Opening Minds (Mental Health Commission of Canada)

On my commute on the Canada Line, I was reading about the Opening Minds initiative of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. As many of you know, mental health is NOT one of my research areas. However, I am very interested in this field for various reasons, not the least of them, the fact that I co-organized Mental Health Camp ‘09 with my dear friend Isabella Mori). The initiative was launched at the beginning of October, so I’m not too late in learning about this. Its focus is on reducing stigma (a goal that is near and dear to my heart, and to many of my co-collaborators with Mental Health Camp).

Opening Minds, the largest systematic effort in Canadian history to reduce the stigma of mental illness, was officially launched on Friday 2 October by the Honourable Michael Kirby, Chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada.

The one thing that worries me is that a cool project on media portrayal of mental illness (the exact title appears to be “Mental Illness: Language and Content in News Media Coverage“ that is not within my areas of expertise. I can do very good media analyses and have both very strong quantitative AND qualitative research skills, but as I said I’m not really an expert on media studies nor on mental health. So since the call for proposals closes on Dec 15th, I’m crowdsourcing this and hoping to find someone who can collaborate on this project with me and a few other people I want to get involved in this.

Suggestions, anyone?

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