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Brain and Mental Health in Black and Indigenous Children and Youth: Towards Achieving Health Equity
September 24, 2021 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
This half-day symposium is focused on research examining systemic biases and injustices and its relationship to brain and mental health in children and youth and their families who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC). FIFSW Professor Charmaine Williams is among the featured speakers.
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Agenda
9:00am – 9:10am Opening Remarks
Dr. Lisa Robinson; Staff Physician, Division of Nephrology; Senior Scientist; The Hospital for Sick Children and Vice-Dean, Strategy & Operations, Temerty Faculty of Medicine; The University of Toronto.
9:10am – 9:50am Black Mental Health Matters: Community Perspectives, Healthcare Responses
Dr. Charmaine Williams – Vice-Dean, Students, School of Graduate Studies & Professor, Factor-Inwentash, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
9:50am – 10:20am Mental Health & Black Children & Youth
Dr. Fatimah Jackson-Best – Adjunct Professor York University, and Project Manager for the Pathways to Care Project with the Black Health Alliance
10:20am – 10:40am TOPIC: Diversity in the medical field
Dr. Chika Oriuwa – Psychiatry Resident, University of Toronto
10:40am – 10:55am BREAK
10:55am – 11:35am What is Indigenous mental health & why it matters to you
Dr. Suzanne Stewart – Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and Director of the Waakebiness -Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, University of Toronto
11:35am – 11:55am Understanding barriers to mental health care in diverse youth with chronic illness
Dr. Ashley Danguecan – Psychologist, The Hospital for Sick Children
11:55am – 12:25pm Indigenous Trauma Informed Land Based Practices for Mental Health
Dr. Jeffrey Schiffer – Executive Director, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto
12:25pm – 12:55pm PANEL DISCUSSION – ALL SPEAKERS
Moderator: Dr Estelle Gauda, Head, Division of Neonatology; Senior Scientist – The Hospital for Sick Children
12:55pm Closing Remarks