Advancing the Mental Health Strategy for Canada

Cross-cutting Considerations The Framework offers an outline for advancing the recommendations laid out in the six strategic directions in the Strategy, focusing on actions that are likely to have the greatest impact in the shortest amount of time on the mental health of people in Canada and on the Canadian mental health system. [...] The Strategy includes a number of recommendations that focus on building the capacity of people with lived experience to be meaningfully engaged in decision making in mental health, as well as on strengthening the capacity of the collective voices of people living with mental health problems and illnesses, locally, regionally and nationally. [...] The following section provides a brief description of the scope of each pillar and corresponding objectives, along with a brief description of considerations for each objective and the potential role and actions that the MHCC can undertake to achieve each of the objectives. [...] Building on the best advice document, Collaboration for Addiction and Mental Health Care (2014) developed jointly by the MHCC, the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, and the Canadian Executive Council on Addictions, the MHCC can increase its collaborative efforts with the substance abuse sector and its knowledge translation and mobilization activities in this area. [...] The MHCC’s role can continue to focus on expanding the reach of Mental Health First Aid, Working Mind, and the Road to Mental Readiness (R2MR), on promoting the implementation of The National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, and promoting the uptake of the MHCC National Guidelines for a Comprehensive Service System to Support Family Caregivers of Adults with