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title: "WEBINAR | Mental Health and Poverty: A Systems Change Approach"
description: This webinar recording features a conversation about strategies for resolving the discrimination against those who experience mental illness and poverty.
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# [WEBINAR | Mental Health and Poverty: A Systems Change Approach](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/library/webinar-mental-health-and-poverty-a-systems-change-approach)

 Written by [the Tamarack Institute](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/library/author/tamarack-institute) | December 20, 2022

This webinar recording features a conversation with Registered Clinical Counsellor Jennifer Wright, who illustrates how community mindset and coordination among social care sectors are necessary and powerful components of solving the discrimination against those who experience mental illness and poverty. 

### Speakers:

- [Jill Zacharias](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/jillzacharias?hsLang=en-us), Tamarack Institute
- Jennifer Wright, [Columbia River Counselling and Neurofeedback](https://crcrevelstoke.com/)

 

Click here to access the slides from this presentation.

 

### Deepen Your Learning

- Learn how to [engage people with lived or living experience of poverty](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/library/ten-2019?hsLang=en-us) in your anti-poverty efforts

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