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Recent Catalyst Articles
Changing the Narrative on Suicide Prevention: What Safety Really Means
What makes someone feel safe isn’t something we can assume. We have to ask. And we have to listen.
In this article, three people with lived experience challenge us to rethink suicide prevention through the lens of safety, connection, and community.
Showing Up: Stories of Thriving at Work
One in five people in Canada lives with a mental health challenge. Many of them are your colleagues, your managers, your mentors. They show up, contribute, lead — and they do it while navigating something most people never see. This Labour Day, we’re telling their stories.
The hardest conversation: Changing the way health-care providers talk about suicide
Only a month after Joy McNabb completed Talking About Suicide — a refreshed, free, self-directed three-hour course available to all health-care providers — she found herself drawing on her newfound knowledge.
From Silence to Systems Change: How Lived Experience Is Redefining Quality Mental Health Care
Today, Alisha Haseeb is a member of the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Youth Council. But her journey — shaped by a silent struggle and a growing determination to help build a better system — wasn’t always smooth sailing.
In it together
Minneapolis made headlines last winter as a community caught up in a national crisis; a Canadian mental health workshop facilitator who visited at the time reflects on what he learned about stress and resiliency from its traumatized citizens.
Custody Without Care: An Action Plan for Strengthening How Corrections Handles Mental Illness
Why people living with mental illness need treatment, not incarceration.