As a one-stop shop for community and social programming, Integrated Youth Service Hubs could be ideal settings for identifying and supporting youth with severe mental illnesses like bipolar disorder.

Understanding whether behavioural science can help family doctors and psychiatrists reduce the time lag between bipolar disorder symptom onset and diagnosis – and the negative impacts of this disease on people’s quality of life.

Co-creating a common agenda for bipolar disorder research and care in Canada, and developing a digital self-management tool.

Training organizations across Canada to deliver self-management workshops for bipolar disorder.

Exploring how moms and moms-to-be interact with psychoeducational social media and digital content, and whether these could have positive mental health benefits.

Developing a strategy for scaling an automated one-way text messaging service across Canada to reach more moms with high-quality pregnancy and parenting information.

Building capacity in perinatal care providers to support their patients’ mental health via a “phone-a-psychiatrist” service.

Understanding the needs of family support centre staff in supporting perinatal women and birthing people.

Testing task shifting to treat postpartum depression, with the aim of developing low-cost, low-intensity, highly scalable interventions that could be delivered by nurses or peer supporters.

Advocating for and raising awareness about the need for increased access and more timely perinatal mental health services.

Through everyday supports like coffee meet-ups, stroller walks, and workshops, Life With A Baby provides a gateway to peer-led mental health supports for pregnant and new parents who need it.

Developing a virtual screening, referral, and care platform for perinatal women to be able to access the right intensity of care based on their level of need.

Formalizing a coordinated approach among perinatal mental health stakeholders in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Painting a clearer picture on the state of perinatal mental health by improving data surveillance, and developing care guidelines for women’s healthcare providers.

Improving Black and racialized maternal health and birth outcomes in Canada through a holistic virtual perinatal healthcare centre.