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Help us create and design the new CAMH recovery college!
We are looking for people with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use challenges from these groups:
• youth (aged 16 to 29)
• women
• newcomers
• people who have experienced or are currently experiencing addiction
• people who have experienced or are currently experiencing racism.
Do you have questions regarding your work and the mental health of newcomers?
We want to answer them.
The North American Refugee Health Conference (NARHC) is the largest refugee health conference of its kind globally, and offers access to recent research, best practices in refugee health, and a great opportunity for networking. The 2019 conference will be held in Toronto from June 14-16, organized by the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
This year’s conference will focus on the Rohingya crisis, Trauma and Resiliency.
Speakers include:
Enregistrez-vous pour le cours en ligne sur la santé mentale des immigrants et des réfugiés offert par CAMH, débutant le 29 Avril.
Angela -
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--
Does your work involve advancing problem gambling awareness and/or counseling programs for immigrants, refugees and ethnocultural communities in Ontario? If so, we are pleased to invite you to apply for a new grant opportunity for the 2019-2020 fiscal year. Four grants will be awarded for a total of $15k each.
Click here for more information about this exciting grant and how to apply.
Early bird rate closes Friday March 15th.
This year’s Forum focus is “bringing together clinicians and community partners to reduce harms from gambling and gaming”.
However, we still have a few spaces for the webinar version of this training for only $100!
Angela -
The Building Trust project aimed to understand the process of gaining access to dementia-related information, diagnosis, care and psychosocial supports by Punjabi- and Korean-speaking older adults with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias and their informal caregivers living in the Fraser Health region of British Columbia, Canada.
Refugees are vulnerable to mental health problems, though not all refugees experience them. The rates of mental health problems and illnesses vary considerably between and within different groups. These variations reflect differences in exposure to, and effects of, risk factors on specific refugee populations and groups within these populations.
Does your work involve advancing problem gambling awareness and/or counseling programs for immigrants, refugees and ethnocultural communities in Ontario? If so, we are pleased to invite you to apply for a new grant opportunity for the 2019-2020 fiscal year. Four grants will be awarded for a total of $15k each.
Click here for more information about this exciting grant and how to apply.
Deadline to apply is March 29, 2019.
The Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Project presents:
Use of the emergency department as a first point of contact for mental health care by immigrant youth in Canada with Dr. Natasha Saunders.
Angela -
Hi everyone,
I work at Lifeline Syria, an organization that processes applications for Syrian refugees to come to Canada.
Please feel free to share any mental health resources or services that are available to Syrian newcomers in Toronto. As you can imagine, the mental health needs of Syrian newcomers are high, as they are coming from conflict zones.
Thanks in advance!
Angela -
The Refugee Mental Health course is accepting registrations for the 2014-15 year. Developed by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, this 4-week, online course is designed to help build service providers’ knowledge and skills regarding refugee mental health issues.
Course topics include mental health problems affecting refugees; the unique needs of refugee women, children, seniors and victims of torture; treatment issues and considerations; and refugee mental health promotion. There is a course each designed for these groups of professionals:
