imTEEN receives a Canadian Health and Informatics Award for Innovation
Last night, the imTEEN project team consisting of WeUsThem, Dr. Stan Kutcher, The Sandbox Project and TELUS Health was awarded the prestigious Canadian Health Informatics Award in Patient Care Innovation. Presented by Digital Health Canada and ITAC Health, the Canadian Health Informatics Award in Patient Care Innovation recognizes a for-profit healthcare ICT company and client team […]
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.
Report from the International Association of Youth Mental Health Conference
From October 8 to 10th, I had the extremely humbling and exciting opportunity to represent the Young Canadians Roundtable on Health (YCRH) at the International Association of Youth Mental Health conference in Montreal, Quebec. This opportunity would not have been possible without the generous support of the Graham Boeckh and two other Foundations.
I started off my conference journey by attending the pre-conference workshop around using social media to engage youth and the opening reception. I spent hours getting to know the folks in the workshop, learning about best practices and the process of rapid prototyping as problem solving. My greatest take away from the session however, was around language and words from various countries and the way they resonate with different people. The day concluded with the opening reception where I had the chance to meet with many people from various countries such as Australia, Scotland, and the USA and I met the Norfolk and Suffolk youth advisory council for the first time, who in the end became my adopted family.
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).