Creating community, dealing with death: Ottawa’s Healthy End of Life (HELP) project

The multifaceted program transformed how communities cope with illness, loss and grieving. But the project’s end is just the beginning for better approaches to death. When the communities involved in Ottawa’s Healthy End of Life (HELP) project ...

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A brave research journey for BRAVA: a group intervention to help youth who are thinking about suicide

A plan to help youth experiencing suicidal ideation, as well as their parents or caregivers, had to pivot when the pandemic started. It started with a good idea — to offer adolescents who were thinking about suicide, as well as their parents or ...

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First annual Dr. Francis Wayne Quan Memorial Prizes awarded

The Mach-Gaensslen Foundation of Canada and the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (JPN) are happy to announce the first winners of the annual Dr. Francis Wayne Quan Memorial Prize for the best papers published in JPN over the previous year. ...

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Mental health in university students: from evidence to action

A pioneering research program that translates research evidence into resources to improve student mental health outcomes, started at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, has surpassed its goals. The resources can be sustained over years and ...

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