IN PERSON NATIONAL ADDICTION RECOVERY SUMMIT
Recovery Oriented Systems of Care that Build Recovery Capital to overcome addiction and foster mental wellness
Keynote Speakers
Hon. Mike Ellis – Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions – Recovery Oriented Systems of Care that Build Recovery Capital
Dr. David Best – Ink Spots and Ice Cream: A framework and method for building Recovery Capital
Taatsiikiipoyii, Charles Weasel Head – Kottakinoona Awaahkapiiyaawa “Bringing the Spirits Home” – through Siksikaitsititapiiyssini: Blackfoot Ways of Knowing: A Framework for Reconnection
Nancy Mannix – How to Build A Brain
Dr. John Kelly – the New Science of Recovery
Michael Shellenberger – The Heroism of Recovery
David Pavlus – Developing a Recovery Community
Jessica Cooksey – Clinical Practice My Recovery Plan
Recovery Oriented Systems of Care Speakers
Breakout Sessions
Police Chiefs Mark Neufeld, Dale McFee, Michael Worden, and Dean Lagrange – Recovery Oriented Policing
Geri Bemister, Jordan Bareshinbone, and Earl Thiessen – Healing: Recovery and indigenous people
Avis O’Brien – Healing through Breath, Land & Culture, Indigenous Speaker
Dr. Ray Baker – Recovery Coaches: Connecting with People, Treatment and Community
Ann Dowsett Johnston – Women and Alcohol: Epidemic in a Pandemic
Harman Batth, Ganesh Alagh, and Robby Sidhu – Ethnicity and Recovery – Recovering Through Diversity
Linda Lane Devlin – Recovery Oriented Systems of Care to include family
Wendy Arnold, Jill Klemick, Neetu Sidhu and Jen Zurfluh – Family: A Recovery Journey
Recovery Oriented Corrections
Dr. Nathaniel Day – Building Bridges not Road Blocks, Alberta’s Virtual Opioid Dependency Program
Dr. Meldon Kahan, Dr. Launette Rieb, and Dr. Rob Tanguay – Evidenced Based Medications in a Recovery Oriented System of Care
Steve Gaspar – Recovery Coaches of Alberta
Rick Armstrong, Damyan Davis, and Ryan Oscar – Our Collective Journey, Where Lived Experience Meets Clinical Support
Dr. David Best, Paul Sibley, and Jordan Bowman – Recovery Management and Assessing Recovery Capital
Vanisha Breault – Become an Iron Giant; Tackling Addiction using Endurance Sport
Dr. Keith Humphreys – Addiction-focused mutual help groups and the professional health care system
Occupational Health and Safety, ROSC in the Workplace
Dr. Johanna O’Flaherty – Frontline Workers and Trauma
Dr. Robert L. Tanguay, Colonel (Retired) Dr. Rakesh Jetly – Intensive Outpatient Addiction Programs: The future of recovery?
Dr. Carson McPherson, Dr. Paul Sobey, Eileen Maloney-White and Darren Erickson
Dr. Jeremy Beach and Dr. Charl Els – Healthcare Under the Influence
Recovery and Youth Speakers
Dr. Emily Hennessy – Building Recovery Capital by Engaging Families and Youth in Community Services
Dr. Páll Melsted Ríkharðsson – The Icelandic Prevention Model and the Planet Youth guidance program
Rand Teed – Adventures in The Teenage Brain: Drug use and Recovery and adolescent brain development
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