Atlantic Collaborative on
Injury Prevention
2015 Injury Prevention
Conference
Risk & Resiliency
Westin Nova Scotian Hotel, Halifax, Nova Scotia
June 8th & 9th 2015
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ACIP Conference 2015: Risk & Resiliency
Keynote Speaker
Larry Cohen
Larry Cohen is founder and Executive
Director of Prevention Institute, a
national nonprofit center that has
helped to shape the way that the
country thinks about health and
prevention: improving community
conditions and taking action to build
resilience and to prevent illness, injury
and violence before they occur.
Larry has helped to advance a deeper understanding of how social and
community factors and the design of communities shape health and he
works with communities to address health inequities. Prevention Institute
has helped to incorporate a focus on prevention as part of the national
health reform agenda.
Prior to founding Prevention Institute in 1997, Larry served as founding
Director of the Contra Costa County Prevention Program, where he
engaged the American Cancer Society and the American Heart and Lung
Associations in forming the first coalition in the Unites States to change
tobacco policy by passing the nation's first multi-city smoking ban.
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Overview of Sessions
Risky Play – Dr. Ian Pike and Dr. Mariana Brussoni
Most of us have memories of childhoods with long hours spent outdoors and away from watchful eyes
of adults. Injury prevention efforts and fears for children's safety have had a large influence on
childhood. The childhood of today looks very different, with more time spent indoors, supervised, in
structured activities, and in front of screens; and with little allowance for outdoor play time and risk
taking. The effects of these rapid lifestyle changes are just beginning to be understood. This
presentation will explore the pressures limiting children's outdoor play time and research examining
the influence on children's health and development. Participants will consider what can be done to
restore balance and be provided some tools for talking to parents, educators and others about the
importance of risk taking.
Make Them Listen, Make Them Care: 5 Steps to be Heard, Build
Influence and Inspire Action - Eleanor Beaton
Calling All Hard-Working Advocates:
Are you tired of trying to make people care about causes that you know are truly important?
Do you wish it were easier to make people listen and take action?
Are you worried YOUR cause will get lost in the crowd of messages?
Join communication expert and women’s leadership coach Eleanor Beaton for a fun, practical and
deeply useful session, Make Them Listen, Make Them Care: 5 Steps To Be Heard, Build Influence and
Inspire Action
In this hands-on workshop, you will discover the 5 steps to you need to take in order to:
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Communicate with presence, authority and persuasiveness
Ensure your message stands out in the crowd
Build the influence skills you need to translate your message into action.
You will leave this session with a personal Impact and Influence Plan, with personalized steps designed
to ensure you know the exact next steps you need to take in order to become a powerful speaker,
influencer and agent of change.
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Social Media: Bringing Your Message Online - Dawn Binns & Kerry
Anne McDougall
In today’s world, social media platforms offer a significant opportunity for communicating and getting a
message out but many organizations struggle to garner interest, manage their accounts and achieve
results.
Through a dynamic and practical session, Dawn Binns & Kerry Anne MacDougall of Insight Studio will
bring their strategic marketing experience to the world of social media and injury prevention in
particular.
The session will discuss the importance of developing a social media strategy and cover the top 5 things
every organization should include in their planning before going online.
Using real world examples and case studies (and a few fun stories) participants will leave empowered,
excited and with a broader understanding of how to get online or enhance their current presence –
plus a few creative ideas for standing out in the cluttered social media world!
The Risk-Taker’s Advantage: How to Make our Kids More Resilient
by not Overprotecting Them – Dr. Michael Ungar
As both a family therapist and a world-renowned researcher on resilience, Michael Ungar has noticed
that many families and schools have become so overprotective that children never have a chance to
develop the normal coping strategies children need for independent lives. Though the stats tell us that
children today are safer than ever before in history, parents are failing to give them what Michael has
called ‘the risk-taker’s advantage.’ The results are a generation of bubble wrapped kids with anxiety
disorders, an inflated sense of entitlement, or misguided efforts to find their own rites of passage into
adulthood, often with catastrophic results. Based on his best-selling book, Too Safe For Their Own
Good, Michael shows us how to help families and schools stop being overprotective and provide kids
with what they need to grow up well. You can expect:
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A very amusing, and at times, shocking presentation that debunks the myth of the dangerous
middle-class community.
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To hear practical ways therapist can help families and schools reconsider their children’s
developmental needs and offer them more risk and responsibility.
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To laugh and be inspired by stories of schools and communities that have helped parents give their
children the risk-taker’s advantage.
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Injury Indicators Dashboard – Dr. Ian Pike
The Lunch & Learn session will provide an update on the development of the work of the CIHR team in
Child and Youth Injury Prevention to develop a Child and Youth Injury Atlas and Dashboard. Attendees
will be provided with the context and background, and demonstration of the site.
Panel: Innovative Approaches to Falls Prevention
With a large ageing population, falls and fall-related injuries remain a significant public health issue in
Canada. This panel of diverse speakers aims to identify innovative approaches to preventing falls across
the life span, including unique programs and initiatives, policies, as well as technology and
environment modifications. Through discussion, we hope to learn about and explore these
opportunities for preventing falls and fall-related injuries in a range of settings, such as hospitals, the
home, care facilities, and in the community.
Panelists will include:
Kathy Belton, Associate Director of the Injury Prevention Centre in the School of Public Health at the
University of Alberta
Suzanne Baker, Falls Prevention Coordinator for Nova Scotia Health Authority and the Nova Scotia
Department of Health and Wellness
Dr. Alison Novak, Scientist at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network
Tom Dobson, Provincial Coordinator of Community Paramedic Programs with Emergency Health
Services in Nova Scotia
Youth Engagement: Injury & Risk-taking Fishbowl Discussion–
Facilitated by Morris Green
Hear from a group of youth as they provide their firsthand experience to questions regarding risktaking, in a unique fishbowl conversation. Discussion will dive into a raw and uncensored look at the
first couple years of driving, as well as the role of masculinity in risk-taking.
We encourage you to participate during the question period, and feed the fish!
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Conference Day One: June 8th, 2015
Session
Time
Presenter/Speaker
Location
POSTER
PRESENTATIONS/
TRADE SHOWS
REGISTRATION &
LIGHT BREAKFAST
All Day:
8:00am 4:30pm
Various
Commonwealth
Ballroom
OPENING
REMARKS
& INTRODUCTION
PLENARY SESSION
8:30am 9:00am
ACIP & Dr. Robert Strang-N.S. Chief Public
Health Officer
9:00am –
10:30am
Risky Play: Dr. Ian Pike and Dr. Mariana Brussoni
Commonwealth
Ballroom
CONCURRENT
SESSION ONE
10:45am –
12:15pm
Children and Youth
Commonwealth
Ballroom
8:00am –
8:30am
1. LJ Bartle - Linking Resiliency & Recreation: A
Proactive approach to Children's Mental Health
2. Sally Lockhart and Melissa Blake - Children’s
Injury Prevention Program
3. Natalie Yanchar - Knowledge and Practice of
Childhood Motor Vehicle Restraint Use in Nova
Scotia: Phase II
Coat Check Office
& Commonwealth
Ballroom
Commonwealth
Ballroom
4. Caila Aubé - Child Safety Link’s Home Safety
Curriculum Evaluation
5. Sarah Gallsworthy - Programming to
Aboriginal Youth. A Coordinated Approach
CONCURRENT
SESSION TWO
10:45am –
12:15pm
Substance Use and Injury
Lunenburg Room
1. Mete Erdogan - Legal Consequences for
Alcohol-Impaired Drivers Injured in Motor
Vehicle Collisions: A Systematic Review
2. Dan Steeves - Cannabis and Injury:
Researching Nova Scotia Attitudes
3. Jennifer Russell - The Role of Alcohol Policy
in Sexual Violence Prevention
4. Mohammed Al-hamdani - Alcohol
Warning Labels: Emerging Evidence on
Consumer Psychology and Alcohol Policy
5. Angela Davis -Understanding Alcohols and
Intentional Injury/Suicide
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Conference Day One: June 8th, 2015
Session
Time
LUNCH
12:15pm –
1:00pm
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
1:00pm 2:30pm
BREAK & POSTER
VIEWING
2:30pm –
2:45pm
SKILL BUILDING
SESSION ONE
2:45pm – 3:30
pm
SKILL BUILDING
SESSION TWO
3:30pm –
4:15pm
2:45pm –
3:30pm
CLOSING
3:30pm 4:15pm
4:15pm 4:30pm
Presenter/Speaker
Location
Commonwealth
Ballroom
Larry Cohen (Prevention Institute)
Commonwealth
Ballroom
Make Them Listen, Make Them Care: 5 Steps To
Be Heard, Build Influence and Inspire Action:
Eleanor Beaton
Commonwealth
Ballroom
Social Media: Bringing Your Message Online:
Dawn Binns and Kerry Anne McDougall (Insight
Marketing)
Lunenburg
Room
ACIP
Commonwealth
Ballroom
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Conference Day Two: June 9th, 2015
Session
Time
LIGHT BREAKFAST
8:00am –
8:30am
8:30am
BRIEF OPENING
REMARKS &
INTRODUCTION
PLENARY
BREAK & POSTER
VIEWING
CONCURRENT
SESSION ONE
8:30am –
10:00am
10:00am –
10:30am
10:30am –
12:00pm
Presenter/Speaker
ACIP
Location
Commonwealth
Ballroom
Commonwealth
Ballroom
Dr. Michael Ungar (Dalhousie University):
The Risk-Taker’s Advantage: How to Make Our
Kids More Resilient by not Overprotecting
Them
Commonwealth
Ballroom
Tools for Injury Prevention
Commonwealth
Ballroom
1. Dr. Ian Pike - The Effects of a Social Marketing
Campaign to Reduce Preventable Injuries
2. Louise Logan - Digital Media and Public
Health
3. Pam Fuselli - Economic Burden of Injury in
Canada 2015 Report
4. Stephanie Cowle - A Question of Capacity:
Reducing Risk by Building Up Our Practitioners
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Conference Day Two: June 9th, 2015
Session
Time
Presenter/Speaker
Location
CONCURRENT
SESSION TWO
10:30am – 12:00pm
Sports and Recreation
Lunenburg
Room
1. Lynne Fenerty and Jennifer Heatley - A
multi-sectorial approach to achieving allage snow sport legislation in NS
2. Janice White - Snowmobile Safety
Awareness Maze Project Labrador
3. Brandy Tanenbaum – Play Safe Initiative:
Defining Safety and Preventing Injury in
Sport and Recreation
4. Mete Erdogan - A Retrospective
Evaluation of Pediatric Major Trauma
Related to Sport and Recreational Activities
in Nova Scotia
5. Robyn Forward - The Limits of Health
Education and Awareness-Raising
Initiatives regarding Crosswalk Safety in
HRM
LUNCH & LEARN
PLENARY
12:00pm – 1:00pm
*Speaker at
12:30pm
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Dr. Ian Pike (CIHR Team in Child & Youth
Injury Prevention):
Commonwealth
Ballroom
Injury Indicators Dashboard
Panel: Innovative Approaches to Falls
Prevention
 Suzanne Baker – NS Department of
Commonwealth
Ballroom
Health & Wellness/South Shore Health
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Kathy Belton – Injury Prevention Centre –
Alberta
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Dr. Alison Novak – Toronto Rehabilitation
Institute: University Health Network
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Tom Dobson – NS Emergency Health
Services
CLOSING PLENARY
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Youth Engagement: Injury & Risk-taking
Fishbowl Discussion – Facilitated by
Morris Green
Commonwealth
Ballroom
*Sponsored by the Insurance Bureau of Canada
CLOSING
3:00pm – 3:30pm
ACIP
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Ballroom
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Thank You to our
Sponsors
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