What’s momentum got to do with it?
Inherent in any turbulent time is a hidden opportunity to create change. Moving into a post-pandemic era, this year’s Annual Symposium offers such an opportunity. Every year, the Hub team looks for inspiration for the upcoming year’s Annual Symposium. The…
Announcement: Knowledge Development and Exchange Hub receives $2.3 million to support mental health promotion
November 16, 2022 | WATERLOO, Ontario | Renison University College, University of Waterloo The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the mental health of Canadians and amplified inequitable mental health outcomes for youth, seniors, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Black and racialized Canadians.…
Phase 2 of the MHP-IF
It’s official! With recent announcements from the Public Health Agency of Canada, the second phase of the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) is now well underway. Due to a provincial election in Ontario, ten projects were first announced in…
“Unscripted” – When New Understandings are an Unexpected Outcome
As explored at a recent Hub webinar, mental health promotion can be messy! Even the best articulated participant recruitment strategies, project implementation plans, data collection procedures, and evaluation protocols do not always unfold according to plan. When those unexpected situations…
New resource category: Contextualizing the Hub’s Indigenous Inclusion Lens
At the Hub, we know that decolonizing systems and practices requires a multi-faceted approach, and one that engages Indigenous knowledge and leadership. One of the ways in which the Hub has acted on our commitment to honour Indigenous knowledge is…
Helping Mental Health Promotion Flourish in Canada with Incoming KDE Hub Scientific Co-Directors
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” Margaret Wheatley Introducing new KDE Hub Scientific Co-Directors Alice Schmidt Hanbidge Colleen McMillan Alice brings social work practice experience centered on promoting child, youth and…
A farewell message from Barb Riley
This is farewell! By Barb Riley, KDE Hub founding scientific director At the Hub’s 2022 Annual Symposium, I was one of two speakers who reflected on the forces that brought us together and will keep us together to help mental…
“The power of one”
The power of one may seem at odds with addressing structural and systemic determinants of mental health. But the KDE Hub’s 2022 Annual Symposium, held February 16-18, brought these ideas together. The power of one was referenced several times after…
New Hub video: What is Mental Health Promotion?
The KDE Hub’s 2nd Annual Symposium is fast approaching – February 16-18, 2022. Designed as a virtual, experiential event, symposium participants will explore how to help Mental Health Promotion flourish in Canada. Helping mental health promotion flourish will take many people,…
Select Resources on Youth Engagement
Only in a field of dreams (do some of you remember that film?), if you build it they will come. In reality and in the field of mental health promotion, if you build it together or they build it, they’re…
KDE Hub co-presenting with projects
The KDE Hub was invited to present at two conferences recently and we asked representatives from MHP-IF project teams to join us. Why blog about this? Because it’s a tangible way to show how we can collaborate and add value…
From surge to steady: A few new resources and what to expect this Fall
From surge to steady: A few new resources and what to expect this Fall If you’ve checked in on what the KDE Hub has been up to over the past few months, the phrase ‘summer surge’ may be familiar. It…
Update on Hub-developed tools: 8 promised, 8 posted, 2 to come!
Did you do the math? The Hub is delivering two bonus tools in this summer 2021 surge. The ‘surge’ is from us; we do not intend it for anyone who may use the tools. We describe the reason for the…
More Hub supports on their way…
Whoa! We have a bit of a surge of Hub supports coming your way. Borrowing from Ernest Hemingway, they’ve come “gradually, then suddenly”. The ‘gradual’ part is from seeking to understand the most relevant and timely gaps to fill for…
Theories of change: Making them and making them work for you
The KDE Hub is a strong proponent of theories of change and is pleased they are a central feature for phase 2 (beginning April 2022) of the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF). The potential all-around value of theories of…
Strengthening Canada’s response to the pandemic means strengthening Mental Health Promotion
Mental health is described as the 4th wave of the pandemic. During this 70th Mental Health Week in Canada, our KDE Hub team is asking how prepared are we to deal with this wave, short- and long-term? Mental health services…
Navigating complexity, part II: MHP-IF case examples
A previous blog introduced navigating complexity as “a helpful offence in our pandemic defense”. This post adds case-based learning to Hub supports for navigating complexity. Thanks to CFCC and IEMHP teams for their permission to share their experiences as tools…
Navigating complexity: a helpful offence in our pandemic defence
…continuing the conversation with Jamie Gamble, Hub consultant specializing in complexity evaluation The March 2021 edition of the Hub Update positioned and described some Hub supports for navigating complexity. This blog makes good on a promise for us to offer a few…
The KDE Hub’s first Annual Symposium: Highlights and products are out!
Last month, we hosted our first Annual Symposium, bringing together team members from the funded projects, PHAC, the KDE Hub and its extended family of collaborators and consultants, and others with shared interests in child and youth mental health promotion…
Annual Symposium, January 25-27, 2021: It’s all about Context
How can the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF), and each of the twenty projects within it, make the biggest difference in the short- and long-term? How can we individually and collectively contribute to child and youth mental health promotion…
Public Announcement: MHP-IF and KDE Hub
New Hub at Renison University College focuses on the mental health of children and youth in Canada WATERLOO, Ont. (THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2020) – Today, the Minister of Health, the Honourable Patty Hajdu, announced the Government of Canada’s Mental Health…
Blog: The KDE Hub Project Management Tool
The Hub’s new Project Management Tool was unveiled at the June 24th webinar. We promised to follow that brief tour of the Tool with this blog and an online forum for projects to share experiences, questions, and ideas for improving…
Blog: Developmental evaluation
This post is a short conversation with Jamie Gamble (KDE Hub consultant), who spoke at the May 8th webinar on Developmental Evaluation (DE). Barb Riley (KDE Hub scientific director): Jamie, that was an awesome overview of DE on May 8th;…
Blog: Resources to learn more about how COVID-19 is impacting First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities
The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified many of the existing inequities and disparities already experienced in Indigenous communities. As the Hub recently heard from Dr. Brenda Restoule, CEO of the First Peoples Wellness Circle and a member of the Hub’s Leadership…
Blog: Tools for virtual collaboration
Remote work is a reality for many people, certainly now more than ever. There are many different tools out there that can make this work easier and bring the physical to the virtual. Building on some of the discussion that…
Welcome!
On behalf of the KDE Hub, I am so pleased to extend a warm welcome to this virtual place, now open to members of the new Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) community. It’s a starting point only. Over time,…