Making spirits bright
While Dr. Keith Dobson doesn’t have a miracle cure for the holiday blues, he’s got a prescription for improving our outlook: We need to manage expectations.
Suzanne Westover
Community-based research a win-win for underserved communities
“We are all experts in our own right,” declared Krista Benes, director of the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s (MHCC’s) mental health and substance use team. “And that is the premise of community-based research.”
Learning to adapt
To support post-secondary institutions in promoting positive mental health outcomes on and off campus, the MHCC, in collaboration with CSA Group, have created the National Standard of Canada: Mental Health and Well-Being for Post-Secondary Students.
MHCC Board welcomes prominent student advocate
Back in the spring, at the height of the pandemic, Donovan Taplin happened to see that the MHCC was seeking a new board director.
MHCC injects board with the insights and experience of youth
Medical student, peer supporter and mental health champion Armaghan Alam embraces a new challenge.
MHCC training responds to the new normal
Going virtual to support essential workers and post-secondary students
Dr. Patricia Pottie on breaking barriers
When Dr. Patricia Lingley Pottie was about to graduate high school on Nova Scotia’s south shore in the early eighties, she was given the results of a new computerized aptitude test — which she calls a “very primitive precursor to today’s artificial intelligence, albeit a pioneer in its day.”
Mental Health Commission of Canada mourns a bright light
Aimee LeBlanc loved winter. She spent her honeymoon in the Yukon in late summer, freezing in the back of a pickup with a hardtop camper. Aimee and her husband Dan were a devoted couple who made the most of life’s adventures, big and small.
A place free from judgement
Everyone had heard that the KAIROS Blanket Exercise could be emotionally difficult.
