(From left to right:) Ms. Sabrina Gill, Drs. Joanna McDermid, Dzung Vo, and Jake Locke.
Congratulations to Drs. Vo, McDermid, Locke and Ms. Gill, members of the MARS-A Mindfulness Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents program (MARS-A) at BC Children’s Hospital.
The MARS-A Team were awarded the PHSA+ Award for 2018. The PHSA+ Awards were created with a goal of recognizing and celebrating the passionate contributions our staff make to province-wide health-care solutions. This award is the highest honour within PHSA.
MARS-A Mindfulness Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents program (MARS-A) is an 8-week outpatient training program to teach adolescents (age 15 – 19 years) mindfulness skills to cope with psychological distress, including depressive and anxiety symptoms, chronic pain, and chronic stress. MARS-A is a partnership between Adolescent Medicine and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at BC Children’s Hospital.
Mindfulness video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk7IBwuhXWM
Congratulations All!