YouthREX has partnered with Strides Toronto and Central Toronto Youth Services on a new online certificate that can support Ontario’s youth sector with this important work.

Centering Black Youth Wellbeing: A Certificate on Combatting Anti-Black Racism will provide the Ontario youth sector with the foundational knowledge to cultivate practices, policies and alliances that challenge, disrupt and combat systematic anti-Black racism.

What is this research about?

Canada is one of the most ethnically diverse countries with Black people representing the third-largest population of racialized people in Canada. Research shows that Black children and youth in Canada experience more challenges to accessing mental healthcare. Evidence also shows that Black youth who do not access treatment are likely to face difficulty in school, family conflict and increased contact with the justice system. This review looks at literature on the barriers and facilitators to mental healthcare for Black youth in Canada.

CBT for Psychosis (CBT-p) Informed Workshop for Family Caregivers

Racial justice is important to the health and housing sectors. Research has shown troubling over-representation of Black and Indigenous populations in homelessness.

This webinar will examine ways to appropriately serve racialized populations by highlighting:

The University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine is hosting the 2020 Indigenous Health Conference (IHC). The focus for this year’s conference is the future and how we can cultivate the youth as tomorrow’s leaders and agents of change. Topics will include youth leadership, suicide prevention, impact of colonization, murdered and missing Indigenous women, determinants of health, Indigenous ways of knowing.

This list contains CAMH librarian-curated information on the intersection of racism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Resources include community leader statements, reports, bulletins, news items, podcasts, reading lists, webinars, and more.

The following resources on Racism and Mental Health were originally prepared for ECHO Ontario Mental Health, then supplemented by the CAMH library. This list contains librarian-curated information on various topics from allyship to racial microagression, mental health care, impact of racism on mental health, and referrals to social services and organizations in Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area. 

Please add resources you know of in the comments section.

Leading the way in mental health training and education 

Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Racialized Young People

Join the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies for a Zoom Town Hall “Rising up During COVID-19: Solidarity, Anti-Black Racism and Health” on Wednesday, July 15, for a discussion that will contribute to an ongoing collective conversation on the convergence of multiple crises, including COVID-19, race and health impacts, police brutality and the most recent global uprisings.

Welcome to the new Friday night gathering of CHECK-IN & CHAT where we delightfully meet, share space and learn from one another.

CHECK-IN & CHAT is an Exclusively Black & Racialized space designed for free and open discussion about the impact of Systemic Racism and to collaboratively build a new Self-Care Toolkit specific to this season of COVID, Protests and Civil Unrest.

This coming Friday June 26^th, and subsequent 4^th Friday’s of every month, the CHECK-IN & CHAT Session will be inclusive of Allies & Advocates.  

Join an online conference on June 23, 2020 at 11:00 AM (EDT).

Register now!

The Smithsonian's African American History Museum recently launched the free online educational resource, Talking About Race. It's for a range of audiences, including educators, parents, and concerned individuals, and teaches about race and racism and how to discuss them in various contexts.

Racial discrimination is known to be linked to stress and to various health conditions in people from First Nations communities. Resiliency—or the ability to bounce back from adversity—has been shown to play an important role in a person’s ability to cope with stress.

Ontario researchers conducted a study to find out if Aboriginal cultural resilience—or resilience that is based on traditional language, ceremonial activities, and the environment—would decrease stress associated with racial discrimination in people from First Nations communities.

For a glimpse of Canada’s planning and governance in play for Indigenous Peoples – useful right now to take a look at this half hour documentary by the NFB in 1956 – and consider how policy development echoes and more to the point rings out to us today.

Traumatic Stress, Trauma-Informed Care and Clinician Wellbeing

Harry Zeit MD currently works full-time practicing trauma therapy and psychotherapy. He is certified in sensorimotor psychotherapy, completing the final level of training in 2013. Previously, he worked as an American board-certified emergency physician in Cambridge and Toronto, Ontario, between 1983 and 2005.

The School of Health Policy & Management, the Indigenous Council, and the Faculty of Health in conjunction with Ryerson University are honoured to present Dr. Barry Lavallee as part of the 2019-2020 Indigenous Lecture Series on Indigenous Health and Decolonisation. 

Over recent years in the context of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples be it indicated  by acknowledgements at the get go of meetings or announcements of policy’s and initiatives, there has remained a sense for me we are not going about reform and change very well.  Mary McPherson’s drawing “Reconcile What?” helped to wake me up.