ISACH 2023 Conference

April 1st - Single day conference held in #HamOnt for learners across health professions to explore & engage with experts on all things #SocialAccountability

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Huge congratulations to @JaneJomy on your @QuEST_Program poster presentation on #equity considerations in #QIPS initiatives at the @ISACH2023 conference at @McMasterU today!! 👏

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Congratulations to Megan Park, QuEST Program participant and first year @uoftmedicine student, on an excellent oral and poster presentation @ISACH2023 on implementing a suboxone initiation roadmap in the ED @THP_hospital!

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Kailey, Etri, and Priyanka providing trauma-informed overdose prevention and response training workshop at McMaster’s Interdisciplinary Social Accountability Conference in Healthcare (ISACH) @ISACH2023

So proud of our team 💙🤩

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#CarryYourKitCampaign take a selfie with your naloxone kit and tag us to help raise awareness about the importance of carrying naloxone wherever you go! @ISACH2023

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Great yield from our poster presentations today! Thanks to all of our wonderful presenters.

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@Michaela416 @olivia__mariee @KikaOtiono

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Live with our panel: Olivia Mancini, Dr. Michaela Beder, Dr. Kara Hounsell - on the topic of individuals facing homelessness.

With our panel moderators: Kika Otiono and Dr. Michelle Brabant.

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We live in a wealthy city, in a wealthy province in one of the wealthiest countries in the world and yet we don’t have enough to build warming centres. - Dr. @Michaela416

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People die in the cold. People die in the heat. The data has been collected. The reports have been written. The discussions have been had. Now all that is left is political will. - Dr. @Michaela416

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Security is crucial for any individual’s health. Providing and maintaining safe and stable housing is a necessary first step in improving health outcomes of individuals who face homelessness. - @olivia__mariee

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The stigma that people who experience homelessness face in the healthcare system is one way homelessness affects health outcomes of those individuals. - Dr. Kara Hounsell

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Dr. Sean Leonard, PGY4 @WesternUPaeds , speaks to us about the role for HIV PrEP in harm reduction for adolescents in Canada.

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Maxine Maretzki and Ekaterina An, @McmasterUgme, and prelim results on the role of peer engagement in achieving socially accountable harm reduction programs.

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Erika Campell, PhD candidate, speaks to us about the need to reimagine maternity care delivered to First Nations Peoples birthing outside of their communities, in light of the Evacuation Brith Policy in Ontario.

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@olivia__mariee, MSW/RSW, speaks to us about the utility of harm reduction for people who face service restrictions at emergency homeless shelters.

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Suboxone initiation is under-used in Mississauga hospitals compared to the rest of the GTA. Megan Park, medical student, presents the roadmap to improve Suboxone initiation in the ED - including initiation algorithms, order sets, and patient handouts.

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As healthcare providers, one way to transform our practice is by aiming to provide unconditional positive regard to people who struggle with homelessness.

- from our keynote by Dr. @AbeOudshoorn

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“Mental illness and addictions don't cause homelessness. Homelessness is a system failure and it is people with mental illnesses and addictions who are most likely to be impacted by that failure.”

From our Keynote Speaker, Dr. @AbeOudshoorn