"Go ahead and be grateful for the good things in your life. Just don't think that a gratitude intervention will help you feel less depressed or anxious. In a new study, researchers analyzed results from 27 separate studies that examined the effectiveness of gratitude interventions on reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression. The results showed that such interventions had limited benefits at best."

Full article here.

"For a long time, medical researchers were unsure whether Alcoholics Anonymous worked better than other approaches to treating people with alcohol use disorder. In 2006, a review of the evidence concluded we didn’t have enough evidence to judge.

That has changed."

"Two recent studies have drawn a link between mental health and minimum wage work, a connection obvious to Canada’s approximately 1.5 million minimum wage workers — or the estimated 21 per cent of Canadian employees earning less than $15 per hour — but less so to the general public.

Hi everyone,

Ontario is expanding community-based mental health and addictions services for youth and young adults, so hospital emergency departments are not the only option for someone in crisis. 

Haliburton Youth Wellness Hub is the new hub for people between the ages of 12 and 25 to get easy access to walk-in services such as mental health, addictions and crisis support, counselling, primary care and social supports related to employment, income and housing. 

A report released this morning by Children's Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) says the waiting list for child and youth mental health services in the province has more than doubled in the past two years.

There are currently 28,000 children and youth on wait lists to receive treatment, which is largely attributed to rising rates of anxiety and depression. 

The report includes provincial and regional stats on wait lists and wait times, as well as recommendations for high-quality accessible care. 

Health Quality Ontario has released a new quality standard that addresses care for people going home after a hospital admission.

Transitions between hospital and home are complex, multiple-step processes that require integrated communication and coordination among the patient, their caregivers, the hospital team, primary care, and home and community care providers. When not managed well, patients may suffer harm from errors and delays in care. 

"Lunch & Learn" at Adler - 890 Yonge Street. 10th Floor, Toronto ON 

We would like to invite you to join us on Saturday, December 7th, 2019 for the next FREE ADLER Lunch & Learn from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm.

"To Blaze or Not to Blaze" 

This Globe & Mail opinion piece reminds us that very few Canadians can access good mental health care, and those that can are the ones that have the financial means to afford it.

Those most in need are the most consistently failed by the system.

The 2019 Toronto's Vital Signs report reveals a city experiencing unprecedented growth, but increasingly at the cost of the most marginalized.

"Another student death at Bahen calls for immediate action from university administration, media, government.