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Integrated Care for Mental Health and Substance Use Works!
Check out this new document released by the provincial government on integrated care models for mental health and substance use. Purpose of Review The purpose of this review is to inform planning...
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April Community of Practice (CoP) Update
The Mental Health, Substance Use and HIV/HCV Community of Practice is exploring some exciting opportunities that may have a direct impact on your community. Please read this update and consider joining...
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Mental Health and HIV/HCV: Upcoming Funding Opportunities
Hi Everyone, Last week I wrote about the $17 million funds that the province released to support community mental health initiatives. The Community Action Initiative (CAI) will be distributing some of...
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Integrating Mental Health Care: New On-Line Series
The first article in a landmark series to help health care workers and providers, donors, and decision makers understand the importance of including mental health care in global health programs is...
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Stigma and Gay Men- An Insider’s Views
The Sound of Stigma by Mark S. King An essay by Mark S. King—an AIDS advocate, an author and a blogger living with HIV since 1985—on why HIV stigma among gay men persists. From POZ June 2013 Click here...
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Fighting the Shadow: Hepatitis C and Mental Health
While we know that Hepatitis C affects more than the liver, when it comes to the mental health impacts, there are few specific guidelines on how to best manage mental health care during HCV treatment....
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Free 14 Hour Motivational Interviewing Training
The Community Action Initiative is offering free motivational interviewing (MI) for frontline workers in community-based organizations. It will be offered twice in each health region over the course of...
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Summer Institute on Addiction July 18-20, 2013 Building on the range of programs in British Columbia offering entry-level training, this Summer Institute aims to support the on-going interprofessional...
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The Wellspring Conference: Encounters with Trauma, Hope, and Healing
October 25th and 26th, 2013 Vancouver BC The two day Wellspring Conference takes place at St Paul’s Hospital, 1081 Burrard St, Vancouver BC on Friday October 25th and Saturday October 26th 2013. The...
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Join us Today and the last Thursday of every month for our Mental Health...
The Pacific AIDS Network invites member agency frontline workers to participate in a Mental Health & Substance Use & HIV & HCV Community of Practice. Our goal is to support and foster...
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Integrating Mental Health and HIV Care and Support
Integrating mental health and substance use in HIV is an essential component of care and support. In BC, the Pacific AIDS Network is leading this initiative – and it is one of the most concerted...
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Mental Health and HIV/HCV: Upcoming Funding Opportunities
Hi Everyone, Last week I wrote about the $17 million funds that the province released to support community mental health initiatives. The Community Action Initiative (CAI) will be distributing some of...
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Integrating Mental Health Care: New On-Line Series
The first article in a landmark series to help health care workers and providers, donors, and decision makers understand the importance of including mental health care in global health programs is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stigma and Gay Men- An Insider’s Views
The Sound of Stigma by Mark S. King An essay by Mark S. King—an AIDS advocate, an author and a blogger living with HIV since 1985—on why HIV stigma among gay men persists. From POZ June 2013 Click here...
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Fighting the Shadow: Hepatitis C and Mental Health
While we know that Hepatitis C affects more than the liver, when it comes to the mental health impacts, there are few specific guidelines on how to best manage mental health care during HCV treatment....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free 14 Hour Motivational Interviewing Training
The Community Action Initiative is offering free motivational interviewing (MI) for frontline workers in community-based organizations. It will be offered twice in each health region over the course of...
View ArticleUBC Summer Institute on Addiction
Summer Institute on Addiction July 18-20, 2013 Building on the range of programs in British Columbia offering entry-level training, this Summer Institute aims to support the on-going interprofessional...
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New Study on Women, Trauma and HIV
Women who suffered severe sexual trauma as kids benefit most from intervention. A UCLA-led study of HIV-positive women who were sexually abused as children has found that the more severe their past...
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Mental Health and Hepatitis C
Our mental health is key to our sense of well-being, and HCV can affect our brain in many ways. From HEP C BC (Click here for website link) Mental stress is very bad on the liver, which can worsen...
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Mental Health Commission of Canada Offering Webinars on Workplace Mental Health
First workplace webinar a huge success: Don’t miss the next one on August 28 Last week, half a million Canadians missed work because of a mental health problem or illness. Just as many Canadians will...
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