CCSA Events
Symposium on campus-based interventions to reduce alcohol-related harms among college and university students
Date: October 3, 2019
Location: Grand Times Hotel, Sherbrooke, Quebec
Issues of Substance Conference
Date: November 25, 2019 - November 27, 2019
Location: The Westin Ottawa
Upcoming Events
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Recovery Capital Conference Regina
Date: September 20, 2019
Location: Queensbury Convention Center Regina, SK
This year’s addiction and mental health recovery conference theme is “Building on our Strengths” featuring keynote speakers, workshops, and dialogue opportunities to help create Canada’s National Recovery Capital Assessment Toolkit. The Recovery Capital Conference of Canada SOLD OUT in 2017 and 2018 — while Recovery Day BC hosted record crowds of over 20,000 people. This momentum is helping us take the conference to cities across Canada This year the Recovery Capital Conference will focus on Building Recovery Capital by engaging people to gain a better understanding of Recovery Capital and how to foster it in people, workplaces, families and communities. Featured Speakers: Johann Hari Nuno Capaz David Sheff Vikki Reynolds.
Website:http://recoverycapitalconference.com/recovery-capital-conference-saskatchewan/
The Mental Health for All (MH4A) Conference
Date: September 23, 2019 - September 25, 2019
Location: Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, Ontario
The Mental Health for All (MH4A) Conference plays a unique role in uniting the people and ideas that exemplify mental health in Canada. Now in its fourth year, the MH4A Conference is an important place of convergence, where service providers, front-line workers, researchers, funders, policy makers and people with lived experience of mental health problems and illnesses come together to set the agenda. The theme of this year’s conference is Connection Interrupted: Restoring Mental Health in a Fractured World. Together we connect, create and collaborate to demand and design the mentally healthy schools, campuses, workplaces and communities that our citizens deserve, and reimagine the healthcare system and supports required to serve their needs of the future. Let’s look back and think ahead. Let’s shore up everyone’s mental health for the world to come.
Website:https://conference.cmha.ca
Recovery Capital Conference Halifax
Date: September 24, 2019
Location: Pier 21 Convention Centre, Halifax, NS
This year’s addiction and mental health recovery conference theme is “Building on our Strengths” featuring keynote speakers, workshops, and dialogue opportunities to help create Canada’s National Recovery Capital Assessment Toolkit. The Recovery Capital Conference of Canada SOLD OUT in 2017 and 2018 — while Recovery Day BC hosted record crowds of over 20,000 people. This momentum is helping us take the conference to cities across Canada This year the Recovery Capital Conference will focus on Building Recovery Capital by engaging people to gain a better understanding of Recovery Capital and how to foster it in people, workplaces, families and communities. Featured Speakers: Nuno Capaz David Sheff Steven Page Vikki Reynolds.
Website:http://recoverycapitalconference.com/building-recovery-capital-halifax/
Recovery Capital Conference Toronto
Date: September 26, 2019 - September 27, 2019
Location: Delta Hotels Toronto, 75 Lower Simcoe Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5J 1W9
Recovery Capital conference is returning September 26th – 27th with the most innovative two-day event designed to provide accessible, accredited, and multi-disciplinary education on the latest innovations in the fields of Addiction Medicine, concurrent disorders and Recovery.
Lisbon Addictions 2019
Date: October 23, 2019 - October 25, 2019
Location: Lisbon Congress Centre - Praça das Indústrias 1, 1300-307 Lisboa, Portugal
The overarching theme for 2019 is 'The future of addictions: new frontiers for policy, practice and science'. The conference will therefore showcase cutting-edge research to help characterise, understand and respond to addiction and addictive behaviours.
Website:https://www.lisbonaddictions.eu/lisbon-addictions-2019
2019 CSAM Annual Meeting and Scientific Conference
Date: October 24, 2019 - October 27, 2019
Location: 1919 Upper Water Street , Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 3J5
Building Bridges through Shared Learning/Créer des connections grâce à l’apprentissage partagé is our theme, connecting research and evidence-based treatments with presentations about current knowledge and skills in addictions care in Canada.
Website:https://csam-smca.org/events/2019-csam-annual-meeting-and-scientific-conference/
SSA Annual Conference 2019
Date: November 7, 2019 - November 8, 2019
Location: Crowne Plaza, Hawthorn Square, Forth Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3SA
The SSA Annual Conference provides delegates with a variety of lectures, workshops, oral and poster presentations. Invited speakers will present on a variety of topics including a society lecture on alcohol interventions, addiction and the market, exposure to gambling, adolescent cannabis use and novel strategies for treatment, and addiction to prescribed drugs.
Website:https://www.addiction-ssa.org/annual-conference/695/
Issues of Substance Conference
Date: November 25, 2019 - November 27, 2019
Location: The Westin Ottawa
CCSA’s Issues of Substance is the flagship event of the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) that addresses issues related to substance use and addiction that affect the health and safety of Canadians.
The biennial event is Canada’s only national conference that brings together addiction workers, healthcare professionals, researchers, policy makers, knowledge brokers, and people with direct or indirect, lived or living experience with substance use or a substance use disorders from across the country.
The theme for this year’s conference is Evidence and Perspectives, Compassion and Action. This theme reflects the importance of relying on research and real-world experience as we identify sustainable solutions that meet the needs of Canadians suffering from substance use disorder.This year, CCSA expects to welcome more than 500 delegates to the conference, including more than 150 plenary and concurrent session speakers and 50 poster presentations from across Canada.
Website:https://issuesofsubstance.ca/