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.

Understanding and applying implementation science to your own work can be both rewarding and daunting. Most people want easy-to-follow guidance on how to use the best practices from implementation science to inform their own projects and work. 

Do you know about the Health Quality Ontario (HQO) quality standards related to opioid prescribing, opioid use disorder, and mental health? HQO wants to hear from you!

Quality standards outline for clinicians and patients what quality care looks like. They focus on conditions or topics where there are large variations across Ontario in how care is delivered. In some cases, there are large gaps between the care patients should receive and the care patients are actually getting—quality standards can help bridge these gaps.

Change is hard. Learning about implementation science can help.

Understanding and applying implementation science to your own work can be both rewarding and daunting. Most people want easy-to-follow guidance on how to use the best practices from implementation science to inform their own projects and work.

Join over 1500 professionals who enrolled when the course was first launched.