Check out Health Canada's Mental Health site at:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/mentalhealth/index.html

Take care,

Lianna Ferran
National Clearinghouse on Family Violence
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/nc-cn





Bonnie Sproat <[log in to unmask]> on 99/04/22 04:54:40 PM

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Subject:  Mental health promotion




Dear Friends and Colleagues:  RE:  NEED information on Mental HEALTH
Promotion

The Prairie Region Health Promotion Research Centre is putting on its
third summer school in August 16-19 in Saskatoon.  Summer School this
year is built around the theme of "from principles to practice".  We
will be combining guest lectures, panels with small working groups
around selected health issues or themes where practitioners will work
through a variety of exercises applying key concepts in health
promotion.

One of our theme areas is Mental Health Promotion, using population
health concepts.  We are looking for
a) printed / visual / audio resources for the theme group participants
b) resource people who may be able to help the theme group, acting as a
mentor or wise elder;  the resource consultants are expected to know the
literature well and hopefully to have a good grounding in practice.

We are having difficulty finding good resource people in Saskatchewan
and resource materials.  We want to emphasize mental HEALTH not coping
with chronic disease, and we want to focus on health promotion  through
a determinants or population health approach not a clinical model only.

We are also keenly interested in examples of where groups or individuals
are working with community on mental health promotion ideas, or where
someone is teaching students about mental health promotion in formal
learning situations.

Does anyone out there know anything or anybody who can help?  Please
reply to Lorraine Khachatourians a.k.a. [log in to unmask]


Lorraine Khachatourians/Bonnie Sproat
Resource manager/Network Developer
Prairie Region Health Promotion Research Centre
University of Saskatchewan
107 Wiggins Road
Saskatoon SK  S7N 5E5
Phone:  306-966-7939
Fax:  306-966-7920
E-mail:  [log in to unmask]