Limitations

While this environmental scan may provide examples of exemplary mental health-related programs and practices on Canadian post-secondary campuses, some limitations have been identified which constrain the scan’s usefulness in evaluating strengths and gaps in practice. One major limitation of this scan was the fact that emerging practices were collected from post-secondary institutions’ websites, which may not be up to date with mental health programming, potentially providing information on programs that no longer exist or not providing information on new programs or practices. Furthermore, every institution’s website was navigated differently, with different departments and different web pages, and it is, therefore, possible that some programs listed on the websites were missed. Consequently, the collection of emerging practices in this environmental scan does not represent an exhaustive list, and some programs may exist that have not been captured here.

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