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Mental Well-Being and Equity – Moving Policy into Action

How do you drive equity into mental health? And mental health into equity?  What tools can you use to make the process more comprehensible and user-friendly to overburdened policy-makers and practitioners?  Bob Gardner and I facilitated a workshop with the Canadian Mental Health Association (Ontario) today to discuss “wicked” policy challenges in this area.  The key messages? There are no magic bullets, but practical tools, such as the Health Equity Impact Assessment and Mental Well-Being Impact Assessment are good starting points in helping translate policy-talk into concrete action. 

This is an ongoing discussion and we welcome your comments and thoughts.

Click here to download the presentation.

Driving Mental Health and Health Equity into Action

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.