The Excellence through Quality Improvement Project (E-QIP) is pleased to announce Betty-Lou Kristy as its keynote speaker for its free virtual conference, QI Innovations: Understand-Pivot-Change, set for Tuesday, April 13.
Kristy, the director of Support House’s Centre for Innovation in Peer Support, is a bereaved mother who has been in recovery for almost 20 years from alcohol and drug addictions, trauma and mental health issues. She lost her 25-year-old son Pete, who lived with concurrent disorders, to an accidental opioid overdose in 2001. She has additional caregiver experience in supporting close family members with cancer, cardiovascular disease, lung disease, diabetes and asthma.
She has spent 15+ years as a provincial system-level, lived experience and family advisor, educator and advocate, helping to frame policy, governance and programming. Humanizing, quality of life and reduction of harm are integral to her.
Kristy has been the recipient of several awards and was recently appointed as chair of the health minister’s Patient and Family Advisory Council.
QI Innovations: Understand-Pivot-Change is a one-day virtual conference that will bring together Ontario’s leading quality improvement experts in the mental health and addiction sector. It will offer networking opportunities, poster presentations, concurrent sessions, wellness activities and more, all focused on knowledge exchange to continue to enhance quality of care for clients.
To learn more about Kristy and the QI Innovations conference, or to register for free, visit www.e-qip.ca/eqipconf2021/.
E-QIP is a partnership initiative between Addictions and Mental Health Ontario (AMHO), the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Ontario and Ontario Health (formerly Health Quality Ontario). The partnership has been expanded to include working closely with the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)’s Provincial Support System Program (PSSP). Its objectives are to support community mental health and addiction agencies by increasing the understanding of quality in mental health and addiction care, working towards improvement in key domains of quality, increasing sector-wide quality improvement learning and mentorship, and highlighting promising quality improvement practices. Learn more at www.e-qip.ca.