VHA Home HealthCare and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre are partnering once more to provide a one-day educational conference aimed at the public and professionals outlining emerging techniques & services

Join us for an exciting day of programming!

For the first time, we are opening up the conference to the general public. The morning is reserved for professionals.

Morning Agenda:

8:30-9:00 Registration

 9:00-9:15  Welcome

 9:15-10:15  Panel discussion: How are communities responding?

10:15-10:30 Break

 10:30-12:30 Workshops (please indicate choice on registration form)

A. The distress of discarding - Dr. Carmen Wiebe, CAMH

B. A Deeper Dive into Mindfulness for Treatment Providers – Dr. Steven Selchen, SHSC

C. Tips and Tricks: Different Techniques that may be helpful for People with Hoarding Disorders, Trudy Huet & Alda Melo, VHA Home HealthCare

 12:30-1:30  LUNCH (for full day registrants)

Afternoon Agenda

 1:00-1:30 Registration

 1:30-1:40  Welcome

 1:40-2:30  Hoarding 101 - Dr. Peggy Richter, Sunnybrook

2:30-3:30 Tackling Hoarding: What Works? Panel discussion with Trudy Huet, VHA; Eliza Burroughs, Sunnybrook; & individual(s) living with hoarding.

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-5:00 Experiential Mindfulness - Dr. Steven Selchen, Sunnybrook

 

Note: The conference takes place at the McLaughlin Auditorium, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, (E-Wing, Ground Floor, Room 18)