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Videos

Life promotion webinar

Promoting Life: Changing the Narrative around Suicide Prevention

This webinar centers on Life Promotion, an Indigenous led, culturally and contextually informed approach and way of life.

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Student perspectives on improving mental health supports

Student perspectives on improving mental health supports

Video Series: Student Perspectives on the National Standard for Post-Secondary Student Mental Health and Well-Being
To celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Standard, we asked 4 post-secondary students — Connor LaFortune, Golnaz Shirzadi, Daniel Major, and Sandrine Desforges — to share their unique perspectives on mental health topics, including life promotion, harm reduction, mental health supports, learning environments, and interpersonal factors. Their invaluable insights can help us all create healthier, more supportive, and inclusive post-secondary communities.

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The Story of Our Investment in Community Based Research

This short, animated video tells the story of our investment in 14 community-based research (CBR) projects to address knowledge gaps in the relation between cannabis …

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Use Your Voice

Choose to Use Your Voice – Reducing Stigma Toward People Who Use Substances

Jes is a community harm reduction support navigator and peer support worker, who has been helping people with lived and living experience of opioid use …

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Mental Health (webinar)

Watch our discussion of the recent policy brief about the impact of the pandemic on families and early childhood mental health with co-author and co-host: …

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A Way Forward – how we can dismantle mental health- and/or substance use-related structural stigma

There are many things we can do to dismantle mental health- and substance use-related structural stigma in health-care settings. We asked people to share their …

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“Less Than” – how mental health and/or substance use-related structural stigma impacts quality of care

We asked people to share how structural stigma impacts the quality of the health-care they receive. These are the stories they shared. Structural stigma can …

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“Access Denied” – how mental health/substance use-related structural stigma impacts health-care access

We asked people to share how structural stigma impacts their access to health-care services. These are the stories they shared. Structural stigma can be dismantled. …

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Keeping Student Mental Health at the Heart of Post-Secondary Education

The Mental Health Commission of Canada has championed the development of a new National Standard (the Student Standard) in collaboration with CSA Group, a global …

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