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A new brief describing the key recommendations of the report “Kiskâyitamawin Miyo-Mamitonecikan: Urban Aboriginal Women and Mental Health,” has been produced by the Prairie Womens’ Health Centre of Excellence. The report’s four key recommendations are: to examine how cultural (relationships) and structural (policy) level changes can be made to serve and support the mental health […]Continue readingAboriginal women’s mental health policy brief released

Mindyourmind.ca is a website containing information, resources and tools to help youth and young adults manage stress, crises and mental health problems. Recently, the mindyourmind Youth Street Team developed a series of posters for service providers to display in an effort to encourage professionals’ and educators’ that work with youth to use innovative and web-based social […]Continue readingMindyourmind.ca releases technology awareness poster series for professionals

The Enabling Collaboration in Primary and Mental Health Care and Addictions through Interprofessional Care and Education (EnHANCE) project has released educational materials and summary reports following the conclusion of the project. EnHANCE is a multi-partner initiative focusing on the development of inter-organizational partnerships and enhancing capacity for the delivery of collaborative and interprofessional care across […]Continue readingEnHANCE Ontario education materials and summary reports now available

The Social Aetiology of Mental Illness (SAMI) Training Program has announced its first call for fellowship applications. SAMI is a centre of excellence for the study of the social determinants of mental illness and addictions based at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the University of Toronto, and includes international partners from around […]Continue readingSAMI Training Program call for fellowship applications

The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has re-launched a website designed to help people know more about the health care options they have in their communities. The redeveloped Health Care Options website includes tools such as: an online registry for Health Care Connect, a referral service that matches people with doctors; a searchable […]Continue readingHealth Care Options website relaunched

The Best Start Resource Centre (BSRC) supports service providers in Ontario to implement effective health promotion programs for expectant and new parents, newborns and young children. BSRC provides information and consultations in English and French to service providers on a wide range of topics, including health before pregnancy, pregnancy (e.g., prenatal education, teen pregnancy/parenting), maternal […]Continue readingBest Start Resource Centre call for on-site consultation requests

The Creating Together: Developing a Mental Health and Addictions Research Agenda for Ontario project has released a French language version of its current online survey. Creating Together is an OMHAKEN-initiated, province-wide process to jointly develop a research agenda for mental health and addictions in Ontario.  The English version of the survey has been open for […]Continue readingCreating Together releases French version of online survey

Abstracts are being accepted for oral and poster presentations for Ryerson University’s “Promoting Health Equity: Action on the Social Determinants of Health” conference, being held February 11-12, 2011 in Toronto. The goal of the conference is to promote health equity by taking action on the social determinants of health in the areas of: children’s rights; […]Continue readingHealth equity and social determinants of health conference call for abstracts

The Training for Change project, a partnership of the Rainbow Health Network, Rainbow Health Ontario and Springtide Resources, has developed two resources to be used when training health and social service providers. The resources promote an intersectional approach to sexual and gender diversity that integrates understandings of class, ability, sex, racialization and more. The resources […]Continue readingNew anti-oppression training resources for health providers