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Important Resources and Recommendations

Resources and recommendations around promising practices and approaches to campus-community connections to support student.

BEST PRACTICES & PROMISING PRACTICES

According to Public Health Agency of Canada, a Best Practice is defined as an intervention, program, service, or strategy that has, through multiple implementations, demonstrated

High Impact – positive changes related to the desired goal(s).
High Adaptability – successful adaptation and transferability to different settings.
High Quality of Evidence – excellent quality of research/evaluation methodology, confirming the intervention’s high impact and adaptability evidence.

When helping those dealing with mental health and addiction issues, it is important for staff to have an understanding of current best practices and promising practices. Although there is a broad spectrum of recommended practices, the following is an abbreviated list of those most generally used in Canada and Ontario:

Public Health Agencies of Canada

Health Canada

Best Practices Concurrent Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

Registered Nurses Association of Ontario

International Affairs and Best Practices Guidelines, Mental Health & Addictions

British Columbia Health Care

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

Culture Counts: Best Practices in Community Education in Mental Health and Addiction with Ethnoracial/Ethnocultural Communities

GENERAL

The following list of recommended resources will be of benefit for those looking for an array of general information from some of the leading Mental Health and Addiction organizations in Canada and Ontario:

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE CENTRES

The following is a list of Knowledge Exchange Centres that can provide connections in the mental health community. This can include research, reports, webinars, conferences and other website and social media channels:

RECOVERY

According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, recovery is the personal process that people with mental health conditions experience in gaining control, meaning and purpose in their lives. Recovery involves different things for different people. For some, recovery means the complete absence of the symptoms of mental illness. For others, recovery means living a full life in the community while learning to live with ongoing symptoms.

The following resources provide support and hope for campus staff helping individuals that are currently dealing with mental health conditions: