Description

On today's episode hosts Tracy Mooney and Jody Wagner discuss Peer Inclusion and Engagement within Mental Health and Substance Use planning and service deliver with guests Alison Kyte and Brock Thomas. 

Learn more

• Stories@IH: Peers are being engaged to share their substance use expertise
• The Role of the Peer within a Clinical Team webinar provides background about the roots of Peer Support. It is delivered by Pat Deegan who is an international leader in Peer work.
• IH staff can check out the Peer Inclusion and Engagement Toolkit to learn more and to find out how to engage Peers in their work
• People with lived or living experience with substance use visit the Substance Use Peer Engagement & Inclusion webpage to learn more and to get involved.
• Lila Waston
• Peer Support Canada
• Mental Health Commission of Canada 
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer- available to IH staff through IH Library Services
• Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
• IH Land Acknowledgment Policy