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Refocus on Recovery: Conference review

Saturday, March 24th, 2012

Marina Morrow, Lupin Battersby and Susan Hardie presented at the March 2012 Refocus on Recovery Conference in London UK. Rethink Mental Illness and Section for Recovery (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London) organized the conference that featured international service providers, program developers, researchers and service users interested in alternatives to the standard medical models of care for mental illness.

Over 300 registered participants heard stories of and innovative programs for recovery. Primarily the presentations affirmed the success of recovery informed practices. However, some speakers did challenge the notion of recovery as it is being taken up by policy decision makers and psychiatric services, questioning if recovery is something new or just the same care with a new name. Part of the argument is that the activist and survivor voice is not being heard as loudly as the academic or medical treatment voice. Of course the issue of restraints and treatment orders continues to challenge the potential of recovery practice.

Based on what we heard at the conference and saw at the Recovery College in Nottingham it appears that the National Health Services in England has embraced recovery and is weaving this more and more into policy and practice guidelines. Some speakers that we will be following include: Peter Beresford (Brunel University), Mary O’Hagan (Advocate and consultant from New Zealand and Wendy Bryant (Brunel University, Researching Psychosis Together group).

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Inviting Voice/Creating Space Funding Annoucement

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

As part of her traineeship at the CGSM in 2011 Thanya Al-Saadoon developed a proposal for a three-year project with the Cowichan Women Against Violence Society on Vancouver Island. The proposal was submitted to Vancouver Foundation and Thanya and her team were recently awarded funding for the project!

The Inviting Voice/Creating Space for Cowichan Valley Women project “will investigate how Cowichan women’s experiences of marginalization and social exclusion affect their participation in community life as well as their health and well-being. The project will also develop a collaborative strategy for women’s health action, by identifying the actions or systemic changes that will facilitate safety, well-being and social inclusion if implemented as health promotion strategies. This three-year project will generate locally relevant actions at both service and policy levels.”

In addition, the team has secured funding from Kloshe Tillicum, for the purposes of bringing on First Nations women community members as research assistants on the project.

Congratulations to Thanya and her intrepid research team and supporters!

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FREDA Centre Conference: Call for submissions

Friday, January 20th, 2012

This is an announcement and call from the FREDA Center:

“The FREDA Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children (School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University), in partnership with the Alliance of Canadian Research Centres on Violence, the Canadian Observatory on the Justice System’s Response to Intimate Partner Violence, the Ending Violence Association of British Columbia, and our National and Regional Advisory Committees invites you to submit presentation proposals for our National Research Day 2012, November 7-9, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Conference Theme:

Sexual violence, domestic violence: Exploring the continuum of violence against women and girls

The conference will bring together community-based anti-violence organizations and service providers; social workers, health care providers, and criminal justice personnel; women in all their diversity who have lived experiences of violence; government and policy makers; and academic and community-based researchers to explore the continuum of violence against women and girls.

Please see attached Call for Presentations (English and French) or visit our website for further information and submission instructions: http://fredacentre.com/events

Proposal Submission Deadline: April 30, 2012″

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Gallery Gachet Workshop Series

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Gallery Gachet and Enterprising Women Making Art (EWMA) – program of Atira Women Resource Society – launches new workshop series! The Artist’s Reality: exploring the cultural landscape and realities of being an artist. Presented by Karen Lievesley and Bernadine Fox on Thursday evenings, 7 – 9pm, January 19th to February 9th, 2012. At Gallery Gachet, 88 East Cordova Street, Vancouver.

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Seed Grant: Methdone Mess

Friday, November 4th, 2011

The Violence, Mental Health and Substance Use team are starting their new project: “The Methadone Mess: An international collaborative project to examine the social construction and lived experience of Methadone Maintenance for patients and providers through an intersectional lens”. Victoria Smye is the Principal Investigator of this collaborative project that seeks to address a gap in understanding the social construction and lived experience of Methadone Maintenance Treatment .

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Doctoral-Level Quantitative Research Trainee Opportunity

Friday, October 28th, 2011

The Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy is seeking a doctoral-level research trainee with interest and specific expertise in quantitative methods for 2011-12. The starting date  is December 1, 2011. The trainee will receive an annual fellowship of $17,500 in addition to a research stipend of $1,000. Read more…

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Invitation to participate in the Translating History/Shaping Practice Project

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Centre investigator Dr. Bob Menzies in collaboration with four researchers are working on the Translating History / Shaping Practice Project. Currently, they are inviting women and men who have experience with mental health services to help decide on important topics, content and best approaches for teaching materials under development. For more information see their invitation and visit historyofmadness.ca.

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2012 Trainee Fellowship competition

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

We are pleased to announce that the Centre’s 2012 Trainee Fellowship competition is now open.

A major Centre objective is to provide high-quality training and mentorship of graduate students and community-based researchers to build capacity for research and knowledge exchange/application on gender, social inequities and mental health. The Centre is especially committed to learning from and training researchers with lived experiences of resisting social marginalization or stigmatization.

The Centre seeks 1 masters or doctoral level and 1 community-based research trainee for January-December, 2012 (start date is January 3, 2012). The trainee will receive a $17,850 annual fellowship plus a $3,000 research stipend.

See the Training Postings for more information.

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Seed Grant: Gender, Recovery, and Housing

Friday, September 16th, 2011

The Recovery and Housing team are starting their new project: “Gender, Recovery, and Housing: A Consultation with Service Providers in Multiple Communities”. Sean Kidd and Terry Krupa are the Principal Investigators leading the team in an exploration of service provider perspectives to integrate with the Centre’s recovery scoping review and their ongoing project that is collecting lived experience perspectives.

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Meilan Fang on BBC Radio Manchester

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Centre trainee, Meilan Fang, was featured on BBC Radio Manchester on August 28th, 2011 discussing her project “Coping with Bereavement” on a program called Chinatown. Meilan has been in Manchester this summer on a practicum at the Research Institute for Health and Social Change at Manchester Metropolitan University. Have a listen.

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