Please visit https://www.abkwellness.ca/ for more information and to register, email trainings.mentalhealth@gmail.com or call 306-550-4139
About your faciliator:
My name is Kristen Yorga. I have extensive experience providing support and services to people struggling with mental health and substance use disorders and am pleased to be able to offer my unique skills and abilities to the community at large. I completed the Addiction Counselling Diploma Program at Medicine Hat College in 2008 and have been employed with Saskatchewan Health Authority- Mental Health and Addiction Services ever since. I have expertise across several tiers of services including intake, client centred clinical services, in-patient detox, and various types of outpatient treatment programs. I have worked with both adolescent and adult clients with complex substance use and mental health needs. I have been committed to providing collaborative client care with other community agencies including Domestic Violence Court and Secure Youth Detox. I have a special interest in suicide intervention and have been facilitating ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) work- shops for LivingWorks Education since 2012. I am also a facilitator for SGI (Saskatchewan Government Insurance) facilitating ADE (Alcohol and Drug Education) and DWI (Driving Without Impairment). In more recent years, I have added Mental Health Commission of Canada – Mental Health First Aid workshops onto my roster of workshops, which I have found to be very enjoyable, especially with regard to the audience I get to reach.
