Peter Menzies, BA, BSW, MSW, PhD, is a member of Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation. He is a private consultant working primarily with First Nations communities in Ontario. Before establishing his private practice, Peter spent 14 years building culturally congruent mental health and addiction programs in partnership with urban and rural First Nations communities through the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Peter is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Social Work at Laurentian University in Sudbury. He received the Centre for Equity in Health and Society's Entrepreneurial Development and Integration of Services Award in 2005, and the Kaiser Foundation's Excellence in Indigenous Programming Award in 2011. LYNN F.
LAVALLÉE, BA, MSC, PhD, is Anishinaabe Métis born in Sudbury, Ontario. She moved to Toronto as a child and grew up in the Regent Park social housing development. As a youth and young adult she faced mental health challenges. Lynn has a BA in psychology and kinesiology, an MSC in community health and a PhD in social work. She is an associate professor at Ryerson University, as well as associate director of the School of Social Work and chair of the Research Ethics Board.
Her research interests include the holistic well-being of Indigenous peoples, social and political determinants of health and Indigenous research ethics.
Peter is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Social Work at Laurentian University in Sudbury. He received the Centre for Equity in Health and Society's Entrepreneurial Development and Integration of Services Award in 2005, and the Kaiser Foundation's Excellence in Indigenous Programming Award in 2011. LYNN F.
LAVALLÉE, BA, MSC, PhD, is Anishinaabe Métis born in Sudbury, Ontario. She moved to Toronto as a child and grew up in the Regent Park social housing development. As a youth and young adult she faced mental health challenges. Lynn has a BA in psychology and kinesiology, an MSC in community health and a PhD in social work. She is an associate professor at Ryerson University, as well as associate director of the School of Social Work and chair of the Research Ethics Board.
Her research interests include the holistic well-being of Indigenous peoples, social and political determinants of health and Indigenous research ethics.