Health and Learning Knowledge Centre

2009 National Conference & Symposium

Ontario Healthy Schools Forum

May 19, 2009

Organised by the Ontario Healthy Schools Coalition (OHSC) members in Ottawa in cooperation with the Canadian Council on Learning's Health and Learning Knowledge Centre (HLKC). This event is open to all participants and includes presentations by Dr. Vera Etches, Associate Medical Officer of Health, Ottawa Public Health as well as presentations and discussions of education and health ministry directions and new initiatives.

 

Health, Learning & Social Development:
A National Conference & Symposia

May 19 (evening) - 22, 2009
Holiday Inn, Gatineau, Quebec

The Health & Learning Knowledge Centre (HLKC) of the Canadian Council on Learning is pleased to sponsor this coordinated series of workshops and conferences as part of its focus on building capacity in settings to promote health literacy, inclusion and cohesion for all Canadians. The HLKC has joined with several national organizations, other knowledge brokers and several institutions to offer a series of discussions aimed at setting a knowledge development and exchange agenda for the five years as well as celebrating the accomplishments since 2006.

The keynotes that are already confirmed for these events are:

  • Dr. Stan Kutcher, UNESCO Chair in Mental Health of Children and Youth
  • Dr. Mary McKenna, Professor, Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy, University of New Brunswick
  • Dr. Paul Cappon, President and CEO, Canadian Council on Learning
  • Dr. Blake Poland, Professor, Health Sciences, University of Toronto
  • Dr. Trevor Hancock, Medical Consultant , Ministry of Health, British Columbia
  • Dr. Fraser Mustard, Founder, Centre for Early Childhood Development
  • Dwayne Provo, School Health Coordinator Nova Scotia
  • Delphine Melchert, President, Canadian Association for Community Education

Resources:

May 19 - 20, 2009
School-based Health, Learning & Social Development: Symposia and Communities of Practice

The pre-conference school health symposia will begin on the evening of Tuesday, May 19 and continue all day Wednesday, May 20, 2009. The three symposia will cover mental health/substance abuse, sun safety and environmental health and aboriginal health. Each of these symposia will, in part, set an agenda of topics for webinars and other Community of Practice (CoP) activities in 2009-10.

May 20-21, 2009
Settings for All: Promoting Health, Learning & Social Development: Action Frameworks

The conference program on Wednesday evening and Thursday will include several sessions on promoting health, learning and social development in a variety of settings. These will include early childhood programs, schools, colleges and universities, cities/communities, aboriginal communities, families, workplaces and hospital/health care.

Each of these settings-specific sessions will have a specific agenda and presentations tailored to their participants. However, the conference will address several emerging issues in health and social development across all of these settings. These issues include social determinants, cancer & chronic disease, reproductive/ sexual health and mental health

 
 
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 (Symposia/Meetings)
School-based Health, Learning & Social Development: Symposia and Communities of Practice
  • School Health in Aboriginal Communities:
    This CoP symposium will start with a presentation of a new cultural framework for school health promotion developed with participation from indigenous nations from around the world. Discussion of this framework will be followed by hands-on discussions based on a resource booklet developed by the Centre for Prevention Science, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (ON).
  • Mental Health/Substance Abuse & Schools:
    This CoP symposium will open with a broad understanding of youth and school mental health promotion and then focus on what is known as well as what practitioners want to know and how they want to know it. Presentations from a national project funded by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, an anti-stigma campaign, a national project on resilience, a Public Health Agency of Canada initiative on Positive Mental Health and other local programs will complete the day.
  • Sun Safety/Environmental Health:
    This CoP begins its work in spring 2009 with the symposium discussing a action-oriented and evidence-based framework and a discussion of specific programs such as shade management, instruction about skin cancers, de-normalizing tanning for events such as grad dances and more.
 
Thursday, May 21, 2009 (Conferences, Workshops)
Settings for All: Developing Action Frameworks on Cancer, Chronic Disease & Disadvantage
  • Front-line stories from Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia on how communities and schools can work together to alleviate disadvantages.
  • An insightful illustration from mental health of how individuals interact with their environments to result in behaviours, health status, school achievement and social development.
  • Three examples of how settings can prevent cancer and other chronic diseases, particularly in disadvantaged communities and populations.
  • Two working sessions where delegates will meet by settings (such as early childhood, schools, workplaces, community, post-secondary institutions etc) to develop model action plans to address emerging health and social issues.
 
Friday, May 22, 2009 (Bringing the Pieces Together)
Settings for All Conference

This conference will provide a closing and unifying event for participants. The sessions will provide knowledge and wisdom gleaned from experience and research across all of the settings. The conference will conclude with a call to action on settings-based work in human development.

  • Keynotes include representatives of marginalized people, international and national experts, provincial elected officials and others
  • Cross-setting discussions of capacity building, innovative approaches to research and knowledge exchange
  • Action planning for a renewed Pan-Canadian investments in the settings in which Canadians learn, live, work and play.
 

Health and Learning Knowledge Centre
School of Physical Education, University of Victoria
P.O. Box 3015, Victoria, BC V8W 3P1

Registration Inquiries:
University of Victoria Registration Line
Tel: 250-472-4747

General Inquiries:

Emma Carter
Program Manager
Tel: 250-721-7833

Andrew Stern
Program Administrator
Tel: 778-384-9529

Email: hlkc@uvic.ca

 

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The Health & Learning Knowledge Centre (HLKC) of the Canadian Council on Learning is pleased to sponsor this coordinated series of workshops and conferences as part of its focus on building capacity in settings to promote health literacy, inclusion and cohesion for all Canadians.

Le Centre du savoir sur la santé et l'apprentissage (CSSA) du Conseil canadien sur l'apprentissage est heureux de commanditer cette série conférences et d'ateliers coordonnés dans le cadre de son mandat de renforcement des capacités dans divers milieux en vue de promouvoir la littératie en santé, l'inclusion et la cohésion pour tous les Canadiens.