Ontario's commitment to students on #WorldMentalHealthDay

Emma Firsten-Kaufman - EENet Super Ninja

in Bulletin board | Oct 10, 2019 @ 6:53 am

Today in Toronto, on World Mental Health Day, Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced that the provincial government will be investing nearly $40 million dollars to advance student mental health and permanently funding approximately 180 frontline mental health workers in secondary schools.

Those who are interested in learning more can read the press release or watch the live announcement.

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World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilizing efforts in support of mental health.

World Mental Health Day is organized by the World Federation for Mental Health. This year’s Day is focused on suicide prevention, and is supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Association for Suicide Prevention, and United for Global Mental Health.

Click here for a series of WHO-created resources to help emergency workers, health workers, teachers, journalists, people working in the justice system, and employers help prevent suicide.

What are you doing for #WorldMentalHealthDay?

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Jenny - EENet Super Ninja

What are you doing for #WorldMentalHealthDay?

To celebrate the progress made in mental health and suicide prevention, a few days ago, I inquired statistics on 'relation of suicide and workplace harassment' to do some writing.

The reply I received is quoted here: 'One cannot assume direct causality with bullying and suicide. Suicide is a multi-causal phenomenon and bullying cannot be isolated as a cause. As such, statistics for suicides due to work place bullying do not exist.'

I hope if some one from EENet with different information will comment on this net. Given contrarary victim experience, media report (2019/03/11 THE Fifth Estate 'Officer Down: Suicide and harassment...'), international researches (Norway and Australia ), and court cases, Canadian researchers should, to say the least, give harassment relating to suicide an 'evidence based' examination.

Oct 10, 2019 @ 8:03 am

Community

Great to see an announcement like this - there definitely needs to be more support in schools, including post-secondary. Check out this interesting piece "Canadian school counsellors are stretched thin - and it's our students that suffer"

Oct 10, 2019 @ 8:35 am