The MH@W project has been terminated at the request of the client. This website will remain online for the near future as an archived site.
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“Don’t shun us”
Posted on 23/07/2009 by Harold Jarche
From the UK’s Time to Change is this 4 minute video sponsored by Comic Relief for Red Nose Day (13 March 2009).
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“Please see my value”
Posted on 16/07/2009 by Harold Jarche
In our first Shift Videocast, Paul talks about his diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the attitudes of the general public towards mental illness. Shift Videocast 1 is this touching short video of Paul’s story: Most interesting for me is that Paul says he didn’t get help from the street or from his co-workers [...]
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The medium is the message
Posted on 13/07/2009 by Harold Jarche
In the last half of the 20th century in Canada it was mostly assumed that as an adult you had a driver’s licence and that you most likely owned or had access to a car. I know, I didn’t get my licence until I was 26 and that made me a very rare specimen indeed. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Mental health across the pond
Posted on 27/05/2009 by Harold Jarche
Shift is England’s initiative to tackle the stigma around mental health in society and its counterpart in Scotland is called See Me. Both sites feature a number of excellent videos that highlight particular issues. Shift has worked with the producers of the BBC series The Office and has made several videos available via their YouTube [...]
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A learning journey
Posted on 19/05/2009 by Harold Jarche
Over the next six months I am going to learn about mental health and the workplace. It will be a learning journey for me, but also a job (I’m getting paid to do this). I was approached to help with a project that would connect all of the good research being done by the Mental [...]
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