EQUIP Health Care Events

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Identify the key intersecting dynamics among gender-based violence, substance use, and stigma.

Describe the impact of these dynamics on health and health care, and the implications for the practice of direct care providers.

Evaluate EQUIP’s evidence-informed tools and resources for use in further strengthening their practice and their organization’s approach, such as a substance use safety planning tool, e-learning modules, a language resource, and animations.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Identify the key intersecting dynamics among gender-based violence, substance use, and stigma.

Describe the impact of these dynamics on health and health care, and the implications for health educators, their students, and their teaching.

Evaluate EQUIP’s evidence-informed tools and resources for use in their teaching, including a game that focuses on strengths-based approaches to GBV and substance use health, and e-learning modules for both educators and their students.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Identify the key intersecting dynamics among gender-based violence, substance use, and stigma.

Describe the impact of these dynamics on health and health care, and the implications for emergency services practice.

Evaluate EQUIP’s evidence-informed tools and resources for their use in strengthening their practice and their organization’s approach, such as a substance use safety planning tool and a language resource.

Every day, public health nurses and other professionals provide care to people experiencing gender-based violence (GBV) and using substances in ways that affect their health. This presentation will invite participants to deepen their knowledge about the intersections between GBV and substance use, and to make their practice more effective. A range of informational resources and tools will be shared to support trauma- and violence-informed, destigmatizing approaches to promoting substance use health in the context of GBV.

At the Educators Showcase, EQUIP provided an opportunity for health and mental health educators to discuss strategies and approaches to teaching about mental health, substance use health, and suicidality through a health equity lens.

The Educators Showcase was held twice in October 2023, to maximize opportunities for educators to participate, as part of the Knowledge Mobilization to Promote Mental Health and Substance Use Health of Those Most Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic Project.

At the EQUIP Pathways Showcase, we presented the EQUIP Equity Action Kit developed through the Pathways Project. Pathways is a 2-year knowledge mobilization project to increase capacity to reduce stigma and discrimination in health care and social services.

The Action Kit includes strategies and resources for reducing substance use stigma and implementing equity-oriented, culturally safe and trauma-and-violence informed care.

At the EQUIP Emergency Showcase, we presented our findings from EQUIP Emergency and the EQUIP Equity Action Kit developed in collaboration with the EQUIP Pathways Project. EQUIP Emergency is a 5 year project looking at promoting health equity for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canadian Emergency Departments. The Action Kit includes strategies and resources for reducing substance use stigma and implementing equity-oriented, culturally safe and trauma-and-violence informed care.