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Improving Deaf Accessibility in the Workplace
National services helping employers better accommodate Deaf and hard of hearing employees. For the Deaf and hard of hearing community, employment can represent a tremendous challenge. Many find the job-seeking experience to be daunting, while others face employers who don’t feel they have the capacity to hire a hard of hearing employee. Canadian Hearing Services,...
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Embracing Deaf Culture through Art and Fine Tea
Eight unique teas are helping to immerse more Canadians in Deaf culture and experience. Artistic expression may be a language all its own, but it’s one we can all communicate through. Art has the unique ability to transcend culture, highlight shared experiences, and bring people together. From visual to performing, sculpture to canvas, for thousands...
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Boundless Dreams: Canadian Deafblind Athlete and Champion Kevin Frost
Kevin Frost has always had a passion for sports. Kevin discovered his love of hockey growing up and began refereeing at age 10. Unfortunately, in Grade 6, Kevin was diagnosed with hearing loss — but that didn’t stop him from pursuing his passion. Kevin spent many years working as a referee before the early 2000s...
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Let’s Hear from Deaf Canadians
September 19 to 25, 2022, is known globally as the International Week of Deaf People. As a member of the World Federation of the Deaf, the Canadian Association of the Deaf - Association des Sourds du Canada has undertaken to educate Canadians about the issues we face throughout the year.
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Q&A with Academy Award-Winning Deaf Actor Troy Kotsur
What drew you to pursue a career in acting? When I was younger, back in the ’60s and ’70s, there was no closed captioning, and most TV shows were just dialogue or talking heads. I finally found a cartoon called Tom and Jerry with a lot of action and no dialogue. I could really connect...
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Overqualified and Underfunded: The Paradox of Indigenous Addiction Services
In Canada’s Indigenous communities, born out of necessity when other support was unavailable, a powerful framework of evidence-based addiction treatment and culturally relevant intervention has been developed. It’s arguably the best and most successful such system in the country. And yet these efforts remain so chronically underfunded and under supported by the provincial, territorial, and federal governments that their essential mandate becomes nearly impossible to fulfill.
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Preventing Suicide for People with Substance Use Health Issues
September marks both National Recovery Month and World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10), a time to reflect on lives lost to suicide and substance use and bring awareness to how the two are connected and how suicide can be prevented. People use substances for several reasons. For example, some use substances to cope with unbearable...
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Spike in Mental Health and Substance Use Concerns Persists during Pandemic
Rates of depression and anxiety symptoms and problematic substance use that arose at the beginning of the pandemic remain high more than two years later.
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Q&A with Best Selling Author, Annie Grace
Mediaplanet spoke with Annie Grace, best selling author of This Naked Mind and The Alcohol Experiment.
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Mental Health and Substance Use
Our mental wellness depends on how we think about ourselves, our lives, and the people we know and care about, and that affects our ability to make healthy choices and decisions. Mental health is about enjoying life, having a sense of purpose, and being able to manage life’s inevitable highs and lows.