Media releases

• Pathstone and Brock collaborating to improve mental health research in Niagara

  Monday, March 18, 2019 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE: 18 March 2019 – R00044

  Members of the media are invited to an announcement Friday, March 22 where Brock University and Pathstone Mental Health officials will discuss details of an expanded collaboration and sign a Memorandum of Understanding.

  Pathstone is a community-based organization providing mental health services for children and youth in Niagara.

  Friday’s event, to be held at Pathstone’s Branscombe Mental Health Centre starting at noon, will include a tour of the on-site research facilities where Brock faculty and students are conducting groundbreaking work around mental health.

  Some examples of the work being done or set to get underway through Brock’s Centre for Lifespan Development Research and other departments include dealing with conditions such as anxiety disorders, anti-social behaviour and autism, as well as the impact of concussions and the effectiveness of interventions such as therapeutic recreation. The research is being done by a wide range of Brock professors and their undergraduate and graduate students. Brock and Pathstone are also developing a training program to help teachers learn more about dealing with mental health issues in the classroom.

  Researchers and students from Brock and leaders from both organizations will be available for photos and interviews Friday.

  What: Collaboration announcement and MOU signing

  Who: Leaders and researchers from Pathstone Mental Health and Brock University

  When: Friday, March 22, noon to 1 p.m.

  Where: Branscombe Mental Health Centre, 1338 Fourth Ave., St. Catharines

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

  * Dan Dakin, Manager Communications and Media Relations, Brock University ddakin@brocku.ca, 905-688-5550 x5353 or 905-347-1970

   * Kim Rossi, Director of Philanthropy and Public Relations, Pathstone Foundation / Mental Health krossi@pathstone.ca, 289-969-8342

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• Brock to screen award-winning Cheechoo film Friday

  Monday, March 18, 2019 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE: 18 March 2019 – R00043

  A special screening of the award-winning film, Moose River Crossing, by Brock University Chancellor Shirley Cheechoo will take place on campus Friday, March 22.

  Cheechoo, who was appointed to a second term in her role with the University last June, will begin the evening by reading a passage from her play about residential schools, and will follow the film screening with a question-and-answer session with the audience. Drummers from the Niagara Women’s Drum Group will also perform.

  Moose River Crossing examines the residential school system through the eyes of six fictional former students who meet at a train station to head to a reunion. They flash back to the troubling times they experienced at the residential school and aim to answer the question of whether or not time heals all wounds.

  Cheechoo wrote the movie based on her own experience growing up in residential schools.

  The event starts at 6 p.m. in Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, with the question-and-answer session and drum performances following at 9 p.m.

  Cheechoo is an award-winning Cree actress, writer, producer, director and visual artist. She has been Brock Chancellor since July 2015, and was recently awarded the Order of Canada.

  She is also the founder and executive director at Weengushk Film Institute, a not-for-profit film and television training centre on Manitoulin Island that helps Indigenous and at-risk youth develop career skills or return to school.

  The event, which is open to the public, is hosted by Brock’s Student Justice Centre in partnership with the University’s Office of Human Rights and Equity.

  Admission is free and no advance tickets are required.

  Free parking is available in Zones 1 and 2 beginning at 6 p.m.

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

  * Dan Dakin, Manager Communications and Media Relations, Brock University ddakin@brocku.ca, 905-688-5550 x5353 or 905-347-1970

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