Agriculture committee  My history has been in working with kids, actually, so I've been designing programming for how to bring mental health into the conversation in the classroom, too. When we think about the future of agriculture, I think that a lot of it is actually about preparing the next generati

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. I think that's a really important conversation to be having. Also, I will point out that on our website we do explicitly state that we are not mental health professionals. It's imperative to know that's not our skill set. We are the connection to those resources. I w

Agriculture committee  Absolutely.

Agriculture committee  That's a fabulous question. In terms of innovative ways, there is definitely a progression toward the online community. That's something we've really been working on creating. We have found and noticed a whole lot of success in developing a space that people can come to. Whethe

Agriculture committee  Yes. The preliminary phase seems to be mental health first aid. What mental health first aid does is it gives people the confidence to ask those questions, so it gives the confidence to ask, “Are you okay?”, and to manage the response as well. There's a lot of fear about overstep

Agriculture committee  Dr. Andria Jones-Bitton from the University of Guelph recently conducted a national survey on farmers' mental health. The survey ran from September 2015 to January 2016 and included farmers from all across Canada. She found that 35% of respondents meet the definition for depressi

Agriculture committee  In the name of sharing stories, I've been a part of progressing the conversation around mental health for the past six years in different capacities. Three years ago it became less about sharing other people's stories and more about actually sharing mine. Three years ago almost