In
order to facilitate better knowledge sharing and help accelerate the adoption of
recovery-oriented practices, the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) has
just launched a new tool on its website.
Visit
the Canadian Recovery Inventory
The
Canadian Recovery Inventory makes available in both English and French more than
1,000 recovery-oriented policies, programs, practices, and research articles, as
well as personal accounts. It allows users to search by keyword, resource type,
topic, geographic location, and language to find resources relevant to their
needs and interests. This inventory will help service providers, administrators,
governments, policy makers, family members, and people with lived experience,
and anyone interested in the topic to learn more about recovery and how to make
it a reality across Canada’s mental health system.
The
concept of recovery refers to the journey of living a satisfying, hopeful, and
contributing life, even with on-going limitations from mental health problems
and mental illnesses. The Mental Health Strategy for
Canada identifies
recovery as central to improving health outcomes and quality of life for people
living with mental health problems or mental illnesses and their families.
Recovery oriented approaches to mental health have been championed by people
with lived experience and their families for decades and is now embraced by many
policy makers and providers.
Stakeholders
from across the country identified the need for this inventory of
recovery-oriented resources and many have already contributed to it. You can
submit additional resources to the Inventory and help make sure that it is up to
date and reflective of the evolving recovery landscape in Canada.
Submit
a resource to
the Canadian Recovery Inventory.
October
5 to 11, 2014 is Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW). Visit
the MIAW
website to
find out more about this annual national initiative organized by the Canadian
Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health and this year’s
FACES
who
are sharing their stories of recovery.