Outreach & Education

Available for consulting, workshops, presentations & training:

Primary Care Provider Training & Conferences

BridgePoint is proud to be a collaborating organization working on a national e-learning project with Body Brave, National Initiative for Eating Disorders and other organizations from across Canada.

Body Brave (bodybrave.ca) and National Initiative for Eating Disorders (NIED.ca) have teamed up to bring you Body Peace. Body Peace is a first-of-its-kind virtual body image and Eating Disorders conference. This year's theme, Lived Experience Is Evidence Too, will highlight lived experience, not only in survivors but in caregivers and health professionals. This event will feature panel discussions, keynote speakers, live chats and more! The three areas of focus are innovation, representation, and collaboration.

Location: Virtual Conference Date: Oct 4 2019 - 8:00am to Oct 6 2019 - 4:00pm

Virtual Eating Disorder Sensitivity Training For Primary Care Providers (Training Session Only) $69 REGISTER NOW

Eating Disorder Sensitivity Training for Primary Care Providers (Accredited) - OCTOBER 4

For medical students, residents, family physicians, psychiatrists, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners

Dr. Karen Trollope-Kumar, MD and Dr. Blake Woodside, MD

2:30pm-4:30pm (CST)

Virtual Body Peace Conference Tickets (All Ticket Types - October 4-6) REGISTER NOW

BridgePoint is honored to be joining in on Body Peace's panel on Alternative Therapies for Disordered Eating.

Contact: sonia@livingbodybrave.com #BODYPEACE2019
Professional Experiences & Practicums

We have hosted many professionals over the years as they join us in programming to gain hands on experience in a non-medical group-based residential setting.

If you are interested in learning onsite in a professional or intern capacity, please apply here and we will be in touch to determine availability and suitability.

Meals and accomodation can be arranged on-site and we charge a small cost-recovery fee:

SHA Professionals $150 Private Professionals $75 Longer Student Practicums TBD
Applied Suicide Intervention Support Training
The next program dates for ASIST are October 29/30 and December 11/12. For more information, call (306) 935-2240. Space is limited. $175 each. Call us if you require accomodations. Buy Tickets

Description
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is an intensive, interactive, and practice-dominated course designed to help caregivers recognize and review risk, and intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. It is by far the most widely used, acclaimed and researched suicide intervention training workshop in the world.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Recognize that caregivers and persons at risk are affected by personal and societal attitudes about suicide
- Discuss suicide with a person at risk in a direct manner
- Identify risk alerts and develop a safe plan related to them
- Demonstrate the skills required to intervene with a person at risk of suicide
- List the types of resources available to a person at risk of suicide, including themselves
- Make a commitment to improving community resources and networking
- Recognize that suicide prevention is broader than suicide intervention and, includes life promotion and self-care for persons at risk and for caregivers
AUDIENCE

Open to all. Ages 18+
Participants can include but not limited to: parents and caregivers; natural helpers and advisors; educators and ministers; health practitioners; justice, law enforcers, emergency workers, and community volunteers.

Student/group rate and other contract training dates are available. Contact Carla Chabot, Executive Director at (306) 935-2240 for more details.

CERTIFICATE AND ACCREDITATION

All participants who complete the course (14 hours of instruction time) will receive a certificate of participation.

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SafeTalk

Learn and practice powerful, life-saving skills in just four hours Using a simple yet effective model, LivingWorks safeTALK empowers everyone to make a difference. LivingWorks safeTALK is a four-hour face-to-face workshop featuring powerful presentations, audiovisuals, and skills practice. At a LivingWorks safeTALK workshop, you'll learn how to prevent suicide by recognizing signs, engaging someone, and connecting them to an intervention resource for further support. A skilled, supportive trainer will guide you through the course, and a community resource will be on hand to support your safety and comfort. What a great investment for yourself or your group. Call today 306-935-2240 to schedule!
Classroom presentations

We have had the privilege to be able to speak to classrooms from all over Saskatchewan. When time permits, we would love to join you in your classroom. Please call (306) 935-2240 and speak to Lauralyn or Carla to coordinate.

We gratefully accept donations and per diems to cover our costs as this service is funded through generosity and giving back.
Equine Assisted Learning

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Emotion Focused Family Training
Part of the Emotion-Focused Therapy “family” (EFFT) and rooted in a deep and unwavering belief in the healing power of families, the essence of EFFT is to afford caregivers a significant role in their loved one’s mental health and well-being. The therapist’s role would then be to empower and support caregivers in mastering the skills, tasks, and, yes, the feelings involved in four main domains:
- Becoming their loved one’s behavior coach,
- Becoming their loved one’s emotion coach,
- Facilitating relationship repair and healing possible wounds from the child and family’s past, and
- Working through and resolving the fears and obstacles that surface in the caregiver.
Caregiver workshops, clinician trainings available. Call today to discuss your group's needs.

Visit www.mentalhealthfoundations.ca for more information about EFFT.
Daring Greatly - Brene Brown

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Other Individualized Training Needs

Contact us today 306-935-2240 for a quote for a customized training session for your team! Meals and accommodation onsite available.

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Outreach & Education

Virtual Eating Disorder Sensitivity Training For Primary Care Providers (Training Session Only) $69 REGISTER NOW

Virtual Body Peace Conference Tickets (All Ticket Types - October 4-6) REGISTER NOW

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Testimonials

I trust everyone and the confidentiality and the trust here. It's difficult at times, very emotional and it's hard dealing with a lot of feelings but it's what you have to do and it feels so better much and so supportive.

There's no comparison to anything else I've tried and it’s a real blessing and an opportunity to be able to come here and an opportunity not to be taken lightly. It's a privilege to be here and I know that I will leave here a different person.

I can identify the issues and accept them and be able to learn how to work with that. I think over time we can say goodbye to the eating disorder. There is freedom at the end of the tunnel, but it takes work.

It's not about being broken and getting fixed, it's that we are all individuals who have pain and we're learning how to cope in a very healthy way.

The fact that BridgePoint operates so differently than the traditional medical model was very refreshing, and proved to be vital to my experience and healing.