We welcome back the returning DUDES Club team as well as first timers, the CCPHE presenters to the UBC Learning Circle, on the topic of men’s health and wellness.
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DUDES Club & Peer Mentoring
Following up on the Dudes Club presentation in March, 2016, the DUDES Club research and evaluation team will screen a short version of their documentary about the club and discuss the toolkit developed to help communities adapt the program to their own unique needs and circumstances.
Presenting will be: Dr. Paul Gross, Sandy Lambert and Lyana Patrick
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Bridging the Gap: Peer Health Mentoring Program with Men Leaving Federal Correctional Facilities
This community-based participatory research project seeks to answer the question, “Will peer health mentoring result in successful reintegration and achievement of health goals for men leaving federal correctional facilities in BC?” The aim is to determine what the health goal priorities are for formerly incarcerated men and if peer health mentors improve the achievement of individuals’ health goals. The project will invite, train, and support formerly incarcerated individuals to become peer health mentors. The mentors will work with men recently released from correctional facilities to address and meet their self-identified health goals.
Presenting will be: Dr. Ruth Martin and Larry Howett
Session Video:
PDF version of their PowerPoint Presentations:
- DUDES Club & Peer Mentoring
- Peer Health Mentoring Program with Men Leaving Federal Correctional Facilities
Everyone Welcome to Participate:
Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 [Registration is now closed]
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am (PST)
About the Presenters:
Dr. Paul Gross – Principal Investigator – is a family physician with a focus on men’s health and HIV. He has a full-time practice is at Spectrum Health, a well-respected multi-disciplinary primary care clinic in downtown Vancouver. For the past 5 years, he has also been working at Vancouver Native Health Society (VNHS) on East Hastings, which provides a full range of health care services to mainly First Nations, Inuit, Metis peoples, and people living in the Downtown Eastside.
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Lyana Patrick – Lyana is the research manager for project #2 of the Masculinities and Men’s Depression and Suicide Network, entitled Evaluating and Extending the Aboriginal Men’s DUDES Club Program. She is also a PhD candidate in the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC. The focus of her dissertation is on urban Indigenous community planning and how that looks at the intersection of law, health, and social service delivery. She is doing collaborative community-based research with the Native Courtworker and Counselling Association of British Columbia.
Through her research she is weaving together governance, history, health, and storytelling in support of self-determination for Indigenous communities. Lyana has been involved in several Indigenous health initiatives including promotion of cultural safety training for healthcare professionals and creating culturally appropriate research materials for Indigenous communities engaging in health research.
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Sandy Lambert – The External Liaison of the DUDES Club, Sandy is a member of the TALLCREE First Nation from Northern Alberta but calls Vancouver home. He has many years of volunteering with non-profit organizations and NGOs, attending, planning, organizing HIV/AIDS conferences, and participating in research committees and projects provincially and nationally. These opportunities have attributed to healthy partnerships and supportive allies for the growth of DUDES clubs off and on reserve, rural and remote. sandy believes this is a good way to engage men and to educate in a safe environment on men’s health issues.
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Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin, UBC Clinical Professor and CCPHE Director, is a family physician who worked in British Columbia’s provincial correctional centres starting in 1994. In 2005 she became the Inaugural Director of the UBC Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education (CCPHE), a network of academic, community and prison persons interested in improving the health of individuals in custody, their families and communities. She introduced the unique concept of engaging women in prison, prison staff and academics in participatory health research (PHR) to address concerns raised by the women themselves. Over 200 women became members of the PHR team over three years, and their work included conducting 16 peer health surveys, hosting 10 health research forums, developing and presenting 46 health educational PowerPoints, writing health advocacy letters and presenting to the local high school.
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Larry Howett, CCPHE Project Assistant and Lead Peer Health Mentor. Since 2012, Larry has worked as a community-based project assistant with the CCPHE. He has played an integral role in the preventive health projects which partner with formerly incarcerated men and women to improve their health in the areas of Hepatitis C, HIV, cancer, mental health and addiction. Larry studied at the University of Victoria, majoring in Philosophy of History and English, while he was incarcerated and then worked inside prison as the Regional Law Librarian. Informally, he assisted other inmates with legal matters relating to their sentence. After Larry was released in 1999, he worked at a law firm as a legal assistant, researcher, and then the office manager. He also worked with the John Howard Society of the Lower Mainland. Currently, Larry works as an in-reach worker for Long Term Inmates Now in the Community. He is passionate about working with inmates from both provincial and federal institutions to provide support for a safe re-integration back into the community.
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Reading Material to Read Before the Session:
- A toolkit for Communities to Build Safe Spaces to Discuss Men’s Health & Wellness (sorry this is not available anymore)
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