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,…
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…
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: 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: 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…