Fifth Annual CAMH Eastern Ontario Summer Institute a smashing success!

This year’s Eastern Ontario Summer Institute was filled with eager participants who are ready, willing and able to implement what they have learned in their practices in Eastern Ontario and beyond. The institute offered courses on Fostering Social Inclusion, Integrated Interviewing, Motivational Interviewing and Concurrent Disorders, and Understanding Substance Use within a Woman Abuse and Trauma Framework. 

The Eastern Ontario Summer Institute in Mental Health and Addiction is an annual event of CAMH Provincial Services.

The objective of the annual Institute, held in Kingston, Ontario from June 10-12, is to provide local continuing professional education that makes a positive difference for clients through content and instruction that reflects best practices and current research in the fields of mental health and addiction. 

Niki Kiepek, faculty for the motivational interviewing course, commented that through practice she has realized that motivational interviewing “has the potential to become a way of being as opposed to a technique.”

Alyson Turcotte, from the Carlington ACT Team in Ottawa, spoke highly of the Institute and praised Linda Sibley (faculty for the Integrated Interviewing course and Executive Director of Addiction Services of Thames Valley): “She is an excellent and respectful presenter in every instance. I can’t imagine another person who would be better able than Linda to lead the group through the process of exploring integrated intake, screening and assessment and simultaneously represent the cutting edge of service delivery in mental health and addictions. I feel privileged to have had this opportunity. Thanks Linda and thanks CAMH.”

The site of this year’s Eastern Ontario Summer Institute was Providence Care – Mental Health Services (Kingston).

Truly a collaborative effort, the institute is success due to partnership formed through CAMH Provincial Services – East Area partnership with Providence  Care – Mental Health Services (Kingston) and the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (Ottawa) are able to achieve this with contributions from Algonquin College, the Champlain Addictions Coordinating Body, the Champlain Mental Health Network, Corrections Canada, FOCUS Resource Centre, the Métis Nation of Ontario, the Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs, the South East Community Care Access Centre, and the South East Ontario Coalition of Mental Health and Addiction Services.

Jennifer Barr, CAMH Program Consultant and project lead for the Eastern Ontario Summer Institute.

With such high praise for the 2009 Eastern Ontario Summer Institute, the committee has already begun planning for the 2010 Institute to be held in Ottawa. “We have great expectations for the 2010 Institute, but with the wealth of knowledge that CAMH has to share, the administrative expertise that we have gained in the Area Offices in running the event, and with all that our partners are able to contribute, we are confident that each year the Institute will continue to excel in fulfilling local training needs,” explains Jennifer Barr, CAMH Program Consultant and project lead of the Institute. 

 

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