Last year, in collaboration with artists in our community, MICA collaborated with In the Wind Art Collective and the Creative Café to host an art market that brought together artists who share a passion for the arts with artists in our community who also live with mental illness. Everyone enjoyed the evening of art, music and poetry so much we decided to host a second Art Market this December.

The University of Ottawa Centre for Health Care Law, Policy and Ethics is working to open the dialogue on health care and practice change, which may well help us with system level change.  One effort is to have open presentations that bridge and explain the dynamics between our laws, policy and practice, shared and recorded via virtual presentations.

Good to revisit feminism and masculinity.  This article stirs up the fog and nudges the pall.

Kneo Mokgopa https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/kneomokgopa/ aims for dialogue, but I’m unsure how that’s going to go, but worth a try.

This article in https://policyoptions.irpp.org/ by Michael Orsini Professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and the School of Political Studies helped me as a clinician taking the strength’s approach to step beyond the theory of client’s individual resilience into a broader, systems view on how to approach interventions.   It’s the eternal challenge, of how to integrate the: micro, mezzo, ma

We've revived an old EENet Connect feature: Regular interviews with different people doing interesting work in Ontario's mental health and addiction system!

This month's 'A Day in the Life of...' features Narrandes, a Knowledge Translation Specialist at CAMH.  Read our interview with Renira below...

Hi all:

We received an interesting question from the Frayme network that I would love your input on:

With the pivot to online services from in-person, there has been a need to address policies and protocols for identifying immediate risk and keeping youth safe during the virtual intake and clinical screening process.What crisis response policies do services have in place to address a situation where a youth indicates thoughts of self-harm/suicidal ideation via text/email in advance of an appointment and particularly outside of business hours?

A report titled Gambling and Gaming During COVID-19: Prevalence, Implications and Strategies to Stay Safe provides an overview of the impacts of COVID-19 on the gambling and video gaming sectors.

The report shows more individuals are participating in online gambling despite the closure of physical gambling spaces. It also shows an increase in the amount of time spent and the number of people playing video games.

Mental Health has a broad and socially woven meaning depending upon where you sit.  I work with people who have needed extended support to address and manage the disability of a mental illness. These are people who in their personal history need the most intensive levels of support from hospitals or community-based levels of mental health care.

World Alzheimer’s Day takes place every year on the 21st of September. It is an international campaign that aims to raise awareness and highlight challenges faced by people affected by dementia.

Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that affects a person’s memory, thinking and behaviour. Alzheimer-related dementia can be severe enough that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities.

Every year suicide claims the lives of 800,000 people worldwide -- 4,000 of whom are in Canada. Though this is a difficult topic for many, there is work we can do to change this.  

For instance, today CAMH launched a new campaign: Not suicide. Not today. Check out the campaign video here.