Support and experts
PAUSE can count on a wide support network and a solid committee of experts to ensure the validity and reach of the activities developed in this innovative campaign.
SUPPORT NETWORK
The PAUSE campaign is developed in collaboration with a support network in order to increase the campaign’s reach and create links with other initiatives that promote a balanced use of the Internet and screens.
- Action Toxicomanie Bois-Francs
- Association des bibliothèques publiques du Québec (Quebec Public Library Association)
- Association des intervenants en dépendance du Québec (AIDQ)
- Association des parents-étudiants de l’Université Laval (APÉtUL)
- Association québécoise de prévention du suicide (AQPS)
- Association pour la santé publique du Québec
- Association québécoise des centres d’intervention en dépendance (AQCID)
- Bien-être numérique
- Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)
- CHU Sainte-Justine
- Coalition québécoise sur la problématique du poids
- Direction de la santé publique de la Capitale-Nationale
- Direction de la santé publique de la Montérégie
- Direction de la santé publique de l’Estrie
- Direction de la santé publique de l’Outaouais
- Direction de la santé publique de Montréal
- Direction de la santé publique des Laurentides
- Direction de la santé publique du Bas St-Laurent
- Fédération des Cégeps
- Fédération des comités de parents du Québec
- Fédération des centres de services scolaires du Québec
- Fondation André-Boudreau
- Fondation du centre de réadaptation en dépendance de Montréal (FCRDM)
- L’Arc-en-ciel, prévention des dépendances
- La Maison Jean Lapointe
- La Relance Nicolet-Bécancour
- Le Grand Chemin
- Liberté de choisir
- Mouvement Santé mentale Québec
- Ordre des psychoéducateurs et psychoéducatrices du Québec
- Ordre des psychologues du Québec
- Regroupement des maisons des jeunes du Québec
- Tech For Good Canada
COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS
The PAUSE campaign by Capsana is developed with the support of a committee of experts, which includes specialists in the prevention of cyberaddiction and the promotion of healthy habits in young people.
- Magali Dufour, Ph. D. (psychology), Associate professor, Department of Psychology, UQAM, President of the PAUSE committee of experts.
- Jean-François Biron, Planning, programming and research officer in the prevention of gambling and addiction at the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Direction régionale de santé publique.
- Sylvie R. Gagnon, clinician-researcher in addiction, CISSS de Lanaudière, Addiction Rehabilitation Centre.
- Anne-Élizabeth Lapointe, Executive director, at La Maison Jean Lapointe.
- Myriam Laventure, Ph. D. Education, Full professor, Department of Psychoeducation at Université de Sherbrooke.
Video games and algorithms are cleverly designed to target us, attract our attention through notifications, and encourage us to take an action that is randomly rewarded, pushing us to constantly return to the application. This strategy works on everyone, but young people are more vulnerable because parts of their brains are still developing, making them more impulsive and less able to control themselves.
The problem is not the Internet itself, but rather the excessive use of online activities at the expense of other interests and life offline, which can trigger the cycle of addiction. In Quebec, cyberaddiction affects 1.3% of 15 to 18-year-olds, but 18% show at-risk behaviour. Therefore, 1 out of 5 young people could have problematic Internet use (PIU).
– Magali Dufour, President of the PAUSE committee of experts
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