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DESCRIPTION:This webinar is part of the CWKN 2023 Festival of Wellbeing Con
 versations.  \n\nA growing number of governments worldwide\, and in Canada
 \, are taking a new approach to public policy\, one that puts the wellbein
 g and quality-of-life of citizens at the centre of policy decisions and bu
 dgeting. Through the Spring and Fall of 2023\, the Canadian Wellbeing Know
 ledges Network (CWKN) is hosting a series of webinars discussing key issue
 s\, challenges\, and opportunities of the wellbeing approach to policy and
  sharing examples of wellbeing policy initiatives across Canada and global
 ly. For more information on wellbeing policy\, the CWKN\, and future event
 s you can contact jennifer.proudfoot [at] mcgill.ca (Jennifer Proudfoot).
 \n\nZOOM Registration\n\nModerator:\n\nHeather Keam\n	Associate Director\n	D
 eepening Communities\, Tamarack Institute\n\nHeather Keam is the Associate
  Director for the Deepening Community practice area. She has been at the T
 amarack Institute for over 6 years. Heather has 13 years in public health 
 and 20 years of experience generating action at a grassroots level using A
 BCD and Collective Impact. She is passionate about community and in her sp
 are time is volunteering on many community projects and currently working 
 in her small town to build a sense of belonging and connection. Heather lo
 ves guiding groups to put people at the centre of the community developmen
 t process of planning\, engagement\, implementation\, and sustainability o
 f local community plans.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nGordon MacDonald\n	Director of Eco
 nomic Development\n	Municipality of the District of Guysborough\n\nGordon M
 acDonald is the Director of Economic Development for the Municipality of t
 he District of Guysborough. He is Founding Executive Director of the Guysb
 orough County Regional Development Authority in 1995 and has 28 years work
 ing in the Economic Development Field.  Gordon is Past Chairman / Director
  of Strait of Canso Superport Corporation and a frequent  participant in N
 ova Scotia Foreign Investment Trade Missions.  He is currently working wit
 h developers advancing significant investments in Nova Scotia’s Energy tra
 nsition to Renewables and is Manager of the Municipality of the District o
 f Guysborough (MODG) $27 M Sable Wind Farm development – the first Municip
 ality in NS to be the majority owner of a large-scale Wind Farm – operatio
 nal in 2014.  Gordon is driven by passion for improving quality-of-life fo
 r future generations and is married to Carmel Avery-MacDonald and proud fa
 ther to Hilary\, Olivia\, Alexandra and Lowell and grandfather to Wes and 
 Arlo.\n\nSue Holdsworth\n	Project Manager\n	RECOVER Urban Wellbeing\, City o
 f Edmonton\n\nSue Holdsworth has worked for 3 local governments and an NGO
  as an urban planner\, a social planner and a project manager. She has 2 i
 nterdisciplinary degrees\, one from McMaster’s Arts and Science Program an
 d the other from York’s Master in Environmental Studies Program. She is dr
 awn to complexity\, systems change and transformative projects. Currently\
 , Sue is the project manager for RECOVER Urban Wellbeing at the City of Ed
 monton which is about using social R&D to improve wellbeing. This work foc
 uses on people who are often referred to as ‘vulnerable’\, but Sue rejects
  this framing as vulnerability is really a shared human condition. RECOVER
  has done multiple rounds of research and testing of prototypes\, and a we
 llbeing framework has emerged that focuses on connection and is now their 
 north star.\n\nRosslyn Bentley\n	Executive Director\n	Woolwich Community Hea
 lth Centre\n\nRosslyn Bentley (she/her)\, Executive Director at the Woolwi
 ch Community Health Centre is a seasoned healthcare leader working on both
  sides of the Atlantic for nearly 40 years and across the full continuum o
 f care from acute\, to community and primary care in the not for profit se
 ctor. Experienced in governance\, generative leadership\, and fundraising 
 she is also a surveyor for the Hospice Palliative Care Ontario. She has be
 en responsible for establishing a successful residential Hospice in Guelph
 \, completing the establishment of new medical clinics in Mississauga and 
 Centre Wellington and mobile in-home services for seniors in the City of T
 oronto as well as dozens of partnerships to improve the quality and quanti
 ty of services to communities rurally and in urban settings. Rosslyn lives
  rurally and has a passion for building strong communities through encoura
 ging the arts\, medical\, faith and community services to work together fo
 r healthy\, vibrant and engaged citizens.\n\nZOOM Registration\n\nThis eve
 nt is hosted by the Department of Equity\, Ethics and Policy and the Canad
 ian Wellbeing Knowledges Network.\n
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LOCATION:online event
SUMMARY:Imagining a World with Wellbeing at the Centre of our Policy: How w
 ellbeing policy can and is making a difference in local communities
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/imagining-world-wellbeing
 -centre-our-policy-how-wellbeing-policy-can-and-making-difference-local-34
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