Shannon Hazlett According to a 2013 Toronto report, 206 people died from drug overdoses in that year, the highest annual number to date. Toronto is following the lead of its West Coast counterpart, Vancouver, in establishing supervised injection sites. The City is planning to introduce at least three supervised injection services to provide drug users…
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Web Summit Interview: The Future of Providing Mental Health Services to the Bottom Billion
Shelby Challis One of the greatest societal issues facing the world today is the delivery of affordable and accessible mental health services to the majority of the world’s population. Oren Frank, the CEO and CO-Founder of Talkspace, an online platform that connects users to licensed therapists from around the world, has been leading the fight…
More Than Just A Roof: Why Toronto’s Affordable Housing Struggles to Meet the Needs of Tenants with Mental Illness
Celine Caira According to psychologist Abraham Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs,” security and shelter rank second only to basic physiological needs as the most vital requisites for human survival. There is significance to Maslow’s approach, since it is still telling today. Community health literature maintains that access to secure, adequate, and affordable housing is a key social…
Housing First, Results Second: How Canada’s Program to End Homelessness is Failing
Emma Helfand-Green Everyone seems to be jumping on the ‘Housing First’ (HF) bandwagon. Since it was first introduced in the early 1990s by Dr. Sam Tsemberis with the Pathways to Housing Program in New York City, HF initiatives have been successfully implemented across Europe, the United States, and Canada. The philosophy behind HF is quite…
