Today we hosted the Inlight Student Engagement Day on Mental Health Research! Planned by our Student Advisory Committee, the event brought together grads & undergrads from #UTSG U of T Mississauga and University of Toronto Scarborough to discuss their definition of wellness + priorities in #studentmentalhealth research

Data from the Global Burden of Disease Study corroborate the high prevalence of mental disorders affecting children and youths, indicating that more than one out of 10 individuals aged 5 to 24 years globally live with a diagnosable mental disorder. ja.ma/43I8nG0

ok let's try this again..hiring a project coordinator for a new CIHR-funded study. let's do this.

📢The #GlobalSpeakerSeries returns on May 7 for a special two part series during #MentalHealthWeek! Join #UofT researchers + knowledge users for two panel discussions on the latest in #studentmentalhealth research. Register for each session below or at smhr.utoronto.ca/global-researc…

Opening our morning with welcoming remarks from #Inlight2024 hosts Professor Kristin Cleverley (Kristin Cleverley) + Student Advisory Committee members Dela Farzanfar & Dinarshan Chandrakumar, emphasizing the importance of a whole-community approach to #studentmentalhealth at #UofT

Our afternoon Grand Challenges Breakout Sessions, each facilitated by an Inlight researcher and fellow, explore pressing topics in student #mentalhealth research including mobilizing data systems, driving interdisciplinary research, and EDIAI in research design #Inlight2024

Our final panel at #Inlight2024 is on Fostering Compassionate Learning Environments, exploring how classroom spaces can be leveraged to support postsecondary #studentmentalhealth. Student + faculty panelists discuss their research on AI, pedagogy, & student wellbeing at #UofT

How to meet students’ soaring mental health needs without soaring funding Cheryl Regehr and Sandy Welsh explain how the University of Toronto revolutionised its provision without recruiting vast armies of counsellors bit.ly/3QAi43W

Our scoping review protocol on knowledge user engagement🤝in consensus-building healthcare initiatives is published 👇👇👇‼️Stayed tuned 📢 for the results. I'm so fortunate 🍀 to work with this team including super🌟 Alène Toulany pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38719333/

Representing Inlight - Student Mental Health Research at UofT at the Student #mentalhealth conference Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience Student Mental Health Research Network intro led by Dr Nicola Byrom and Julia Pointon-Haas

Michael Priestly discussing importance of building community and belonging within post secondary settings #mentalhealth u-belong.uk U-Belong

All the way from University of Toronto representing Inlight - Student Mental Health Research at UofT, Kristin Cleverley is introducing #SMHC24 to the challenges around service design to support post secondary student mental health. How do we get universities and health services working together?

Inspiring talk by Student Minds Gareth Hughes, co-developer of the University #mentalhealth Charter. Universities role are to support learning in its broadest sense - inclusive of mental wellbeing.

How do we collect and work with large data sets around student mental health? Kristin Cleverley from Inlight - Student Mental Health Research at UofT is chairing a discussion with Chi Baik, James Newham, Anesa Hosein Kieran Balloo Edward Watkins from Nurture-U and Liv Grosvenor from King's College London #SMHC24

We are joined by Chris Bartha from University of Toronto and Inlight - Student Mental Health Research at UofT, Tatjana Damajanovic from TASO and Rachel Spacey from UMHAN to get us thinking about how we evaluate mental health and wellbeing services within Higher Education #SMHC24

Our (accidentally) color-coordinated symposium CPA_SCP on Innovations in Postsecondary Student Mental Health and Wellness Research. Thank you Inlight - Student Mental Health Research at UofT for supporting this research!

Denise E. Bryant-Lukosius McMaster School of Nursing, Kristin Cleverley Kristin Cleverley Bloomberg Nursing, Samantha J. Mayo Samantha Mayo, RN, PhD Bloomberg Nursing, Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham Sheryl Reimer-Kirkha Trinity Western University!

Lots of new students off to uni and others are taking a different path after results yesterday. Last week we published BJPsych Journals comparing the mental health of uni students to similar young people not at uni DATAMIND - HDR UK Hub for Mental Health Research ADR Wales Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health cambridge.org/core/journals/… 1/8

I’m super excited to share this article! (It’s my first time being an author of a published research paper! 🎉) You can read the article here: researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

We teamed up with 10+ youth advisors (also co-authors!) to explore barriers & best practices for #YouthEngagement in health research. Together, we share real strategies for meaningful collaboration. Katherine Bailey (she/her) Brooke Allemang, PhD, RSW Read here: rdcu.be/dSMjJ