eMHIC Member News

Approximately 1.25 million people in New Zealand need mental wellbeing support every year. Less than half of them are supported by public health services and registered counsellors, leaving just over 800, 000 without support. Ember Innovations is on a mission to bridge this gap.

The importance of promoting mental health and providing timely evidence-based care for people suffering from mental health conditions has perhaps never been so well recognized. Along with its many unprecedented challenges, the emotional toll of the COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness about psychological distress and has catalyzed open discussions about …

MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) is an innovation office established by the Ministry Of Health (MOH) in 2018 to lead, facilitate and accelerate system-level changes needed to transform healthcare delivery and the empowerment of health and self-management of disease.

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Digital Hub for Mental Health (‘the Digital Hub’) acts as the coordinating centre for mental health in APEC, which is made up of 21 member economies across the Asia Pacific region. The Digital Hub is hosted in Canada at the University of British Columbia …

Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) embarked on its e-mental health journey in 2010 when the Department of Health and Community Services began implementing e-mental health options on a small scale with a minimal budget. At that time, innovative services were explored, with calculated risks taken, that proved successful and allowed the …

The Mental Health Commission of Canada, in collaboration with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), has developed four online learning modules, based on their Toolkit for E-Mental Health Implementation.

eMHIC Board Member and President and CEO of the National Mental Health Commission of Canada, Michel Rodrigue shares his thoughts on the eMHIC Congress held in November, 2022, saying “It gave me the a chance to examine some of the ways technology (while not the answer to all our problems) …

Thursday 11 November 2022 marked the launch of Australia’s first national Indigenous-led crisis hotline, 13YARN. Funded by the Australian Government (through the Department of Health), the purpose-built, 24/7 national telephone helpline was codesigned with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and is run with the support of Lifeline.

Despite considerable advances in awareness and understanding of mental health, negative or offensive perceptions of those experiencing mental illness are still common. SANE StigmaWatch was established in 1997 as one of the first programs in the world to address public stigma in the media. Today, it is still the only …

ReachOut PeerChat is a safe, digital one-to-one peer support service that allows young people to connect with trained peer workers who offer perspective, learnings and support through their own lived and living experience of mental ill health and tough times. PeerChat is free, available to young people aged 18 to …