Activities
Exhibitors
Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention
The Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention are Canadians who want to reduce suicide and its impact in Canada. We want to end the silence. We want to ease the suffering, to heal our communities and our neighbours, as we have healed ourselves. We are survivors of loss. Among us, we have lost children, parents, family member, neighbours, friends, and patients. We want to end the silence and prevent others from experiencing such loss.
Vision: We, like many others, envision a world in which people enjoy an optimal quality of life, are long-living, socially responsible, and optimistic about the future.
Purpose: CASP’s ultimate purpose is to reduce the suicide rate and minimize the harmful consequences of suicidal behaviour.
Operation: CASP works toward the achievement of its purpose by facilitating, advocating, supporting, and advising, rather than by the provision of its direct services.
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) is a national body that provides Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial health care decision makers with credible impartial advice and evidence-based information about the effectiveness and efficiency of drugs and other health technologies.
Career Connections
Career Connections offers employment and career planning services as well as assessments of a person's strengths, abilities, interests, aptitudes and work related characteristics. We train work skills and ethics and assist people to obtain and maintain employment. We also offer courses in how to market your skills and abilities to employers, how to manage job interviews and how to keep a good job.
College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses
The College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Manitoba (CRPNM) is the regulatory body for the psychiatric nursing profession in Manitoba. Under the authority of the Registered Psychiatric Nurses Act the CRPNM is responsible to ensure that all Registered Psychiatric Nurses practice safely and competently. The College, by establishing and maintaining standards for education and practice, ensures that the public of Manitoba receives safe, accountable and ethical psychiatric services. As a public service, the CRPNM is committed to enhancing the profession in its ongoing promotion of psychiatric nursing education and expertise.
Vision: Registered Psychiatric Nurses are full participants in ensuring optimal mental health for the people of Manitoba.
Misson: The College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Manitoba ensures that the public of Manitoba receives safe, effective psychiatric nursing services.
Klinic Community Health Centre Inc.
Klinic Community Health Centre is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are a member of Manitoba Association of Community Health. We provide a full range of health related services from medical care to counselling to education. We promote health and quality of life for all. We help people make choices about their own health. We address the special needs of our neighbourhoods and help communities organize on issues of concern. We look to our community for direction. We provide confidential services.
Living Works Education Inc.
Living Works is a developer of suicide prevention, intervention and awareness programs that are delivered through an extensive network of community-based registered trainers in Canada, Australia, Norway and the United States. Smaller numbers of trainers are located in Guam, Hong Kong, Russia, and Singapore. The LivingWorks objective is to register qualified trainers in local communities, who in turn can prepare front-line gatekeepers with the confidence and competence to apply first aid suicide intervention in times of individual and family crises.
Survivor -John Melnick
As a suicide attempt survivor and am very aware of the huge amount of work to be done to improve Mental Health and eliminate the factors which create suicide as an option. My mission is to share my story as a starting point to help others feel comfortable enough to search out the resources to help them improve their mental health. I am a professional speaker, a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers and am also a distinguished Toastmaster. I have recently produced a DVD titled “Depression Denounced – Suicide Denied” which chronicles my recovery and the tools I have used on my healing journey.
The Centre for Suicide Prevention
The Centre for Suicide Prevention (CSP) is an education centre specializing in curriculum development; training programs; library and information services. The purpose of the Centre is to inform and equip people with additional knowledge and skills in the prevention of suicide.
What We Do: We teach prevention because prevention is the only solution to suicide
Since 1983, the Centre for Suicide Prevention has delivered a variety of high quality and practical skill development workshops across Canada and in other parts of the world. With access to a widespread trainer network (over 100 trainers in Alberta alone), we can provide training anywhere.
Whether you are working with a suicidal person or trying to develop a suicide prevention strategy for your community, addressing suicide is a real challenge. Yet we know suicide can be prevented. You, your organization and your community can save lives, if you know how. The goal of the Suicide Prevention Training Programs (SPTP) is to provide skill training that increases caregiver competence and confidence while improving community collaboration.
Our strength lies in our experience assessing training needs and delivering established, award-winning workshops.
The National Aboriginal Health Organization
The National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO) is an Aboriginal-designed and controlled body committed to influencing and advancing the health and well-being of Aboriginal Peoples by carrying out knowledge-based strategies.
NAHO’s work is guided by five main objectives:
- To improve and promote Aboriginal health through knowledge-based activities.
- To promote an understanding of the health issues affecting Aboriginal Peoples.
- To facilitate and promote research on Aboriginal health and develop research partnerships.
- To foster the participation of Aboriginal Peoples in delivery of health care.
- To affirm and protect Aboriginal traditional healing practices.
NAHO is respectful and inclusive of all Aboriginal Peoples including men, women, children, youth, and the elderly, living in urban and rural locations.
The Suicide Prevention Implementation Network
The Brandon Suicide Prevention Implementation Network (SPIN) is an innovative network of community people interested in helping to prevent suicide. Our goals are to promote awareness and understanding; to initiate wellness activities; work to reduce the stigma associated with seeking help; provide skills training; increase awareness of crisis supports and resources; and promote services and supports for those bereaved by suicide.
Safe Communities
Safe Communities Brandon and Area is a broad-based safety coalition. It promotes a culture of safety, making Brandon, Manitoba and Area (Cornwallis, Elton and Whitehead Municipalities), a Safe Community in which to live, learn, work and play. Our priorities are:
- Falls Among Seniors
- Falls Among Children
- Young Worker Injuries
- Motor Vehicle Injuries
- Local Injury Surveillance