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The Ontario Healthy Schools Coalition is requesting presentation and poster submissions for its tenth annual forum, “Resiliency and the School Community.” The forum, hosted by Sudbury and District Health Unit, will take place May 12-13, 2011 in Sudbury and will bring together individuals who work to create resilient youth and school communities. Presentations should address […]Continue readingResiliency and schools forum call for abstracts

A new website that supports individuals, groups and communities to become more age friendly has been launched as a partnership of the Kenneth G. Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program (MAREP), the Alzheimer Society of Ontario, the University of Waterloo and the Research Institute for Aging. The website presents the guiding principles of an age […]Continue readingAge Friendly Communities website launched

Creating Together: Developing a Mental Health and Addictions Research Agenda for Ontario is an OMHAKEN-initiated, province-wide process to jointly develop a research agenda for mental health and addictions in Ontario. The results of the process will help guide health systems and services, and population and public health research investments and knowledge exchange activity over the […]Continue readingCreating Together releases web survey

The Family Matters Resource Centre is a new web resource for families that addresses the overlapping interests of people affected by schizophrenia, mood disorders and addictions. The Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs, the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario and the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario collaborated on the “one-stop-shop” website for families, […]Continue readingProvincial organizations launch Family Matters Resource Centre

The Ontario Disability Employment Network (ODEN) is hosting the “Champions for Change: Harnessing the Power of Your Community” conference, October 27-29, 2010 in Alliston, Ontario. Highlights of the conference include a session on accessibility during which participants will receive a free compliance guide for the Customer Service Standards under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. […]Continue readingODEN conference and AGM to focus on accessibility

The Mount Sinai Hospital Mental Health Court Support Program is offering a full-day training workshop on the topic of cultural competency on October 28. Designed for mental health and law professionals, this workshop introduces the concepts of cultural competency and increases the capacity of cultural competency in those working with culturally diverse individuals who are […]Continue readingCultural competency training for law and mental health professionals

The 2010 Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) will present a program exploring how mental health is represented in animation. “Let’s Go Crazy” includes a selection of animation portraying mental health, fromLooney Toons to new independent shorts, each revealing how the mind works in unique ways. “In recent years, a handful of animators have pioneered new styles […]Continue readingFilm festival explores animation’s depiction of mental health

The North East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) board has approved a decision to allow the Sault Area Hospital (SAH) to keep seven acute mental health beds after it moves to its new site. It was expected that under its cost-saving Hospital Improvement Plan, the hospital would reduce its mental health capacity from 30 to […]Continue readingSault Area Hospital to keep its mental health beds

The Osgoode Certificate in Mental Health Law is being offered from October 14 to December 16, 2010 in Toronto. This unique certificate program, now in its third year, provides an overview of the core principles of mental health law, as well as strategies for handling mental health law issues, through lectures, case studies, class/group discussions, […]Continue readingOsgoode certificate in mental health law

A toolkit and training workshop to promote mental health and curb childhood obesity in Aboriginal communities has been developed through the Best Start Resource Centre, a Health Nexus program. The project, Let’s Be Healthy Together: Preventing Childhood Obesity in Ontario’s Aboriginal Communities, was led and developed by Aboriginal people from across Ontario with funding from […]Continue readingPromoting mental health and preventing childhood obesity in Aboriginal communities