An Interactive Presentation on Mental Health Promotion
This Thursday, September 8th, 2011
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
The Hub
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The From Recovery to Discovery Peer Support Group is open to anyone affected by mental illness, either directly or indirectly.
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This Thursday, September 8th, 2011
An interactive presentation on mental health promotion with Tara N. Lee, Health Promotion Consultant, Community Mental Health Program, Capital District Health Authority
Tara works in a health promotion role with the Community Mental Health Program at Capital Health. Prior to that she worked in Halifax's non-profit, community health and human services sector addressing the health needs of diverse and often marginalized populations through the lens of health promotion. Tara completed undergraduate studies in health promotion at Dalhousie University and for the last few years has been working towards her M.Ed. in Counselling from Acadia University.
This discussion will begin by exploring an understanding of mental health promotion in a broad social context. The discussion will then focus on an understanding of mental health and well-being (rather than illness) for individuals from a health promotion perspective. An underlying value of this discussion is that regardless of who we are, ill or not, we can all benefit from working towards the attainment of good mental health both individually and collectively. It is hoped that the information shared in this discussion generates rich, diverse and varied perspectives carrying equal weight as we grow our mutual understandings!
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
An interactive presentation on concurrent disorders with Susan Kilbride-Roper and Graham Hooper
Details on this interactive presentation to follow at a later date.
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
An interactive presentation on nutrition with Maureen Tilley, Clinical Dietitian, Nova Scotia Hospital
Maureen Tilley is a registered dietitian who graduated from Mount Saint Vincent University in 2007. She subsequently moved to Ontario and worked in long term care for almost two years. Returning home to Dartmouth in 2009, she worked at Pete’s Frootique as a community dietitian. She still does some contract work with Pete’s but works mostly as a clinical dietitian at the Nova Scotia Hospital, the North Preston Wellness Centre, and with Heart in Motion. She is very passionate about health and nutrition and is a firm believer in ‘what you eat not only affects your physical health, but also your mental health.’ The author of two cookbooks, Hold the Salt! and Hold that Hidden Salt!, Maureen loves to cook and the challenge of proving that healthy dishes can still taste delicious!
The From Recovery to Discovery Peer Support Group is organized as a partnership between the Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia and the Healthy Minds Cooperative.
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