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.

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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.

Learn how to use our Cannabis and Mental Health resources with your community, including an online course created by Youth for Youth and the accompanying mentor guide with activities for educators, peer support, youth workers, parents, and youth allies.

The Mental Illness Caregivers Association https://www.micaontario.com/ planning discussion document is aimed to develop more effective approaches that both strengthen and maintain continuity of care and address future needs.  It is drawn from the perspective of family caregivers.  It resonates and benchmarks with ---the key components of the Recovery Model and the current Ministry of Health standards of community care provided by: Intensive Ca

The Centre for Innovation and Research in Aging (CIRA) is looking for research participants for their most recent research project, titled: Passive Aware for At-Home Informal Dementia Care. This project is funded by the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation. The goal of this project is to reduce feelings of stress and burden for caregivers and to enable individuals experiencing memory loss or dementia to more safely and comfortably live in their home and community.

We are seeking participants who meet the following criteria:

PEACE Psychotherapy is an association of independent private practice psychotherapists committed to teaching life changing DBT skills to some of the most challenging clients.