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Resources
- TEND Online Learning: Webinar Series – This webinar series offers essential strategies, tools and resources to help organizations front line workers and their leaders to support their clients and one another.
- COVID-19 and Mental Health Initiative (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
- Mental health and wellness resources (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
- Mental health and substance use resources and mental wellness toolkit (Wellness Together)
Articles
- Healing in pandemic times: Indigenous peoples, stigma, and COVID-19
- National grief strategy needed to help Canadians cope with loss due to COVID-19, group says
- Opioid deaths skyrocket, mental health suffers due to pandemic restrictions, new federal report says (CBC)
- Mental illness is on the rise due to COVID-19. Could psychedelic drugs be the ‘game changer’? (Toronto Star)
- How to Reduce Your Risk of PTSD in a Post-Covid-19 World (New York Times)
- How mental health caregivers in Sudbury are supporting one another during COVID-19 (CBC)
- This Is Not a Normal Mental-Health Disaster (The Atlantic)
- BC COVID-19 survey shows decline in mental health, concern about staying home when sick (Global News)
- More people calling mental health help line as pandemic drags on (CBC)
Studies
- Addressing trauma in substance use disorder: a critical gap in service amplified by COVID-19 (Journal of the College of Family Physicians of Canada)
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