This guide is designed to help mental health and addictions organizations create safer and more inclusive spaces for trans staff, volunteers, service users, and community members people. It includes current terminology and pronouns, consideration of overlapping identities, and tips for the use of gender-inclusive language (language that doesn’t discriminate against a particular gender or gender identity). 

The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit is pleased to release our organizational Mental Health Promotion Framework.  The framework represents months of working with internal and external partners.  It will guide the mental health promotion work at the health unit and will be used in planning our community programs and services.

It is available on our website:  www.hkpr.on.ca > under Inspections, Data and Reports > click on Reports and Publications

 

Check out this webinar that was presented in partnership with the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network (ODPRN).

Webinar recording

CMHA Ontario has launched a new website offering free downloadable resources with strategies to deal with grief. Available at cmhabereavement.ca, the handouts include tips on coping with different kinds of loss, including grieving after suicide, grief from overdose death, grief connected to MAiD, and grief due to relationship changes.

I wanted to share this information video on the use of fentanyl strips. I find the information very helpful especially when educating clients. Thought someone else find it useful! Link is below

https://vimeo.com/923320008

As health care professionals providing care to vulnerable Canadians, you know that income is social determinant of health.  

 Prosper Canada is a national charity dedicated to expanding economic opportunity for Canadians living in poverty through program and policy innovation. Part of our work consists of creating and disseminating tailored financial curriculum and content.  

 Here is what we have to offer:  

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The experience of problem gambling is unique to different groups. Older adults, in particular, frequently engage in gambling as a leisure activity. However, this may increase their risk of developing problem gambling. Various factors play a role in making older adults particularly vulnerable to problem gambling.

Here is an excellent stigma-reduction resource developed by Canadian Public Health Association and CAPSA.

New Challenging Structural Substance Use Workshop Package

The Mental Health Commission of Canada is launching a new resource highlighting the experiences of African, Caribbean and Black communities with suicide in Canada to commemorate Black Mental Health Day.

To improve our understanding of the experiences of African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) communities with suicide, this resource was co-created by the Mental Health Commission of Canada and a diverse group of people from ACB communities with lived and living experience (PWLLE) with suicide. This resource aims to:

Les machines à griffes sont populaires auprès des jeunes. Ces jeux demandent aux joueurs d'insérer de l'argent ou des jetons afin d'utiliser un dispositif ressemblant à un bras pour attraper un animal en peluche, un jouet ou un autre prix. On les trouve dans de nombreux endroits, tels que les cinémas, les centres commerciaux et les salles d'arcade.