policy and strategy

Join us on October 24th, 2025 to learn how the STREAM Lab leverages an integrated knowledge translation approach when conducting rapid reviews, including examples of their work and reflections on lessons learned and next steps in supporting evidence-informed mental health policymaking.

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I am very excited to share the release of the 2024-25 Annual Report of the Minister’s Patient and Family Advisory Council (MPFAC): Modernization and Disruption: Driving Positive Change by Co-design. 

Innovation in Concurrent Disorders
Saturday, November 22, 2025
7:30am - 5:00pm ET
Vantage Venues, 150 King St. West, Toronto, ON M5H 1J9

Join this webinar to hear a presentation about the learnings and insights from the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s (MHCC) recent in-person workshop, Housing First—What’s Next? This workshop featured expert panels and interactive discussions and focused on advancing Housing First in Canada. The aim of the event was to generate policy, practice, and research recommendations.

Building on this webinar presentation, a panel of experts will discuss Housing First successes, challenges and opportunities in the Canadian context.

This webinar will explore CAMH’s Gambling Policy Framework, which advocates for a public health approach to problem gambling. The public health approach focuses on addressing the broader context gambling takes place in, with the goal of modifying environmental factors to reduce risk of gambling-related harms. We will contrast this approach with the responsible gambling model, which focuses on individual characteristics that increase risk and providing tools for safer gambling behaviors. 

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META:PHI is excited to announce that they are inviting abstract submissions for their 2025 conference! This year’s conference will again be entirely virtual, with two days of interactive learning for clinicians, community workers, administrators, researchers, learners, community members, and advocates. The theme of this year’s conference is Substance use health is community health.

Join the Waypoint Research Institute for the third and final session of our Waypoint Talks Coercive Control series, supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This session will be hosted by Dr. TK Logan, a Professor in the Department of Behavioural Science at the University of Kentucky, and will explore what stalking is, why it matters, and a tool that has been developed to help those being stalked. A certificate of attendance will be provided to participants upon request following the session.

Join the Waypoint Research Institute for the second session of our Waypoint Talks Coercive Control series, supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This session will be hosted by Dr.

Join the Waypoint Research Institute for the first session of our Waypoint Talks Coercive Control series, supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This session will be hosted by Dr. Amanda Robinson, Professor of Criminology from Cardiff University, and will explore how the criminalization of coercive control in the UK has impacted policy, practice, and service delivery. A certificate of attendance will be provided to participants upon request following the session. 

This research project follows up on the work of Fiona Jager https://www.stlawrencecollege.ca/programs/school-of-baccalaureate-nursing-faculty-profiles on Community Treatment Orders -CTO’s, where she examined the experience of CTO’s from an on the ground perspective.  

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On May 22 from 5:00-6:00 a.m. EDT, join a webinar on ‘Older People and Health Issues – What Are the Benefits and the Challenges of Housing First Programmes?’.

Juha Kahila, chair of the Housing First Europe Hub Community of Practice for Housing First managers and Head of International Affairs at Y-Säätiö, moderates this webinar.

During this engaging session:

The creator of the Housing First Model, Sam Tsemberis, has been named as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2024.

I wanted to share this information video on the use of fentanyl strips. I find the information very helpful especially when educating clients. Thought someone else find it useful! Link is below

https://vimeo.com/923320008

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