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Tom Regehr
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Recent Activities

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• Toured InSite - Thanks to Russell Maynard at InSite, pics below.
  • Had a great visit the safe injection site InSite, Darwin, the manager there and I spent a couple of hours woith him as he worked. We saw the injection and 'chill out' room, the detox on the 2nd floor and the short term housing on the 3rd floor.
  • Was given a thorough tour the area and met many staff. Was most moved by the variety of support offered.
  • Imagine this - a paliative care unit, right there, for the folk that need it most. I ws very moved.
• Hired by CAMH ( The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) in Toronto, Ontario, to train a panel of consumers for speaking and to build a resource
• Interview by Peterborough This Week newspaper about trauma and alcoholism, LINK.
• Hired by Waterloo County Ontario Works to run 8 days of training -"Tomorrow Does Not Exist" for all staff
• Successful two days of workshop for the professional community in Ottawa
• Presented 'Condensed Cream of CAST Canada' for the In The Minds Eye film festival in Waterloo. 3 Hours of Regehr at a microphone - stories, CAST Canada learning nuggets and audience interaction.
• Interviewed for Homelessness blog at York. LINK
• Hired by Peterborough Drug Strategy to develop and support a speakers bureau of FLA ( folks with lived experience )
• Hosted successful Harm Reduction Conference 2011 in Ottawa
• Road Trip - 11 High School Presentations in Sault St. Marie
• Presentations to Ontario Works in Belleville - 4 days of Tomorrow Does Not Exist covered all staff
• Custom Presentation to shelter network in Simcoe County
• Custom 2 day workshop for union of Ontario Indians, based on the CAST Canada Tomorrow Does Not Exist and Practical Tools material
• Custom 3 day workshop for the Simcoe County Woman's shelter network. Custom content and a day of harm reduction from an anti-oppression stance.
• Custom presentation for Ontario Works Oxford intense case management team. Tomorrow Does Not Exist and some anti-oppression material.

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			Vancouver, Canada   Regehr being introduced by Russel Maynard to a presentation for support workers in the downtown east side.   Thanks very much to Russel Maynard for the invite to come, arranging the various tours and activities !!
			Vancouver   The original hotel where is all started in the famous 'downtown east side' of Vancouver.
			Vancouver   Sitting with Darwin, manager of the InSite safe injection site. After a complete tour and a fair amount of cconversation we gabbed in his office for a while.
			Regehr presenting a Tomorrow Does Not Exist workshop at Ontario Shores ( Whitby, ON ) to a mixed audience of frontline workers. November 2011.
			During the Tomorrow Does Not Exist workshop the participants discuss among themselves.
			" Roles, Goals and Boundaries" is one of the most popular CAST Canada workshop segments. It explains that clients often need solid boundaries, that soft boundaries can thwart progress and in some caes cause pain.
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			Presenting in-house in Thunder Bay, Ontario. October 21, 2011
			The day in Thunder Bay was a custom presentation of a variety of CAST Canada segments pulled together for a housing agency.
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			Regehr near Mt McKay in the Fort William reserve, looking over Thunder Bay and the Sleeping Giant. Click to enlarge   October 22, 2011
			Friend Rita on Mt. Mckay looking over Thunder Bay. Rita was kind enough to show me around the Fort William First Nation Reserve.
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			Addressing University of Ottawa Medical students. Oct 2011.
			They were interested in stigma around 'mental health' and addiction. We talked a lot about the nature of the individual who is in serious need of help.
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			In Ottawa presenting a Tomorrow Does Not Exist workshop October 6th, 2011.   Thanks to the CMHA branch for the arrangement to use the space and supplying coffee, it was great !
			Various workers, managers and policy writers attended. They work at street outreach, housing support, addiction counselling, among many other things.
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			Regehr opening Harm Reduction Canada 2011 conference.
			People from coast to coast attended the 3 day event. Feedback was very positive and many new initiates got a start!
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			Presenting a "Tomorrow Does Not Exist" workshop in Hamilton, Ontario, 2010
			Workers from around central Ontario participated in the workshop learning to work with people who are " Perpetually angry and profoundly stuck"   More...
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			Presenting and having fun with some students from the Barrie Learning Centre, a dynamic and progressive alternative high school.
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			Regehr presenting at Regent Park Public School, 2010
			Regent Park students asking questions
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			Bracebridge Muskoka Secondary School, special presentation in an assembly for just over 500 students, all of the grade 11 and 12. All 500 of the grade 9 and 10 students participated in a separate assembly
			Bracebridge.   Information about high school visits more...
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			Presenting at the CAMH and George Brown College annual mental health conference 2009. Valerie Pringle hosted, is there on the right.
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			Ontario Attorney General Chris Bently invited the CAST Canada crew of PLE ( People with Lived Experience ) in for a special consultation. November 2010
			The CAST Canada crew in Minister Bentley's board room.   "Minister Bentley and his staff were very interested in what we had to say, I felt heard" Sean Winger, of the CAST Canada gang.
			Minister Bentley on the left with staff Martha White on the left and Curt Flanagan on the right. Second from the end on the right is Vani Jain of the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario. She is standing behind two SSO volunteers.
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			Presenting to a mix of frontline workers in Sudbury, 2008

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