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The Burnout Crisis: A Call to Invest in ECE and Child and Youth Workers
The Burnout Crisis: A Call to Invest in ECE and Child and Youth Workers
Sep 14th, 2022… COVID-19 has taken an enormous mental health toll on Canadians, including ECE and youth workers. Burnout among frontline workers has a lasting impact on the quality of care for…
Campus Peer Support Pilot Project: students helping students with their mental health
Campus Peer Support Pilot Project: students helping students with their mental health
Aug 29th, 2022Post-secondary students are among those hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. They have faced social isolation, job insecurity, financial hardship and challenges with virtual learning. These problems have had a…
Not Myself Today: Transforming mental health in the workplace
Not Myself Today: Transforming mental health in the workplace
Aug 16th, 2022By Martha Li High levels of employee burnout. Increased sick leaves. Surging benefits claims. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Canadian employers have been grappling with the mental health effects…
Our empathy bucket needs refilling
Our empathy bucket needs refilling
May 17th, 2022…under-resourced and strained long before COVID-19 overwhelmed our healthcare system. Now consider this collision of worlds and its effects: population-wide empathy fatigue meets a healthcare system strained by a pandemic,…
Only 13% of Canadians are feeling empathetic, down markedly from two years ago
Only 13% of Canadians are feeling empathetic, down markedly from two years ago
May 2nd, 2022…years, research suggests that Canadians may also be experiencing “empathy fatigue.” The latest survey conducted by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) and UBC researchers, Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19…
A holding pattern for mental health
A holding pattern for mental health
Apr 7th, 2022…government’s fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31. The government’s second COVID-19 pandemic budget, this budget is far more restrained in spending and limited in policy scope than…
CMHA appears before House of Commons Standing Committee on Health
CMHA appears before House of Commons Standing Committee on Health
Apr 4th, 2022…COVID-19 pandemic. “Thank you so much. Hello. I’m Margaret Eaton and I’m the national CEO of the CMHA. The CMHA is the most extensive community mental health network in Canada,…
A summary of key findings – Round 4: Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Mental Health
A summary of key findings – Round 4: Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Mental Health
Mar 1st, 2022Far from feeling the pandemic is over, most people in Canada are stressed about what’s next, with 64% worried about new variants and 57% worried about COVID-19 circulating in the…
Round 3 of national survey shows pandemic is taking an emotional toll
Round 3 of national survey shows pandemic is taking an emotional toll
May 3rd, 2021The pandemic is taking an emotional toll on people in Canada, as 77% of adults report feeling so-called negative emotions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The five most…