Background

Our team at the The Royal Ottawa Hospital are looking to support coordination between upstream initiatives and IYS across Canada.

This conference aims to strengthen the research bridge with community based activities on music and wellness.

About the Conference:

The conference will be articulated around four specific objectives.

(1)CONNECT: Participants will have the opportunity to create contacts in a convivial atmosphere by attending networking sessions and a fair where partners will present their activities to the public.

The Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health (CICMH) invites you to submit an abstract for the 2024 Virtual Conference! We’re seeking abstracts from stakeholders in post-secondary mental health who can share ideas and offer innovative solutions to campus mental health problems.

Are you a family member or close support of someone who used opioids during the COVID-19 pandemic? Are you interested in participating in research? You may be eligible to share your thoughts about how pandemic public health measures impacted people who use opioids!

For more information and contact details, please see the attached flyer.

The ideal and ongoing efforts to move government policy towards the principles of Basic Income to address poverty and the social determinants of health will be refocusing here in Ottawa on how to further advance, what many of us believe would be a significant shift with its focus on a whole population approach.

Good morning,

The Grey Bruce Community Drug and Alcohol Strategy is looking for examples of survey questions/tools used to collect feedback from community members (i.e., partner agencies, the public, people with lived experience) on local priorities for drug strategies to focus on. Please share any survey tools you have used in the past and/or any lessons learned about the process here or email me at k.mighton@publichealthgreybruce.on.ca.

Thank you,

Kelsey

March is National Social Work Month and it's also Social Work Week in Ontario!To encourage professional development for social workers, psychotherapists, counsellors, and beyond, SickKids CCMH Learning Institute is pleased to offer a 20% discount on select programs.Use the 20% discount code NSWM20 from March 6 to 15, 2024 towards the eligible programs below!

Adele Bodson is the Interim Quality and Education Lead for Addiction Services at Health Sciences North (HSN) in Sudbury, Ontario. As of May 2023, HSN has been putting together an application for a supervised consumption site.

The Housing First approach starts with providing homes to chronically unhoused people, but it doesn’t stop there — and that’s what makes it so effective.

In this podcast by the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, Dr. Tim Aubry shares findings from a major Housing First study and the keys to a successful program.

Housing First is a housing intervention for people with serious mental illness who have experienced long-term homelessness. This approach is backed by decades worth research in the United States, Canada, and Europe. It has been identified as a preferred housing intervention in national, state, or provincial housing policy in the United States and Canada, and increasingly across Europe as well.