🏳️🌈she/her | youth mental health research & engagement | newfoundlander
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Someone having a obvious mental illness and someone having a mental health crisis are two different things. If you’re going to publish something it’s important you not decide when someone is in crisis just because the way their illness presents makes you uncomfortable.
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I think this is one of the most under talked about results. Hopefully this research informs change
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#WednesdayWisdom: Interested in #arts based approaches in #mentalhealth research? Mark your calendars! We are hosting a #webinar on Mar 27 (1-2:30pm ET) about #digitalstorytelling & #cellphilming along with some brilliant film makers.📽️
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi……
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I’m pleased to share that my friend and collaborator, Dr. Srividya Iyer, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Researcher at the Douglas Research Centre, has been awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health and Learning Health Systems. Congratulations!
Join the Catalyst Youth Mental Health Network, on Friday, December 8th at 1PM ET, for our online discussion - Learning Health Systems 101. This second webinar in our series will be led by Matthew Menear & Maxime Sasseville. Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Come talk with us about how to improve the science of lived experience engagement in mental health and substance use research. Please retweet!
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This is simply the best communication I have seen from an expert in a highly hostile media context. Phenomenal. Full of heart, compassion, and a drive to impart FACTS. Well done, @ian_hickie - I bow before you.
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"To be honest, there are guys here whose mental illnesses are deteriorating by the day."
Newfoundland and Labrador has the highest rate of inmate suicide in Atlantic Canada by jail capacity.
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Everyone always assumes rises in youth doing X unproductive activity is eating into productive time, when it's more likely its eating into whatever they were panicking about the youths doing 20 years ago
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Talk to your kids - even if you don't think they'd ever use.
A surprising # of ppl use recreationally on weekends/parties but it's not always obvious - we need to keep an eye on each other.
It's prevalent & preventable & it'll take a whole community to get ahead of it 🙏♥️
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TEACHING STUDENTS ABOUT DIVERSE FAMILIES AND QUEER PEOPLE IS NOT GROOMING.
The far right is lying to you. They are spinning a false narrative about what is happening in our schools.
No one is trying to convert anyone, but queer kids are still being bullied in our schools. – at Toronto, Ontario
some profs are hyper focused on student plagiarism and the use of chatgpt while also being paid to deliver classes where they are simply copying the textbook and associated teaching materials provided without a single original contribution and then calling it a day. 🤷♀️
I think about the BMI often when I think about clinical measures used in mental health assessment/treatment. It reminds me to question how measures have been created. By who? For who? What do we actually know about the tools effectiveness from the patient perspective? Etc.
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BLMNL & ARC-NL stand together as we mourn the death of Omar Mohammed. There has been loss of a human life. A member of the NL Black community was shot & killed by an RNC Officer. RNC has released NO updates on the case, nothing has been said. We need answers. We deserve better.
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“There’s no reason to believe it’ll stop with us.”
Anti-trans rhetoric is getting louder, angrier, and more personal, writes @FaeJohnstone—and it’s putting trans and queer people’s rights and safety at risk.
thewalrus.ca/anti-trans-atta…
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We have a housing crisis @TimHoustonNS where will these people go?!?
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#MondayMotivation #ICYMI: We hosted an in-person gathering as first steps to building an #Indigenous #IYS Network in April. Thank you to everyone for sharing your knowledge and stories with us! ❤️🥰
Learn more about the gathering ➡️ bit.ly/45yxADg
#YouthMentalHealth
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Wisdom2Action and @scsconnects are looking for 2SLGBTQI+ community members to learn how the Wellness Together Canada (WTC) platform can better serve the needs of 2SLGBTQI+ communities across the country.
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“There’s been a debate during the pandemic as to whether the kids are alright or not alright. Now that more data have been published and analyzed, we can more precisely answer that question. The kids are, in fact, not alright" @sherimadigan
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