Psychotherapy Matters is a virtual collaborative care platform that helps to connect therapists and their clients to our network of psychiatrists. Registered therapists can request psychiatric consultations for clients who may benefit from a formal diagnosis and/or medical treatment. Psychiatrists provide consultations via secure teleconference to the patient with their therapist present. The psychiatrist may continue to be involved in the patient's care as a consultant for the patient's family doctor and the therapist.

Martin Webber’s aspirational vision for the aims of social work are founded from his years of leadership in helping to develop social work professional standards in mental health and practice based research, such as Connecting People Project to help guide recovery interventions.  He nudges social workers to focus our aims beyond promising but ultimately more limited approaches such as organizational co-design or co-production to deeper societal interactions and dynamics.

The Social Justice in Mental Health Research Lab at  Western University has released a report, "Bridging the Transition from Homeless to Housed: A Social Justice Framework to Guide the Practice of Occupational Therapists."

With the immediate shift for many of us out of our offices much less, the limits on our community and organizational based everyday work, these resources are meant to help us step back, reflect on our approach to work and then apply to practice.

Please share your own resources, ideas, stumbled upon, ICT resources, that help us in recovery practices.

This promising practice profiles two early psychosis intervention (EPI) programs in Ontario that have been using the EPION's primary care communication tool in their practice. Sharing their experiences and tips for using the tool, are:

Carlyn McNamara, Mental health & Addictions clinician, Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Cochrane-Timiskaming (CT)Adrian Comeau, Prevention and Early Intervention Program for Psychosis (PEPP) Case Manager and Shannel Butt, PEPP Coordinator & Student Placement Program, CMHA Elgin.

 

A useful article to guide system reorganization that advances the recovery model - where acute care systems meet rehabilitation systems.  This article which summarizes much of our talk of system change over recent years, will help put substance to new health group plans emerging here in Ontario,... I think, guess, ... hope.

Remediation of functioning - reinstating a sense of possibility

OPH along with over 10 community partners developed this video to help improve the mental health of culturally diverse populations who have recently moved to Canada. 

For more information, visit: http://www.ottawapublichealth....ew-to-Canada---New--

While not news for anyone working in the homelessness sector of support and care, Mitchell Katz bolsters at least my own courage and better still multi level community, government policy focus to shift the shelter focus of homelessness.

This article from Journal of Implementation Science helps to frame the infrastructure of implementing practice change, via a snapshot of the players and mezzo system in actual practice. 

I found it helps me as a front line worker think about my own efforts at practice change can be understood--- my place in the dynamic and how I could be more strategic in seeking and giving advice.

From District Health Councils to the LHIN's our decades struggles on how to manage health governance continues.  The 10 minute discussion on CBC is worth a listen.

 

Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan