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SUMMARY:Webinar - Live - Ask The Doctor: Autism & Mental H
 ealth: A Focus on Caregivers
DESCRIPTION:\n \n This webinar will discuss the importance of 
 supporting caregivers in the autism community and 
 call attention to issues of equity in this domain.
  It will also make a case for the importance of pr
 omoting connectedness and compassion for self and 
 others in programming supporting caregivers\, and 
 highlight the CARES program as an accessible optio
 n for caregivers looking for such resources.\n \n 
 Register Here: Ask The Doctor\n \n Speakers: Dr. S
 ivapalan &amp\; Kira&nbsp\;Vimalakanthan\n \n A fa
 mily doctor by profession\, Dr. Sivapalan believes
  in the potential for change to the current diagno
 stic landscape for children with Autism. After six
  years of a busy and fruitful family practice\, Dr
 . Sivapalan left his practice to help facilitate t
 his change. With an interest in child development\
 , Dr. Sivapalan has worked collaboratively with mu
 ltiple stakeholders to design the M-DOC\, a unique
  developmental screening initiative whose goal was
  to increase access to diagnosis and intervention 
 support for newcomer communities. In addition\, Dr
 . Sivapalan helped develop the CARES initiative\, 
 which employed a task-shifting model to provide me
 ntal health support for caregivers and siblings of
  children with autism. As a social doer\, Dr. Siva
 palan has initiated and managed various social imp
 act projects both at the local and global level. M
 ost recently\, Dr. Sivapalan became the chief oper
 ating officer for &ldquo\;The Dunya Project&rdquo\
 ;\, a Canadian agri-tech start-up that is building
  a connected\, climate-controlled modular hydropon
 ic habitat to alleviate the devastating gap in acc
 ess to affordable foods irrespective of climate co
 nditions.\n \n Kiruthiha Vimalakanthan\, MA\, is a
  PhD candidate in clinical psychology at the Unive
 rsity of Waterloo. She is currently completing her
  pre-doctoral residency at Surrey Place. Driven by
  her passion to improve access to mental health su
 pports in diverse communities\, Kiruthiha has cons
 ulted on various projects at the South Asian Autis
 m Awareness Centre (SAAAC). Kiruthiha&rsquo\;s pri
 mary role at SAAAC is the development and supervis
 ion of the CARES initiative\, which employs a task
 -shifting peer-based model to provide mental healt
 h support for caregivers of children with autism. 
 Preliminary outcomes of this program were recently
  published in the Journal of Autism and Developmen
 tal Disorders.
CATEGORIES:Webinar - Live
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DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210114T120000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210114T120000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210331T130000
LOCATION:On-line / En ligne\n ON \n Canada\n 
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:ola@autismontatio.com
URL:https://www.autismontario.com/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=4823
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