Re-Broadcast Moral Injury Conference - Ottawa

Jason Armstrong, Director, Visitor Experience, Canada Science and Technology Museum 

Retd. Assistant Commissioner RCMP Ches Parsons  n up today!

Documentary Depicting a Twenty Five year journey of treatment of Moral Injury by a Clinician Dr. Keenan PhD, who devoted her career to Moral Injury in People of Service (please see link below for the trailer).

What is/not Moral Injury and its relationship to Post Traumatic Stress 

Current treatments available

Cost of untreated Moral Injury and link to self-harm

Where do we go from here locally and globally

Dr. Melinda Keenan, PhD
Retd AC Ches Parsons

Matt Skof, B.A.

Daniel Sundal EMT, Fire, RP

Jesse Henneberry, PhD, RP, MA, CCC.

Dr. Melinda Keenan, PhD.

Dr. Melinda Keenan is a licensed Psychologist practicing in the State of California and the Province of Ontario. She founded the Center for Post Traumatic Growth, a non profit organization focused on treating People of Service and their families for Post Traumatic Stress and Moral injury.  Her program is based on her twenty-five years of experience treating People of Service suffering from Moral Injury

Retd. RCMP Assistant Commissioner Ches Parsons. 

In some thirty-six years as a police officer, he has worked throughout Canada and abroad on the Middle East, Far East, Africa and Europe. He has seen and lived through many challenging experiences through his roles in Emergency Response Teams, National Security, Covert Operations, Serious Organized Crime and Major Crime Investigation. His advocacy lead him to assume the role of Mental Health Champion for the RCMP for the final years of his career.

Matt Skof, B.A. 

With over a decade of experience as a full time CEO for a major First Responder Union, and twenty-five years in the First Responder Profession, Matt has acquired a significant amount of experience in Labor Relations, Policy Development, Board Governance as well as Media & Crisis Management.  Currently, Matt sits as a Director on the 'Ride for Dad' and as the Chair on 'Ottawa Police Veterans Association' Boards. However, Matt's most proud of successfully creating the 'Fatigue Management Strategy' which assisted his membership in recapturing their health, mind, body and spirit. 

Daniel Sundahl (DanSun) a Published Artist, Paramedic, Retd Firefighter and a Licensed Psychotherapist

Daniel travels internationally, speaking about his art and personal experiences with occupational stress injuries and post-traumatic growth; He is an Advanced-Care Paramedic, Pre-Hospital Educator, retired Firefighter, Photographer and an Editor. In 2024 he completed his degree as a Registered Counseling Therapist

The majority of Daniel's work involves emergency services photography. It comprises an emotional connection to the artist as most pieces are based on actual emergency calls he attended as a paramedic and a firefighter

Jesse Henneberry, PhD, RP, MA, CCC

Jesse Henneberry is a registered Psychotherapist with the Counselling Group at Jewish Family Services Ottawa. For the past. fourteen years he has provided psychotherapy to clients experiencing a number of issues including trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, relationship stress and issues of self-worth. Additionally, for the past decade, he has supervised other therapists and published in International Academic Journals in the areas of Grief and bereavement.