9^th Annual Addiction Day and Scientific Conference – May 26th, 2017

The vision of the Addiction Day Conference and Networking Fair is to increase public awareness of addiction and mental health problems, and to enhance knowledge, competencies and treatment care. Through a combination of diverse presentations, workshops and networking opportunities, we hope to bring together healthcare professionals from across the care continuum for a day of learning and discussion.

9^th Annual Addiction Day Networking Fair

In recognition of the many different organizations that promote and provide recovery-oriented services to clients and families in Alberta, we are pleased to continue our tradition of an Annual Networking Fair during our Addiction Day Conference.

Detoxification, opioid dependency programs, residential/inpatient, outpatient, and community services are an integral component of effective treatment. The Addiction Day Networking Fair would like to highlight these exceptional services that span our addiction and mental health care continuum.

Please stay tuned: registration for these booths will be opening February 1^st on a “first come, first serve” basis.

Registration for the conference and more information will be available February 1^st.

For more information go to: Addiction Day May 26 2017 Calgary AB

The Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum was created in 2012 as a professional development forum for practitioners and professionals working in knowledge mobilization across fields and sectors.

It has become recognized as a premiere learning and networking event in Canada – friendly, open, limited in size, and creative.  Events have been held in Ottawa (2012), Mississauga (2013), Saskatoon (2014), and Montréal (2015), Toronto (2016), and is scheduled for May 17-18, 2017 in the National Capital Region of Canada, Ottawa-Gatineau.

The theme for 2017 is:

Connections and Partnerships: Collaboration as a Key to Knowledge Mobilization

From the very start of the conversation about Knowledge Mobilization in Canada, connections and partnerships have been part of the narrative.  Collaboration is a key component of many, if not most activities in Knowledge Mobilization.  True to the meaning of the word, collaboration is often hard work.  It requires us to co-labor together, to co-construct priorities, programs, policies, processes that lead to the use of evidence.  Together, we build better communities and societies.

The theme for 2017 focuses us on how to be better together.  We invite participation that will push thinking and engagement of the knowledge mobilization community further.  The Forum will be hosted at the Canadian Museum of History and the Sheraton Four-Points Gatineau Hotel.

We are seeking presentations, posters, workshops, and open-space activities that facilitate active participation, networking, reflection and learning.

We are driven by an objective of allowing you to design your own conference experience that reflects your interests, experience, priorities and learning styles.  Drawing on the assets of the National Capital Region, leaders in knowledge mobilization from all across Canada and beyond, it is our hope you will come away from CKF17 enriched, energized and engaged in this field like never before.

Our objectives are:

• Build on the past successes of CKF make this a preeminent event to learn and engage about knowledge mobilization in Canada
• Build capacity for knowledge mobilization
• Learn about work in other sectors to enable partnerships and collaboration
• Engage with leaders to influence future directions
• Meet the next generation of leaders and create opportunities to mentor and coach
• Access the latest tools, techniques and opportunities.

The 2017 Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum is seeking contributions for content, which addresses the overall theme of Connections and Partnerships: Collaboration as a Key to Knowledge Mobilization, and links to the subthemes of:

Subtheme 1: Structures – What (for example: operating structures supporting partnerships, agreements, management systems, office layouts enhancing collaboration )

Subtheme 2: Processes – How (for example: tool boxes, networks, communities of practice, training)

Subtheme 3: Technology – Technology and Tools (for example: social media, apps, software, knowledge boards, database mining, CRM programs)

We are continuing to use the “The Knowmo Scale”.  Here, we’re seeking presenters to consider their audience.  Consider this our own unique variation of the Scoville Unit scale.

Is your presentation focused around skill development?  If so, you would check off Knowmo 1.

Will you present on where we are in terms of KMb?  If so, you would check off Knowmo 2.

Does your presentation focus on innovation in/for KMb?  If so, please check off Knowmo 3.

For more information go to: Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum May 17,18 2017 Ottawa ON

Join us in Ottawa this April to map out the next decade of drug policy reform in Canada

Recent decisions by the Canadian government concerning harm reduction, opioids, cannabis, and sentencing are signalling a new approach to managing illicit drug use in Canada.

Meanwhile, a new US administration promises to strengthen an already punitive narcotics regime with consequences for control efforts abroad as well as for cannabis policies in many US states.

This fast-changing landscape makes now the right time to bring together leading voices from across the country to look across the next decade and help identify new opportunities and directions for drug policies in Canada.

On April 4 – 5, 2017, join us as more than 120 researchers, policy-makers, public health officials, law enforcement professionals, drug users and community organizers meet in Ottawa to examine the future of Canada’s domestic and international drug policies.
Hear from more than a dozen speakers and participate in four discussion streams to help shape recommendations concerning:

• International control and management

• Decriminalization, regulation and harm reduction

• Integrating policing and public health

• Strategies for health and social equity

For more information gCanada’s Drug Futures Forum Apr 4,5 2017 Ottawa ON

• Issues of Substance Conference 2017
  Addiction Matters
  November 13–15, Calgary, AlbertaIssues of Substance (IOS) is Canada’s only national conference that brings together addiction workers, healthcare professionals, researchers, policy makers and knowledge brokers from across the country. This premier learning event provides an unparalleled opportunity to share new developments and best practices, and to get practical training related to prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery. IOS is also a forum for showcasing new research and knowledge mobilization efforts in the addiction field. The theme for IOS 2017 is Addiction Matters.
• For more information go to: CCSA Issues of Substance Conference Nov 13-15 2017 Calgary

At the Heart of the Response: Montreal 14-17 2017

The theme of this year’s conference is ‘At the Heart of the Response’, and the programme will include presentations, panels, workshops and dialogue space sessions on innovative harm reduction services, new or ground-breaking research, effective or successful advocacy campaigns and key policy discussions or debates. In the context of a country moving towards a more forward-looking approach to drugs, but a region and a planet where progress is still painfully slow, we want HR17 to be the place where the people at the heart of the response come together to build a movement that learns, shares and cooperates to build a world where people benefit from good drug policies, rooted in dignity, health and human rights.

People who use drugs, sex workers, people living with HIV; researchers, campaigners, activists; health professionals, development specialists, human rights experts: all of these and many others are invited to participate in our four-day programme of presentations, workshops, exhibitions, film screenings, networking events and local site visits.

With delegates from more than 70 countries set to take part in this four-day conference, the programme will not only reflect the truly global nature of our movement but also address key international issues. The programme will be carefully selected from abstract submissions received through our global call for abstracts; all abstracts submitted will be put through a rigorous peer review process, first by an online International Review Committee, and then by an Executive Review Committee who will gather in London in December to formulate the conference programme.

The agenda will encompass, high profile main plenaries, research, panel discussions dialogue space sessions, workshops and films as a basis for further dialogue.

For more information go to: HR17 Harm Reduction Conference May 14-17 2017 Montreal