Round Table at CUAG: Youth and Substance Use/Abuse in Ottawa

Tuesday, 12 March 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Carleton University Art Gallery
http://cuag.carleton.ca

Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) invites you to a community conversation on issues of young adults and substance use and abuse in Ottawa. Join researchers, professors, frontline workers, and students in a discussion of the psychology of addiction and links with mental health, new trends in substance abuse in Ottawa, support systems on campus, and city-wide strategies for prevention and education.

This discussion is organized in conjunction with Live Through This: Photographs by Tony Fouhse. It will be moderated by Fiona Wright, CUAG’s Education and Community Outreach Manager, with a special introduction by Tony Fouhse.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome! See below for information on discount parking.

Participants:

Jesse Auguste is an Honours undergraduate psychology student, minoring in Neuroscience. His upcoming thesis will concentrate on addiction, supervised by Dr. John Weekes. He works on the Carleton University campus at the Health and Counseling Office, helping to prepare presentations and resources on substance abuse for students. He also works as a youth facilitator for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, where he facilitates focus groups and prepares presentations for youth across Ottawa, and as a Child/Youth Worker for the City of Ottawa.

Dr. Kim Hellemans is an Instructor II in the Department of Neuroscience at Carleton University. She received her Master’s and Ph.D. from Queen’s University, where her research focused on understanding the biological basis of drug addiction. She went on to complete post-doctoral positions at Cambridge University (2004-06) and University of British Columbia (2006-08) prior to taking a position at Carleton University in 2008. She has won the Capital Educators Award (2010), the Carleton University New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award (2011), the Faculty of Science Teaching Award (2012) and most recently, a Teaching Achievement Award (2013). Outside of her academic life, she is a strong supporter of women’s issues; she has previously sat on the Board of Directors for the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology, and was Vice-President of the Board of Directors for Amethyst, a women’s addiction treatment centre in Ottawa from 2008-2012.

Terry-Lynne Marko graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She has worked at Ottawa Public Health since 2001, most recently with the Injury Prevention & Substance Misuse team. Within this team, she works with many individuals, families, and community groups and partners. In one project, she worked with more than 30 community partners to look at the issue of marijuana and youth. She was the author and project coordinator for the “Why Drive High?” marijuana and driving social marketing campaign, which targeted high school and post-secondary students, funded by Health Canada’s Community Initiative fund. Presently she is working to mobilize Ottawa’s post-secondary campuses and selected community partners around the issue of binge drinking.

Tyler Pirie is a Research and Policy Analyst at the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA). He is a Carleton alumni and joined CCSA in 2011 after graduating from the Schulich School of Medicine, where he obtained a M.Sc. in epidemiology and biostatistics. Prior to working for CCSA, Tyler worked at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Carleton University, and Statistics Canada. Tyler is currently involved in projects that explore new and emerging substance use patterns and trends, the utilization of substance use treatment services in Canada, and the efficacy of brief interventions to reduce the non-medical use of psychoactive substances.

Discount parking:

CUAG is located in the St. Patrick’s Building. See CUAG’s website for a map of the gallery’s location and parking. http://cuag.carleton.ca/index.php/visiting/directions/
Please take advantage of our special $4.00 (flat fee) parking rate. You must purchase a hangtag from CUAG for your car’s rear-view mirror.
From 6:30 – 7:00, you can drive to the roundabout in front of the tunnel entrance near Leeds House residence. CUAG staff will be standing just inside the tunnel entrance and can sell you a pass.\
Next, find a parking spot in the “Pay and Display” visitors’ section of Lot 6, labelled “P6” on the map.