2018 Conference Presentations by Stream

AMHO’s Conference had 48 concurrent sessions and 8 streams. Below are the presentations AMHO has received and has permission to post, organized by stream.

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See the full Conference program here.

Governance & Leadership

GL3 – Let’s Get Personal – Voices of Substance Use Counsellors
GL4 – Making Privacy & Consent Rules Work for Family Caregivers & Health Service Providers
GL5 – A Tool for Assessing Readiness for New Data Systems
GL6 – Accreditation as a Mechanism Towards Driving a Culture of Quality

Treatment & Services

TS1 – Understanding Suicide Risk for People with Addictions and Concurrent Disorders
TS2a – Making Recovery Real in My Practice
TS2b – Recognizing and Treating Opioid Use Disorder in Your Practice – Part A
TS2b – Recognizing and Treating Opioid Use Disorder in Your Practice – Part B
TS5 – Engaging Trans Communities: Building Capacity to Support Trans Community Wellness
TS6b – Chemsex – How Ontario Can Get Ahead of an Emerging Epidemic of Sexualized Drug Use Among Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men

Psychotherapy

PT3 – Surviving and Thriving through Walk-In Counseling – Challenges, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions
PT4a – Innovative DBT for Young Adults: Integrating clinical and peer support perspectives
PT4b – BounceBack – Free CBT skill-building program for adults and youth experiencing depression and anxiety
PT5a – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as an Intervention to the Poverty Cycle
PT5b – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis for Carers
PT6 – The Controlled Act of Psychotherapy – Providing Clarity

Quality Improvement

QI1 – These QI Team Leads messed with E-QIP. See what they stumbled upon.
QI2a – Spreading Quality Improvement Using OCAN
QI2b – Supporting Staff with Transforming Mental Health Through Client Participation in Recovery Plans
QI3a – Restorative Justice Approach to Client Service Restrictions in Drop-in Program Settings – Changing the way we work with Clients with Complex Needs
QI3b – Empowering that EUREKA Moment – Development of an Electronic Decision Aid for Individuals with Concurrent Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions
QI4 – How do we know? Fidelity assessment methodologies in Ontario
QI5 – Shifting Tides – Developing Standards of Care for Residential Addiction Treatment to Enhance ‘Quality of Care’
QI6 – Putting the ‘Quality’ back in Quality Improvement –Focusing on ethics and trauma-informed practice

Integration & Collaboration

IC1a – Continuing the integration, spreading leading practices within the ESC LHIN region
IC1b – Off-Roading in the Right Direction – Transforming Transitions for ALC Clients with Mental Health and Addiction Challenges
IC2 – A collaborative proactive approach to responding to persons experiencing a mental health crisis in the community
IC3b – On-Site On-Site Crisis Support at Violence Against Women (VAW) Shelters – An Integrated Service Model
IC4 – It Takes a Village – Integrating Primary Care and Addiction Services to Create New Shared Service Models 
IC5 – Health Links Approach to Coordinated Care Planning in Community Agencies
IC6 – Integrated treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women in Ontario – models, processes, and outcomes

Knowledge Exchange – A

KE-A1 – Overdose Prevention Sites – Experiences from the frontlines to policy changes across the province
KE-A3 – Cannabis Law Reform in Canada – Process & Perils
KE-A4a – Promising Practices in Supportive Housing
KE-A4b – Building Our Quality Improvement Capacity – Measuring Service Delivery within Supportive Housing
KE-A5 – Safe at Home – An Exploration of Housing Unit Takeovers
KE-A6 – Exploring gambling harm within the broader context of mental health and addiction

Knowledge Exchange – B

KE-B1 – Re-Purposing Trauma – Fostering Resiliency through Arts-Based Learning and Cultural Mentorship
KE-B2a – Digital Health and the Transformation of Care – Wagon
KE-B2b – Digital Health and the Transformation of Care – Zine
KE-B3 – Youth and Pros – Working Together to Set the Tone
KE-B4 – When Grief Comes to Work
KE-B5 – Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM) – Part A
KE-B5 – Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM) – Part B
KE-B6a – Responding to the needs of human trafficking survivors: A new resource for service providers
KE-B6b – Social Return on Investment in Youth Treatment; Youth Mental Health and Addiction Treatment

Peer & Family Support

PS1a – So You Want to Hire a Peer Worker? Lessons learned and negotiated in real time
PS1b – Implementing and Supervising Peer Staff Roles – A toolkit for non-peer organizations
PS2a – From to Service User to Service Provider – How to integrate Peer Workers into your organization
PS2b – The Power of Peers – How Peer-Led Supportive Programming Can Enrich Treatment Communities
PS5 – Building Strong Foundations for Family Partnerships
PS6 – Breaking Barriers: St. Joseph’s Health Centre Family Navigation Program