In 2012, the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) released Changing Directions, Changing Lives: The Mental Health Strategy for Canada.
In order to build Canada’s capacity to promote mental health and improve the lives of people living with mental health problems and mental illnesses, the Strategy identified the need for better data collection through “agreement on a comprehensive set of indicators would allow each jurisdiction to measure its progress in transforming the system and improving outcomes over time.”
To help accomplish this goal, the MHCC launched Informing the Future: Mental Health Indicators for Canada in partnership with the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA) at Simon Fraser University.
This is an interesting report of the initial findings. Please click here to view: Mental Health Indicators.
Carlene Dingwall