racism

Mental Health Week (MHW) 2022

This year to recognize and honour Mental Health Week (MHW), SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute will be offering all children and youth programming during the week of May 2 – 8, 2022 with an automatic

Difficult Dialogues: Anti-Black Racism in Canada

April 19, 2022 @ 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. ET

Presented by: Marci Gray, MSW, RSW

This webinar aims to bring light to the individual, institutional and systemic nature of racism. This interactive and reflective session will allow learners to confront their own perspectives, become aware of unconscious biases and learn more about how racism exists and is perpetuated through our everyday interactions. Solutions for how to combat racism will be weaved throughout.

Anti-Asian Racism in Canada: Then and Now

March 15, 2022 @ 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. ET

Presented by: Kennes Lin, MSW, RSW

What you need to know

Systemic racism affects a wide variety of health outcomes. This includes the mental health of young people in Canada, spanning across access to care, experience of mental health services and outcomes of care. In Canada, there is no best practice framework that unifies research, education and clinical care for racialized youth. Coordinated efforts to collect race-based data are also lacking. In postgrad­uate medical education, a guide does not exist on how to implement anti-racism teaching and training relevant to child mental health in Canada.

Difficult Dialogues

February 22, 2022 @ 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. ET

Presented by: Marci Gray, MSW, RSW, PhD(c)

This webinar aims to bring light to the individual, institutional and systemic nature of racism. This interactive and reflective session will allow learners to confront their own perspectives, become aware of unconscious biases and learn more about how racism exists and is perpetuated through our everyday interactions. Solutions for how to combat racism will be weaved throughout.

Learning Objectives:

The Strength in Structure Project, through the Canadian Council for Youth Prosperity (CCYP) would like to invite Black led & Black serving organizations that are based in and around Ontario, Alberta and Nova Scotia to take part in a focus group!

Interested? To participate in one of these focus groups, please complete the following step:

Please register to participate in a focus group via the links below:

The National Safer Supply Community of Practice is hosting a virtual event today, October 7th, from 12 to 1:30 pm.

Speaker: Dr. Nanky Rai

Register for this virtual event.

"Resistance is in our DNA” - Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Social Work Practice

Thursday, October 21, 2021 | 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. ET

This workshop will examine what anti-Black racism is and how to address it in our everyday social work practice. We will also learn how critical reflective practice can help us operationalize anti-Black racism theory into our everyday social work practice, at all levels, and in all roles. The workshop will be reflective and interactive.

The Strength in Structure Project, through the Canadian Council for Youth Prosperity (CCYP) would like to invite Black serving and Black led organizations that are based in and around Nova Scotia to take part in a focus group!

Time: Thursday September 16th, 2021 from 2pm to 4pm EST The focus group should last no longer than one and a half hours to two hours.

A one-hour, educational session that examines the mental health and well-being challenges Black Canadians face: Understanding and addressing anti-Black racism in all forms is an essential competency. However, in order for these efforts to be effective, there must be a foundational level of knowledge about what anti-Black racism is and the many factors that contribute to racialized outcomes.

Participants will:

"Decades of research has found that racialized citizens are diagnosed with [schizophrenia] at far higher rates – and the single biggest risk factor is having darker skin than most of their neighbours."

Read The Globe and Mail article here.

💕💕 WE NEED TO TALK 💕💕

💕 A By Black People 💕 For Black People 💕 About Black People Event 💕

Join us for the Fifth Episode of the Black Mental Health Series - INTERNALIZED RACISM: A closed-door discussion about deeply rooted, intergenerational issues & patterns of behaviour that often negatively impact Black Mental Health.

Management training: How to identify and address anti-Black racism in your organization

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute as part of our Summer Sprints Microlearning Series.

Live webinar: July 19, 2021 | Time: 9 a.m. to noon EST

Facilitator: Janelle Campbell, MSW, RSW

Anti-Black racism: What mental health workers need to know in order to work with the Black community in clinical/organizational practice

Presented by SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute

July 8, 2021 | 9 a.m. to noon EST

May 19 2021

Our apologies: the presentation scheduled for 12:00 - 1:30 has been cancelled

Please join us at 1:30-2:30 PM

2021 Ontario Psychiatric Association Expert Series: IMPROVING INEQUITIES IN CARE

Session I: Transcending Barriers: Improving Access to Care for Trans-Identified Individuals

Monday, May 31, 2021 – 7:45 pm - 9:30 pm EST

Dr. Albina Veltman (McMaster)

Session II: Opportunities for Antiracism Advocacy in Mental Health Policy & Practice

Monday, June 14, 2021 – 7:45 pm - 9:30 pm EST

Dr. Jessica Isom (Yale)

Sign up for 1 session or both!