Event: What do we tell the kids?” is the second of three UBC public forums on “ Drug Policy: Public Health or Criminal Justice Issue?”
Date / Time: Wednesday, February 20, 2008, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Location: UBC Robson Square Theatre, 800 Robson St.
Parking: Entrance to Robson Square underground parkade is at the corner of Howe and Nelson Streets. For map, visit: www.robsonsquare.ubc.ca.
[Note: new speaker line up]
Stephen Owen, Vice President, External, Legal and Community Relations, will be facilitating the discussion.
The speakers are:
Tamara Ibrahim is a UBC undergraduate sociology student working with ACAN-AIDS Community Action Network – formerly International Peer Connection – an organization that helps at-risk, marginalized communities develop community-based HIV/AIDS peer education.
Ann Livingstone co-founded and directs the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), a non- profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of drug users, their families and communities.
Prof. Rick Mathias, a UBC health care and epidemiology expert who supports a public health approach to drugs that takes the benefits and the harms of specific drugs into account.
Dan Reist, Director of Communications and Resource Centre, Centre for Addictions Research at the University of Victoria, developed educational resources for B.C. schools on substance-abuse and mental health literacy programs.
To see an archived video of the first forum from Feb. 13, visit: www.ubc.ca/webcast/drugpolicy/forum01.html
For details on the forum, visit: www.cstudies.ubc.ca/forum
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