Event Brief

This webinar provided a practical and application-based lens to implementing a trauma-informed approach to mental health promotion. With an increased understanding of how trauma can impact the success of community-based mental health promotion programs and population health outcomes, the importance…

This interactive webinar sought input from the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) project community on the KDE Hub’s Annual Symposium 2023 planning and other Hub supports for Phase 2. Additionally, the Hub team shared highlights from the recently completed…

This webinar was the third and final workshop led by Dr. Katie Cook to create co-working space for theory of change development as it relates to evaluation planning. This session explored qualitative and quantitative measurement and engaged projects in problem…

This webinar was the second of three workshops led by Dr. Katie Cook to support Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) projects in developing a theory of change to underpin their program evaluation plan. This session focused on mapping project…

Led by Dr. Katie Cook, Evaluation and Research Manager at the KDE Hub, this was the first in a series of three workshops designed to help Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) projects build skills and support one another in…

This ‘pilot-lite’ session was a follow-up to a webinar held in June 2021, which provided an introduction to PHAC health equity resources and tools, including an overview of diverse health equity frameworks. This session built on the previous by introducing…

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. What do we do when new insights lie outside of the…

The Hub’s Indigenous Inclusion Lens (the Lens) was developed in collaboration with lead author, Dr. Kathy Absolon, professor in Indigenous wholistic knowledge at Wilfrid Laurier University. The Lens seeks to foster conversations, planning and actions toward inclusion of Indigenous voices…

Engaging youth is central to mental health promotion and to the work of many Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) projects. Youth engagement, and connecting with project participants more generally, is also a moving target with virtual, in-person and hybrid…

The KDE Hub hosts an annual symposium on mental health promotion. A primary group we seek to engage and serve is projects funded through the Public Health Agency of Canada Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF). The purpose of this…