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UBC president who overcame mental health crisis determined to help Canadian students
"You just spiral." University of British Columbia president Santa J. Ono was afraid to speak out about his mental illness; now he’s a champion for mental health on campus. Ono appeared on CBC Radio's The Current. I always remember how I felt. I always remember being...
Effective stigma reduction interventions in the opioid crisis
A recent Mental Health Commission of Canada research report offers key recommendations and a new scale to help governments and organizations address opioid-related stigma and evaluate stigma-reduction interventions. The 18-month research project included a scoping...
Lack of addictions treatment for youth needs urgent fix
As British Columbia heads into the fifth year of a public health emergency due to the high number of opioid overdose deaths, Vancouver Island still doesn’t have a single residential-treatment for youth. Province-wide, the number of youth beds and services lag demand....
Supportive housing is essential for Shane’s ongoing recovery from mental illness
Serious mental illnesses include diagnoses that typically involve losing touch with reality or experiencing delusion (referred to as psychosis) or diagnoses requiring high levels of care, either of which may require hospital treatment. Two of the most common severe...
It’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week in Canada from February 1 to 7
Eating Disorders affect people of all genders, sexual orientations, ages, socioeconomic class, abilities, races, and ethnic backgrounds. That is why, from February 1st to 7th every year, Eating Disorder groups across Canada unite to commemorate Eating Disorder...