Led by The Centre for Research and Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims (The CRIB), the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, and the Canadian Mental Health Association Ontario (CMHA Ontario), the Survivors of Homicide Victims and Mental Health Project is exploring the impact of supporting surviving family members and friends of murdered victims (survivors), and the service providers that support them.

The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) is funding 14 two-year projects (2020-22) to address knowledge gaps in the relationship between mental health and cannabis among priority populations. Check out the project snapshots:

If you are a service provider who:

supports survivors of homicide victims from Indigenous, African, Caribbean and Black (ACB), and other racialized communitiesprovides services in Brantford, Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Toronto, or Windsor

WE NEED TO HEAR YOUR VOICE

Hello,

We are in the process of creating an internal healthy aging framework. We are looking to see if there are any existing frameworks or strategies others could share or could refer us to.

Thank you,

Stephanie Bale

Overview

The YMCA of Greater Toronto's Youth Cannabis Awareness Program (YCAP) is presently running a Digital Media Contest that challenges youth (ages 18 – 25) to create a video or poster discussing how cannabis use affects youth brain development, and we were wondering if you’d be willing to help us choose a winner by joining the Contest Organizer’s Jury (CO Jury).

 

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The City of Toronto is requesting for community input around alternatives to policing.  This community-based crisis response survey for the alternatives to policing work aims to understand the public's priorities for what a community-based crisis response could look like.

The Youth Gambling Awareness Program recently completed an informative article that outlines the basics of youth brain development and how this development impacts risk taking behaviors. This information is useful for parents and professionals who work with youth!

33rd School Social Work SymposiumNovember 12, 2020, 9:30 AM - 3:00 PMCourageous Conversations About Anti-Black RacismKeynote Address by Kike Ojo-Thompson, Founder of the Kojo InstituteREGISTER TODAY

We seem to be into the second wave of COVID and many people are starting to feel more stressed than they were at the start of the pandemic.

Join me online for a free webinar on November 7 from 9.30am to 10.30am and learn how to rest, recover, relax and de-stress with Self-Hypnosis relaxation techniques. The webinar is experiential and will show you two self-hypnosis techniques that will help you to decompress and focus on the positive in your life.

Self-Hypnosis is First Aid for the body, the mind and the soul.