APIN - Adolescent Parent Interagency Network

Supporting 2SLGBTQ+ Youth During a Pandemic
2021-06-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Winnipeg)
Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on 2SLGBTQ+ youth, we will outline barriers and offer suggestions to increase accessibility.
We will provide strategies that can help providers engage, create, and maintain healthy and supportive relationships, that
increase resilience and decrease isolation for youth. We will provide inclusive language suggestions, especially around bodies and pregnancy.

Speaker – DENE GUILLAS
Dene (he/him) proudly identifies as an Indigenous, transgender man who has always lived and worked on Treaty One Territory, the territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dene, Dakota and Métis Nations.
He has been lucky enough to be involved in the training and education field for over 15 years. Whether it was in a classroom environment, community centre, conference, or small gatherings, he has always tried to make sure learning is inclusive to everyone.
His love of helping others has led him to Rainbow Resource Centre in 2019, where he works as the School Equity & Inclusion Coordinator. This has allowed his passion of interacting and speaking to others to turn into a way to give back to the community. Helping to raise awareness for our youth has given him a purpose that is extremely close to his heart.
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/adolescent-parent-interagency-network-presentation-tickets-157345481571
(The Zoom link will be sent to you when you register) Register as soon as possible, as registration is limited.

Pandemic Fatigue: Practical tools and considerations for those who support children and youth
2021-05-11 12:00 - 13:00
This presentation will be limited to 50 participants
Pandemic Fatigue: Practical tools and considerations for those who support children and youth
Times of crisis can have long term effects on an individual’s mental and emotional well-being. We know that with the right support, adversity can build resiliency and contribute towards robust and successful individuals. This workshop will offer practical skills for caregivers, parents and those who support youth. It will offer insight, tools and solution focused approaches that aim to alleviate stress, address anxieties and help to navigate difficult feelings and conversations. It will also offer caregivers and parents some insight into the importance of attachment, connections and how to navigate the world and relationships in which those important things have suddenly become compromised. And it will offer practical suggestions for activities, options, hopefulness, expectations – what can be awesome and what can be good enough.
Presenter: Cheryl Cohan BA, MMFT, RMFT.
Cheryl is a therapist, anthropologist, program facilitator. Cheryl specializes in individual, couple and family therapy, systems theories, trauma informed care, attachment, recovery, wellness and spiritual care. She is also director of a horticultural therapy center that specializes in rural retreats and nature focused programming.
LOCATION: Online
A Zoom link will be provided once you have registered.
To register:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/pandemic-fatigue-presentation-tickets-151584652777

APIN Virtual Lunch and Learn - Perinatal Mental Health: A Special Focus on Young Motherhood and Child Development
2021-04-28 12:00 - 13:00
LOCATION: Online
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Access Code: 195-341-485
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PRESENTATION: This presentation aims to discuss the intersection between young motherhood, perinatal (pregnancy and postpartum) mental health, and child development through a strengths-based lens. Evidence-based information on how to identify perinatal mental health concerns and how to best support children of young mothers is introduced. Psychological services available to young mothers and their children living in Manitoba are reviewed.

SPEAKER: Karmen McDivitt, M.A. Ph.D. Candidate – Karmen is a pre-doctoral resident at the Clinical Health Psychology residency program within the Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, and University of Manitoba. In addition to her clinical training, Karmen is completing her PhD research at the University of Manitoba in the Baby Language Lab. Her research interests include infant language development, young motherhood (including adolescent and emerging adulthood developmental stages), perinatal mental health (with a special focus on perinatal anxiety), and knowledge translation. Karmen grew up in Kelowna, where she completed her undergraduate honours degree in psychology at the University of British Columbia- Okanagan, before starting her graduate training in Winnipeg. Karmen has received research grants through the University of Manitoba and Province of Manitoba. She has been awarded the Emerging Leader Award from the University of Manitoba and the Certificate of Excellence for Outstanding Master’s Thesis by the Canadian Psychological Association.

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APIN Virtual Presentation - Tipi Teachings
2021-04-13 10:00 - 11:45
LOCATION: Online
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Access Code: 151-256-445

PRESENTATION:
Traditional indigenous child rearing philosophies adopt a wholistic (mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual) approach to child rearing while being inclusive of the family unit and the community. Prior to contact of European settlers, many tribes of the Great Plains (Prairies) used the Tipi for housing of the family and community. Tipi’s need 13 poles to make the circle of the Tipi and two additional poles for smoke flaps; each pole in the Tipi there are Traditional beliefs about child rearing. These Traditional Teachings work together collectively, equally by leaning on one another to hold up the Tipi, reflecting the strength of Indigenous peoples.

SPEAKER:
Ko'ona Saber(Cochrane) is an Anishinaabe-kwe member of the BizhiwDoodem (Lynx Clan) from Peguis First Nation, where her father Walter George Cochrane was integral in the reclamation of indigenous cultural practices prior to her birth in 1970. Ko’ona has been sharing her indigenous teachings for over twenty years, through traditional family parenting education and hand drumming. She had resided in the North End of Winnipeg for thirteen years, where she worked strengthening and supporting indigenous families and children. In 2017 life changed dramatically for Ko’ona, June 21 her father’s birthday, she married Ivon Saber multi-talented land developer. They now spend their time between properties on the shores of east Lake Winnipeg near Hollow Water First Nation and winters in YaqanNukiy Territory of southern British Columbia.

To register:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/adolescent-parent-interagency-network-virtual-presentation-tickets-147004645853
