New online training available for managers from our friends at CMHA as part of their Not Myself Today initiative. This initiative offers paid subscription to a variety of tools for managers to increase their mental health literacy and ability to support their teams.  Do you agree that mental health literacy and the skills to foster a safe, healthy workplace are critical for leaders to be successful today?

In the name of good for the community the Ontario government chopped half of the province’s–Supervised Drug Consumption and Treatment Services (CTS).

Sharing a recent video from Moms Stop The Harm: 

https://youtu.be/HgSdogBqXGs?si=SJ9KSSwCjGiBjNE_ 

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Check out "Answering the Call" on CityTV this Sunday May 26 at 10pm to learn more about this innovative non-police led crisis response pilot.

You can also read more about the Toronto Community Crisis Service here.

Please share our monthly schedule for May with all who need it.

https://www.paywhatyoucanpeers...com/monthly-schedule

The creator of the Housing First Model, Sam Tsemberis, has been named as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2024.

Overwhelming demand - a nice problem to have - has led the Drug Strategy Network of Ontario in collaboration with Canadian Drug Policy Coalition and so many others to re-open the opportunity to endorse the letter urging provincial action.  Timmins and Sudbury are among existing sites winding down this week.  Other communities have been stalled at the provincial level for years. Deaths and injuries are guaranteed in the absence of movement from the province.  Guaranteed- that's not hyperbole in the least.

This week (March 18), Toronto’s Drug Checking Service released two alerts regarding high-potency synthetic nitazene opioids circulating in the city's unregulated opioid supply.

The following information is summarized from their website:

Alert 1: Two new nitazene opioids identified and circulating

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Silence from Ontario Ministry of Health as Time Runs Out to Save Supervised Consumption Sites 

Sharing the recording from an online briefing hosted by Canadian Drug Policy Coalition on Tuesday March 5th addressing the recent and impending closures of supervised consumption sites in Ontario.

Here is the link to the open letter calling for eight urgent actions

Here is the event recording on youtube.