Mental health remains a challenge for many Canadians and their families. This presentation summarizes the "4th Annual Canadian Mental Health Checkup."

Health providers and family caregivers in Huron-Perth have developed a number of resources to help health professionals start a dialogue with patient families. These “Time to Talk” tools are provided for your free use.

"Talking to Families about Mental Illness: What Clinicians Need to Know," prepares health providers for conversations with family caregivers. This book focuses is family inclusion in mental health care, so it's totally relevant to clinicians in this field.

Families that are still intact after years of difficult times, caused by one or more person affected by addiction or mental health, deserve support and encouragement. That's where "Family treasures: Creating strong families" can be used. "Family Treasures is one of those great books that has strong research at its base and can be used [...]

This in-depth report will be valuable to healthcare organizations learning about family caregiver engagement in the design and delivery of health services, with a special focus on the family caregivers in the addiction and mental health system that provide 75 to 80 percent of all client care.

This 2006 report describes the significant effect of mental health and addiction problems on families, identifies the common needs of families in this situation, and provides a blueprint for involving family caregivers as partners in care.

Follow these four steps, developed by Canadian physicians in family practice, to "Organizing Your Practice to Support Family Caregivers."

Health professionals with an interest in recovery-oriented care will find this guide valuable. Focusing on the needs of the patient can be a particularly effective approach.

This comprehensive guide helps service providers to assess their systems of support for family caregivers in the Canada's mental health system. The National Guidelines for a Comprehensive Service System to Support Family Caregivers of Adults with Mental Health Problems and Illnesses offers a template for the many types of supports and services that caregivers need at [...]

These print-ready information sheets cover the most common conditions as well as more specialized topics like Tic disorders, Problematic video gaming, and Waiting for mental health services.

Accepting that family caregivers are the backbone of the addiction and mental health system, how do clinicians respond to this evolving landscape? Is a culture shift necessary? Does workflow need to change? "The Great Divide: Clinician, Family Caregiver and Patient Perspectives" has some of the answers.

Portico offers clinical tools and evidence-based materials for health care providers, social service workers and others. Its material may also be of interest to those with lived experience and their family caregivers.

Kindness is healthcare at its best Kindness contributes to more positive outcomes, and promotes recovery Calms anxiety and fear while inspiring hope Patients being cared for as a whole person, and not just as an illness, allows patients and families to focus on healing Influences how patients/families perceive and trust their health providers Strengthens task-based [...]

Heads-Ed (Ottawa and Regions) offers a collection of plain language information sheets on a wide variety of mental health topics. Examples include ADHD, eating disorders, gambling, LGBT, psychosis to trauma.

This acclaimed book, "Motivating Substance Abusers to Enter Treatment: Working with Family Members," presents the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) model of addiction recovery. This time- and cost-effective therapy program is designed to engage family caregivers who want to motivate a loved one to seek help for a substance use problem. The authors' non-confrontational approach [...]

This report, "Stories Shared, Voices Heard: Ontario's Healthcare Providers", describes findings and themes from discussions with front-line health providers in the province. We focused on how providers view both the role of family caregivers and their own role when they engage with family caregivers. In addition we wanted to understand how providers interact with caregivers [...]

Canada is in the midst of a serious and growing opioid crisis. This resource for health providers focuses on addressing one facet of the opioid crisis in Canada: Research has shown that the vast majority of individuals who experience problems with opioid misuse and addiction have current or past experiences of trauma and violence. This [...]

"100 Ways to Support Recovery" is a great primer for health providers that want to better meet the expectations of patients and their family caregivers with talk and action on recovery from mental illness. Providers will appreciate the overview of foundations and practical material, e.g. recovery through crisis.

When the problem is addiction or mental health, questions about the patient’s ability to make healthcare decisions is bound to come up. This is where Ontario’s privacy and consent rules come into play. Unfortunately, the rules can be complicated and open to interpretation but it is well worth the effort to get to know the [...]

With a focus on the topic of recovery, this toolkit will be helpful to patients, their family members and caregivers, and healthcare professionals who are seeking to better engage patients and families in the recovery process.

Patient- and family-centered care leads to better health outcomes, improved patient and family experiences, better clinician and staff satisfaction, and wiser resource allocation. Explore the many provider resources at the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centred Care.

The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have developed this essential course for health providers and front-line clinicians, Understanding Stigma.

Health providers who experience stress or trauma exposure can access TEND Academy's in-person workshops and online courses. Helpful articles, videos and links are also available.

"It's Not About Us: The Secret to Transforming the Mental Health and Addiction System" is a guide to improving the client experience in the mental health and addiction system in Canada. This book is based on compelling principles and a real success story about a program in Nova Scotia that transformed its way of providing [...]