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WEBINARS

Participez au lancement d'un nouveau réseau provincial pour fournisseurs de services en santé mentale et en lutte contre les dépendances de langue française, qui se pose comme une principale source d’informations provenant des groupes et organismes francophones.
Are you a Housing First practitioner? Find out what you can do to create affordable housing through a collective approach―improving how you work with your city, and with other resources and levels of government. This webinar will include success stories from across Ontario and strategies you can use in your work.
Are you a mental health and addiction professional who is new to the field of gambling? Register today for this online course to learn what harmful video-game play can look like, motives that are linked to harmful play, the role of flow and mood, and how to use this information in clinical settings.
There is increasing interest in the use of cannabis as a treatment for dementia, particularly agitation. Attend this webinar to learn about agitation, the limitations of current treatments, the rationale for using cannabis, and the research on the use of THC and related compounds for agitation.

COURSES

This online course for mental health and addiction service providers will teach you fundamental gambling concepts, risk factors for problem gambling, screening tools, and how to use cognitive behaviour therapy and motivational interviewing when working with clients with gambling problems.
Sign up for this online course for health and social service providers to learn what problem technology use is, focusing ways to identify it, associated risk and protective factors, screening and assessment tools you can use, and emerging treatment methods and planning strategies for problem gaming and social media use.

RESOURCES

Read our latest review of the evidence to learn how agencies, service sectors, and citizens are using collaboration to address complex community health issues. Among the topics covered will be the different types of collaborations as well as common features that make them effective and sustainable.
Read this report to learn about the results of consultations that examined ways to improve transitions in early psychosis intervention (EPI) care―including leaving, transferring, or re-entering programs―which are consistently being identified as challenges for EPI programs across Ontario. 
Do you know about the Health Quality Ontario (HQO) quality standards related to opioid prescribing, opioid use disorder, and mental health? Take 15 minutes to fill out their brief survey to let them know who is using the quality standards and how they are being used.
Melanie partage un nouveau livre conçu par des chercheuses en psychologie à l'université Laurentienne. Ce livre a comme objectif d'augmenter la compréhension des émotions auprès des jeunes francophones et comprend neuf histoires qui mettent en évidence les particularités des expériences émotionnelles des petits et des grands.
Watch this video, called "The Art of Recovery - Through Another Lens" to see how a CMHA Toronto project  engaged youth with mental illness in a photovoice activity that used photojournalism to visually express their experiences, perspectives and thoughts around a certain topic or social issue.
Ontario’s Child and Youth Mental Health Lead Agency Consortium has developed quality standards for youth and family engagement. The aim is to have consistent, formalized, measurable youth and family engagement practices in Ontario. Take a look at the quality standards and share your feedback in a short, four-question survey!

CONFERENCES

Sign up for the Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care Conference to join others and hear the latest evidence on a variety of topics, such as the use of opioid agonist in pregnancy, laboratory perspectives on the use of fentanyl, and ethical dilemmas related to opioid agonist therapy.
Register for the Children's Mental Health Ontario conference in Toronto to connect with more than 700 delegates from across the infant, child, and youth mental health sector who are looking for ways to provide the best services for kids and families. 
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