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Mental Health and Homelessness: December 4, 2008

More than 130 people attended a special forum on December 4, 2008, on mental health and homelessness at Toronto’s Knox College, co-sponsored by the Wellesley Institute and the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Dr. Kim Hopper, a medical anthropologist from New York City; Dr. Bonnie Kirsh from the University of Toronto; and Dr. Paula Goering, from the Mental Health Commission’s national research team on homelessness and mental health, gave the main presentations. Brenda Elias from the Mental Health Commission, Michael Shapcott and Brian Eng from the Wellesley Institute co-facilitated the morning and afternoon sessions.

Here are the presentations:

Kim Hopper

Bonnie Kirsh

Paula Goering

The introductory slides, which include an overview of the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Toronto site for their national homelessness and mental health pilot project and a timeline, are here .

For more information on the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Toronto project, please contact Brenda Elias < brenda50@rogers.com >.

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.