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Join experts from all sectors and interests as they share insights and ideas about how we can all collaborate in the move toward an effective, practical, affordable, and compassionate upstream mental health care system.
  • WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS (Joanne de Vries, Fresh Outlook Foundation & Nicholas Watters, Mental Health Commission of Canada)
  • HELLO I WANT TO DIE PLEASE FIX ME: A Story of Courage & Discovery with Compelling Arguments for Sweeping Change (Anna Mehler Paperny, Acclaimed Journalist/Bestselling Author)
  • UPSTREAM MENTAL HEALTH: The Wave of the Future (Trevor Hancock, MD, Hon FFPH, Public Health/Social Policy Scholar & Tyler Norris, MDiv, Well Being Institute)
  • RETURN TO RESILIENCE: Using Indigenous Wisdom to Better Connect with Nature & Each Other (Shannon Waters, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Island Health & Coast Salish member of the Stz'uminus First Nation)
  • 'A PATHWAY TO HOPE' IN BC: A Good Strategy Made Better with Lessons Learned from COVID-19 (Neilane Mayhew, Deputy Minister, BC Ministry of Mental Health & Addiction)
  • PANEL DISCUSSION: Moving from Ideas to Action Together (All speakers)
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Dr. Margo Greenwood
Margo Greenwood, PHD, academic leader of the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health, is an Indigenous scholar of Cree ancestry with years of experience focused on the health and well being of Indigenous children, families and communities.
She also holds a Professor appointment in both the First Nations Studies and Education programs at the University of Northern British Columbia. In addition to her robust cross- discipline work, Margo has worked with UNICEF, the United Nations, and the Canadian Reference Group to the World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants.
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Fresh Outlook Foundation
Summit Host
The Fresh Outlook Foundation (FOF) envisions a future where everyone collaborates to make our communities healthier, happier, and more prosperous. To that end, FOF hosts vital community conversations for sustainable change that engage people from all interests, sectors, ages, cultures, abilities, genders, and sexual identities.
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Jo de Vries (Co-Facilitator)
Fresh Outlook Foundation
Jo has worked with all levels of government in British Columbia, Canada for 30 years to help enrich their public outreach and engagement activities. In 2007 she established the Fresh Outlook Foundation as a charity to "inspire community conversations for sustainable change." To that end, FOF hosts events such as the highly acclaimed Building SustainABLE Communities conference, Eco-Blast Kids Camps, Reel Change SustainAbility Film Fests, and many more.

Her passion is now laser focused on fostering well-being for individuals, families, workplaces, and communities through the HEADS UP! Community Mental Health Summit and the HEADS UP! Community Mental Health Podcast.
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Nicholas Watters (Co-Facilitator)
Director of Access to Quality Mental Health Services , Mental Health Commission of Canada
Nicholas is the Director of Access to Quality Mental Health Services at the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC). In this role, he is responsible for e-mental health, increasing access to equitable psychotherapies, the reduction of structural stigma, and the development of tools and resources for healthcare providers.

Before joining MHCC, he served as Senior Advisor of Communications and Knowledge Transfer at the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada. With MHCC since 2011, Nicholas was first a capacity building specialist with the Knowledge Exchange Centre and then became its director. He has bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Communications Studies from the University of Windsor, along with an MBA from the Australian Institute of Business.

In 2018, Nicholas won the Great Canadian Healthcare Leaders debate at the National Healthcare Leaders Conference in St. John’s, NL.
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Anna Mehler Paperny
Award-Winning Journalist & Bestselling Author of HELLO I WANT TO DIE PLEASE FIX ME
After a suicide attempt in her early twenties, Anna resolved to put her reporter's skills to use to get to know her “enemy,” setting off on a journey to document her major depressive disorder, the dizzying array of medical treatments on offer, and a medical profession also in search of answers. The resulting book, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me, charts the way depression wrecks so many lives. It also maps competing schools of therapy, pharmacology, cutting-edge medicine, the pill-popping pitfalls of long-term treatment, the glaring unknowns, and the institutional shortcomings faced by both patients and practitioners.

Both funny and serious as she shares her equally heartwarming and heart wrenching story, Anna will track her quest for knowledge and the myriad ways we treat (and fail to treat) the disease that accounts for more years swallowed up by disability than any other in the world.
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Trevor Hancock, MD, Hon FFPH
Public Health & Social Policy Scholar
Trevor is an internationally renowned public health physician. His main areas of interest are public health policy and planning, population health promotion, healthy cities and communities, environment and health, healthy and ‘green’ hospitals, and health futurism.

Formerly a professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, he is also a co-creator of the global Healthy Cities and Communities movement and co-founded both the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care.

Dr. Hancock is senior editor of the Canadian Journal of Public Health, on the editorial board of Cities & Health Journal, and a weekly columnist for the Victoria Times Colonist. He recently received the R.D. Defries Award from the Canadian Public Health Association for his outstanding contributions to public health.
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Tyler Norris, MDiv
CEO, Well-Being Trust
Tyler is CEO of Well Being Trust, a US impact philanthropy that advances mental, social and spiritual health. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Executive Program, earned a Master of Divinity degree from Naropa University, and has a bachelor’s degree in World Political Economy from Colorado College.

Over the past three decades, Tyler has shaped health and development initiatives in hundreds of communities in the U.S. and around the world. He is a renowned social entrepreneur and trusted advisor to philanthropies, health systems, government agencies, and collaborative partnerships working to improve the health of people and places. Internationally, he helped open the Abraham Path through the heart of the Middle East, and led the Kuhiston Foundation that helped establish the national park system in Tajikistan.

Tyler also serves as a board member and/or advisor to Naropa University, CityHealth, Enterprise Community Partners, National Academies of Science: Child Well Being Forum, Mindful Philanthropy and others.

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Shannon Waters, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Island Health & Coast Salish member of the Stz'uminus First Nation
Shannon is Coast Salish and a member of Stz’uminus First Nation on Vancouver Island. She completed the First Nations Family Practice program at the University of British Columbia and worked as a family doctor in Duncan, BC.

While honored to work close to home, Shannon became frustrated with seeing people mostly when they were unwell, and wanted to focus on keeping people healthy in the first place. So, she returned to school and completed her specialty training in public health and preventive medicine. She worked as the Director of Health Surveillance at First Nations and Inuit Health Branch and, at First Nations Health Authority, as the Acting Senior Medical Officer for Vancouver Island Region. She has worked with Vancouver Island Health Authority as a medical director, and with the Ministry of Health as the Aboriginal Physician Advisor. She is currently honored to have come full circle and to be working in her home territory as the local Medical Health Officer with Vancouver Island Health Authority.
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Neilane Mayhew, BA,
Deputy Minister, BC Ministry of Mental Health & Addictions
Neilane is Deputy Minister of the BC Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, which works with government ministries, Indigenous organizations, municipalities, and community partners to improve access, coordination, and treatment of mental health and addiction services for the citizens of British Columbia.

Neilane has almost 20 years of public sector leadership experience in various ministries, including Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, Ministry of Provincial Revenue, Ministry of Small Business and Revenue, and Ministry of Finance.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Victoria. She currently sits on the board of directors for the Mental Health Commission of Canada.