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Psychosocial Rehabilitation Manitoba
Psychosocial Rehabilitation promotes resilience, personal recovery, full community integration, and a sense of purpose and meaning for those living with any mental health or substance use concern.
PSRMB is a provincial chapter of PSR/RPS Canada and embodies the national Vision, Mission, Principles, Values and Ethics of PSR/RPS Canada.
Contact: psrmb@psrrpscanada.ca
Our Purpose
PSR MB is a provincial leader in transforming the mental health and substance use sector. We are an association of individuals and organizations working to promote the principles and practices of evidence-based psychosocial rehabilitation in Manitoba through practice standards, education, quality outcome measures, advocacy, and public policy.
PSR MB is committed to engaging in meaningful collaborative partnerships with people with lived experience and their families.
- To promote and support the development of psychosocial rehabilitation practices and services for persons who experience mental health or substance use concerns.
- To promote the concept and role of psychosocial rehabilitation as a primary modality in provision of mental health services.
- To encourage and facilitate communication, increased understanding, and research through accessible and recognized mechanisms for knowledge transfer.
- To exercise leadership and encourage the development of improved concepts, methods, and best practices to serve persons who experience mental health or substance use concerns. This includes the training of personnel involved in such activities.
- To encourage and facilitate improved communication, coordination and continuity and accountability of services provided to persons who experience mental illness or substance use, especially regarding client transitions between acute care and community mental health programs and services.
To exercise leadership by working alongside individuals with lived experience to inform policy makers and the public of the relevant service needs and best practices related to supporting individuals’ psychosocial needs.
Core Principles and Values
- Every recovery journey begins with hope. Everyone has potential.
- Culture and diversity are valued and supported.
- Individuals direct their choices in life through meaningful partnerships, informed and shared decision-making.
- Our role is to shine a light on people’s strengths, gifts, and abilities.
- Person-centered recognizes that people are experts about themselves.
- Living fully within communities builds citizenship, responsibilities, opportunity and belonging.
- Self determination and empowerment are encouraged and respected.
- Trusting relationships are foundations to recovery and well-being. Family, friends, peer support.
- Holistic services support all aspects of life. work, education, leisure, living skills, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual health and wellness.
- Everyone is unique. Each person has their own path, therefore their own wellness plan.
- Services are evidence-based, promising and emerging best practices that produce evaluation outcomes congruent with personal recovery. Quality improvement and program evaluation actively involves persons receiving services.
- Services are accessible and integrated.
Board Members
Executive Directors Directors At Large
Chair: Natalie Rich Sheryl Giesbrecht - Events Lead
Co-Chair: James Price
Treasurer: Heidi Ruchotzke
Secretary: TBD
Chair Natalie Rich CPRRP
Natalie Rich is employed with The Canadian Mental Health Association Manitoba and Winnipeg proudly for over 20 years in various roles, in her current role, Natalie is the Senior Manager of Psychosocial Rehabilitation. Natalie supports PSR Canada through in the roles of Register and has an active role on the Certification Committee and PSR Canada Board. Natalie supports the PSR Canada Manitoba Chapter and is very excited for the for what the future of our collaborative efforts will bring!
Natalie’s passionate to be a part of an organization and board that endeavors to build capacity in Psychosocial Rehabilitation practices, innovations with the goal of increasing accessible recovery-oriented supports, and mental health services for all.
Co-Chair James Price
James C. (JIM) Price, BSW, MACP, DipPSR, CPRRP, RSW (He/Him/His) is currently an Instructor with the Social Service Worker Program at ACC – Parkland Campus. His background is with Addictions & Community Mental Health Services from a PSR perspective/approach. Additionally, he has an extensive background in the Child and Family Services; Counselling; Health Promotions and Advocacy arenas.
Jim is originally from New Brunswick and is happy to call Dauphin, Manitoba his current home for the past 14 years. He is currently a student at Red River College in the Teaching for Learning in Applied Education program. Jim is passionate about Indigenous Pedagogies and Psychosocial Rehabilitation as being symbiotic steps towards ReconciliACTION and the promotion of Anti-Racist Education and Means of Universal Engagements.
Jim is a Purveyor of Hope. We must always be welcoming, engaging, and empowering. Jim proffers that if we all recognize our inherent strengths while simultaneously celebrating our diversity – that we will journey together as allies and create less adversaries in today’s challenging environs. He is a member of the NBASW; MCSW: and PSR/RPS Canada. He continues to be a lifelong learner currently having over 37 years of experiences in the social work field.
Treasurer Heidi Ruchotzke
Heidi Ruchotzke is a certified Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Practitioner (CPRRP) cognizant in crisis prevention and trauma informed care. Working from a strength- based harm reduction lenses with extensive experience in provincial health programs and nonprofit organizations.
Heidi is tenacious and dedicated to supporting the Mb chapter of Psychosocial Rehabilitation with a belief that mental health is a basic human right for all.
Events Lead Sheryl Giesbrecht
Sheryl Giesbrecht has been with CMHA Manitoba and Winnipeg for over 22 years, currently in the role of Recovery Partnership Lead. Much of her career has focused on education, training, and facilitation. She considers herself a life-long learner, on a never-ending journey for well-being and insight. Sheryl advocates to bring awareness to mental illness and addictions to reduce the stigma surrounding the community of individuals living with these experiences.
NEWS AND EVENTS
PSR MANITOBA CONFERENCE October 9 and 10, 2024
9:00am - 4:00pm at Canad Inns Polo Park 1404 St. Matthews Ave. Winnipeg Manitoba
REGISTRATION OPENS MAY 31
Check back here for updates and registration link once open.
Step into the forefront of progressive mental health support at our upcoming PSR Manitoba Conference, where we're bringing together industry experts to share insights and strategies for empowerment and recovery.
Gain valuable knowledge on empowering individuals to achieve their goals and ambitions as we illuminate the path toward inclusive and well-being-centered support services.
REGISTRATION OPENS MAY 31ST. Stay tuned for the LINK:
PSR MEMBERS: $125 per day or $200 for both days
NON-MEMBERS: $150 per day or $250 for both days
OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A BOOTH: Cost: $100
DAY ONE
OCD Centre Manitoba, Inc. presents DELIVERY OCD AND HOARDING DISORDER SERVICES WITH A RECOVERY LENS
This education day will include presentations on taking a holistic approach to supporting individuals with OCD and with Hoarding Disorder. Strategies for effectively empowering individuals for change and progress will be shared by expert presenters including Dr. Michelle Warren and Lindsay Bacala. We will emphasize well-being and inclusion through:
- Strengths-based approaches
- Hope and Acceptance
- Recovery-oriented services delivery
People with OCD and Hoarding Disorder have lived in the shadows of the mental health system, effective services can bring them into the light and support them towards their goals and ambitions.
DAY TWO
Psychosocial Rehabilitation Manitoba presents – RECOVERY IN ACTION
This unique PSR Canada - Manitoba Chapter initiative brings together to highlight strength-based recovery-oriented best practices approaches and innovative work in Manitoba. This conference was specifically created to address the need to share knowledge and come together in person to highlight examples of best practices in recovery work in action.
Education sessions on PSR Canada Membership benefits, from the CEO Vicky Huehn of PSR Canada and Dr Regina Casey of the PSR Scientific Committee.
Learn of the extraordinary innovation with addiction services and how co-production from Greg Kylo Director of Bruce Oake Recovery Center.
Experience how co-production strengthens PSR strategies in your practice to strengthen PSR implementation with Sheryl Giesbrecht.
HAVE QUESTIONS?
EMAIL PSRMB@RPSPSRCANADA.CA
Hotel room bookings are on reserve at Canad Inns 1-888-332-2623 https://www.canadinns.com/stay/polo-park/
Refreshments will be provided at break times and there are many great restaurants in the area for your lunch break. A list will be provided.
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