Provincial Communicators Conference

Exciting news! St. John Ambulance Therapy Dogs will be visiting on Monday May 4th during the PM Break, as well as on Tuesday May 5th during the AM break.

Hello Everyone, SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! Janet Frood, on Leading with Courage... Janet Frood is an internationally certified executive, leadership and team coach. She is a caring and provocative ally for leaders and organizations as they boldly transform. She is also a sought-after workshop facilitator on topics including change resilience, team trust, and daring leadership. With a degree in social behaviour and international coaching credentials, Janet is uniquely qualified to help individuals, teams, and organizations confront the status quo, find the opportunity that lives within change, and cultivate conditions for healthy cultures and collaboration. She is a certified Gallup Strengths Coach and a Certified Dare To Lead TM Facilitator based on the work of Brené Brown. In addition to being the CEO of Horizon Leadership Institute, Janet serves on the Faculty of CRR Global, a coach training organization. Janet is active in her community currently serving as the Listener in Residence at Innovation Works in London. She is also a mentor to several social entrepreneurs and emerging leaders Please see the attached link for more biographical details http://www.horizonleadership.ca/professional-bio Yours truly, 2020 Provincial Communicators Conference Organizing Committee Ottawa Police Service

Hello Everyone, SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! Mark Barnes ... Pharmacist & Owner Respect Rx Pharmacies Mark, along with his partner pharmacists are very passionate advocates for the respectful approach to addiction and mental health treatment. This lead them to develop Respect Rx, pharmacies that prides themselves in providing dignified, stigma free pharmacy services to those with complex mental health and addiction issues. Further to this, Mark’s work on the opioid crisis led to the development and implementation of a fentanyl patch return program to help curb diversion of this deadly drug to the streets. This program has received significant local, provincial and even national attention. In 2015 this fentanyl patch for patch return program became Ontario law, and is now a practice standard for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and the Ontario College of Pharmacists. Mark is also heavily involved in addiction education and does seminars for various community groups, pharmacy organizations and other medical professions on this topic. He is a member of the National Advisory Council on Prescription Drug Misuse through the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and serves on the Overdose Task Force with Ottawa Public Health. Mark also works with the Canadian Pharmacist’s Association on medicinal marijuana and opioid overdose policy development. Mark’s community work and advocacy has resulted in many awards: Health is a Community Affair Award in 2013; Memorial University School of Pharmacy’s 2014 Alumni of the Year Award; a prestigious national pharmacy Commitment to Care award in 2014 for addiction disease state management and in September of 2019 he was recognized by the City of Ottawa as a Healthy Communities Champion for his dedication to promoting overdose prevention. Since being asked to be a regional champion for the Ontario Ministry of Health’s publicly funded naloxone program, Respect Rx has trained over 35,000 people and conducted over 400 community based seminars on proper use of naloxone and the signs and symptoms of opioid overdose. Yours truly, 2020 Provincial Communicators Conference Organizing Committee Ottawa Police Service

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! Vanessa Howard, on Trauma Informed Approach Sponsored by CALIAN... Emergency Management Representative Vanessa has 14 years of experience achieving public safety solutions in emergency management and response fields. This experience has included providing diffusing and violence prevention training to first responders across British Columbia. Her facilitative style supports engagement with first responder and community groups while discussing the importance of building physical and emotional safety in order to reduce triggers to violence. Supporting this delivery is an academic background which includes critical incident stress management and education in facilitation and adult learning. Ms Howard utilized this experience to successfully deliver two-day training sessions on trauma informed approaches to patient care delivery for first responders. Her training sessions were held in urban, rural and remote locations and focused on empowering paramedics, call takers, and dispatchers to provide care to all patients with a trauma informed approach. These training sessions targeted the needs of the participants, resulting in a focus on working with and providing cultural, physical, and emotional safety for indigenous patients, patients with mental health presentations, and traditionally marginalized groups. Throughout the six months of training delivery, Ms Howard provided this training to over 650 paramedics in 15 different communities. Her passion for creating more resilient communities and organizations drives her to volunteer as a critical incident stress management team member and to influence the continuing education opportunities for emergency managers through her participation on the professional development committee for the International Association of Emergency Managers.

OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! Mark Henick Mental Health Advocate and Strategist... Top 50 TEDx Speaker With over six million views, Mark Henick’s TEDx talk, "Why We Choose Suicide," is among the most watched in the world. His story of searching for the man in the light brown jacket who saved his life from a teenage suicide attempt captured global attention, and when he learned of products being sold on Amazon that promoted suicide, his successful online petition to have them removed garnered tens of thousands of signatures. Henick has dedicated his life from an early age to opening minds and creating change. His talks are informed by his direct experience with stigma and the mental health care system, and he brings his diverse and unique perspective to every audience as someone who has been a patient, a professional, a policy influencer, and a public figure in the mental health system. Please see the attached link for more biographical details https://www.speakers.ca/speakers/mark-henick/

We are very excited to announce that this years conference will be held from May 3-5 2020 at Fanshawe College in London! Pre-registration is now open at http://comconference.ca//provincial-communicators-confere/ Syllabus and Speaker information to be released at a later date. ... Register soon to avoid disappointment! Can’t wait to see everyone there! -Provincial Communicators Conference Committee