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Schools teach music, math and coding—why not empathy, tenacity and self-esteem?

May 6, 2019 By Leave a Comment

Canadian Mental Health Association calls for new mental health promotion strategy to get out in front of mental illness.

To mark its 68th annual Mental Health Week, the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) calls for a national mental health promotion strategy to help shore up Canadians’ mental health in the face of rising rates of mental illness worldwide. The call is one of six recommendations outlined in a new national CMHA policy paper, Cohesive, Collaborative, Collective: Advancing Mental Health Promotion in Canada, released today.

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