Building resilience: Supporting refugee men's mental health
With Vince Pietropaolo, General Manager of Family and Mental Health Services, COSTI
November 13, 2024
Webinar description
This presentation focuses on the mental health challenges refugee men may face as they adjust to life in a new country. It explores critical risk factors, protective elements, and effective coping strategies to enhance their well-being. Aimed at settlement workers, this session offers trauma-informed tips to respond to refugee men and refer them to appropriate mental health services.
View this webinar with Vince Pietropaolo and you will:
- understand the refugee experience
- understand the trauma experience of refugee men
- learn about the risk and protective factors for mental health
- adapt and employ trauma-informed tips for responding to refugee men.
About the presenter
Vince is the General Manager of COSTI’s Family and Mental Health Services. In his position, he works with ethnocultural communities in program design, development, research and implementation in the areas of mental health, gender-based violence, problem gambling and excessive technology use and dementia.
Vince sits on the North York Specialized Courts Advisory Committee, National Trauma-Informed Care Project National Advisory Committee and is a member of the Canadian Dementia Learning and Resource Network. He is also a Subject Matter Expert with the Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Project at CAMH.
He recently designed and implemented the Refugee Mental Health Program and the Senior’s Dementia Day Program at COSTI.
Vince has presented extensively on the issue of Gender Based Violence, Mental Health Caregiver Stress, Trauma Informed Practice and Problem Gambling and Excessive Technology Use at conferences in the United States and Canada.
He has guest lectured at York University, Ryerson University, University of Toronto and is a part time faculty member at Seneca College, Toronto.