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Mental health
CAMH launches KnowledgeX mental health portal
TORONTO – The Centre for Addiction
and Mental Health (CAMH) has long been known as a trusted source of
information on mental health and addictions issues. Sharing information
and resources has always been part of CAMH’s mandate to collaborate and
make current research and best practice available to all health
professionals.
With the KnowledgeX (http://knowledgex.camh.net/Pages/default.aspx)
professional portal, CAMH provides the first electronic resource aimed
directly at professionals working in the mental health and addictions
field. This new resource will bridge the gap between research-based
knowledge and practice among researchers, policy-makers and
practitioners to improve client outcomes.
As a leader in research and best practices CAMH has a unique role to
play in the translation and dissemination of knowledge to the mental
health and addictions community.
“This is designed as a dynamic information resource for professionals,
whether they’re specialists or primary care service providers, whether
they work in health promotion or education,” Krystyna Ross, manager,
Publication Service and one of the project leads, says. “Most
importantly, KnowledgeX is built to encourage the participation of
professionals in sharing information, expertise and experience – in
other words, communities of practice.”
The portal will support community-based service providers and efforts to
increase the capacity of the mental health and addiction system by
providing a virtual space (e.g., blogs, discussion boards, wikis) where
addiction and mental health professionals can share ideas and
experience.
Professionals in the field will have access to practical information in
a wide variety of formats (e.g., videos, podcasts, toolkits, research
papers, conference presentations) from a wide variety of sources, not
just those developed by CAMH. As a result, we’ll increase system
capacity by facilitating the development of virtual communities of
practice/learning communities.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada’s largest
mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the
world’s leading research centres in this field.
CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and
health promotion to transform the lives of people affected by mental
health and addiction issues. CAMH is fully affiliated with the
University of Toronto, and is a Pan American Health Organization/World
Health Organization Collaborating Centre.
Posted March 11, 2010
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