Between 2007 – 2014, the Provincial System Support Program (PSSP), the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and Toronto Public Health collaborated to create three separate Best Practice Guidelines (BPGs) for Mental Health Promotion targeting:
- Children and youth
- Older adults (55+), and
- Refugees.
Additionally, in early 2019, the PSSP released a supplement to the best practice guidelines series titled Evaluating Mental Health Promotion Programs.
Best Practice Guidelines for Mental Health Promotion Programs: Children and Youth
This online resource for health and social service workers provides current, evidence-based approaches to incorporating mental health promotion principles and practices in interventions directed toward children (aged 7–12 years) and youth (aged 13–19 years).
Download Best Practice Guidelines for Mental Health Promotion Programs: Children & Youth.
Best practice guidelines for mental health promotion programs: Older adults 55+
This online resource provides health and social service providers with current evidence-based approaches in the application of mental health promotion concepts and principles for older adults and is intended to support practitioners, caregivers and others involved in developing programs in incorporating best practices approaches to mental health promotion that are directed towards older people (55 years of age and over).
Download Best practice guidelines for mental health promotion programs: Older adults 55+.
Best practice guidelines for mental health promotion programs: Refugees
This web resource is the third in a series of guides promoting positive mental health. It provides health and social service providers ("practitioners") with current evidence-based approaches in applying mental health promotion concepts and principles for refugees. It is intended to support practitioners and others involved in developing programs incorporating best practice approaches to mental health promotion initiatives directed towards refugees.
Download Best practice guidelines for mental health promotion programs: Refugees.
Download Best practice guidelines for mental health promotion programs: Refugees (Worksheet).
Evaluating Mental Health Promotion Programs Supplement
This supplement complements the guides by providing additional direction on evaluating mental health promotion programs based on the BPGs. It will support program planners and evaluators in tracking program progress and outcomes. This supplement is general to all three guides, and it can also be applied to existing programs with objectives that align with any of the guidelines.
Download Evaluating Mental Health Promotion Programs.