SOPEN Member Achievements

Celebrating The Achievements of Our Members

Priyanka Jani

Bio Artical: Link

The Meducator Artical – Global Perspective: “Be the Bridge” Collaboration: Our journey: Link

Stephanie Millike

MacSphere: “Here, I feel completely whole”: Exploring how YWCA Hamilton’s Safer Drug Use Space supports women and non-binary people experiencing gender-based homelessness

Supervised inhalation is a necessary intervention in the drug poisoning crisis

https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/supervised-inhalation-is-a-necessary-intervention-in-the-drug-poisoning-crisis/article_ada70165-2ef5-55e8-a22f-211e159e00e9.html

https://crp.mcmaster.ca/exploring-best-practices-for-experiential-and-community-engaged-education-perspectives-from-the-ywca-hamilton-students-faculty-staff/

https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/715-hours-of-expert-facilitation-and-counting/

https://plateformeapprentissageitinerance.ca/bibliotheque/ressources/creating-a-safer-drug-use-space-at-ywca-hamilton/

https://linktr.ee/unshelteredthezine

https://crp.mcmaster.ca/five-social-sciences-graduate-students-awarded-community-engaged-research-cer-internships/

https://homelesshub.ca/resource/pandemic-preparedness-and-homelessness-international-lessons-covid-19/

Olivia Mancin

Report 1

https://gettingtotomorrow.ca/2022/05/16/harm-reduction-is-not-just-a-hashtag/

Mancini, O. (2022). Local harm reduction and drug policy organizations call for harm reduction measures in Hamilton shelters. https://gettingtotomorrow.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CDPC-Hamilton-report-2.1.pdf

Mancini, O. (2021, July 24). A war on drugs or a war on people? Canadian Drug Policy Coalitionhttps://gettingtotomorrow.ca/2021/07/24/a-war-on-drugs-or-a-war-on-people/

Mancini, O. (2021, June 25). Service restrictions related to substance use cause further trauma and harm to people who use drugs. Canadian Drug Policy Coalition https://gettingtotomorrow.ca/2021/05/31/service-restrictions-related-to-substance-use-cause-further-trauma-and-harm-to-people-who-use-drugs/

Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. (2023). Getting to tomorrow: Nanaimo public health dialogue.https://gettingtotomorrow.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Nanaimo-Report.pdf

BC Health Coalition & Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. (2023). Beyond prohibition: Community engagement on workers’ rights and addressing the drug toxicity crisis. https://assets.nationbuilder.com/bchealthcoalition/pages/1728/attachments/original/1669943732/Beyond_Pohibition_FINAL.pdf?1669943732

Publications

Vaccaro, M., Vengris, J., Maloney, F., Bay, M., Sullivan, C., & Mancini O. (2022) Policy and Practice Recommendations: Developing gender-based low barrier housing to address complex homelessness. Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. Available at: https://www.homelesshub.ca/resource/policy-and- practice-recommendations-developing-gender-based-low-barrier-housing-address

Bansal S, Di Pelino S, Pierre J, Chan K, Lee A, Liu R, Mancini O, Pitkis A, Kouyoumdjian F, Lamarche L, Lennox R. Nowhere to go: a qualitative study examining the health of people who experience emergency shelter service restrictions in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. BMJ Public Health. 2025 Aug 24;3(2).https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/e002639