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Spring clean for your mental health
It could be the consequences of a growing family, or maybe the work of a creative brain eager to repurpose. No matter the reason, humans have an immense ability to accumulate – clothes, furniture, books, papers, kitchen utensils, receipts,...
How 120 pounds of fluff is enhancing recovery for mental health patients in Hamilton
Innovative Resident Dog Program provides bonding and healing
St. Joe’s, Ontario mental health partners pen letter to the Globe & Mail about tracking suicides
On November 30, the Globe and Mail published a story about a new surveillance tool tracking suicides in Great Britain. With rates of suicides increasing worldwide, experts believe tracking deaths by suicide, something not accurately monitored in Canada,...
#NAAW: People with addiction and mental health better served when researchers and clinicians work together
It often takes a crisis for frontline staff to see people living with addiction and that’s a narrow representation of that person’s day-to-day life. To better understand it, researchers need the big picture. They need to know if there...
Street Outreach
Street Outreach is a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency program under the auspices of Public Health, City of Hamilton’s Mental Health and Street Outreach Service.
Looking at addiction in innovative ways wins Dr. James MacKillop the 2019 Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize for Mental Health Research
Research to understand all types of addiction – alcohol, cannabis, opioids, tobacco, gambling, and even food – using a rarely seen combination of diverse areas of science has garnered Dr. James MacKillop of McMaster University and St....
Heavy-Drinking Young Adults Reduce Problematic Alcohol Use Early in Pandemic, but Young Women Face Increased Mental Health Burden
A novel longitudinal study on heavy drinking in young adults and the psychological impacts of COVID-19 has revealed some unexpected findings that challenge preconceived notions regarding pandemic-related alcohol use. In a sample of nearly 500 young adults...
Community Treatment Order Program (CTO)
The CTO Program, with consent, provides people with serious mental illnesses and repeated hospitalizations living in Hamilton and the Local Health Integrated Network (LHIN)
Embracing mental illness
By: Samantha Mercanti, Mental Health Advocate & former St. Joe’s patient Samantha Mercanti has been sharing her experience living with and embracing her mental illness. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia in her early twenties, and also lives...