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MentalHealthCamp Toronto — an unconference about Mental Health
May 28, 2010, at the Bram and Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library

OPEN CONVERSATIONS / MENTAL HEALTH 2.0

MentalHealthCamp Toronto (MHCTO) is a facilitated, participant-driven, web 2.0-enabled conference centered around mental health. MHCTO builds on the experience of the international HealthCamp movement and the first MentalHealthCamp held in Vancouver in 2009.

Mental health concerns everyone. So if you’re a mental health professional, someone with lived experience of mental health problems, a family member or friend of a person with mental health problems, or have a passion or an interest in the topic, then MentalHealthCamp is for you! MHCTO also welcomes technophiles, change architects and all sorts of social media types.

We live in a society with access to the newest technologies, open access to information and the possibility to connect through social media and online communities. Our goal for MentalHealthCamp is to ignite conversations around how can we use these technologies to promote better mental health and help improve the lives of people with mental health problems.

At MHCTO, we will take an unconference approach where the agenda is based on attendees’ interests. If you are:

• Fascinated by how blogging, Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks can impact people’s mental health,
• Concerned about privacy in the e-health era, or
• Intrigued by how we can start early with youth to reduce stigma using tools they are comfortable with

You will have the chance to jot down these or any other conversation topic on an agenda and lead or co-lead a session! Or find a topic that interests you and engage in the discussion.

All your questions are valid. Please come prepared to dialogue about the future of mental health 2.0.

The age of digitization and technology enabled living is here and has catalyzed a new paradigm of participation. Please bring your ideas, questions and open minds as we work on solutions that are possible today and that we are dreaming about for tomorrow.

Read more at mentalhealthcampto.org; follow on twitter.

To register: http://guestlistapp.com/events/16869

Email: mentalhealthcampTO@gmail.com

This week David J. Powell presented at Leading Edge Seminars in Toronto. Dr. Powell is founder and President of  The International Center for Health Concerns in East Granby, CT. He is assisting in developing 12 step programs and treatment centers in China, Turkey and Nepal. Read more about him here.

Two libraries we’ve supplied over the years are now closing: AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) Library and Marion Powell Health Information Centre.

Words on the Wall: A Fundraiser for Plaques for the 19th Century Patient-Built Wall

Help us put Words on the Wall

The Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto (PSAT) is giving out bricks to serve as the basis for a work of art.  Artists and groups are welcome to use the medium of their choice. Works will be displayed and sold as part of a silent auction to help raise funds for historic plaques to commemorate the history of the patient-built wall at the Queen Street Site of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Words on the Wall will be held on April 21, 2010 at the Gladstone Hotel in conjunction with This is Not a Reading Series. There will be a wall tour led by historian Geoffrey Reaume, followed by a relaunch of the 2 nd  edition of his book, Remembrance of Patients Past (University of Toronto Press). We will end the evening with a silent auction of the bricks donated by artists.

To view or download a pdf flyer, click here.
To request a brick or for more information, please email psychsurvivorarchives [at] gmail.com or phone 416-661-9975 or 416-809-1013.
For more information about PSAT visit www.psychiatricsurvivorarchives.com
For more information about This Is Not A Reading Series visit www.tinars

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: APRIL 7, 2010