- Location
- Zoom
- Series/Type
- DLSPH Event, Faculty/Staff Event, Professional Development, Student Event, U of T Community Event, WIIH Event
- Format
- Online
- Dates
- December 3, 2024 from 11:00am to 12:00pm
Links
ONTARIO NEIHR WEBINAR SERIES 2024/2025.
Please join us on December 3, 2024, with guest speaker Dr. Brenda Restoule.
Full Presentation title: What Justice Looks Like: Confronting Anti-Indigenous Racism and Building Safe and Comprehensive Mental Health and Addictions Systems for Indigenous People
Date: Tuesday 3 December 2024 11 am–12pm EST
Online Event via Zoom
Abstract: This presentation will share the findings from recent roundtables hosted by First Peoples Wellness Circle and Thunderbird Partnership Foundation intended to better understand anti-Indigenous racism in the mental health and addictions system. Recommendations on how to build a safe mental health and addictions system that confronts and address anti-Indigenous racism for Indigenous people will be highlighted.
Speaker bio: Dr. Brenda M Restoule (Waub Zhe Kwens) is from Dokis First Nation (Ojibwa) and from the Eagle Clan. She is a registered clinical psychologist. Dr. Restoule is the Chief Executive Officer of the First Peoples Wellness Circle which is an Indigenous led national organization dedicated to raising the profile of Indigenous mental wellness using Indigenous knowledge and evidence. The Primary work of FPWC is implementation of the First Nation Mental Wellness Continuum Framework to which she is a co-chair of the Implementation Team and developing a network of supports for Mental Wellness Teams across the country. Her work spans from providing clinical and consulting services to First Nations communities in Anishinabek territory to consultation with provincial and federal governments on Indigenous mental wellness to an invited trainer and speaker to authoring book chapters and training manuals. Some of Dr. Restoule’s past work experience includes the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and working with federally incarcerated Indigenous women, children’s mental health and, urban and First Nation mental wellness programs. She has particular interest in cultural safety, First Nation community development and capacity building, and reducing suicide rates in First Nation communities using First Nation knowledge and practices.