Events Calendar

Opioid Overdose Response Training for Workplaces
Deanna VandenBroek | PPH
Evan Brockest | PDS

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Date: December 17, 2018 | 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST

Location:

Peterborough Public Health
185 King Street
Peterborough, ON K9J 2R8

Course Description:

Overdose can happen anywhere, even where you work. 

Join Peterborough Drug Strategy and Question of Care for free Opioid Overdose Response Training. Learn how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose at work, including how to administer naloxone, a life-saving medication that can help temporarily reverse an opioid overdose. Participants will also receive information and resources on harm reduction and establishing an overdose response protocol for their workplace.

Designed for agencies and businesses, this training is offered free of charge and is open to front-line workers, service providers, and staff.

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Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Lessons in Honesty, Empathy, and Self-Care
(Formally Titled "Nonviolent Communication")
Marion Little | JHS

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Date: January 24, 2019 | 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST

Location:

Peterborough Lions Community Centre | Sisson Room
347 Burnham St.
Peterborough, ON K9H 1T5

Course Description:

Do you wish you could find your way “home” in the middle of conflict?
Do you wish it was easier to find solutions when you’re stressed?
Do you wish it was easier to diffuse tension and drama?

Using the Wizard of Oz story as metaphor, you will be introduced to conflict resolution skills based on compassionate "Nonviolent Communication” or NVC (Rosenberg 1999, 2015). You will learn practical strategies for bringing choice, honesty, empathy, and self-care into moments of tension and frustration. Our morning session will explore core concepts and possible applications. During the afternoon, we will apply the NVC process to real-life scenarios. Our focus throughout the day will be on effective self-empathy as a foundation for effective communication, conflict resolution, and client support.

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Motivational Interviewing
Cheryl Robinson | FourCAST
Jennifer Bain and Paul Schauber | CMHA HKPR

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Dates: 

January 30, 2019 | 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST
February 27, 2019 | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST

Location:

Peterborough Lions Community Centre | Sisson Room
347 Burnham St.
Peterborough, ON K9H 1T5

Course Description:

Join us for an introduction to Motivational Interviewing where we will explore how to enhance our conversation style with clients as they contemplate change. We will discuss topics such as how to explore ambivalence, roll with resistance, and elicit change-talk. Learn how to work within the Motivational Interviewing spirit where showing a genuine interest in the client’s perspective leads to further collaboration.

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Harm Reduction in Practice
Chris Jardin | PARN

Date: October 31, 2018 | 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST

Location:

Peterborough Lions Community Centre | Sisson Room
347 Burnham St.
Peterborough, ON K9H 1T5

Course Description:

An in-depth look at harm reduction as a foundational model for health and social services. This interactive multimedia course will invite participants to engage in several core principles that comprise harm reduction as related to substance use. Through large and small group discussion and various group and individual exercises, participants will cultivate a more concrete understanding of harm reduction and work to develop an assortment of tools and strategies to better implement harm reduction practically in their professional and personal lives.

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