Tending Hearts and Minds Event

Tending Hearts
Friday, February 14, 2020
9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Central Library

Description
Calling all educators, counsellors and parents!
The Vancouver Public library is pleased to host Tending Hearts and Minds, a day long conference full of thoughtful discussion about mental health education and intervention in our schools.

9 a.m. - Keynote Presentations
Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level

• The Power of Understanding: Change, Hope & Healing Through Trauma Awareness - Noel Hunter
• A School Must Have Heart: The Need for an Educational Evolution - Michael Gilbert
• Canaries in the Mine: Adolescents in Crisis - Dr. Eli-Abi Jaoude
• The Mental Health Story and Why It's So Compelling - Rob Wipond
• What is the Evidence for the Use of Prescription Drugs for Children & Adolescents? - Dr. Jim Wright
• The Prescription Cascade and Tapering - Janet Currie

10:45 a.m. - 2 p.m. - Discussion Sessions
Montalbano Family Theatre and Room 826, Level 8 and Room 919, Level 9 (sessions will repeat)

• Trauma Informed Supports in Education - Noel Hunter and Michael Gilbert
• Re-narrating the Story - Dr. Eli-Abi Jaoude and Rob Wipond
• Medication Effects & Tapering - Dr. Jim Wright and Janet Currie

2:15 p.m.- 3 p.m. – Panel Discussion and Q&A
Montalbano Family Theatre, Level 8 and Room 919/920, Level 9

In partnership with Vancouver Unitarians.