Annual Symposiums

Learn about the KDE Hub’s annual gatherings
The KDE Hub Annual Symposium is an opportunity for federal programs supported by the Hub and a growing community with interests in mental health promotion to connect and learn from each other. These gatherings:
  1. Create supportive connections across projects supported by the KDE Hub
  2. Increase knowledge and build skills in selective areas that are relevant to the needs of projects and others with shared interests
  3. Consider meaningful and realistic knowledge development priorities within and across projects supported by the KDE Hub
  4. Inspire a shared vision for how funded projects supported by the Hub and related communities can contribute to child and youth mental health promotion in Canada

 

Annual Symposium 2021

The Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund in Context: People, Positioning, Pandemic, Potential

The KDE Hub hosted the first annual symposium January 25-27, 2021. This symposium was a short, yet concentrated window of time during which those involved in the MHP-IF were invited to explore relevant and varied contexts influencing their work, and contexts they can influence. Speakers, discussants and guests from beyond the MHP-IF enriched the exploration and learning.

Participants explored:

    • people and places of the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF),
    • positioning of the program on international through local levels,
    • influence of the pandemic, and
    • the potential to advance child and youth mental health promotion in Canada.

Panel and participant dialogue on making best use of the emerging knowledge and shaping future knowledge development activities

With insights from MHP-IF projects on how they adapted to evolving pandemic conditions and other experiences during Phase 1, this panel extended the knowledge mobilization story. What do we mean by ‘high quality evidence’? How can we approach knowledge mobilization…

Opening Session

The opening session welcomed participants to the Annual Symposium and focused on the people and places of the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF). Words of welcome were offered on behalf of the KDE Hub as the symposium host; the…

Closing Celebration

Many good journeys are circular. The closing session returned to where we started, with the people and places of the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF), and with our intentions to explore these and other contexts that influence and are…