ACT has planned great events this summer featuring excellent presenters: Richard Stock, Jonathan Weiss, Sarah Ward and Kenneth Cole.

Save money and register before the early bird deadline.  See below for bursary information.

1. Introduction to ASD – Practical Applications – POPARD (Surrey & Vancouver) – Early bird rate ends May 31
2. Cutting Edge Strategies to Improve Executive Function Skills – Early bird rate ends June 7
3. Integrating ABA Methods in Schools: Supporting School Aged Children – Early bird rate ends June 14 (web streaming available)
4. Applications of CBT to Address Emotional Functioning in Youth with ASD – Early bird rate ends June 14 (web streaming available Day 1 only)

Bursary Information for Parents and Professionals

ACT also has MCFD – funded bursaries for parents and bursaries for para-professionals and professionals to improve accessibility to both our live and web streamed events.

 

Autism & Mental Health – Looking Beyond Autism

Application Deadline Jan 31, 2017

ACT – Autism Community Training will be hosting its 13^th Annual Focus on Research Conference, April 28 & 29, 2017, at the Downtown Campus of Simon Fraser University, at Harbour Centre, Vancouver.

The topic for this year’s conference is Autism & Mental Health – Looking Beyond Autism.  Application deadline: January 31, 2017

We wish to elicit contributions from researchers, clinicians and policy makers from across Canada, and internationally, with experience in the complex area of identifying and treating children and adults with ASD who also face mental health challenges.

ACT’s intention, as part of our Online Mental Health & Autism Project (OMHAP), is to record many of the conference contributions to enrich the resources we are developing for OMHAP,which will be available free as a national and international resource.

The Application to Present can be viewed here. To apply, fill out the form in your browser or Adobe Acrobat, save it, and send to [email protected] along with the required attachments.

OMHAP is still in development. The first two webinars, the first phase of the project, are available free of charge on the ACT website: www.actcommunity.ca/education/mentalhealth/

Please note that as ACT is a not-for-profit society, we do not have the resources to pay presenters to contribute but conference registration will be free for all presenters.

ACT thanks the members of the OMHAP Advisory Committee for all their work in guiding this project. For details of the membership of OMHAP, see www.actcommunity.ca/education/mentalhealth/committee/

Please contact Selina Lai, ACT’s Event Planner at [email protected], if you have any questions about this conference.