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Join us for an informative and interactive panel presentation moderated by Drs Chris Chan and Ken Fung. September 10, 2022 1-3 PM EDT Register via Eventbrite: bit.ly/3C910ST Webinar in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Korean Interpretation
Dr. Kenneth Fung will be hosting this webinar “Acting Together: Educating Culturally Informed Care for AAPI Youths” for SSPC on Wednesday, July 27.
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The $2 million Health Canada initiative will help a handful of institutions better support students’ well-being. Demand for mental health services has long outstripped supply at Canadian universities, and #COVID-19 has only made matters worse. ow.ly/U59750JKZ3P
Prompts and coping tips may improve mental health for people in minority groups. Many people stayed at home to protect themselves from #COVID-19 infection, but no one could avoid all of the biological, social, and psychological impacts of the pandemic. ow.ly/RUf650JKYT9
Canada handled the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and weathered the ensuing upheaval better than several other nations with comparable health-care and economic infrastructure, a new study suggests. ow.ly/271R50JK0eO
Emerging understanding of long Covid shows it is a condition affecting both mind and body. ow.ly/pwNe50JK0kI
Evidence has shown that the COVID #pandemic has impacted women’s mental health more significantly than men’s mental health. ow.ly/LUJN50JJZGT
#COVID-19 has had enormous negative effects on individual, societal, and worldwide Brain Capital. We are in the infancy stages of understanding COVID-19’s short- and long-term effects on the #brain. ow.ly/qGJN50JJZvm
Larissa McKnight wasn’t prepared for the horde as she walked toward work at Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square, still wearing her mask just after getting off the subway. ow.ly/As4R50JF6AN
A province-wide mask mandate that was first introduced in October 2020 has now been lifted in virtually all of the so-called “high-risk” settings where it had remained in place, including on public transit. ow.ly/KwbN50JF6rP
Much is still unknown about long COVID, but some pieces of the puzzle are starting to fall into place. ow.ly/b10T50JEbVi
Nearly one billion people worldwide suffer from some form of mental disorder, according to latest UN data – a staggering figure that is even more worrying, if you consider that it includes around one in seven teenagers. ow.ly/5nUe50JEbQK
Experts encourage parents and educators to find ways for children to learn social skills missed in the beginning of the #COVID-19 pandemic when classes moved online and schools temporarily closed. ow.ly/F44n50JEbNz
Dr. Jenny Wang created the Instagram account asiansformentalhealth in fall 2019. As the pandemic—and anti-Asian hate—spread, it became a haven for Asian Americans seeking mental-health resources. ow.ly/HHAy50JEbG1
Employers are lifting #COVID-19 vaccination requirements and employees sent home for refusing to get vaccinated are flooding back. We asked experts how we should deal with what already looks like a messy situation. ow.ly/gEl350JEbz0
Funeral directors say some of their summer clients have held off holding proper funerals and memorial services for two years because of pandemic restrictions on gatherings and travel, leaving them in a state of suspended grief. ow.ly/HbjO50JEboq
Report urges mental health decision makers and advocates to step up commitment and action to change attitudes, actions and approaches to #mentalhealth, its determinants and mental health care. ow.ly/qjse50JAx9S
As #COVID-19 began its spread around the world after emerging in China, people of Asian descent started to experience one of the pandemic’s uglier consequences—a surge in discrimination that involved both verbal and physical abuse. ow.ly/sYCX50JAimw
You wouldn’t think it to watch scenes of honking truck drivers or sign-carrying anti-vaccine protesters, but new survey data suggests Canadians have more trust in their institutions and their neighbours since the #COVID-19 pandemic. ow.ly/zHNl50JAicy
The impact of #COVID-19 has been disproportionately felt by populations experiencing structural racial- and ethnicity-based discrimination.ow.ly/ivws50Jzwwj