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
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Health Care Options website relaunched
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
Best Start Resource Centre call for on-site consultation requests
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
Creating Together releases French version of online survey
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
CMHA Ontario employment forum identifies opportunities for action
In the spring of 2010, Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario hosted an employment forum to bring together employment supports providers in Ontario and the government ministries that fund them. The forum resulted in the creation of four graphics showing the pathways to employment for people with mental health disabilities. Attendees also engaged in a […]Continue readingCMHA Ontario employment forum identifies opportunities for action
Health equity and social determinants of health conference call for abstracts
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
New anti-oppression training resources for health providers
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
Resiliency and schools forum call for abstracts
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
Age Friendly Communities website launched
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 releases web survey
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