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Mental Health

Experience exchange: Our voice is being lost

This report by Evidence Exchange Network for Mental Health and Addictions describes the challenges and dismissal of difficulties faced by people with mental health problems and addictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Structural stigma

This webpage from the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) describes the concept of structural stigma and the MHCC’s ongoing project to examine the issue of mental health and substance use–related stigma in healthcare.

Mental health framework: Coronavirus pandemic in post-Katrina New Orleans

This editorial from Shervington and Richardson describes the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 due to racial inequities and socioeconomic disadvantage in the city of New Orleans. The authors use insight gained from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to explore the mental health effects of disasters, contextualizing recommendations to address population mental health during both the immediate crisis response and recovery phases.

Pandemic proof: Synthesizing real-world knowledge of promising mental health and substance use practices utilized during the COVID19 pandemic with young people who are experiencing or have experienced

This report from Thulien et al. presents the findings of a survey and focus groups on promising approaches used during the COVID-19 pandemic. The approaches studied were those used to address mental health and substance use for youth in Canada related to homelessness, including recommendations for practice, research and policy.