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Cuts and Censorship: Challenges in Assessing Substance Use Programs for Men in Canadian Federal Corrections
Get PDFApproximately three quarters of men in Canadian federal prisons have a substance use problem that played a role in their offenses. Guided by a rehabilitative mandate, the Canadian federal corrections system includes substance use programs as a key component of its service. The Corrections and Conditional Release Act places the responsibility for the design, provision, and evaluation of rehabilitative programs on Correctional Service Canada (CSC), giving CSC considerable freedom in how it constructs and delivers services. This freedom, while increasing flexibility, warrants an investigation into CSC’s design and implementation of substance use services. This paper reviews academic and government literature to determine the overall adequacy of CSC’s substance use services for men, using the Canadian Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics as an ethical framework for analysis. This analysis demonstrates that CSC has not provided enough concurrent treatment for substance use and mental health disorders and that further study is needed to determine the efficacy of existing programs. However, due to recent funding cuts to CSC’s Addictions Research Centre, and its insular research climate, CSC’s capacity to address these issues is questionable. While funding cuts disguised as “consolidation” are common in the public service sector, reports of censorship and hostile attitudes towards researchers emerging from a federally funded institution are cause for concern and deserving of increased public awareness. Political and practical implications of these results are considered, and solutions are proposed
Dementia Friendly Community Phase 1: Assessing Attitudes and Knowledge of Dementia in University Students and the Community
No full textDementia is a neurodegenerative disease with no current cure, and the incidence of dementia is expected to increase by 60% in the next 15 years. Individuals living with dementia report experiencing negative stigma both from their community, and from their caregivers. Investigations of the relationships between attitudes and knowledge in the local population could help identify interventions that will make the community more inclusive to individuals with dementia.
The aim of this study was to measure attitudes toward, and knowledge of, dementia in both TRU students and the Kamloops community, and assess whether age, education, and familiarity with the disease influence attitudes and knowledge of dementia.
We utilized two sets of questions in our survey: the questions assembled by Phillipson et al. (2014) to assess attitudes toward dementia, and the Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale (Annear, 2016). Our results indicate lower knowledge of, and similar attitudes toward, dementia as compared with previous studies.
A significant positive correlation was found between knowledge and attitudes; preliminary results also indicate that both knowledge and attitudes are correlated with education level and with having a family member or friend with dementia, but not with age.
Results from this study will identify local attitudes and knowledge about dementia, and potential needs to address any stigma by enhancing awareness and informational support to members of the community via longitudinal study designs
Synthesis and Lithiation of toluene tricarbonyl chromium
No full textToluene tricarbonyl chromium was prepared by microwave reaction of hexacarbonyl chromium with toluene in THF followed by purification and characterization of the complex. The tricarbonyl chromium complex then underwent benzylic lithiation under kinetic conditions. This procedure was optimized and wheras the standard procedure involves lithiation with an advance prepared lithium amine, this lithiation was done directly with tertiary butyl lithium. In it\u27s original characterization it was then quenched with trimethylsilyl chloroide Then the toluene tricarbonyl chromium was then lithiated once more, and quenched with diethylcarbonic chloride. This allowed for the further lithiation the produced diethyl-2-phenylacetamide was lithiated in the presence of a chiral lithiating agen (sparteine) to generate a chiral carbon, and non racemic mixture
Theatre
No full textEvery year students from THTR 4010, the senior directing class, each stage a one-act play as their final project, and these one-acts are presented as the final show of the season – The Directors Festival.
Tonight we present a selection of the one acts as part of the Undergraduate Conference. Please join us for this FREE conference event! No ticket required; just arrive at the Black Box Theatre a little before 5:30pm and identify yourself as being an Undergraduate Conference presenter, volunteer, faculty supervisor, or supporter. Prior to each play, the directors will talk briefly about different research aspects of directing.
A ROZ BY ANY OTHER NAME
By B.T. Ryback
Directed by Grayson Norsworthy Rosalind: Avie Cachelin Vera: Laine Gillies Cordonna Katie Jones Stefano James McFarlane
THROWS OF LOVE
By Amy Staats
Directed by Zack Fernstrom Mrs. Braughmer Santaya Stander Lindy Jane Harestad Jenny Danielle Foisy Nora Cassandra Byrn
SESSION 1.1: You Can’t Eat the View: Food, Culture and Sustainability in South Okanagan Tourism
No full textResearchers concerned with the complex, interrelated, and multi-scalar relationships between culture and rural tourism development have explored both positive and negative dimensions in diverse contexts; however, more systematic attention to the concept of cultural sustainability in the context of rural tourism is needed to design supportive policies and processes. This qualitative research investigates the relationships between local food cultures, sustainability and rural tourism in the South Okanagan region of British Columbia. Findings from semi-structured interviews with tourism leaders in strategic roles related to tourism development in the South Okanagan explore how concepts such as local food culture and sustainability are understood and mobilized in rural tourism contexts and to what purpose. Focus group findings provide insights into processes through which researchers can work with community stakeholders to enhance cultural sustainability. This research is supported by a Rural Policy and Learning Commons (RPLC) Research & Exchanges Service Rural Policy Research Grant, and will also include a comparative case study in Nova Scotia in order to evaluate the conceptualizations and mobilizations of local food culture and sustainability in two Canadian rural tourism settings with a particular emphasis on the role of related planning, policy and governance
Queering Hospitality: Roses Are Red. Gender Is Performative. Why Is Tourism so Heteronormative?
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