News & Announcements
Student mental health: the situation is more nuanced than it seems
October 22, 2014
There has been much publicity and concern about student mental health in recent months. This partly reflects the rise in students accessing university welfare support and counselling services, with most services experiencing...
“I Will Listen”: How Social Media Can Diminish the Stigma of Mental Illness
October 22, 2014
One in four people will suffer from mental illness at some point in their lifetimes, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Yet often these individuals conceal their difficulties...
Mental Health Coalition Launch
October 17, 2014
A thousand people attended an event organized by new group helping people fight mental illness Click here to watch the video
Mental illness: How do I find treatment, and what happens next?
October 17, 2014
To accompany the personal stories of Canadians with mental illness, we spoke with Dr. Donna Ferguson, a psychologist in the Work, Stress and Health program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, about how to...
Mental illness: Your Stories
October 17, 2014
We asked for your stories on dealing with mental illness, and you responded – with touching, harrowing, hopeful personal recollections. Some of these are excerpted below, taken from a combination of email...
Students Supportive of Ontario's Investment in Campus Mental Health
October 15, 2014
The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) is supportive of today’s announcement by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities of $12 million for two additional years of funding for the Mental Health...
Bell Let's Talk donates $1 million
October 8, 2014
MONTRÉAL, Oct. 7, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ – Bell Let’s Talk today announced contributions totalling $1 million to support student mental health programs at McGill University and Université de Montréal. The Bell Let’s Talk funding of $500,000 for each...
Mental Illness Awareness Week
October 3, 2014
MIAW 2014 is October 5th-11th Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) is an annual national public education campaign designed to help open the eyes of Canadians to the reality of mental...
Student Debt Does not Equal Mental Illness
October 1, 2014
Financial stress isn’t a mental illness, it’s a fact of life—and it masks the bigger issue at play Click here to read the full article
'Flourishing' mental health enjoyed by 77% of Canadians
September 18, 2014
About 10 per cent of Canadians aged 15 or older, or nearly three million people, said they had at least one mental or substance-use disorder in the past year, according...