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SUMMARY:HSABC Webinar: BC Mental Health Act Rights 
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a session on rights under the BC Mental Health Ac
 t with Tonya Robitalle and Laura Johnston from Health Justice. \n\nThis
  session will cover:\n-Basics about health care consent rights in BC and
  when those rights can be displaced by the BC Mental Health Act.\n-What 
 rights do people have when detained and receiving involuntary treatment 
 under the BC Mental Health Act.\n-An embodied learning exercise about th
 e impacts of being detained and involuntarily treated under the BC Menta
 l Health Act based in Indigenous participatory learning principles.\n\nÂ
  \n\nInstructor/s\n\nLaura Johnston is a lawyer who has worked primarily
  in the areas of disability rights, mental health, and human rights. She
  has represented clients with many different forms of mental disabilitie
 s and substance use issues, as well as disability rights organizations, 
 in administrative and constitutional law cases before multiple tribunals
  and levels of court in Canada. She has conducted research and law refor
 m initiatives to improve access to justice, fairness, and Charter rights
  for marginalized populations. Laura teaches Mental Health Law as an Adj
 unct Professor at the Allard School of Law at UBC and at the University 
 of Victoria and frequently provides legal education to many audiences.\n
 \nTonya Robitaille is an Anishinaabe- Metis womxn with strong family ki
 nship ties to the Ktunaxa and Secwepemc First Nations. She is a proud me
 mber of the Indigiqueer community and lives in the forest on the unceded
  territories of the Ktunaxa and Sinixt Nations on beautiful Kootenay Lak
 e. She is passionate about Indigenous sovereignty, building empowered co
 mmunity capacity, harm reduction and decolonizing mental health, wellnes
 s and substance use. She is a dedicated advocate for marginalized people
 ; sharing a wealth of lived experience surviving intergenerational traum
 a from the residential school system, involuntary mental health “treat
 ment’ as a youth and adult, addiction, and homelessness. She is curren
 tly a social work student, a proud mother and titi (grandmother), a gent
 le friend to all animals, and spends her free time on the land gathering
  and making traditional medicines. She gratefully carries the teachings 
 gathered from her own personal healing journey to share in her work with
  organizations like Foundry, First Nations Health Authority, and her rol
 e at Health Justice. She endeavours to create experiential and embodied 
 educational opportunities which invite people to actively participate in
  their learning and to apply their understandings to create change in th
 eir own lives, workspaces, and the current colonial mental health system
 .
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