An “upside down” relationship promotes change

Posted on 29/06/2009 by Harold Jarche

Michael Kirby, head of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, says that Canada’s lack of mental health care is embarrassing.
Kirby hopes the day will come when all Canadians understand that a mental disorder is an illness just like cancer or diabetes.
“You shouldn’t think any differently about somebody simply because their illness is above the neck [...]

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Understanding is the easy part

Posted on 25/06/2009 by Harold Jarche

Not a Difficult Value Proposition
The topic of this blog is mental health at work and my (our) objective is to see if we can use social media (blogs, twitter, etc.) to connect to people who are interested in this issue and are active on the Web.
In the short period that I’ve looked at mental health [...]

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Slide Presentation

Posted on 18/06/2009 by Harold Jarche

In my sense-making and learning mission here at MH@W I took the Facts that had been provided by the Workforrce Advisory Committee and made a short slide presentation that I felt might get a message across. I created a SlideShare presentation called “Did You Know? Do You Care? I would like to build on this [...]

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Knowledge sharing

Posted on 15/06/2009 by Harold Jarche

I’ve been adding information to this website over the past week. It comes from the Workforce Advisory Committee of the MHCC and it’s taking some time for a neophyte like myself to make sense of it all. The amount of information is enormous and my intent is to get as much as possible on this [...]

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