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November 23, 2009
Tackling mental illness
Researchers, health professionals, the mentally ill and their advocates will tackle mental illness and its associated problems at a conference Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver. SFU, Vancouver Coastal Health and the Mental Health Commission are presenters.
More than 600 people are expected at Into the Light, Transforming Mental Health in Canada, where Canada’s first national treatment strategy for mental health will be publicly discussed for the first time. SFU health scientist Elliot Goldner is chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s science advisory committee. He can discuss the commission’s strategy and the conference’s efforts to break the cycle of addiction, homelessness, discrimination, poverty and isolation often fostered by mental illness.
SFU health scientist Julian Somers, a co-leader of the At Home/Chez Soi research demonstration project, will also speak at the conference. He will discuss the national project’s testing of a housing first initiative aimed at getting homeless, mentally ill people off the street and onto a permanent road to living well with mental illness, if not recovery.
Elliot Goldner, 778.782.5027; elliot_goldner@sfu.ca
Julian Somers, 778.782.5148; 604.290.3210 (cell); jsomers@sfu.ca
Racing across the Sahara
SFU ombudsperson and ultra-marathoner Jay Solman is back from Egypt after completing the grueling six-day, 254-km (156 mile) Sahara Race, rated by Time Magazine as one of the world's harshest endurance competitions. He will share amazing images of the race route and talk about his life-changing adventure, running in extreme temperatures and across one of the world’s most picturesque regions, at a public presentation on Thursday, Nov. 26 from 12:30 – 1:20 p.m. at SFU’s Burnaby campus, in Blusson Hall, Rm 9660.
Jay Solman, 778.782.4563; jay_solman@sfu.ca
Researchers, health professionals, the mentally ill and their advocates will tackle mental illness and its associated problems at a conference Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver. SFU, Vancouver Coastal Health and the Mental Health Commission are presenters.
More than 600 people are expected at Into the Light, Transforming Mental Health in Canada, where Canada’s first national treatment strategy for mental health will be publicly discussed for the first time. SFU health scientist Elliot Goldner is chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s science advisory committee. He can discuss the commission’s strategy and the conference’s efforts to break the cycle of addiction, homelessness, discrimination, poverty and isolation often fostered by mental illness.
SFU health scientist Julian Somers, a co-leader of the At Home/Chez Soi research demonstration project, will also speak at the conference. He will discuss the national project’s testing of a housing first initiative aimed at getting homeless, mentally ill people off the street and onto a permanent road to living well with mental illness, if not recovery.
Elliot Goldner, 778.782.5027; elliot_goldner@sfu.ca
Julian Somers, 778.782.5148; 604.290.3210 (cell); jsomers@sfu.ca
Racing across the Sahara
SFU ombudsperson and ultra-marathoner Jay Solman is back from Egypt after completing the grueling six-day, 254-km (156 mile) Sahara Race, rated by Time Magazine as one of the world's harshest endurance competitions. He will share amazing images of the race route and talk about his life-changing adventure, running in extreme temperatures and across one of the world’s most picturesque regions, at a public presentation on Thursday, Nov. 26 from 12:30 – 1:20 p.m. at SFU’s Burnaby campus, in Blusson Hall, Rm 9660.
Jay Solman, 778.782.4563; jay_solman@sfu.ca