Street Psychiatry Annual Meeting (SPAM)

The "Managing Death on the Streets/in Unstable Housing" session at the Street Psychiatry Annual Meeting (SPAM) on May 17, 2023 in Ottawa, ON.

* Content Warning: The content discussed during this session makes reference to death, substance use, overdose, and grief/loss which some folks may find upsetting or distressing. We encourage you to seek support as you need it.*

This session features the following presentation:

- "Grief and the time of the opioid crisis: The homeless context" by Amanda Ahmed, Kim Van Herk, Sophie Butler, and Tabitha Morris from Ottawa Inner City Health.

To learn more about Ottawa Inner City Health, visit: https://ottawainnercityhealth.ca/

The Harm Reduction session at the Street Psychiatry Annual Meeting (SPAM) on May 17, 2023 in Ottawa, ON.

This session features presentations by:

- “Do no harm in harm reduction” – KT6 Crew, Peterborough Aids Resource Network (PARN)

- Harm reduction: Radicalized empathy, Aileen Tran, Frontline Baddies

To learn more, visit:

- Peterborough Aids Resource Network (PARN): https://parn.ca/

- Frontline Baddies: https://www.frontlinebaddies.com/

The "Trauma-Informed Care" Session of the Street Psychiatry Annual Meeting (SPAM) on May 17, 2023 in Ottawa, ON.

This session features the following presenters:

- "What is trauma-informed care?", Simon Hatcher, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Ottawa Inner City Health

- "Trauma-informed interventions to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in vulnerably housed populations", Brooklyn Ward, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

- Building trust in impossible places: Insights from a qualitative street medicine study", Liz Frye, Street Medicine Institute

To learn more:

- Hatching Ideas Lab: https://hatchingideaslab.com/

- Ottawa Inner City Health: https://ottawainnercityhealth.ca/

- Street Medicine Institute: https://www.streetmedicine.org/

The "Staff Wellness" session from the Street Psychiatry Annual Meeting (SPAM) on May 17, 2023 in Ottawa, ON.

Due to technical difficulties at our event, in some portions of this video, the slides do not match the audio. The speakers can be seen in the small box next to the slides. We apologize for the inconvenience.

This session features the following presentations:

- "Supporting our people in burnout" by Bobby Jamison from Soul Space

- "Burning the burned" by Tracey Gaydosh from Frontline Baddies

- "Supporting staff wellness" by Dean Dewar from Center 454 at Belong Ottawa.

To learn more, please visit:

- Soul Space: https://www.soulspaceottawa.ca/

- Frontline Baddies: https://www.frontlinebaddies.com/

- Belong Ottawa: https://belongottawa.ca/