Welcome to the IRMHP leadership course
Video: Welcome to the course
With Dr. Kwame McKenzie and Aamna Ashraf
Welcome to the Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Leadership Course. The course is designed for leaders working with the immigrants and refugees in the health, settlement, and social service sectors. Boards and leaders shape the environment in which services are delivered, through advocacy, through the areas of focus of their strategic and operational plans, and through policies and programmes. Because of that, they need to understand the demographic landscape and what they need to do, to ensure that health and social services are responsive to needs. This will lead to efficient use of resources, better health outcomes, reduce inequities, and good quality of life across the Canadian population. Our leadership course is a short, free, self-directed course, which includes case scenarios at a leadership level, reflective questions, videos, and engaging quizzes to solidify your learning. This course will help leaders understand how to tailor their services to newcomers, how to reduce barriers to service use, how to build partnerships, how to enhance protective factors, and how to support staff mental health. I'd like to thank you in advance for taking the course. We hope this will increase your knowledge as a leader and support the important work you do with immigrant and refugee populations.
Course overview
Key takeaways of the course
When you improve health equity, you improve the quality of your organization's services and outcomes for clients. Informed leaders are essential for improving mental health services for immigrants and refugees.
Leaders can consider the following:
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Address and improve the mental health of immigrants and refugees by recognizing their diverse needs – a one size fits all approach does not work.
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Guide their staff to identify the social determinants affecting the mental health of immigrants and refugees.
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Use evidence based approaches at all levels of the organization and ensuring that practices are in place to improve equitable services.
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Build trauma informed organizations, promoting anti-racism, engaging with communities, ensuring that tools and monitoring are in place to improve equitable quality of services and promoting self-care for staff.
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Equip staff with the right tools and support so that they are capable of delivering equitable care, and providing equal access to services and supports which deliver equitable recovery.
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Promote self-care at every level of the organization and identifying risks.
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Engage with communities and developing partnerships and pathways.
This is a free, self-directed online course that lasts for six weeks, and which you can complete at your own pace.
