Leaning In and Speaking Out

Join BU CARES Research Centre hosts Jackie and Michelle as they join Amanda Hamm (Rural Development Institute) and Dr. Patty Douglas (Brandon University Faculty of Education) to discuss parenting, educating, and being with people in their lives who have attracted the label of autism.

If internet and education are both basic human rights, what does it mean when some communities in Canada don’t have internet access during Covid-19? Divisions are doing their best, but have students sitting in parking lots with giveaway devices. We need long-term solutions. Join BU CARES Research Centre hosts Jackie and Michelle as they discuss the tech gap and education with guests Kirsten Thompson, Dr. Michael Nantais, and Dr. Alec Couros.

Guest host and BU psychiatric nursing student Margaret de Jager discusses Indigenous men’s mental health with Brandon Friendship Centre’s Frank Tacan and Jason Gobeil of the Dakota Ojibway Child and Family Services. If you want to read more about this collaborative research you can find the healing journey report at https://www.centreforruralmentalhealth.com/research-1

In this fifth and final installment of the men’s mental health Movember podcast series, guest host and Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Nursing Candice Waddell-Henowitch talks about rural men’s mental health service use and provision with Janet Smith, of Klinic Community Health.

Continue the conversation with BU CARES Research Centre hosts Jackie and Michelle as they talk about hockey locker rooms, pressure, and promise with Bantam AAA coach and Brandon School Division Paul Mandziuk and Brandon University researcher Dr. Tim Skuce.