Appendix 8: Telling Your Story
You are the best person to share your reasons for wanting to mobilize and help implement the Guidelines. Personal stories help illustrate the need for
Supporting Early Childhood Mental Health
The first six years are critical for human growth, development, and mental health. Promoting healthy interactions, relationships, and mental health from the beginning can help to improve health and well-being later on.
The heroes behind the masks
“Health-care workers have always been heroes in my eyes,” said Louise Bradley, president and CEO of the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), herself a registered nurse and former hospital administrator. “But when a once-in-a-generation crisis like COVID-19 arises, we ask even more of an already overextended workforce.”
COVID-19 and Mental Health: Policy Responses and Emerging Issues- Preliminary Scan
Purpose The lessons learned to date from COVID-19, and from earlier disasters and epidemics, suggest that planning and reforms are needed to stay ahead of
Clients and providers get behind Stepped Care 2.0
In 2017, Newfoundland and Labrador implemented a new Stepped Care 2.0 project at 15 mental health and addiction clinics and two primary care clinics across the province with the goal of improving access to services. The Stepped Care 2.0© model, coined by Dr. Peter Cornish, contributed to a reduction in wait times by 68%, with some communities reporting no wait times.
Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction and Mental Health Commission of Canada highlight healthy coping strategies during COVID-19
From Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction and Mental Health Commission of Canada The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) and the
In the era of COVID-19, mental health matters more than ever
From Mental Health Commission of Canada Last week, the Government of Ontario released projections around the spread and transmission of COVID-19 that painted a stark
Talking about suicide saves lives
For the last 30 years, l’Association québecoise de prevention du suicide has devoted the first week in February to fostering conversations on suicide prevention.