Revisiting a trio of segments from the first half of the year. You can find the full version of each linked below: From February, Kate Walker speaks about her family’s resilience in the face of a traumatic experience: A mom’s journey to helping others following family trauma From April, Opal Dar speaks with the show […]

Exploring the issue of youth aging out of care, which was the subject of a recent senate committee report. The program features conversations with Jacqueline (Jacquie) Gahagan, Associate Vice-President of Research at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Melanie Doucet, executive director of the National Council of Youth in Care Advocates, and Jessica Knutson, a […]

Excerpts from an event about the toxic drug crisis hosted by BC Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender. The talk featured a video message from Guy Fellicella, as well as a conversation between Govender, former B.C. Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe, and Johnny Morris, CEO of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s B.C. Division. The full event is […]

Angela Moran of the Victoria Cool Aid Society speaks about the model for a recently announced sober housing facility. Trevor DenHartogh of Undercurrent Youth Society speaks about adapting an Icelandic Prevention Model to a Cape Breton Context. Everett Watson and Dr. Ricardo Manmohan of The Nuu-Chah-Nulth Youth Warrior Family Society speak about their work over […]

Carolina Ibarra, CEO of Pacifica Housing, speaks about the model being planned for the yet to open Sparrow supportive housing site in Nanaimo, which includes an emphasis on people looking to minimize their exposure to substance use. Sarah Crago, Stephanie Bagri and Cianthelle Amistad, a group of 4th year nursing students at VIU speak about […]

Colwood Mayor Doug Kobayashi speaks about a model used to attract family doctors to the community. Bernice Rahm speaks about the Sidewalk Talk project in Victoria, which sees volunteers head out to a public location once a month to offer a listening ear to anyone interested. Liubov Nazarenko shares how a family story that helped […]

Ottawa pediatrician Dr. Shawn Kelly expands on an editorial he co-authored in the Canadian Medical Association journal calling for a more robust response to youth opioid use. Victoria children’s author Kathleen Arnason speaks about her writing and how she credits a workshop into appreciative inquiry with changing her life.

Nurse Practitioner Adam McInnis speaks about his experiences with addiction and how they inform his work in addictions medicine. Caitlin Shane, staff lawyer for Pivot Legal Society speaks about the implications of a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in which the court ruled that people who stay at the scene of an overdose cannot be […]

Stephen Lewis of the University of Guelph speaks about a self injury and a documentary featuring people’s lived experience with the subject. Lead author Charlotte Lee speaks about takeaways from a study into weight trajectories following diagnosis of a mental illness from a group including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.   Resources: Self Injury Outreach and […]

Julia Gruson-Wood, author of the forthcoming Autism and The Culture of Therapy speaks about her work interviewing people involved in the world of applied behavioral analysis. Patty Douglas speaks about the concepts outlined in her book Unmothering Autism.