Toward an Integrated and Comprehensive Equity Framework: Report
Profound and unacceptable inequities in access and mental health outcomes persist in Canada. In response, social justice movements have created a range of distinct but
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Fact Sheet: Common Mental Health Myths and Misconceptions
This resource was published in 2023. The data may be out of date. What am I getting wrong about mental health? While people in Canada
No more doom and gloom: How we’re using photography to inspire hope
If you’ve ever seen a news article about mental health and mental illness, you can probably still picture the stock photo that went along with it. You don’t even need a link from me to refresh your memory. Someone is sitting alone in the dark. Maybe with their head in their hands. Maybe peering out a window at the rain. You know the photo.
Unrooted – I owe it to myself to see my own dreams through
It seems I’m always trying to forge belonging, or fielding a gulf between myself and the community I grew up with. I feel deeply disconnected from my childhood friends and peers, cultural background, and family. My home base. My roots.
Rituals
The new frontiers of ability
Imagine, if you will, that you woke up one day and your life was completely unrecognizable. It could happen, for so many reasons, good and bad. What then? Do you fall apart or keep going? Or do you re-imagine what’s possible?
Spotlight
CBT For You and For Me
A suite of culturally adapted cognitive behavioural therapy tools is designed to break through barriers.
I didn’t imagine that mental health was affected by the colour of one’s skin. I was wrong.
As a white woman, my culture is slowly moving towards an acceptance of mental health and an understanding of mental illness while persons – particularly men – of colour still struggle under the weight of unbearable cultural stigma.