substance use

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02/04/2019

By Dane Griffiths

The webinar will highlight findings of the 2017 CAMH Monitor survey, the longest ongoing study of adult mental health and substance use in Ontario. In the past year, there were significant increases in the number of adults who reported cannabis use, self-rated poor mental health, thoughts of suicide, as well as taking more frequent mental distress days.

The findings of the Monitor can help public health professionals, policy-makers, and other mental health and addictions professionals understand trends as a way to inform policy, programs and practice.

In this second part of an ongoing webinar series on integrated youth services (IYS), we’ll hear from leaders of three distinct IYS initiatives located across the globe: ACCESS Open Minds (pan-Canadian), YouthCan IMPACT (Toronto, Canada) and Choices for Youth (St. John’s, Canada). IYS initiatives generally provide a “one-stop-shop” for mental health, physical health, substance use and addictions, and a variety of other social services (e.g., education, vocational supports, and housing). 

I am involved in a process to expand capacity to authentically "meet people where they are at".  It originally started with attempting to build capacity for understanding and bridging substance use, harm reduction, housing first philosophy.