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2025 Annual Conference

STRENGTH IN COMMUNITY: We Have What It Takes

Held May 21 and 22 via Zoom

Click here for the Conference Book. Includes Agenda, Speaker Bios, Sponsors, and more.

Speakers and Presentations

Videos of select presentations are now available. Click the presenter’s photo to access the video on YouTube.

Bobbi Symes, United Way BC, headshot
Community Development within BC's Better at Home Initiative

Bobbi Symes, Director, Healthy Aging at United Way, BC

Better at Home

Don Johnson (Age-Friendly Kipling & District) headshot
Strength in Community

Don Johnson, Age-Friendly Kipling & District

Jennifer Wright (Health Quality Council) headshot
Thrive at Home

Jennifer Wright, Senior Improvement Lead, Saskatchewan Health Quality Council

Thrive at Home

Combined headshots of Marianne and Terry Kostyna
Candle Lake: Implementing Social Prescribing Builds Strength

Marianne & Terry Kostyna, Candle Lake Health Services Committee

Combined headshots of Beliz Ocan Osman and Suelen Meira Goes
Data Collection is Exciting!

Beliz Açan Osman and Suelen Meira Góes, Researchers, Saskatchewan Health Quality Council

Headshot of Eric Lefol
Service 55+

Éric Lefol, General Manager, Vitalité 55+

Jacob Alhassan (University of Saskatchewan) headshot
Current Transportation in Saskatchewan

Jacob Alhassan, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health, U of S

Headshot of Audrey Harsh
Hudson Bay Bus Project

Audrey Harsh, Volunteer Board Chair

Combined Headshots of Randy Dove, Jayne Whyte, and Kerrie Strathy
Working/Volunteeering: Rewards & Challenges

Jayne Whyte, Randy Dove, Kerrie Strathy

Combined headshots of Linda Pratt, Ashley Scholefield, Wendy Thienes, Doug Still (Age-Friendly Saskatchewan) and Barry Watson (Moose Jobs)
How Older Adults and Communities Stay Healthy and Strong

Doug Still, Linda Pratt, Wendy Thienes, Ashley Scholefield (Age-Friendly Saskatchewan) Barry Watson (MooseJobs)

Sponsors

Saskatchewan Blue Cross logo. Blue cross at left with words to the right in the same shade of blue. the word Saskatchewan is in a smaller font than the words Blue Cross

Gold

Saskatchewan Health Quality Council Logo. Words Saskatchewan and Council in smaller black font, uppercase; words Health Quality in larger blue font, uppercase. To the right of the words is a large blue Q with a checkmark forming the line on the Q

Gold

National Association of Federal Retirees Logo. Stylized maple leaf made up of three stylized person/leaves in red, blue, and light green. Words below are Association nationale des retraites federaux on one side and National Association of Federal Retirees on the other side.

Silver

Saskatchewan Union Retirees Logo. Stylized image of two-tone green sphere within a white circle within a two-tone blue circle, supported by stylized "wings" comprised of three wavy lines, narrower at end near circle image, in alternating lines of green, blue, and green. Lines on left are shorter and go vertically up the side of the circle image, lines on right extend like wings, supporting the circle image and the words Saskatchewan Union Retirees Federation in uppercase blue letters. Letters SURF/CURC are below the circle, as if the larger "wing" lines were extending out from them. SURF is in green font, CURC is in blue.

Silver

College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan logo. R with stylized, underlined N. Tagline is College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan.

Bronze

Lifeline Logo. Word Lifeline in simple font, with no tagline or image.

Bronze