Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, many people are reporting mental health and substance use concerns. According to recent surveys conducted by Leger on behalf of the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction and the Mental Health Commission of Canada, these concerns are greater among females in households with young children (< 13 years).
This report is one component of a larger Mental Health Commission of Canada initiative examining structural stigma in health-care settings. It reviews measurement approaches that could be used to monitor the extent to which health-care settings offer caring cultures, person-centred care, or recoveryoriented care. These dimensions were identified as important to service users in an in-depth qualitative study of structural stigma.
Long before the pandemic, women were regularly forced to put their careers on the back burner. Whether caring for children or sick or elderly relatives, women were more likely than men to take on caregiving responsibilities that compete with their working life.
Purpose On October 9-10, 2019, representatives from the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, and
Introduction The opioid crisis continues to affect thousands of people in Canada each year. Between January 2016 and June 2020, there were more than 17,000
This resource was published in 2021. The data may be out of date. This report shares the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s exploration of how
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
