Funding from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC), provided in 2012, allowed for the inclusion of mental health-targeted research activities into the U-ACT research project to examine the level of service integration and coordination in the mental health sector locally, including opportunities, gaps, and barriers existing in those sites to accessing mental health and addictions servi [...] There are two outcomes from the UATF study that are of particular importance to the following report, these include: the desire and need to build research capacity within Aboriginal communities; and the need to improve the state of urban Aboriginal mental health. [...] The USAI Research Framework The outcomes of the UATF research contributed to the OFIFC’s development of the USAI Research Framework in 2012. [...] Front line workers in Ontario suspect that similar findings would be made within the urban Aboriginal community and insist that more research is required to examine concurrent disorders in mental health and addiction.2 Mental health in the Aboriginal culture is part of wholistic well-being; physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health all play a part in the overall health of an individual and [...] There is overwhelming recognition from Aboriginal organizations, and growing understanding on the part of provincial and federal government that the Aboriginal community must drive the identification of issues and development and implementation of mental health programming for meaningful results to be achieved.
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