Toronto Will Reduce Harm Through Supervised Injection Services
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 […]
Tag Archives: mental health
World Health Summit: Conflict and Health
Fiona Downey The World Health Summit has been held annually in Berlin since 2009. The summit hosts dignitaries and experts from politics, academia, and the private sector to discuss the […]
Precarious Housing and Psychiatric Disability: How to Ensure Development over Displacement
Shelby Challis Individuals who experience psychiatric disability are too often forced to navigate their way through precarious housing situations and manage these situations with little support. The social conditions of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Criminal and Police Records: Are We Criminalizing Character instead of Crime?
Shelby Challis A judge once told me about his own personal run-ins with law enforcement agencies when he was in his 20’s. It was the late 1960’s and he was […]
