National Defence committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee, for this opportunity to speak this afternoon. As you've heard, I'm the president and CEO of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. We're a little more than halfway through the mandate that takes us up to 2017. I'll sp

National Defence committee  We work collaboratively. Have they come to us specifically and asked for help to fix something? No, and I'm quite grateful they haven't, to be honest with you, because I'm not sure there's any quick fix to any of this. And by the way, we do far more than talk. We have many activ

National Defence committee  I don't see there being any barriers. I do want to point out, in answer to your question and a previous one, that DND did come to the commission and say, “Look, we have something to offer and we think you can help to enhance it with the peer support project.” That is something th

National Defence committee  This is something that is pervasive throughout. For anybody to acknowledge that they are having mental health problems in any workplace is akin to career suicide in many cases. So much so.... The work the commission has done with the psychological safety standard for the workplac

Justice committee  Thank you very much. I am Louise Bradley, the president and CEO of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. I want to thank you for the opportunity to listen today to such a wide diversity of stakeholders, including yourselves. The commission has been asked by this government t

Justice committee  I'll speak to the first part of that question, and then Dr. Baillie will speak to the second part. We asked for a meeting with the minister back in November as soon as the press reports came out. We indeed were granted a meeting very soon thereafter. So we did offer to have expe

Health committee  Thank you and have a good afternoon. Mr. Chair and committee members, I'm delighted to be here today. My name is Louise Bradley. I'm the president and CEO of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. I'd like to acknowledge my colleague, Jennifer Vornbrock, the vice-president of

Health committee  Actually, the first test site was in Germany. It was then replicated in 17 other countries, but not in Canada.

Health committee  Well, what we're proposing is that we would do that study in Canada and try to implement it here with a Canadian nuance. That is the proposal we are looking at for suicide prevention going forward.

Health committee  I think we absolutely have to. We know what some of the rates are. We know that approximately 12% of the 4,000 people who tragically die by suicide per year are children and youth, and we know those numbers are much more highly represented in the north. Part of our research st

Health committee  I will correct myself. It is 14% of those between the ages of 10 and 24. We do have figures on suicide attempts as well as people who complete suicide. I don't have those exact figures, but I could certainly get them for you.

Health committee  We do have some of the geographical breakdown. I think the key point here is that when we are looking at the 14%, or the 528 people who die by suicide in ages 10 to 24, a lot more work still needs to be done. In part of the going forward with our research, I think we would cert

Health committee  We don't. The commission does not have that. The indicators report that I was talking about earlier is us more or less mining the data that is existing in the country. Your point is certainly well taken about first responders. We are targeting that group and are doing intervent

Health committee  Well, we already are playing a coordination role, and the strategy is well in place. It is now reflected in approximately nine of the thirteen provinces and territories, so that work is well under way. The strategy was actually developed with the consultation of thousands of peo

Health committee  This was the largest research demonstration project in the world on homelessness and the mentally ill. I could take up the rest of our time here and then some talking about it, but one of the key pieces we have learned from that is the idea of recovery. My colleague from Public H