Pinwheel Education Series: Supporting Cross Cultural and Aboriginal Families to Manage Young Children's Social and Emotional Health Challenges
Pinwheel Education Series: Supporting Cross Cultural and Aboriginal Families to Manage Young Children's Social and Emotional Health Challenges
Let’s meet with a panel of speakers who will share with us immigrant and refugee families' strength and challenges and how they support young children under 6 with social and emotional issues. In addition, we will learn about how we can put “Cultural Safety” in practice from an Aboriginal perspective through real life examples.
Presentations:
(click on the link to download a pdf version of presentation slides)
- Catherine Ho, Team Coordinator & Family Support Worker,Tri-Cities Early Childhood Mental Health Services, SHARE Family & Community Services
- Dr. Monique Wong, Psychiatrist, Alan Cashmore Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health
- Diana Elliott, Provincial Advisor, Aboriginal Infant Development Programs of BC
Cost: Free
Audience: Open to everyone
Format: Presentations followed by Q&A with the audience
Interested in attending the event in person? Please register at www.rosscultural-infantmh.eventbrite.com.
Resources:
Pinwheel Education Series: Supporting Cross Cultural and Aboriginal Families to Manage Young Children's Social and Emotional Health Challenges Recording
Infant Mental Health Quick Reference Sheet
About the Pinwheel Series
The pinwheel series are a group of free, all inclusive monthly education events. The aim is to provide learning opportunities for the public on key mental health and healthy living topics, and host a forum where people can engage in dialogue with experts and persons with lived experience.
All Pinwheel events take place on Thursdays from 12-1pm (PST). You can join us:
- In person: Room P3-306, Mental health buidling #85, BC Children's Hospital, 4555 Heather St., Vancouver, BC
- Telephone: Dial 1-877-291-3022 and enter the access code 4611577#
- Telehealth: Contact your local Telehealth coordinator to book a videoconference room and get them to forward your location name, room number and the ISDN/IP Address/Alias of your site to telehealth@phsa.ca. For questions, please contact Olivia Stewardson, Telehealth Coordinator at ostewardson@cw.bc.ca.