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On behalf of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto (formerly Pillar 4) and the Muslim Medical Association of Canada(MMAC), we would like to invite you to the 3rd Annual Canadian Muslim Mental Health Conference (CMMHC) on Sunday December 16th 2018 at the Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto. Tickets are now on […]
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[:en] The IRMHP is a training and capacity-building project funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. It provides online training, tools and resources to settlement, social and health service providers across Canada to support their work with newly-arrived immigrants and refugees. The IRMHP encourages individuals to participate in the project by: 1. adding your […]
Source: No One Is Illegal – Vancouver » Blog Archive » Border Rights for Refugees: A multilingual guide Thousands of refugees are crossing the Canada-U.S. border, many fleeing escalated sociopolitical, white supremacist, misogynist violence and I.C.E raids in the U.S. In the first two months of this year, approximately 2000 refugee claims were filed at land ports […]
[:en] Compiled by a scientific committee of international academics in collaboration with the Documentation Center of the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies / National Center of Competence in Research –The Migration-Mobility Nexus (NCCR) at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), the ‘Migration and Mental Health’ database is a comprehensive collection of academic resources which […]
[:en] Canada has in recent decades occupied a privileged place among the world’s top immigrant-receiving countries. Despite weathering many of the same economic and political challenges that have buffeted support for immigration in other countries—from recession to threats of terrorism—Canada has managed to maintain a consistently positive public consensus around its immigration system. While Canada […]
Tech communities in Europe and North America have been spurred into action by the refugee crisis, developing apps and other tools that can be used along the journey, immediately upon arrival, and for longer-term integration into the host society. This report maps several types of emerging tools and considers how policymakers responsible for refugee integration […]
[:en]https://vimeo.com/96611241 in this Cantonese video, Dr. Kenneth Fung discusses the Chinese version of Med Ed, a booklet which helps teenagers with mental health issues to understand their medication and its side effects and to help them track their side effects, symptoms and changing dosage. The first of its kind, Med Ed is for people who […]
[:en] Abstract Canada has responded to the humanitarian emergency in Syria by committing to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees by early 2016. This has been a complex undertaking which required coordination between international organizations, such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and federal government departments, including Immigration, […]
[:en]This briefing from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) provides a short background to the Health Status of Syrian Refugees and an overview of the measures put in place by the PHAC to address it.[:]
[:en]https://youtu.be/_ABbhYivL4o The Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre (www.multiculturalmentalhealth.ca) provides information and tools for clinicians in many languages including Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish and Farsi. Culturally sensitive care is important as different cultures have different attitudes toward mental health. The support from Bell Let’s Talk allows the MMHRC to increase accessibility to mental health care and information […]