Congress (Preliminary programme)

2 PM-5 PM

Registration

5 PM-7 PM

Welcome Cocktail

7 PM -

Ghost Rallye

7 AM-7:45 AM

Friends of Bill W.

7 AM-6 PM

Survivor Meet and Greet: Welcome!

8 AM-8:30 AM

Word of Welcome
Sylvie Nadeau, présidente du comité organisateur
Julie K. Campbell, President, Association québécoise de prévention du suicide
Adrian Hill, President, Canadian Association for Suicide PreventionLisette Lepage, City Councillor, Ville de Québec
Max Gros-Louis, the Huron-Wendake Grand Chief

8:30 AM-10 AM

Addictions and Suicide: The Challenges of Complexity
President of the Session: Richard Boyer

Lorne Korman, Provincial Youth Concurrent Disorders Program, B.C.
Graeme Cunningham, Homewood Health Centre
Gustavo Turecki, McGill Study Group on Suicide, Douglass Institute

10 AM-10:30 AM

Health Break / Poster Sessions

10:30 AM-10:35 AM

Awards from the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention

10:35 AM-11:15 AM

The Mental Health Commission of Canada: A New Model for Change
President of the Session: Adrian Hill

David Goldbloom, Centre of Addiction and Mental Health

11:15 AM-12:15 PM

Workshops / Free Papers

L – 1: Comorbidity
Recourse to mental health services before and after hospitalization for attempted suicide: schizophrenia, depression and substance abuse
Danielle Routhier, Nicole Leduc, Alain Lesage, Mike Benigeri

Child trauma, alcoholism and suicide
Michel Tousignant, Monique Séguin, Gustavo Turecki

L – 2: First Nations
Associations Between Knowledge of Aboriginal Languages and Suicidality in Manitoban First Nations Youth
Natalie Mota, Brenda Elias, Brian J. Cox, Laurence Katz, Jitender Sareen

Intergenerational impacts of residential schools traumas and prevalence of  suicide among First Nations and Inuit Youth
Normand D’Aragon

L – 3: Evaluation (FR.)
Vulnerability of the brain in adolescence and impacts of substance consumption
Sarah Fillion-Bilodeau, Pascale-Audrey Moriconi

Estimating the danger of acting out in an addict: a challenge and a tool
Marie Lecavalier, Brigitte Lavoie

L – 4: Virtual (FR.)
A Web-based Narrative Study of Factors Important in Recovery Following a Suicide Attempt: The Reasons to go on Living Project
Jennifer Brasch, Helen Kirkpatrick

L – 5: Close Follow-up (FR.)
Close follow-up of persons with suicide potential
Caroline de Pokomandy-Morin, Françoise Roy          

L – 6: Older Adults (ENG.)
Adapting Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for Older Adults at Risk for Suicide: Preliminary Findings
Marnin J. Heisel, Paul R. Duberstein, Nancy L. Talbot, Deborah A. King

Preventing Suicide Among Older Adults: A Review of Risk, Resiliency, Assessment, and Interventions
Marnin J. Heisel

L – 7: Therapy (FR.)
Managing suicide risk among clients showing severe personality disorders
Johanne Maranda, Évens Villeneuve, Sébastien Bouchard

L – 8: Virtual (FR.)
Virtual addictions?!
Philippe Carette

L – 9: Communities of Practice (FR.)
Application of suicide prevention knowledge by communities of practice
François Chagnon, Janie Houle, Brian Mishara, Marc Daigle

Analysis of support provided to stakeholders working with suicidal persons
Cécile Bardon, Julie Lane

L – 10: Men's Experience (ENG.)
Experience of Men's Grief
Heather Fiske, moderator
Dave Ball, Adrian Hill

12:15 PM-1:45 PM

Lunch
CASP – A.G.A

1:45 PM-3:15 PM

Workshops / Free Papers

L – 21: Theoretical Models (ENG.)
Is there room for Psychoanalysis in the Clinical Practice with Suicidal Clients?
Hilda Fernandez

Suicide in Alcoholics: What do their suicide notes tell us?
Antoon Leenaars, David Laster, Susanne Wenckstern

A Best Practice Guideline for RNs and RPNs:
An Intervention to Prevent Suicide
Elaine Santa Mina, Samantha Mayo, Victoria Smye, Josephine Muxlow

L – 22: First Nations
Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy
Elsie Bastien, Warren Winnipeg
           
Spirit of Living-Vision of Hope: Community Based Aboriginal Youth Life Support Strategies
Marni Pearce, Warren Winnipeg, Ray McGuire

L – 23: Suicide Watches (FR.)
Steps and results of the application of the framework for implementing suicide prevention networks in the Laval region
Charles Pinard

The implementation of rural watch networks
Steve Dubois, Bertrand Gignac, Catherine Carrignan

Watch Programs
Dominic Parisé

L – 24: Interventions with Men (FR.)
Innovative practices aimed at preventing suicide in men
Daniel Beaulieu, Robert Cormier, Marc Daigle, Nicolas Plante

L – 25: Reaching Out (ENG.)
Reaching Out: Modeling Helping Behaviours for Youth / How Will the Adult Helpers Know What to Do?
Susan Sorrell

Clinical case consultation: Interactions among alcohol abuse, bereavement, and suicide risk
Heather Fiske

L – 26: Therapy (FR.)
Suicidality, personality disorders and addiction: a survival kit for therapists
Florence Chanut, Danielle Duhamel

L – 27: Virtual (ENG.)
Citizen advocacy : a flexible, proactive and promising way of helping suicidal persons and their loved ones
Michel Presseault, Jean-Claude Daoust

Suicide as a strategy for regulating emotions: Theoretical implications and intervention tools
Frédérick Dionne

L – 28: Interventions with Youth(ENG./FR.)
Suicide Awareness on Campus: a key suicide prevention strategy
Cheryl Washburn, P. Bonny Ball, Richard Kramer

Concerted actions in suicide prevention for college and university students
Mélanie Boisvert

L – 29: Theoretical Models (FR.)
The relationship between disease and suicide among schizophrenic patients
Georgia Vrakas

Guide of good practices in suicide prevention in health and social services centres
Julie Lane, Johanne Archambault, Pauline Thiboutot

L – 30: Intervention (FR/ENG.)
At the crossroads of crisis intervention: If we took the time to review our attitudes...
Amélie Gauthier, Julie Kathleen Campbell

Being a woman and intervening with men
Julie Kathleen Campbell, Amélie Gauthier

3:15 PM-3:45 PM

Health Break

3:45 PM-5:15 PM

Adversity, Mental Health and Compounded Suffering: Trajectories of Life and the Search for Services
President of the session: François Chagnon
Monique Séguin, Université du Québec en Outaouais, McGill Study Group on Suicide
Alain Lesage, Centre de recherche Fernand-Seguin, Université de Montréal, Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine
Pierre Lamarche, Ministère de la Famille et des Aînés

5:15 PM

An Informal Networking about the Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention Initiative for BC
Pamela Joshi

6:30PM

Benefit Dinner with Special Guests of the Fondation André Dédé Fortin

7 PM – 9 PM

The Pact : A video document about the training of peer helpers in Manawan
Mélanie Petiquay

7 PM – 9 PM

Grieving from suicide in First Nations and Inuit communities: transforming our wounds into a reconnection with our family tree cultural revival
Normand D’Aragon

7 PM –

CASP – CDLN (canadian Distress Line Network)
Ian Ross

7 AM-7:45 AM

Friends of Bill W.

7 AM-6 PM

Survivor Meet and Greet: Welcome!

8:30 AM-10 AM

State-of-the-art Services: Addiction and Suicide
President of the session: Marie Lecavalier

Magali Dufour, Addiction Studies Program, Université de Sherbrooke
Paul Links, Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital
Wayne Skinner, Centre of Addiction and Mental Health

10 AM-10:30 AM

Health Break

10:30 AM-10:35 AM

Awards from the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention

10:35 AM-12 PM

Where to Draw the Line Concerning Protection: Ethical Issues and Clinical Dilemmas
Facilitator:

Barbara Russell, Centre of Addiction and Mental Health
Delphine Roigt, Clinical Ethics Committee of the CHUM, CRE of the Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies, CRE in Addiction of the Centre Dollard-Cormier
André Picard, Globe and Mail

12 PM-2:15 PM

Commemorative Activity and Lunch

2:15 PM-3 PM

The Relationship Between Alcohol and Suicide and Prevention Projects Around the World
President of the Session: Marnin Heisel

Brian Mishara, Centre de recherche et d’intervention sur le suicide et l’euthanasie /UQAM, International Association for Suicide Prevention

3 PM-3:30 PM

Health Break

3:30 PM-5 PM

Workshops / Free Papers       

M – 1: Alberta (ENG.)
Enhance Mental Health and Wellness through Community Helpers
Chris LaForge, Gayle Vincent, Bill Leggat

Alberta is Taking Action on Suicide
Chris LaForge, Gayle Vincent

Knowledge Transfer Through Mentorship - Men at Risk Program
Barbara Campbell, Gayle Vincent

M – 2: First Nations
National Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy Program Framework
Kari Nisbet

M – 3: Prisons (FR.)
Suicide in prisons
Marc Daigle, Hélène Naud, Pierre Lalande

Some characteristics of the medical and correctional management of a sample of provincial inmates with a history of suicide
Denis Lafortune, Marion Vacheret

M – 4: Suicide / Addictions Among Youth (FR.)
Suicide and addictions among youth in treatment centres: Complex interrelations
Karine Bertrand, Magali Dufour, Cinthia Ledoux

Recovery of suicidal and drug-addicted teenagers
Cinthia Ledoux, Karine Bertrand, Nathacha Brunelle

M – 5: Services (FR.)
Suicide prevention shelters for men: intervening more effectively with vulnerable men
Louise Lévesque, Julie Lane, Raymonde Camirand, David Goudreault, Alain Rochon

Analysis of service trajectories with regard to persons with addictions who have died of suicide in the Chaudière-Appalaches region
Louise Paré, Rodrigue Gallagher, Nataly Jacques

M – 6: Therapies (ENG.)
Considerations for Group therapy
Jerry Stochansky

The Harnessed Energy of Survivors and Professionals Working Together in Prevention and Advocacy
Joan Seabrook

Preventing Suicide: Meeting G therapeutically through his birds
Kathryn Hunt  

The Impact of Rural Residence on Medically Serious Medicinal Self-Poisonings 
Anne Rhodes, Jennifer Bethell

M – 7: Evaluation (ENG.)
40 years of Experience (Suicide Prevention and Intervention - the Distress Line Model of Care)
Elizabeth Fisk, Karen Letofsky, Dee Tyler

Working with Men with Substance Abuse and Suicidality in the Emergency Department:  from a Social Work Perspective
Yvonne Bergmans, Julia Spence, C. Strike, P. Links, J.S. Ball,
A.E. Rhodes, C. Rufo, W.J. Watson, R. Eynan

Addiction and Suicide: Alcoholism, Compulsive Gambling and Risk of Death by Suicide
Adrian Hill

M – 8: Therapies (FR.)
Beyond the suicidal crisis and addiction: a different approach to handling personality disorders
Mélanie Francis, Monique Bessette

M – 9: Therapies – Services (FR.)
SILAR program for supporting suicidal persons
Valérie Giroux

Crisis intervention at the Casino de Montréal
Chrystian Rousselle

M – 10: Mourning (FR.)
Statements from teenagers in mourning following the suicide of a friend/close relation
Danyelle Latreille

Intervening with persons in mourning following the suicide of a close relation
Maude Léonard

6:30 PM -

Gala's Cocktail

7:15 PM

Gala / Silent Auction :

Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention Awards
CASP 2008 Service Award Presentation to Mr. Michael Sheehan
CASP President’s Award to Dr. Antoon Leenaars, Ms. Anne Edmunds, Mr. Hugh Edmunds
Recognition to Ms. Karen Letofsky, Member of the Order of Canada
Freddie Ford Award Presentation to Ms. Jane MacKinnon

7 AM-8 AM

Friends of Bill W.

7 AM-6 PM

Survivor Meet and Greet: Welcome!

8:30 AM-10 AM

The First Nations, Inuit and Métis
Synthesis: Consensus, Issues in Dispute and Future Actions

Laurence J. Kirmayer, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University

Michel Tousignant, Centre de recherche et d’intervention sur le suicide et l’euthanasie /UQAM

Jack Anawack, Kivalliq Consulting, Management & Training Services Ltd

10 AM-10:30 AM

Health Break

10:30 AM -1:30 PM

Closing Conference 
President of the session:

Louise Nadeau, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal

11:30 AM-12:00 PM  

Closing Remarks
Adrian Hill, President, Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention       
Julie K. Campbell, President, Association québécoise de prévention du suicide
Sylvie Nadeau, présidente du comité organisateur