Mental Health and Addictions: Moving from Challenge to Opportunity

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Date: 
6 May, 2014

This workshop is geared towards organizations who work with participants living with mental health or addictions issues.

Discussion will include:

  • Working to empower without enabling
  • Working in a meaningful and respectful way with participants
  • How to help participants move forward
  • How to keep lived experience present at all levels of programming

Pat Capponi has carved out a career as an author, journalist, speaker, and social activist.  She has written extensively on mental health, addictions and poverty issues, including Upstairs in the Crazy House: The Life of a Psychiatric Survivor and Dispatches from the Poverty Line. She has worked in a variety of settings, which have helped her to develop her skills as a community worker, an educator, a facilitator, an advocate, a writer and a public speaker. 

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When:Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
9:30 am – 4:00pm
Where:West End Commons, Assembly Hall 641 St. Matthew’s Ave., Winnipeg
Cost:$50 registration fee, payable to the West Central Women’s Resource Centre
Deadline:         Please register on or before April 30th to Madeline at admin@wcwrc.ca


- Lunch will be provided -


 
Region: 
Host: 
West Central Women’s Resource Centre (WCWRC)
Winnipeg  Manitoba
Canada