Stories, presented by TELUS: Meet Alicia
TELUS has recently launched Stories, presented by TELUS, a new platform that showcases the personal narratives of ordinary Canadians on the things we all care about most: staying well, building healthy and diverse communities, living our connected lives, caring for our planet and growing our businesses. The first episode features the YCRH‘s Alicia Raimundo using […]
Run to Wellness: From strolls to sprints, from neighbourhood to nation
Jacob Morris to run 211 kilometres in 30 days to raise mental health awareness
Less than two years ago, Jacob Morris startled from sleep from what felt like a heart attack. With his heartbeat racing, profuse sweating and shortness of breath, Jacob believed he was going to die.
“I unlocked my front door so if I died, the paramedics wouldn’t have to break it down when they came in,” Jacob, 26, recounted. “And I wrote down my bank passwords too, so my family could just clear it out without any issue.”
Telemental Health: An Approach to Addressing Mental Health Care Disparities for Children and Adolescents
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
Special Issue on Telemental Health: An Approach to Addressing Mental Health Care Disparities for Children and Adolescents. Kathleen Myers, MD, MPH, MS, and Jonathan S. Comer, PhD, Guest Editors
Complete special issue: http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/cap/26/3
Introduction: The Case for Telemental Health for Improving the Accessibility and Quality of Children’s Mental Health Services
Healthy Minds Canada’s (HMC) online mental health tool for parents
At Healthy Minds Canada, we repeatedly hear how overwhelmed parents feel when first caring for a child with behavioural and mental problems. Add to that the often overwhelming task of navigating Canada’s mental health system on behalf of their children and parents can feel lost, confused and frustrated.
To help, HMC spent years working with parents, teachers, and other caregivers to adapt the content of our Families version of When Something’s Wrong, our resource handbook, and supplemented with assessed suggestions from other parents.
When Something’s Wrong – Strategies for Teachers & Ideas for Families
Presenting Healthy Minds Canada’s When Something’s Wrong Resource Handbooks
Our When Something’s Wrong – Strategies for Teachers is a quick reference guide of useful classroom strategies to help elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators understand and assist students with mood, behaviour or thinking problems.
When Something’s Wrong – Ideas for Families is a quick reference guide of useful coping strategies and resources for parents and caregivers to help them with children who have mood behaviour or thinking problems.
Videographers Wanted!
Videographers
Healthy Minds Canada is looking for a team (2 or 3) of videographers/filmers for our Workplace Mental Health Lunch & Learns Series.
Ideally, the same team would film all three events in the series, but as long as you are available for one of the three, we want to talk to you!
Featured Partner Resources: Mental Health Commission of Canada
Changing Directions, Changing Lives and Taking the Next Step Forward
In March 2013, the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Youth Council (YC) came up with the idea to rewrite or “translate,” from a youth perspective, Changing Directions, Changing Lives: The Mental Health Strategy for Canada. The main aim of their project was to develop a supplemental document that highlights the experiences and vision of young people working toward system change, ultimately making the original Strategy a more accessible document to all.
CCK Study: Are Canadian parents leaving kids’ mental well-being off the dinner table?
Taking the Pulse of Canada’s Kids: A Landmark Study on Physical, Social, Emotional and Mental Well-being
Despite ranking the mental well-being of their kids as the top concern, Canadian parents aren’t talking about it with them. According to new data from Taking the Pulse of Canada’s Kids: A Landmark Study on Physical, Social, Emotional and Mental Well-being, by Companies Committed to Kids (CCK), parents and kids are much more likely to discuss schoolwork (90 per cent), healthy eating (69 per cent), physical activity (61 per cent), friendships (57 per cent) and technology/media (51 per cent) over managing stress (28 per cent).
2014 Ontario Child Health Study
The 2014 Ontario Child Health Study seeks to assess the mental health status and needs of children and youth living in Ontario
The 1983 Ontario Child Health Study told us that 1 in 5 children and youth experienced serious mental health challenges. This estimate is outdated as is much of what we know about child and youth mental health in Ontario. The 2014 Ontario Child Health Study will tell us about the mental health status and needs of children and youth living in Ontario today.
From October 2014 to May 2015, Statistics Canada will be inviting 7,000 families with children aged 4 -17 years to complete an interview in their home. At the same time, McMaster researchers will be conducting School Mental Health Surveys in 240 Ontario schools to help us learn new ways of promoting and addressing student mental health needs.
September 2014 Network Update
