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HCA 2020 Wellness Summit: Summary and Resources
The HCA 2020 Wellness Summit took place on June 23, 2020 in an online format, with Pre-Summit Webinars on June 16 and June 18, 2020. Thank you to all who joined us for this experience in learning and collaboration. Click here to view the Community Report. This summit’s theme, Moving Upstream, sought to highlight the...
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Tools for Holistic Mental Health Approaches
This toolkit is an introduction to systemic and comprehensive approaches to a mentally healthy campus and community strategy. It has been developed to support the policy-mandated collaboration of the Alberta post-secondary student mental health strategy. Achieving the intended outcomes of this strategy requires post-secondary institutions, student leaders, healthcare organizations and...
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Tools for Promoting Dialogue
Dialogue is an important part of talking in communities about complex health issues. They provide opportunities for upstream solutions using health promotion and prevention tools. We hope you will consider using these resources to hold successful and respectful dialogues in your post-secondary communities. The following resources were originally developed for...
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Pre-Summit Webinar #2: Upstream Thinking in Challenging Landscapes
Webinars Date: June 18, 2020
The shift to upstream thinking presents new opportunities and challenges for post-secondary mental health. In this informal spin on a webinar, we shared a short presentation and facilitated conversation as we acknowledge these challenges and innovate new approaches as a community. We explored new perspectives, ideas, and capacities to help...
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Pre-Summit Webinar #1: Upstream 101
Webinars Date: June 16, 2020
Upstream approaches to mental health can enhance our community’s ability to flourish in times of uncertainty and change. This webinar featured in-depth exploration of the concepts of health promotion, prevention, and the social determinants of health, and how they apply in the context of post-secondary mental health and wellness. This...
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Transition Planning Guide – A Career and Education Planning Guide for Students with Disabilities
From Alberta Advanced Education “Intended Audience: Teachers/Counsellors, Parents, Youth Designed specifically for Grades 9 – 12 students with disabilities (including their parents or caregivers), this guide provides comprehensive information and strategies to help navigate the journey from high school to post-secondary education. This newly revised resource includes editable form fields...
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HCA 2020 Wellness Summit: Moving Upstream
Events Date: June 23, 2020
The HCA 2020 Wellness Summit took place on June 23, 2020 in an online format, with Pre-Summit Webinars on June 16 and June 18, 2020. Thank you to all who joined us for this experience in learning and collaboration. You can watch the keynote presentation, read summary notes from our discussions,...
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International Student Mental Health Support Toolkit for Program Planning
From the Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health “A toolkit designed to provide some considerations to assist in developing initiatives and supports to promote the mental health of international students from the Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health.”
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CASP Annual National Conference 2019: Réconciliation – Honouring the Other
Events Date: October 16 - 18, 2019
Hosted by the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (CASP) in Edmonton, AB. “The act of reconciliation represents why we invite our members, allies and communities to gather yearly: together we heal from the impact of suicide on our lives, together we establish new goals for preventing suicide, together we harmonize...
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Awo Taan Healing Lodge and RESOLVE Alberta presents “Calls to Action, Truth and Reconciliation”
Events Date: November 15, 2019
To submit an abstract, please visit www.ucalgary.ca/resolve/research-days/research-day-2019. The submission deadline is September 20, 2019. If you have any questions, please direct them to: [email protected]
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Stepped Care for Post-Secondary Campuses
From the Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health “This guide provides: An overview of mental health service delivery on campus and how Stepped Care can help with increasing demands for support; The various steps for implementation of Stepped Care 2.0 – an updated, more client-centric version of...
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MHCC Mental Health of Emerging Adults
From the Mental Health Commission of Canada The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) has provided many helpful resources, one of which is a Consensus Statement on the Mental Health of Emerging Adults. It includes 13 recommendations for service providers, policy makers and anyone else in a position to improve...
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