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Sexual Violence, Mental Health Raised During Campus Tour

January 21, 2015

Preventing sexual violence on campus and improving mental health services for postsecondary students were among the main issues students raised with Premier Kathleen Wynne during her tour of Ontario colleges...

Georgian College gets new support for students with mental health issues

January 21, 2015

The province of Ontario is giving a substantial donation to Georgian College to create new support for students with mental health issues. The Ontario government invests more than $9 million...

Driving change for accessing mental health services in York Region

January 19, 2015

The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), York Region and South Simcoe Branch has developed a new approach to addressing youth mental health. The branch announced Ontario’s first mobile mental health...

Landmark court ruling implements changes to Mental Health Act

January 19, 2015

The Mental Health Act (MHA) legislation dates back to 1990 and allows individuals with mental health issues, who are at risk of causing harm to themselves or others, to be...

CMHA branches collaborate on innovative crisis response

January 19, 2015

Although crime rates continue to decrease across Ontario, there are still vulnerable individuals at risk of becoming involved with the justice system, becoming a victim or suffering from a relapse....

Mental Health Awareness & More Feet on the Ground

January 19, 2015

Student Blogs: I hope the you have all settled into the new semester and are ready to crush it! This will be my last semester as an undergraduate student and...

Province invests $310,000 to help Aboriginal students adapt to Trent and Fleming

January 19, 2015

Ontario is investing $310,915.00 over two years in the Summer Aboriginal Student Transition Program. ($123,405 in 2015-16 and $187,510 in 2016-17) • This support for post-secondary students is part of...

Mental illness initiatives healthy at Queen’s

January 19, 2015

As the conversation around mental illness and stigma continues, Queen’s is part of two initiatives designed to help identify sufferers of and combat stigma around mental illness. In early December,...

Mental Health Support for Postsecondary Students: Projects

January 19, 2015

Ontario is investing $9 million annually to provide new services and supports to postsecondary students at Ontario’s colleges and universities, including up to $6 million each year for the Mental...

Treating Ontario's Mental Health - The Agenda

January 12, 2015

Four years ago, the Ontario government set out to overhaul a mental health care system which was failing the population it served. The first phase was to tend to the...
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