3. Environmental Structural Social Determinants of Health

Advancing health equity in organizations and systems using frameworks as a tool 

February 11, 2025 | 11:30 – 1:00 pm ET | English 
National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health 

La stigmatisation nous affecte tous, mais elle peut être particulièrement dommageable pour ceux aux prises avec des enjeux de santé mental

Interested in learning more about peer support for youth and young adults? Want to learn more about how peer support can be a part of the recovery journey for folks with mental health challenges? 

Check out this new report released by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC): Inequalities in Mental Health, Well-being and Wellness: Social Determinants and Changes Over Time (https://health-infobase.canada.ca/mental-health/inequalities/report.html).

How can public health promote decent work as a social determinant of health? 
August 8, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET | English 

"Precarious employment and hazardous work are pressing sources of health inequity in Canada.” Join the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) for this practice-based webinar, where we will focus on how the Canadian public health community can promote decent work to advance health equity.  

Speakers: 

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.

One in five Canadians experiences a mental health problem in a given year.  This five-module, self-directed online course explores basic concepts of mental health and mental illness.  We look at the prevalence of mental health problems in Canada, the risk and protective factors that influence mental health, and the links between mental health and the social determinants of health.  We explore the importance of creating a safe space for clients and developing a positive therapeutic relationship.  We also describe the various treatments for mental health challenges-includi

The Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa,  https://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/ hosted by CBC's Catherine Cullen gather's leaders and decision makers in conversation to explore how...

The 3rd Annual Canadian Children, Youth and Communities (CCYC)
Health In | Equity Conference

October 20-21, 2023 — Digital Conference

The Canadian Children, Youth and Coes (CCYC) In | Equity Conference is an interdisciplinary conference designed to bring together pediatric health and allied health care professionals to address health care inequities from birth to adolescence using a family-centred approach.

The Mental Health Commission of Canada is holding public consultations on a proposed approach to promote more equitable access and outcomes in mental health policy and programs. The IDEALSS framework integrates intersectionality, decolonization, health equity, anti-racism, lived and living experience, social determinants and sex- and gender-based analysis models.

While it’s absurd that we have been reduced to have to advocate for fair provincial housing allocations to address homelessness in Ottawa, let’s join with the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa campaign and their efforts to mobilize the community.

As Dusko Miljevic, social worker with the Mood and Anxiety program at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre said to a small group of us discussing the situation recently, “there is no recovery without housing.”

Cormac Russell https://www.nurturedevelopment...-are/cormac-russell/ in “Does more medicine make us sicker? Ivan Illich revisited” helps us to refocus on our efforts to improve individual care and advance system and social change through our organizations and institutions as the drivers of change. For me the practices of implementation science, has greatly brought needed light, tools and analysis to pulling organizations towards practice change.

A literature review by Nasra Hussein along with a range of presentations on practices provides a downstream view to developing a community and neighbourhood approach to mental health crisis’ in Ottawa.

This interview with Dr. Kwame McKenzie of the Wellesley Institute, https://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/ sharpens the future plan for mental health system reform. Good medicine, a balm, for those of us who experienced a languishing of our mental health system before, Covid as well.

Take 45 minutes to pause and think about our systems of care with the talk’s sharp focus on the intervention itself.  The discussion got me thinking of: the recovery model; our categories of who fits into what program of care; mental health care’s forms of intervention; and what ever happened to the Mental Health Commission’s Recommendations and its whole system, whole country recommendations guide?

While food is recognized as being critical for our survival, it is less frequently considered in the context of security, power, and sovereignty. In youth work that is intentional about incorporating an anti-oppressive lens, food cannot be forgotten.

This engaging 3-hour online workshop will be segmented into three parts, including an opening presentation, a panel, and an interactive discussion. As we examine the Transformational Power of Food Security & Sovereignty for BIPOC communities, we aim to:

Social Worker Martin Webber from the United Kingdom: "On World Mental Health Day here is an opportunity to reflect on the importance of social connections for our mental health. "