Recovery Capital Summit Speakers

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 AwaahkapiiyaawaBringing 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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