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Pathway to Peers - A summit event featuring speakers & community booths for Nova Scotians with disabilities, acquired brain injury, & lived stroke experience & the professionals & support persons that work with these populations. Our featured speakers: Dr Michelle Ploughman, Neuroscientist & Canada Research Chair in Rehabilitation, Neuroplasticity & Brain Recovery (Memorial University) Ainsley Fraser Social Worker, Outreach & Outpatient Services, Acquired Brain Injury Program (Nova Scotia Health) Shelley Pick Brain Injury Survivor, Volunteer Chaplain & Community Educator (Brain Injury Nova Scotia) PLUS: A lived experience panel on navigating systems & resources with an often invisible injury November 14, 12-4pm. Cedar Event Centre (111 Clayton Park Dr., Halifax) OR attend virtually Presented by Valent Legal and Sick Kids Foundation

12:00-1:00 PM: Registration/Check-in and Community Booth Visits - get your event passport stamped by each community booth during visit hours to be entered in a draw to win an iPad (in-person attendees only)
1:00-1:05 PM: Stephanie Frizzell (March of Dimes Canada) - Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
1:05-1:45 PM: Dr. Michelle Ploughman - Neuroplasticity Provides Hope for Recovery
1:50-2:30 PM: Ainsley Fraser - The Intersection of Mental Health and Brain Injury
2:30-3:00 PM: Community Booth Visits (in-person only) & Nutrition Break 
3:00-3:55 PM: Panel Discussion: Melinda Dollar-Thompson, Jill Lacey, and Dan Van Vugt, moderated by Shelley Pick - Navigating Systems & Resources with a Sometimes-Invisible Disability
3:55-4:00 PM: Patrick O’Connell (Brain Injury NS) - Closing Remarks and Event Passport Prize Announcement

Ainsley Fraser - Social worker who specializes in working with adolescents and adults across gender and other identity spectrums navigating complicated emotions related to: Loss (ambiguous or tangible - grief of another’s life, of what could have been, of a changed self or loved one from illness or injury, of a former life stage or role); (dis)Ability and neurodivergence - many years experience in acquired brain injury; “burnout” or fatigue from caregiving invisibly (family, parenting) or as a professional helper; being in your body (self-image, toxic beauty standards); & reproductive health (fertility, abortion).

Shelley Pick - Shelley Pick, Community Educator and United Church of Canada Ordained Minister. Prior to becoming a brain injury survivor in 2007, Shelley worked in many churches within 11 communities throughout Nova Scotia and has hosted seminars all over Canada. Focusing now on ‘Ambiguous Loss & Brain Injury’ and ‘Beyond Survivor Spirituality After Brain Injury’ workshops Shelley combines education and personal experience to raise awareness, advocate and offer support. In Shelley’s words “I am a survivor”.

Michelle Ploughman - Dr. Ploughman’s work involves creating and testing new rehabilitation treatments that promote brain plasticity and restore lost functions. She defies conventional thinking by combining interventions such as aerobic exercise and cognitive training to create recovery synergies in stroke and MS.

 

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