This workshop is designed to help you:

• Learn how to keep the client/lived experience voice active in all aspects of delivering services

• See examples of responsive community programming designed to meet the needs of people who use crystal meth

• Hear about safe supply processes for stimulant users and other on-the-ground practices for people with Stimulant Use Disorders

This workshop has two parts:

Nothing About Us Without Us: Including the Service User Voice with Janet Stevenson (she/her) Senior Manager of Case Management and Clinical Programs The Neighbourhood Group | St. Stephen's Community House

and Diana Chan McNally (she/her) TDIN Training and Engagement Coordinator Toronto Drop-in Network

"Psychosis is Psychosis". On the ground strategies for stimulant use disorders with Gayle Parker, NP The Working Centre, Kitchener

***Session link will be emailed to registrants by 10am December 9th***

About the Toronto Drop-In Network

Toronto Drop-in Network (TDIN) is a member based organization compromised of 51 drop-in centres through out the city of Toronto. TDIN works towards a socially-just Toronto which is safe, healthy, and inclusive through enhancing the capacity of the network of drop-in centres to improve the quality of life of people who participate in their service.

The Neighbourhood Group is a vibrant, multi-service agency in Toronto providing a wide range of programs and services that create opportunities to improve and enhance peoples’ lives and to help them live independently and with dignity. The Urban Health and Homelessness Services department promotes the health and well-being of individuals living with substance use and mental health issues, by challenging stigma, advocating for change and providing responsive community programming.

About Gayle Parker

Gayle Parker graduated in 1989 with her BScN from McMaster University. She has worked in the field of mental health nursing since graduation practicing in direct patient care in both the hospital and the community, in management, in teaching, and in research for McMaster University. She has published papers on quality of life, cognition and diabetes as it relates to people with schizophrenia. Accomplishments that she is most proud of include launching People in Motion, a novel, healthy lifestyle program for people living with mental illness in Waterloo region, raising 3 children to adulthood, and becoming a Nurse practitioner in 2016. Currently, Gayle provides primary and mental health care to people who are homeless and marginally housed in Kitchener/Waterloo.