It is with pleasure that we invite you to the 12th Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from June 23 to 25, 2011. Join us for another informative and enjoyable Canadian shared care conference.
Our theme, Charting a New Course to Better Care: Stronger Links between Consumers, Families and Health Care Providers, will showcase many aspects of the triangle of care. We seek to engage consumers, citizens, families and a variety of service providers from diverse communities and value systems. Enabling providers to link collaboratively with consumers and families holds new promise for the future of mental health care.
“Unlike any other part of the health care system, family caregivers play a pivotal role as a service provider. Similarly, people with lived experience must be at the centre of the mental health system as, in most cases, they are the best judge of what will or will not be effective in treating their illness. Therefore, to be effective, a collaborative mental health system must include family caregivers and people with lived experience at its core .”
Senator Michael Kirby, Chair, Mental Health Commission of Canada
This conference is for health care professionals, consumers, families, interested citizens, community services representatives, students, alternative medicine practitioners, researchers, health services administrators, policy makers, disability insurance managers, lawyers and others.
Keynotes, plenaries and a variety of presentations will demonstrate evidence-based, innovative and progressive examples of collaborative mental health care. As well, the conference will showcase the principles and the power of consumer and peer support integration in collaborative mental health care. Participants will develop a critical and practical understanding of factors that lead to challenges and successes in collaborative mental health care delivery. And, there will be opportunities to develop and broaden potential networks of interest in collaborative care.