Specific Groups and Populations
A series of web-based, interactive videos for CF families who may be living with someone who has an Operational Stress Injury (OSI).
With both a video for teens, and a separate for spouses, the videos provide real life solutions for spouses and teens coping with a difficult situation.
Military Family Services and the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada).
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Movies and videos
This manual has been written for people who want to develop and implement suicide prevention programs. The authors have done their best to present this information in a positive, culturally respectful and straightforward way. Take what you can, modify it so it is more likely to work for you. It is important to note that this manual is only able to focus on the first important stage of addressing the suicide problem: prevention. It is hoped that future manuals might address later stages such as crisis management, treatment, and postvention.
Centre for Suicide Prevention
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
A guide providing information, ideas and resources to siblings of young people with psychosis, guided by the reflections and experiences of siblings themselves.
Canadian Mental Health Association
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
The website, afterdeployment.org, is an American site which is a Department of Defense response to the 2006/2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requiring an Internet-based platform focused on psychological health issues often experienced following a deployment.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
A self-care manual to help employees and businesses cope with depression and mood problems at work. People can use it to identify whether they are experiencing depression or depressed mood, and apply practical strategies to reduce effects on work satisfaction and performance.
BC Mental Health and Addiction Services (BCMHAS)
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Youth friendly website about anxiety.
Anxiety Canada
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
American, parent-led organization supporting families of attachment-disordered and traumatized children.
Services include:
* Training at adoption conferences
* On-line support communities
* Database of worldwide therapists and resources
Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
National organization promoting education about attachment issues. Website has information about child attachment, adult attachment, sections for professionals and parents, as well as events and conferences about attachment.
Attachment Association of Canada
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
The Attachment Network of Manitoba is a multi-organizational committee that is comprised of representatives from various sectors, including health, justice, education, and social services, who are interested in promoting and enhancing secure attachment across the life span.
Website features include:
* Blog
* Videos
* Events
* Information for parents
* Information for professionals
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
The Government of Ontario's Autism Parent Resource Kit can help you navigate the services, supports and programs that may be available to you.
Government of Ontario
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Best Start is Ontario's Maternal Newborn and Early Child Development Resource Centre. It is part of Health Nexus, a bilingual health promotion organization that works with diverse partners to build healthy, equitable and thriving communities.
Best Start Resource Centre supports service providers who work in preconception health, prenatal health and early child development.
Produces multi-media resources in multiple languages on a broad range of topics * Provide consultations, training and professional development for service providers.
Best Start Resource Centre
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Building Mentally Healthy Workplaces: Perspectives of Canadian Workers and Front-Line Managers provides a national perspective from working Canadians on their work environment and the degree to which it supports their mental well-being. The report highlights the workplace challenges faced by employees with mental health issues, and provides insight into how employers can best support these employees.
Conference Board of Canada
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
CADDAC is a national, not-for-profit, organization providing leadership and support in awareness, education and advocacy for ADHD organizations and individuals across Canada.
CADDAC (Centre for ADHD Awareness, Canada)
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
The Canadian Alliance for Monitoring Effectiveness and Safety of Antipsychotics in Children (CAMESA) guidelines provide parents and doctors with information about the side effects of antipsychotic drugs in children.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Website providing mental health information, sponsored sponsored by the Alberta Teachers' Association.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Clinical practice guidelines on Auditory Processing Disorder in Children and Adults.
Canadian Interorganizational Steering Group for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Practice guidelines
The Centre of Knowledge on Healthy Child Development has information on various disorders, behaviour problems, and life circumstances that can have a significant impact on children’s health and well-being.
Offord Centre for Child Studies
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
The Circle of Security is a relationship based early intervention program designed to enhance attachment security between parents and children. Decades of university-based research have confirmed that secure children exhibit increased empathy, greater self-esteem, better relationships with parents and peers, enhanced school readiness, and an increased capacity to handle emotions more effectively when compared with children who are not secure.
Cirlce of Security International
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Common Sense Media is an independent source of media recommendations and advice for families.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Self-help toolkit gives information on depression and offers skills to fight against depression.
BC Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD)
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Information for the causes and effects on teenage depression and strategies to cope with depression.
Center for Young Women's Health
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Youth-friendly website with information about the dangers of drugs, designed to empower youth so that they can make healthy decisions.
Health Canada
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Movies and videos, Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
The website of the Eating Disorders Association in Australia has information about eating disorders for parents and professionals.
Resources for professionals include "Eating Disorders: An Information Pack for General Practitioners".
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Practice guidelines, Websites including blogs, support forums
This is a guide for educators working with children and youth in military families.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Reference guide created for women who are dealing with violence or abuse and want to know about what their options are and what they can do.
YWCA
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Written for women dealing with violence or abuse in their personal lives, Fresh Start™ supports women as they assess their options by detailing the dynamics and likely consequences of domestic violence. This easy-to-use-and-understand reference guide helps to create a detailed safety plan, mapping out steps for women to achieve security, wellness and economic independence. Copies can be downloaded as a *.pdf file from the website, or hard copies can be ordered as well.
YWCA Canada
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
GenderCreativeKids.ca provides resources for supporting and affirming gender creative kids within their families, schools and communities.
By offering information and opportunities for connection between parents and caregivers, educators, health and social service providers, researchers, activists, and children and youth across Canada, we hope to contribute towards transforming our world into a safe, affirming, and joyful place for all children.
Gender Creative Kids Canada
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Practice guidelines, Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
Excellent website with information including videos about a variety of GI conditions.
North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
This website is for guys into guys (G2G) — gay, bisexual, queer, questioning, or men who have sex with men. It is a place for G2G to learn and build curiosity about the mental health issues affecting their communities and to help them locate mental health services in Ontario.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Le Guide pratique sur les droits en santé mentale a été conçu à l’intention des membres de la famille et de l’entourage des personnes ayant des problèmes de santé mentale, et vise principalement à les informer sur des questions d’ordre juridique et à répondre à leurs préoccupations à cet égard.
Le guide a été mis à jour en 2009 en fonction des modifications apportées à la Loi sur les services de santé et les services sociaux et s'inscrit en continuité des orientations du Plan d'action en santé mentale 2005-2010 – La force des liens en ce qui a trait à la promotion, au respect et à la protection des droits des utilisateurs de services de santé mentale.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Website that provides information about Men's Depression, along with strategies for managing and preventing depression.
University of British Columbia (UBC)
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Educational website with various videos about healthy infant and child development for expectant and new parents.
Videos include:
* Start Early
* Love Builds Brains
* Playing Builds Brains
* Health Builds Brains
* Baby's World Matters
Best Start
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Movies and videos, Websites including blogs, support forums
Information on effects of deployment on children and families, as well as resources to educational materials.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Information about OCD.
Quebec Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Iris the Dragon is a charity which creates educational material for adults and young readers to help facilitate a conversation between parents, teachers and children about issues relating to mental health and wellness. Materials are targetted for parents, teachers, educators as well as employee health.
Iris the Dragon (Charity)
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
Guide for children and youth with siblings with mental illness.
TeenMentalHealth.org
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
A tutorial that helps you explore possible stressors in your life, and provides suggestions of how to deal with them.
US National Library of Medicine: National Institutes of Health
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
Canada’s Centre for Digital and Media Literacy, that has advice for parents and professionals about how to digital media.
Funded by private corporations including Telus, CIRA, Bell, Facebook, Google, TekSavvy, Wattpad, Bell Media.
Media Smarts
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Series of booklets which are aimed at raising awareness about the issue of "Mental Health at Work... From defining to Solving the Problem". Intended for everyone who wants to understand the issue and to become better equipped to prevent it. This series comes in the form of a kit made up of three booklets on the scope (Booklet1), causes (Booklet 2), and prevention (Booklet 3) of the problem.
University of Laval
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Ottawa Public Health (OPH) has partnered with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), Military Family Services (MFS), and the Mental Illness Caregivers Association (MICA) to develop a national resource for Canadian caregivers of children, youth, adults, and older adults facing mental illness or experiencing mental health challenges.
Ottawa Public Health (OPH)
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
Information series on mental health in the workplace.
Mood Disorders Society of Canada
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Published by the Kitchener Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee, this booklet is an introductory guide to the criminal justice system. With special emphasis on the Region of Waterloo Mental Health Court, this publication is aimed at helping those with mental health issues who have been charged with a criminal offence as they navigate their way through the court process.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Online service to help you find the help you need for depression, anxiety, and other mental health and substance use conditions. This includes:
* Local support groups and health services within Vancouver, Richmond, and Coastal communities
* Online information pages and workbooks provided through BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information and other trusted BC sources
* Self-help or supported self-help programs such as the BC Canadian Mental Health Association’s Bounce Back® Online (available without a doctor’s referral)
* Valuable resources for friends and family members seeking information for their loved ones.
Vancouver Coastal Health/ Providence Health Care
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Mobile app, such as for iOS, Android, etc., Movies and videos, Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
Started in 2000, MindMasters is a program that gives adults who work with or live with children, short, proven activities to do with children to help them learn positive living skills.
Adults teach children all sorts of skills - tying their shoes, reading a book, riding a bike, cooking a meal. These practical skills help children to learn to manage the workd. There are other skills that children need to learn too. How to relax in a dentist's chair. How to channel feeling of anger so no one gets hurt. How to focus on a task to get it done. How to keep upbeat when life seems hard. We all need these skills to excel at living, to make the most of opportunities life offers to us. The program was created by Dr. Terry Orlick with the assistance of graduate students at the University of Ottawa and feedback from children, social workers, nurses, teachers and counsellors who have been doing the activities with children and evaluating their success for years.
These positive-living skills activities have been assembled in the Mindmasters program and are being made available through the Positive Living Skills for Children project. You will find that the activities are suitable in all sorts of settings, particularly with children aged 4 to 12. You will find the music that supports the teaching of positive-living skills here.
Child and Youth Health Network for Eastern Ontario
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
MISSION:Ready provides the information you need about available resources and support programs, directly in your hands. It will help you figure out which of the many programs and services offered by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces can best meet your needs. Whether you are a soldier, a civilian employee of the Canadian Army, or a member of a military family, MISSION:Ready can help you develop the strong foundation you need for success.
National Defence
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
The MMHRC provides resources to support culturally safe and competent mental health care for Canada's diverse population. The website has materials for both health professionals and the general public.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
MyHealth Magazine is a health and wellness program delivered through a series of interactive, online resources for young people (students.myhealthmagazine.net), educators (teachers.myhealthmagazine.net), and college students (college.myhealthmagazine.net).
Dr. Darcy Santor
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Excellent website with a wealth of information and materials about specific drugs (cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, etc.), as well as advice for parents on how to connect with their kids and keep them safe from drugs.
Health Canada
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Movies and videos, Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
The Nuna Journal Book is created by youth in Arviat, Nunavut with MindYourMInd. The Journal shares Inuit culture, recipes, mental welness strategies, coping strategies, and more.
MindYourMind
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Information about OCD from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Information about OCD from Wikipedia.
Wikipedia
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Website with information about OCD.
International OCD Foundation
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Information about OSI.
Veterans Affairs Canada and the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (ROMHC).
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
This handbook focuses on the needs of children when parents separate and how you can help meet those needs. Your children need your love and support throughout the separation, which is a difficult time for them. They also need your love and support through the post-separation years, as your family adjusts to a new life.
BC Ministry of Attorney General
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Information about infant and early childhood mental health.
Ottawa Public Health
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
The Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office protects and promotes the rights and entitlements of Ontarians with mental illness through advocacy, rights advice and education.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
New tool to protect the mental health of employees, providing steps and actions that are accessible to all Canadian employers.
Mental Health Commission of Canada
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Produced by the Central West Eating Disorder Program (CWEDP) in Ontario, Canada.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Resilience Training is a website from the US Army Medical Department, and has information about resiliency for warriors, leaders, spouses, families and behavioural health providers. Training and information is targeted to all phases of the warrior deployment cycle, warrior life cycle, and warrior support system. Formerly known as Battlemind.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Fondé en 1998, SAFERA est un organisme francophone dont la mission est centrée sur la prévention du syndrome d’alcoolisation fœtale (SAF) et la réponse aux besoins des personnes atteintes. Ressources: site Internet, groupe de soutien pour parents francophones, livre Enfants de l'alcool, affiches, dépliants, DVD, consultations téléphoniques, formations.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
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The website of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada offers various resources including:
* Resources and links
* Links, such as links to videos
* Magazines
* Articles
Schizophrenia Society of Canada
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Movies and videos, Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
As part of a collaboration between the University of Guelph and McGill University, we are a non-profit outreach initiative providing information and resources about self-injury to those who self-injure, those who have recovered, and those who want to help.
University of Guelph and McGill University
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Website providing information about sleep and dementia from the University of Alberta. Provides reliable, evidence-based information about the relationship between sleep and dementia, and provides help in accessing resources for assessing and managing sleep problems in older adults with dementia. A full report of our review and downloadable patient education brochures on different non-pharmacological sleep interventions is also accessible on the website.
University of Alberta
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
Information for teachers on how to support a student with reactive attachment disorder (RAD).
Faculty of Education, Brandon University
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
This is a website for both youth and youth workers.
For youth, the website provides information about substance use.
For youth workers, the web site is to act as a participant resource for relevant materials that were covered during the Substance Use Awareness and Youth Engagement program to support those who work with youth to engage in conversations about the prevention of illicit substance use.
Canadian Training Institute
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Sesame Street has various materials to help children of military families cope with issues such as pre-deployment, deployment, homecoming, changes and grief.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Movies and videos
Resource guide developed to help educators access basic information about depression and provide strategies for supporting students suffering from depression
BC Ministry of Education
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
National, American effort dedicated to the life-long concerns of brothers and sisters of people who have special health, developmental, or mental health concerns.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
ATTACh is an international coalition of professionals and families dedicated to helping those with attachment difficulties by sharing our knowledge, talents and resources.
Website provides information about attachment difficulties.
Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
National Indigenous organization established in 2005 by the Government of Canada and funded through the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to support First Nations, Inuit, and Métis public health renewal and health equity through knowledge translation and exchange.
National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Fact sheet for those who have a sibling with psychosis.
British Columbia Schizophrenia Society
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
Guidance and practical tools to help with work and mental health issues for workers, employers, clinicians and carers.
Royal Colleges of Psychiatrists
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Practical information to help employees and employers be able to keep employees well at work.
MentalHealthWorks, Mood Disorders Association of Ontario, Great West Life Centre for Mental Health in the Workplace
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Providing information about anxiety.
Children's Center for OCD and Anxiety
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Guide for service members, families and professionals to help children/youth cope with the deployment and return of their parent in the National Guard or reserves.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)