June discussion paper

In June 2012, the commission released Towards a Mental Health Strategy for Queen’s: A Discussion Paper and invited community feedback, which was integrated into the commission's final report.

Read the Queen's Principal's Commission on Mental Health Discussion Paper, June 2012 (PDF 900 KB)...

Other resources

• Changing Directions, Changing Lives: The first mental health strategy for Canada


• College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and what to do about it


• "College Students and Suicide Risk: Prevention and the Role of Academic Psychiatry," Academic Psychiatry 2012, Vol 36, No 1


• The Cornell University Council on Mental Health and Welfare


• Do it for Daron


• The Health of Canada's Young People: A mental health focus. This national report is a Queen's research initiative.


• Help for Life: Québec's Strategy for Preventing Suicide (PDF 496 KB)


• InvisAbilities


• The Jack Project


• Mental health and well-being in postsecondary education settings: A literature and environmental scan to support planning and action in Canada


• Mental Health Commission of Canada


• Open Minds, Healthy Minds: Ontario's Comprehensive Mental Health and Addictions Strategy (2011) (PDF 385.67 KB)


• Preventing suicide: A resource at work, World Health Organization (PDF 185.6 KB)


• Publications of members of the World Psychiatric Association's section on stigma and mental disorders (2006-2010) (PDF 416.2 KB)

• Report from the Colleges Ontario conference, Focus on Mental Health , Toronto, May 2012 (PDF 3.52 MB)


• Stigmas as a Barrier to Mental Health (PDF 994.6 KB)


• Student Health: Bringing Healthy Change to Ontario's Universities (PDF 676.92 KB)


• Student Mental Health Committee Report (PDF 545 KB)


• Student Mental Health Framework: A guide for supporting students in distress (PDF 717 KB)

• UBC's Mental Health and Well-being Strategy, 2012 


• Youth and Young Adults — Life in Transition: The Chief Public Health Officer's Report on the State of Public Health in Canada