Health, Harms and Homelessness: Issues and Innovative Interventions
November 23, FREE! No pre-registration required.
Details: www.inthemindseye.ca
9:30 AM - 12:00 pm
Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank
54 Ainslie Street South, Cambridge
1:30 PM - 4:00 pm
Regional Council Chambers – 2nd Floor
150 Frederick Street, Kitchener
Homelessness often comes with a variety of health related issues.
Substance use brings additional risk of harms. In both situations, people
experience barriers to the quality and accessibility of health care
enjoyed by other Canadians. What are the health issues? What do
appropriate interventions look like?
Hamilton Public Health has two mobile vans that provide health, dental and
other outreach services: an overview of this work will be provided.
Highlights of the “shelter health network” that exists to provide seamless
and more comprehensive health care for people without a fixed address will
be shared.
This workshop also features specific primary care techniques employed by
medical and outreach staff, including harm reduction practices used to
prevent the spread of infections, reduce overdoses and improve health.
Worth Saving (U.S.A., 10 min)
This is a short documentary about drug users rescuing each other from
overdose. Although often preventable with simple interventions, overdose
is the leading cause of death for San Francisco’s 15,000 injecting drug
users. Worth Saving explores a ground breaking public health program that
saves lives by prescribing Narcan, an opiate antidote carried by
paramedics, directly to drug users. The film follows the Drug Overdose
Prevention and Education (DOPE) Project to needle syringe programs,
residential hotels and police stations as they reach out to drug users,
the often ignored casualties of the “War on Drugs”.
The Sleeping Giant (Thunder Bay, 2007 , 11 min )
A Day in the Life of a Needle Exchange Program
Suzanne Newmark, BScN, RN, is a Public Health Nurse with the STD/Sexual
Health Program of the City of Hamilton. Suzanne primarily works with the
VAN needle exchange program, STIs, addiction assessments, street and
prescribed drug information, safer sex counselling, and harm reduction
supplies.
Michael Parkinson
Coordinator, Community Engagement
Community Safety & Crime Prevention Council
99 Regina Street South, Main Floor
Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2G6
CANADA
Phone:(519) 575-4757 ext. 5016
Email: [log in to unmask]
www.inthemindseye.ca
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