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Conversations on Mental Health
What Truth and Reconciliation demands of us
When online discussions of mental health are curtailed, people suffer. Why advocates are calling for social media platforms to be more accountable for their content safety practices...
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Why people living with mental illness need treatment, not incarceration.
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Aug11
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 ...
Jul21
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 ...
Jul07
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 ...
Jun16
Custody Without Care: An Action Plan for Strengthening How Corrections Handles Mental Illness
Why people living with mental illness need treatment, not incarceration.
Why access is about more than ramps, elevators, and buttons
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.
How opioids are affecting Canadian youth and what recovery looks like.
Welcome to the 9th instalment in the MHCC & series, designed to get to know our HealthPartners membership and to discuss where our realities intersect and how best to support each other.
The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) is thrilled to be the 17th charity – and the first in 34 years – invited to sit at the HealthPartners’ table.
The MHCC’s Vice President, External Affairs and Development, Allison Cowan, sat down with Kimberley Hanson, CEO of HealthPartners, to talk about the work of HealthPartners and why workplace giving makes a difference.
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Loving licence plates and neurodivergence
One morning, as Dyan Robson was walking in her neighbourhood with her young son, she couldn’t help but notice how the licence plates on the ...
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Accommodations: The Bridge from Mental Health Disability to Employee Retention
Why the right adjustments can make the difference between losing a valued employee and helping them thrive.
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Sweeping Changes: Spring Cleaning and Mental Health
Clearing clutter can clear more than just your space.
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Are You There Judy? It’s Me … Midlife Margaret
Judy Blume told several generations of young women everything we needed to know about puberty, periods, and that fluttery first-crush feeling.
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