Network Meetings

October 20-21, 2006
Ottawa, Ontario
The Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Friday)
Lord Elgin Hotel (Saturday)

Friday October 20, 2006

Present: Joanne Depace (for Elizabeth Osuch), Margaret Steele, Mary K. Nixon, Geoff Payne, Paula Cloutier, Nancy Heath, (Dr Heath’s students: Kirsten Schaub, Erin Beetlam, Sherri Holley), Kate Creedon
Regrets: Elizabeth Osuch, Elizabeth Banister

1) Introductions

2) General Updates/Comments:

Geoffrey Payne: - Particular interest in biological aspects of repetitive self injury, using animal models to study brain chemistry

Paula Cloutier and Mary K. Nixon et al: Ottawa Self-Injury grant in to Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario RI (inpatient study)

Nancy Heath, Kristen Schaub, Sherri Holley: - Recent study: survey
• Community Ottawa Self Injury Inventory utilized

Geoffrey Payne and Beth Osuch: -LOI to CIHR, (focus: MRI on adolescent Self-Injury, animal model)

Beth Osuch with Joanne Depace: -Received approval from ethics for Study:
• Working to get pilot data to CIHR

3) Further Discussion of Self-Injury (location, gender, function)

4) Knowledge Transfer: Meeting with Peter Levesque, Knowledge Transfer Specialist from the Center of Excellence, Child and Youth Mental Health, Ontario
(Elizabeth Banister joined by video conference)

Saturday October 21, 2006

Debrief on Knowledge Transfer

Network Team Name Established: INSYNC- Interdisciplinary National Self-Injury in Youth Network of Canada

Goal Setting for Network: Next 6 months to one year:

1) Promote the Network
2) Consider additional network members
3) Encourage student participation
4) Sharing of Resources
5) Shared Publications
6) Share ongoing progress of individual network members with group

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March 2-3, 2007
Hotel Grand Pacific, Victoria, British Columbia

Friday March 2, 2007

Present: Julie Adams, Meghan Atherton, Amy Ayers, Elizabeth Banister, Paula Cloutier, Mary K. Nixon, Beth Osuch, Geoff Payne, Nancy Heath (by teleconference), Jessica Toste.
Regrets: Margaret Steele

1) General Updates/Comments:

Mary K. Nixon
Self Harm Group
Healthy Youth Survey

Jessica Toste
Nancy Heath’s Team
School Counsellors
Adolescent SI and risky behaviour: SI in university students

Beth Osuch
Paradigm for fMRI Scanner

Paula Cloutier
Evaluation of Ottawa Self Injury Inventory (OSI) – multicenter
Computerized OSI with Beth Osuch
Youth Stress and Coping Measure – with Crisis team at CHEO

Geoffrey Payne
Animal models of SI in mice

Elizabeth Bannister
Knowledge Transfer (KT)
Sharing of knowledge between grad students, community partners, researchers and youth

Funding

Upcoming Conferences: Canadian Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry November 11-13, 2007 in Montreal, Quebec

2) SSHRC - Teleconference with Luc Lebrun, Program Officer, Strategic Programs and Joint Initiatives Division, SSHRC

3) WEBSITE design/content

4) Meeting with Bonnie Leadbeater, Co-Director of BC Child and Youth Health Research Network

Saturday March 3, 2007

1) Canadian Academy of Child and Adult Psychiatry submission preparation

2) Self Injury Review Paper: CJP

3) Brainstorming re funding opportunities

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November 13, 2007
Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec

Present: Paula Cloutier, Geoffrey Payne, Mary K. Nixon, Nancy Heath, Jean-François Bureau, Amy Ayers

1) Introduction of new INSYNC member: Jean-François Bureau

2) Jean-François Bureau: presentation on work with Non-Suicidal Self Injury and Attachment

3) INSYNC Member Research Updates

4) Discussion regarding INSYNC website draft

5) Book Development

6) Future Planning/Projects
Participation in the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury Conference (ISSS), in Boston, in June, 2008

7) Joint Publication for CJP: in preparation

8) Potential funding sources