Recent regulatory changes in Ontario affect how alcohol can be served and sold at events hosted on municipal property. Some of these changes may increase the risk of health harms to patrons, event staff, and the public due to alcohol use, which remains a leading, preventable cause of disease, injury, and death in Ontario. Municipalities have the authority to reduce these potential risks by requiring events to adopt additional mitigation measures; this also has the benefit of reducing liability to the municipality.

In a conversations we've been having here on EENet Connect, a couple of people brought up the topic of whether there are any residential addiction programs currently available that use a harm-reduction rather than an abstinence-based approach. Does anyone have any info on this?

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Leading the Way in Mental Health Training and Education

Our health unit has recently been experiencing frequent visits to main reception by members of the public seeking acute crisis intervention for their mental health. Our main reception staff is not sure how to handle these situations and so we are developing a plan to support main reception staff with these clients.

For a glimpse of Canada’s planning and governance in play for Indigenous Peoples – useful right now to take a look at this half hour documentary by the NFB in 1956 – and consider how policy development echoes and more to the point rings out to us today.

The Ontario Association of Social Workers is once again offering our popular online certificate course: Advanced Social Work with Older Adults to OASW members and social workers across Canada.

 Leading the way in mental health training and education

Are you a health care professional or health system planner, or in an agency/hospital leadership role? Do you know about the quality standards related to mental health, opioid prescribing, and opioid use disorder?

Health Quality Ontario wants to hear from you!

We are conducting a brief survey to learn more about who is using the quality standards and how they are being used.

The purpose of the survey (link below) is to find out what types of services you would like to see in an integrated service hub - a one-stop-shop for youth mental health services! Our survey will take about 25 minutes to complete and you will be entered into a draw for one of forty gift cards.