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Rob Whitley and Todd Doherty: No health without mental health

Article content May 3 marks the start of Canadian Mental Health Week, providing a much-needed opportunity to think about resources and innovation within the mental health system. Of note, the phrase “mental health system” typically conjures up images of large-scale hospitals or formal psychiatric clinics. While such services are essential resources, a growing body of research indicates that small-scale, locally grounded, community-driven programs play a vital role in promoting mental health, especially among underserved and hard-to-reach populations. Such community programs include veterans’ peer support groups, youth drop-in centres, and an innovative intervention targeting lonely and isolated older men called Men’s Sheds.

Weekender | Confronting the collective trauma of the past year

The past year has been uniquely painful in ways that no one could have accurately imagined at the beginning of 2020. It seems as though we are living through a time of overwhelming darkness and despair largely owing to the destruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic but also exacerbated by violence against marginalized communities, constant political anxiety and the ever-looming threat of climate change. We’re currently living through the chapters of future generations’ history books the events of this era will probably be up there with the Great Depression and World War II as transformative moments in history. But even after the pandemic is eventually over and we have hopefully begun to implement systemic change, we’ll be feeling the emotional aftershocks of this era for a long time. How do we begin to address the collective trauma inflicted by the events of the past year?