Social Work Week 2012 Event Schedule:

• Friday, March 2 - Professional Development Day

Join us at St. Joseph's Hospital for this full day of presentations.  Registration includes lunch and all materials.  Please see the PD Day information & registration form below!

• Tuesday, March 8 - Faculty Lecture

All are welcome to attend the faculty lecture held at King's University College free of charge.  More information is located below!

Friday, March 2 - Professional Development Day
St. Joseph's Hospital, London ON

Through the Lens of Collaboration:

Interventions in Addiction, Poverty and Mental Illness

 Featuring Presentations by:

• Snapshots of Addiction
  John Densky
• Collaboration = Best Practice
  Shani Kingston-MacClure & Betty Edwards
• Concurrent Disorders: Knowing What to Look for and Knowing What to Do
  Gloria Chaim

Event co-sponsored by: King's University College School of Social Work, OASW Western Branch, and the Association of Social Work Field Practice Educators (ASWFPE)

PD Day - Fees and Registration

Click on the image to download the PD Day Information and Registration Form!

• Student Fee - $15
• OASW, ASWFPE Members & Current King's Field Instructors - $30
• Other Community Members - $45

* Registration fee includes all PD Day materials and lunch.

Thursday, March 8 - Faculty Lecture
12:30 - 1:30p.m. in Wemple Building, Room W168

"Transforming Offender/Victim Relationships to Parent/Child Relationships that are Safe and Emotionally Beneficial for Child Sexual Abuse Victims"

Amanda Bell, MSW, RSW, PhD (Cand.)

Drawing upon the lived experiences of CAS workers, child victims, non-offending mothers, and abusive fathers, Amanda will present qualitative research findings that suggest when victimized children may be safe and may emotionally benefit from resuming a relationship with their sexually abusive father. She will highlight the positive impact of abusive father’s taking responsibility and will describe fathering behaviours identified by victims as being beneficial to their safety and healing.

Guest Speaker Biographies

John Densky

John Densky is a documentary photographer living in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. John has continued to focus his lens on communities in direct conflict with the interests of corporate and financial agendas, be it in West Africa, the Balkans or at home in Canada.

John is an Instructor at Fanshawe College’s Contemporary Media program and speaks at academic institutions internationally. John continues to work as a freelance photographer with clients as varied as the New York Times through to International Bridges to Justice, an NGO from Austria.

In the summer of 2008, John began documenting the lives of young (under 25) pharmaceutical opiate addicts in South Western Ontario. After 2 years, friends were made, some were mourned and many important lessons were learned. Most importantly, a trust was built within the very community often absent from the table when policies are developed and laws are made.

In 2012 John remains friends with many of the people who took part in the ‘Ritalin Kids’ story. John can regularly be found amongst his friends, on the streets of London, Ontario.

Visit John's website here: www.galler7.com

Gloria Chaim, MSW, RSW

Gloria Chaim is the Deputy Clinical Director in the Child, Youth and Family Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Adjunct Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of Toronto.  Gloria’s main interest is in the development of service capacity for under served populations, in particular children, youth, women and families where concurrent disorders are a concern. Most recently her focus has been on the development of cross-sectoral networks and collaborations that provide a forum for knowledge exchange and joint service and research initiatives. Currently Gloria is a Project Lead on two Health Canada Drug Treatment Fund projects, a national youth screening project aimed at improving pathways to care for youth and their families through cross-sectoral collaborations as well as a provincial project reviewing the current continuum of addictions services available to youth, ages 12-24, in Ontario, identifying gaps and opportunities for collaboration and enhancement. In addition, Gloria is a Co-Investigator on a CIHR Emerging Team grant to develop innovative approaches to understanding and addressing child and adolescent mental health and substance use concerns and is a lead on a CAMH Development and Dissemination project to build youth and adult concurrent disorder screening capacity in primary care. 

View Gloria's Powerpoint Presentation here.

Betty Edwards, MEd

Betty Edwards is the Community Research Co-ordinator at CAN-VOICE, an organization that provides education and social support for Consumers/Survivors of the mental health system.

View Betty's Powerpoint Presentation and the CURA2 Project Description.

Amanda Bell, MSW, RSW, PhD Candidate

Amanda operates a private practice providing therapy to traumatized children and youth. She is a certified play therapist and EMDR clinician, and a part-time faculty member with the School of Social Work at King’s University College, UWO. Amanda recently defended a doctoral study exploring safety conditions for children.