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Imagining Accessible Work

Future directions for disability inclusion

Sharing is Caring — and Unsparing

Sharing your story — about achievements, traumas, truths, and wheel busters — can reinforce feelings of resilience or remorse. Finding the balance between advocating for change and protecting your mental wellness.

Care for Health-Care Workers

A long-time nurse reaches out to other health professionals to foster an open dialogue about stigma around mental health

My Story

Florence K – musician, mother, CBC host, and doctoral candidate – takes the theme of this year’s Mental Health Week and shares her personal story of mental health challenges, wellness, and discovery.

A Name and a Face

Mental illness, homelessness, and a family’s years-long search for their lost brother

The Dread in Your Head

It’s also around you: storms, fires, catastrophe — the intersections between climate and mental health — and what you can do about it.

Seeing People, Not Problems

How compassionate health care can alter the trajectories of people who use substances.

Why We Use “Substance Use Health”

Putting substance use on a spectrum creates a space for more open conversations about safer, healthier, more manageable consumption.

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Way To Go!

What makes a funeral great? The good, the bad, and the gaudy of saying goodbye

Real Takes on Shrinking

We ask practitioners for a reality check on the TV series about therapy, grief, and getting by.

From condemnation to compassion

The shift away from saying “committing suicide” goes beyond semantics.

CBT For You and For Me

A suite of culturally adapted cognitive behavioural therapy tools is designed to break through barriers.

Pace, Plan, and Prioritize: One Woman’s Story on Coping with Long Covid

Since there’s no cure, those affected must work to manage their symptoms. An innovative hospital program takes an interdisciplinary approach encompassing physical, cognitive, and psychosocial care.

Weaving Through the Challenges

The ABCs of finding paths to ACB mental health care

Getting to the Heart of the Matter

Dil Ba Dil (heart to heart) is one of several support programs for newcomers. It is part of ABRAR Trauma and Mental Health’s approach to complex and culturally informed care.

Shifting the Narrative

Valuing lived and living experience

Brave New World

Integrated service hubs are an innovative approach to transforming youth mental health care in Canada.

Insights from Australia and New Zealand

Making strides in mental health promotion and access to quality care. What we learned from examples abroad.

What Do Mullets Have to Do With Mental Health?

Australia’s Black Dog Institute blends research and community spirit. A conversation on outreach, balance, and the art of “business in the front, party in the back.”

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