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Events Date: June 17 - 18, 2025 / 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Registration for the 2025 Wellness Summit has now closed. We look forward to seeing you at future HCA events! The Wellness Summit serves as an annual gathering for the HCA Community of Practice, providing an opportunity to come together, learn, share, and celebrate efforts across the province to strengthen post-secondary...
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A place we can share resources so we can help groups of students as quickly as possible without having to develop a group which may already exist. Join or Log in to the Community Hub to be a part of the conversation!
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A place for students in Alberta’s post-secondaries to support one another, ask questions, and share successes. Join or Log in to the Community Hub to be a part of the conversation!
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This group is intended to provide a forum for questions, discussion, and the sharing of resources pertaining to the 2019 spring NCHA survey. Please use this space to post your questions and/or lessons learned. Institutions who have previously participated in the survey are encouraged to post samples and templates of...
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An opportunity for trainers and implementers of The Inquiring Mind program to share ideas and questions. Join or Log in to the Community Hub to be a part of the conversation!
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A place for HCA members to come together and discuss a pre-defined mental health topics. Join or Log in to the Community Hub to be a part of the conversation!
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Are you passionate about mindfulness? Do want to learn more about mindfulness? This group is designed to be a hub for the sharing of resources, opportunities and mindfulness moments with the Healthy Campus Alberta community. To get this group up and going, Allan Donsky is going to begin the facilitation...
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This group is designed to connect campuses with the resources of the Centre for Suicide Prevention. Sign up or Log in to the Community Hub to ask questions and check out the resources available to campuses.
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Shared by Canadian Mental Health Alberta division and Centre for Suicide Prevention This peer-reviewed toolkit created by the Centre for Suicide Prevention includes information on unique stressors transgender people face, respectful language to use when speaking about gender diversity, risk factors to suicide and suicide risk warning signs. It also...
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The Student Mental Health Network is a free, universally-accessible source for mental health promotion resources and tools targeted specifically to post-secondary students across Canada. The website is built on three pillars: Learn, connect and access. It offers a digital shop for mental health education, tools, and resources curated for post-secondary...
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Shared by CMHA National The Campus Peer Support training and resources was originally developed by CMHA National for a three-year pilot program beginning in 2021 and is now available for free to post-secondary institutions. The curriculum, materials, and resources can be adapted to the needs of each campus —whether launching...
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Shared by the Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health (CICMH) The purpose of this toolkit is to provide information on harm reduction strategies and practices useful in post-secondary settings to support campus peer support, staff, faculty, and administrators. This toolkit includes education around risk factors and barriers to accessing...
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The Calgary Regional Gathering was held on January 30, 2025, at Bow Valley College in Calgary. The event was attended by 39 participants from 6 Alberta campuses and 4 community organizations. In addition to sharing several of their recent successes in the area of mental health and wellbeing, the HCA...
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The Edmonton Regional Gathering was held on November 22, 2024, at the King’s University in Edmonton. The meeting was attended by 25 participants from 7 Alberta campuses and 4 community organizations. In addition to sharing several of their recent successes in the area of mental health and wellbeing, the HCA...
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Shared by Workplace Strategies for Mental Health Examine strategies for assisting post-secondary students in developing more resilience and to lessen the negative impacts of stress. These tools may assist students in learning and adopting constructive methods of coping. The Post-secondary Student Resilience resource includes the PDF From Surviving to Thriving:...
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Shared by CICMH This article examines the need to embed culturally inclusive services across Canadian campuses to address the specific challenges faced by international students including higher suicide ideations, levels of stress and challenges with connection. The argument about the importance of establishing cultural safety is presented, together with background...
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We are excited to announce three Regional Gatherings again for this academic year. These gatherings provide an opportunity to learn about HCA, impact future priorities of HCA, and connect for meaningful conversation with a diverse group of partners in campus mental health. What is the purpose of a...
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Shared by the Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health (CICMH) CICMH has pulled together a toolkit to provide you and your post-secondary institution with information to build an understanding of the different components of the Standard to support both your thinking about and implementation of the Standard within your...
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Shared by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) This resource highlights common barriers and enablers that institutions are experiencing in their work with the National Standard for Mental Health and Well-Being for Post-Secondary Students (the Standard), as heard in 2023.
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Shared by BP Net & The Public Health Agency of Canada The PHAC Indigenous cultural competency learning Road Map can be used as a planning tool for learning and aligning with indigenous-driven outcomes. Developing conditions that facilitate the restoration of institutional trust and learning more about the history of residential...
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