Jan 23. A National Survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) reports 45.9 million (or 20%) American adults aged 18 or older experienced mental illness in the past year. More details
Jan 19. Bell Let's Talk Day announced for Wednesday February 8, 2012. More details
Jan 16. David Granirer, Founder of "Stand Up For Mental Health" will be doing a stand up comedic "Webinar" on Jan 19 from 11-12:30 Pacific Time, 2:00 pm-3:00pm Eastern Time. Flyer // RSVP by E-mail
Jan 13. CMA announces that 14 patient advocacy groups have endorsed the joint CMA-CNA principles to guide the transformation of the health care system. MDSC participlated in this release.
Jan 6. Plan to attend the 4th Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (CDPAC) conference "Integrated Chronic Disease Prevention: It Works!" in Ottawa, February 7-10, 2012. More details // PDF
Jan 5. Plan to attend the 2nd National Mental Health Conference "Mental Health Disorders: Challenges With Youth, Aboriginal Communities & the Criminal Justice System" in Winnipeg, March 14-15, 2012. MDSC is a proud supporter of this event. More details
Jan 5. Plan to attend the 5th International Stigma Conference "Together Against Stigma: Changing how we see mental illness" in Ottawa, June 4-6, 2012. More details
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John Starzynski is the Volunteer Executive Director of the Ontario Lawyers Assistance Program.
He received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1974. Called to the bar in 1976, John practiced in the area of matrimonial law and litigation in his home town of Oshawa, Ontario. In 1990, he stopped practicing due to his continuing and daily disabling experience with bi-polar illness (manic-depression). Since then, John has had and continues to have intensive treatment for this disease. He became involved with OLAP in 1995 as a peer support volunteer to provide assistance to other lawyers who are going through the trials of stress, burnout, addictions, depression and mental illness.
John has had training in alcohol and drug issues and treatment in the Professional-in-Residence Program at The Betty Ford Center and completed training in Co-Dependency at The Caron Foundation, a leading treatment centre in the United States. He has taken a program on Sexual Addictions at the Sante Center in Denton, Texas. He has received extensive training through the American Bar Association Commission on Lawyers’ Assistance Programs in the areas of addictions - alcohol, drugs, gambling, internet and sex and love addiction – along with instruction on the identification and treatment of mental illnesses and disorders. Closer to home, he has participated in numerous training programs at treatment centers in Ontario in the areas of alcohol and drug addiction assessment and treatment. He completed an internship at Bellwoods Health Services and was designated as an Associate Counselor for Alcohol and Drugs (ACAD) through the Addiction Intervention Association.
He is presently a Director of the Legal Profession Assistance Conference, the umbrella organization for all lawyers’ assistance programs in Canada. He is the President of the Mood Disorders Society of Canada and a Past Director of the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario and the Ontario Suicide Prevention Network.
John has been married to his wife, Marg, for 35 years and they have two wonderful sons (the most important fact on this profile). He is also the Past President of the Toronto Blue Jays Fan Club and presently the Chair of the Board of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (the second most important fact on this profile).
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