes and speaks on environmental health, equality, social, economic and
environmental justice, peace and energy issues. She has worked with the National Film Board,
schoolboards, non-governmental organizations, health professional and policy groups on these
issues. She was principle research consultant and associate producer of the documentary video,
Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer and researcher/writer of the
accompanying guidebook called Taking Action for a Healthy Future. She has led numerous
trainers’ workshops using these materials as educational tools.
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Volunteer Education Coordinator of the Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN),
she teaches a theory and policy course called Environmental Health, Transformative Higher
Education and Policy Change: Feminist Approaches to Social and Ecosystem Healing at OISE/UT.
She was director of Les femmes s'en melent: Making a World of Difference: A Directory of
Women in Canada Specializing in Global Issues (development, environment, peace and related
social justice and economic issues); was the Development and Disarmament Coordinator of the
Canadian Council for International Cooperation (1986-88); is affiliated with: WHEN, the Breast
Cancer Prevention Coalition, the Voice of Women for Peace, the Cancer Prevention Group of
the Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto; the 9th International Women and
Health Meeting, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Physicians for
Global Survival, National Network on Environments and Women's Health, Centre of Excellence
(NNEWH), York University (2000-04), Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education.
She is co-editor (with George Dei and Budd Hall) of Indigenous Knowledge: Multiple Readings of
Our World, University of Toronto Press (2000).
Her awards include:
the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the
Confederation of Canada, a Governor General of Canada Award; the United Nations
Environmental Program Award (UNEP) for Environmental Stewardship and the Canadian Auto
Workers (CAW) Award for Cancer Prevention.
She is currently researching and producing a documentary on children's health and the
environment. She is mother of Pamela Rosenberg Vennin and Matthew Jay Rosenberg and
grandmother of Rosie Annabelle, Sydney Helena and Magali Elianne Vennin most important of
all!)
TOOLBOX SESSION B – GENERAL STREAM
«Health Promotion in Hospitals»
Wednesday, June 28, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
AboutKidsHealth,
Kimberley Meighan,
Family Resource Centre,
Manager,
The Hospital for Sick Children
Health Information
SUMMARY: In this workshop, we will review origins of healthy settings and health promoting
health care facilities and why hospitals should be involved in health promotion.
We will also include variety of potential models or design; Examples will be given on what types
of health promotion initiatives have been done in a downtown paediatric hospital, and
community hospital, including partnerships with the community, patients, families, and staff. We
will share information on evaluating the effectiveness of health promotion initiatives and how we
link with the broader community.
PRESENTERS’ BIOGRAPHY: Kimberley Meighan is a registered nurse at the
AboutKidsHealth, Family Resource Centre at The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ont. She
completed the “Nursing Care Leadership/Management Program at McMaster University and is
continuing in her studies. She currently manages a busy family resource centre and provides
families, patients, staff and the community with health and wellness information. She collaborates
with partners within the hospital and community and plans, develops and evaluates health
promotion initiatives within the hospital. Additionally, she is actively involved with community
groups focusing on injury prevention initiatives.
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TOOLBOX SESSION - GENERAL STREAM
«Tipping the Scales: A Population Health
Wednesday, June 28,
Approach to Promoting Healthy Weight »
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Elizabeth Votta, Program Lead Reports
Canadian Population Health Initiative
SUMMARY: A number of factors affect the health and well being of Canadians including social,
economic, cultural and physical environments; interactions between individual biology and
behaviours; and health services. A population health approach addresses this range of individual
and collective factors known as determinants of health. It focuses on how these determinants are
interrelated and associated with long-term health, explores health disparities and applies the
resulting knowledge to developing and implementing policies and actions to improve the health
and well-being of populations.
This “toolbox” session will introduce the concept of population health. The focus of a
population health approach is broader than trying to change the behaviour of individuals. A
population health approach to health aims to improve the health of the entire population and to
reduce health inequities among population groups whose health is poorer than that of the
general population.
Although Canadians are generally healthier and living longer than at any point in history, there
are differences in health status within the Canadian population and between groups of
Canadians. Placing particular emphasis on the determinants of health this session will explore
why some of us are healthier than others despite the fact that most of us are exposed to similar
things that can threaten our health. The session will provide an overview of the elements of
population health, including definitions, key concepts and goals.
Obesity will be used as a case study to illustrate the population health approach. Promoting
Health Weights is the second individual report in the Canadian Population Health Initiative’s
Improving the Health of Canadians 2005-2006 Report Series. The unique contribution of this report
is its focus, within a population health framework, on the role of a number of settings and
environments (community and physical environment, workplace, school, home and family
environment, nutrition environment and personal health services) in promoting or inhibiting
healthy weights among Canadians.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Elizabeth (Lisa) Votta holds the position of Program Lead,
Reports and Analysis with the Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI) of the Canadian
Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Dr. Votta holds a PhD in Psychology, which she
obtained from Carleton University in 2001. Her dissertation explored the impact of coping style,
negative life events, self-esteem and social support on the psychological adjustment of homeless
adolescent males. She has since replicated this work with homeless adolescent females. Prior to
taking on her position at the CIHI, Dr. Votta held two postdoctoral fellowships during which
she pursued her research interests in the fields of injury prevention, health disparities, and youth
homelessness.
In her position as Program Lead, Dr. Votta is the Project Manager for the production of CPHI’s
Improving the Health of Canadians Report Series. Improving the Health of Canadians 2004 was
CPHI’s first flagship report. The report was organized into four key chapters: Income, Early
Childhood Development, Aboriginal Peoples’ Health and Obesity. It synthesized and presented
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evidence about the factors that affect the health of Canadians, ways to improve health and the
implications of policy and program options. After the release of IHC 2004, a decision was made
to produce and disseminate the second report, Improving the Health of Canadians 2005–2006, as
a report series reflecting CPHI’s current three strategic themes: Healthy Transitions to
Adulthood (released in October 2005), Healthy Weights (released in February 2006) and Place
and Health (scheduled for release in the fall 2006). The series examines what we know about
factors that affect the health of Canadians, ways to improve our health and relevant options for
evidence-based policy choices.
TOOLBOX SESSION - GENERAL STREAM
Wednesday, June 28,
«Playing the ‘Funding Game’ –
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Effective Strategies and
Proposal-Writing Tips»
Leila Sherriff, Consultant, Community Development Consultant and Paralegal,
owner of Sherriff Paralegal Services
SUMMARY: Leila puts her dramatic skills into a Funding Proposal Game that she presents. She
has various versions of this, but it can take on a Who Wants to be a Millionaire style, or a basic
quiz show. Attend this session and see what she's up to this time. Leila has worked with several
Funders groups and has their do's and don'ts that they want everyone to know. Very specific
tactics to consider will be discussed. In part of this session, participants will go through the
'funding' game, all the while answering questions about what is expected in funding applications
and pitfalls to avoid. This is a fun workshop that compliments the OHCC resource Strategies for
Effective Proposal Writing (free downloadable or available in hard copy at modest price).
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Leila is a graduate from the University of Waterloo with a B.A. in
English (Drama).
She is a community development consultant and also a paralegal with her own company,
Sherriff Paralegal Services. Leila was with the Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition for 7
years. She used to cover the central part of the province as a Community Animator. She
animated community groups with facilitations, consultations, referrals and presentations.
Now she is staying closer to her home which is just outside Orillia. She always keeps
humour in her work and in her spare time, Leila is a performer with a community theatre
troupe. She will be sure to make her session a fun, but very informative session.
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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
N.B. THERE IS ONE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP SESSION - PARTICIPANTS HAVE
SELECTED THEIR WORKSHOP.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP- GENERAL STREAM
«The Reality Project»
Wednesday, June 28, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Beth Follett, writer and mentor
SUMMARY: How do we know what is true? How do we know what we can trust? What
distinguishes the truths we are told from the truths we tell ourselves? What is an inner truth?
How do we know it? The hope is that we can begin to identify the vulnerability of our creative
selves, to map out how we might find some solitude in our hurrying lives within which to deeply
consider the conventions of the world, a solitude wherein the sanctions placed on those who go
against the conventions of the world can be observed.
PRESENTERS’ BIOGRAPHY: Beth Follett is the publisher and in-house editor of Pedlar Press,
an independent Canadian literary press based in Toronto. Her first novel, Tell It Slant [Coach
House Books, 2001] introduces into the late 20th century two lesbian figures from Djuna
Barnes's Nightwood, a strange and beautiful piece of writing published in 1936. Follett is currently
and intermittently at work on a second novel.
« Art Therapy»
Wednesday, June 28,
3:30- 5:00 p.m.
Naomi Kates, Art Therapist
Melita Richardson, Art Therapist
SUMMARY: The workshop will begin with a brief introduction into what is Art Therapy (what
we do, and who we do it with). Participants will be involved in art activities that are enjoyable
and do not require any artistic ability. These activities will explore how art can open up fields of
communication.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Naomi’s background is in illustration (Drawing and Painting)
from OCAD. She has done some theatrical work, including puppet and prop building. She has
completed training at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute and is writing a thesis on work done in
a long-term care residence. Her interests in the Creative Arts Therapies range from the use of
art to music, puppet-making and writing.
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« The Step Class»
Wednesday, June 28,
3:30- 5:00 p.m.
IFL Wellness Centre
SUMMARY: The Step Class is a workshop that will provide you with an overall body workout.
This fitness class consists of various moves on the step platform along with invigorating, heart
pumping music. The choreography on the "STEP" will keep you moving and learning new ways
to engage your cardiovascular system while giving your lower body a conditioning workout. The
step moves will alternate with some floor functional exercises that will strengthen and tone your
muscles. The workout will end with a combination of isolated exercises for specific parts of the
body, together with stretching and relaxation.
« The Aquafit Class»
Wednesday, June 28,
3:30- 5:00 p.m.
IFL Wellness Centre
SUMMARY: The Aquafit Class is a fun water workout that incorporates some use of water
accessories such as pool noodles, flutter boards, etc. Designed for all levels of fitness, this class
is performed in shallow water. Music is used to energize participants to get them moving and
having fun. The combination of continuous movement together with the resistance of the water
provides a revitalizing workout.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS - ABORIGINAL STREAM
«Aboriginal Hand Drumming Workshop»
Wednesday, June 28,
3:30- 5:00 p.m.
Ghislaine Goudreau
Northern Ontario Aboriginal
women’s hand drumming circle
The Waabishki Mkwaa Singers
Brenda MacIntyre,
Spirit Wind
artist and founding member
SUMMARY: In Ontario, many Aboriginal people have returned to the drum, the heart beat of
Mother Earth. The healing power of the drum has freed the suppressed voices of countless
Aboriginal people and, in turn, those voices are able to share with others.
The hand drumming circle will begin with a short cleansing ceremony (smudging). In the circle,
participants will learn various songs and teachings of the Aboriginal hand drum. They will be able
to participate in the hand drumming and singing at their own comfort level. All participants,
whether they sing, use a drum or shaker or simply listen, will experience relaxation and a sense
of the re-energizing heart beat of the drum.
PRESENTERS’ BIOGRAPHIES: Ghislaine Goudreau is a member of the Algonquin of
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Brenda MacIntyre, Mshkiki ngamwinine Kwe (Medicine Song Woman), is a Juno award-winning
Aboriginal singer, drummer and traditional sound healer. She has opened for best-selling authors
Shakti Gawain, Dr. Masaru Emoto (The True Power of Water) and Gregg Braden, and appeared at
Ontario Place, The Opera House, OMNI and MuchMusic. Brenda specializes in personal
empowerment, stress relief and inspiration through music and storytelling. Her latest CD,
Thunder Mountain Healing Songs, was released in November 2005. www.BrendaMacIntyre.com.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS – GENERAL STREAM
Wednesday, June 28,
«Complementary and Alternative approaches
3:30- 5:00 p.m.
to Health and Well-being:
Naturopathic Medicine»
Michelle Everest, Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine
and PhD (candidate in Community Psychology)
SUMMARY: This toolbox will provide participants with an overview of Complementary and
Alternative Medicine (CAM). Particular emphasis will be given to the training and scope of
Naturopathic Medical Doctors which includes: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Botanical Medicine,
Homeopathy, Bodywork, Clinical Nutrition and Lifestyle Counselling. Participants who attend
this session will gain insight into the theory and practice of these CAM modalities and how they
map onto conventional medical approaches to health, illness and medicine.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Michelle Everest is a licensed Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine
and PhD candidate in Community Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her commitment to
health and well-being is practised and promoted at micro, meso and macro levels of society.
Michelle has worked as a consultant to organizations requiring evaluation assistance to meet
funding requirements and to promote sustainability since 1996.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS – GENERAL STREAM
«Yoga»
Wednesday, June 28,
3:30- 5:00 p.m.
Rita Piazza
Certified Yoga Instructor
SUMMARY: Rita will guide the class through gentle Yoga postures, breathing exercises and
relaxation techniques. No previous experience or special equipment required. In other words
you don’t need mats, or gym clothes. Loose fitting, comfortable clothing is recommended.
Participants will enjoy the practical experience of Yoga and its benefits, such as relaxation, stress
reduction, healing, toning, and mental, physical and spiritual health.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Rita Piazza teaches Hatha Yoga inspired by Vanda Scaravelli. As
well she has a background in Iyengar and Kripalu yoga. Rita has been practicing yoga for over 20
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years, and as a certified Yoga teacher she has been teaching yoga since 1996. She has studied
meditation, Yoga Nidra, Imagery work, Chi Qong, Dance, and other healing modalities. She has
a certificate in Shiatsu Therapy and Therapeutic Touch.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS – ABORIGINAL STREAM
«Healing with the Cycles»
Wednesday, June 28,
3:30- 5:00 p.m.
Earth Healing
Herb Farm and Retreat
Traditional Counsellor
SUMMARY: The workshop will focus on the four seasons and how assist with personal growth.
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Jan Kahehti:io is the mother of three daughters, one son and ten
Nations.
traditional healing arts nad medicines. For most of her life, Jan has worked in education and the
Jan Kahehti:io presently services First Nation communities in Indigenous practices of Healing and
Well-being.
SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
DATE AND TIME: Monday, June 20, 6:30 p.m.
(Supper will be served earlier that evening)
BUS TO DOWNTOWN TORONTO (Bus will drop PRE-REGISTERED participants
off and pick them up (circa 10:30 p.m.) at 2 downtown locations: Dundas and Yonge
(Eaton’s Centre), and Harbourfront).
THERE ARE NO ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS EVENT
(Activity is free of charge however a $20 deposit must be paid at sign-up at HPSS.
This fee will be refunded to those who participate in outing.)
NB CHECK SIGN-UP SHEET AT HPSS REGISTRATION DESK
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FRANCOPHONE FESITIVITIES: UNE DÎNER FRANCOPHONE
(ALL WELCOME - Activity is free of charge)
Monday, June 26, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
NB CHECK SIGN-UP SHEET AT HPSS REGISTRATION
FULL
WORKSHOP: «Play Day for Grown-Ups» (Laughter and Play) (with Bertha Adams)
(Activity is free of charge – 30 participants maximum)
SUMMARY: Learn the « Hee-hee, Ha-ha, Ho-ho, Ha-ha’ in the moment and embrace your
uniqueness and share your laughing spirit with others. Let laughter, humour and play have the
leading role in your life.
This workshop encourages healthy risk-taking. It will help you get in touch with the playful part
of you that truly enjoys playing, having fun and being silly. This workshop will help you get in
touch with your laughing spirit. A hilarious and fun workshop that is sure to tickle your funny
bone.
Everyone will benefit both personally and professionally from the gifts that are shared here at
the workshop – especially the Gift of Laughter. Experience the many gifts that Laughter and Play
can bring into your life. ENJOY! (Laughter Heals the Spirit!)
PRESENTER’S BIOGRAPHY: Bertha Adams (Community Wellness Worker, Aboriginal
Healing and Wellness) Is a wife, friend and happily married to an extremely handsome man,
named John. She has a beautiful daughter, Michelle and handsome son-in-law, Derek, who reside
in Australia and a handsome son, Darren, in Sarnia. Bertha and John have five sweet
grandchildren.
Bertha’s top priority is always her family. She has a wealth of experience already behind her.
Helping to put fun and friendship, as well as balance in one’s life. Affiliation of membership and
responsibilities include: Women’s Interval Home, Sarnia (Chair and Board member), Family
Community Wellness Conference, Walpole Island (Coordinator), National Addictions
Awareness Week, Sarnia (Chair), and member of Design Team for Ojibwe Legends Trading
Company, Chippewas of Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Her designs are inspired by personal
experience.
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ABORIGINAL TRADITIONAL GATHERING:
SUPPER FEAST AND ENTERTAINMENT
Featuring:
- Come Dance With Us! Children’s dance troupe, Sarnia
- Brenda Macintyre, (Hand) drummer, Toronto
- Annette Chrétien, Métis fiddler, Brantford
- Jamie Maracle and Wahahi:io Drum Group (Mohawk), Toronto
Pre-registration is necessary.
Activity is free of charge.
Wednesday, June 28, 6:30 P.M.
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