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The Family Outreach and Response Program is often asked to speak to different groups on mental health recovery and the important role that families play in recovery. On this page you will find Adobe pdf versions of the slides used in some of the presentations that the FOR Program has given in the past. More presentations will be added to this page in the future. If you would like to have Karyn Baker or someone else from the Family Outreach and Response Program come and talk to your group about the Family Outreach and Response Program and its work or mental health recovery, please send an e-mail to Karyn Baker with the details of your request.

Presentations given during 2005 and earlier

  1. Recovery and the Role of Social Workers, November 2005, Toronto
  2. Toronto East Counselling Support Services AGM, November 2005, Toronto, given with Ann Thompson
  3. The Family Experience, June 2005, Toronto, given with Wayne Skinner
  4. Family Mental Health Recovery, May 2005, Thunder Bay
  5. Why Work With Families Anyway?, May 2005, Niagara Falls
  6. The role of the family in mental health recovery, October 2004, Toronto
  7. Building a Recovery Community: The Role of Family, October 2003, Niagara Falls

Presentations given during 2006

  1. Mental Health Recovery: What is the Role for Families?, March 2006, Owen Sound, given with Paddy McGowan
  2. Hope, Help and Healing - Positive Approaches to Mental Health, March 2006, Kitchener
  3. Working with Families Using a Recovery Approach, June 2006, Kingston
  4. CMHA-Chatham Kent Annual General Meeting, June 2006, Chatham
  5. An Evening of Hope in Chatham, October 2006, Chatham

Presentations given during 2006

An Evening of Hope in Chatham, October 2006

This presentation was given at a forum sponsored by the Mental Illness Awareness Committee of Chatham-Kent..

CMHA-Chatham Kent Annual General Meeting, June 2006

This presentation was given at the Annual General Meeting of the Chatham-Kent branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association.

Working with Families Using a Recovery Approach, June 2006

This presentation was given at the Eastern Ontario Summer Institute in Mental Health and Addictions in Kingston.

Hope, Help and Healing - Positive Approaches to Mental Health, March 2006

This presentation was given at the Recovery - The Role of Families and the Power of Hope conference in Kitchener.

Mental Health Recovery: What is the Role for Families?, March 2006

This presentation was given in Owen Sound with Paddy McGowan from Ireland.

Presentations given during 2005 and earlier

Recovery and the Role of Social Workers, November 2005

This presentation was given to social workers at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health.

Toronto East Counselling Support Services Annual General Meeting, November 2005, given with Ann Thompson

This presentation was the keynote speech at the 2005 Annual General Meeting of Toronto East Counselling Support Services.

The Family Experience, June 2005, given with Wayne Skinner of CAMH

This presentation was part of the forum Covering Addiction and Mental Health hosted by the Institute of Addiction and Mental Health Studies for Journalists.

Family Mental Health Recovery
Bringing Families and Recovery Together Through Education and Support, May 2005


This presentation was given at the recovery conference organized by the Thunder Bay branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association.

Why Work with Families Anyway? May, 2005

This presentation was done at the Family Matters conference held in Niagara Falls, Ontario in May, 2005.

The Role of the Family in Mental Health Recovery, October 2004

This presentation was given at the annual conference of the Ontario Case Management Association in Toronto.

Building a Recovery Community: The Role of Family, October 2003

This presentation was given at the first Making Gains conference in 2003.