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West Vancouver districts began at Halifax West High School and updated version was sent to all
implementing the Guide resource welcomed 285 professionals partners allowing them to reflect the
in every grade nine classroom. from various sectors of health changes in their own versions. Most
Feedback from both students and and education. The conference recently, the Guide was translated
teachers has been positive and more covered a wide range of topics into French and the corresponding
districts in the area plan to follow their related to adolescent mental health training slides are currently going
lead. and consisted of four keynote through the translation process and
presentations paired with a series of should be completed in the coming
In addition to this online course, in breakouts. Satisfaction surveys were months. These translated versions
collaboration with St. Francis Xavier conducted after the Academy and will be made widely available to
University, Western University and the feedback was overwhelmingly French school boards across Canada
Dalhousie University, the chair positive with many hoping to attend a for their use and implementation.
is currently developing an online similar event in the future.
professional development course A new portal on the
for pre-service teachers through the Ahead of the Academy, a three-day TeenMentalHealth.Org website
Faculty of Education at the University blended professional learning (on which hosts all mental health literacy
of British Columbia. The course the Go-To Educator and Curriculum resources, including the Guide, went
will be marketed as Teach Mental Guide) session was held and led live this past March. The site includes
Health and will be included in some by Dr. Kutcher which hosted guests a master trainer’s portal for those who
university pre-service programs. It from Romania, Portugal, England, have received training and require
will be online, self-guided and easily the Northwest Territories, Yukon, access to the slides and appropriate
accessible to any pre-service teacher British Columbia, and the Maritime handouts. It also outlines the different
regardless if their post-secondary provinces. The group of 35 attendees professional development offered
institution includes it as part of their were formally trained with the ability along with information on our mental
teacher-education program. Teach to bring back their knowledge and health literacy resources, including
Mental Health is expected to launch train others in their own communities. Transitions, Know Before You Go and
in June 2018. the Mental Health and High School
This past year, Transitions underwent Curriculum Guide. To view the full
The chair marked its tenth revisions and updates making it the site: http://teenmentalhealth.org/
anniversary this past year and to third edition, Transitions: Making the schoolmhl.
commemorate the occasion, a most of your campus experience. The
celebration was held at Dalhousie resource was distributed to post- This past year Dr. Kutcher was
University’s Great Hall in late April. secondary partner institutions of the appointed to a two-year term with the
Dr. Michael Teehan, head of the LIST (Learn, Identify, Support and Royal College International Program
Department of Psychiatry, moderated Treat) project, in order to be made Review Accreditation Committee.
the event which included Mayor Mike accessible to first-year students upon President and CEO of the Royal
Savage, former IWK President Tracy arrival at university. All participating College of Physicians and Surgeons
Kitch, Dean of Dalhousie’s Faculty locations (Mount Allison University, of Canada, Dr. Andrew Padmos,
of Medicine, David Anderson, and Mount Saint Vincent University, confirmed the appointment which
Minister of Immigration, Lena Diab, St. Mary’s University, NSCC and will run from February 2018 until
all praising the positive influence Holland College) also received February 2020.
the chair has had on the local and clinical upgrade training for their staff.
national adolescent mental health The project is currently gathering
community over the past decade. data on the success of the resource
The complete ten-year report on campus and the response from
can be found by visiting: http:// first-year students. Data collection is
teenmentalhealth.org/10-years/. expected to wrap-up sometime this
spring.
This past summer, the chair team
hosted the fifth Mental Health The Mental Health and High School
Academy. The two-day event was Curriculum Guide also underwent
held in the Bella Rose Theatre revisions over the past year. The

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