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Recent Catalyst Articles

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.

The Mental Load of Accessibility
Why access is about more than ramps, elevators, and buttons

The Age of Anxiety
Young people in Canada today are struggling more than ever with anxiety and related mental health conditions. It’s time to get serious about helping them avoid a crisis.

A Generation at Risk
How opioids are affecting Canadian youth and what recovery looks like.