Database of Health Workforce Innovations
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Ontario Mental Health COVID-19 Network
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads so does the toll on Ontarians providing frontline healthcare: doctors, nurses, nursing aides, paramedics, PSWs, and so on. It has become evident that this population lacks adequate emotional and mental support, and can feel isolated and stigmatized for their contact with those who have been infected.
We are a volunteer network of Ontario-based mental health professionals dedicated to supporting frontline COVID-19 workers during the evolving crisis. Our goal is to help these workers feel connected, supported, and to provide short-term pro bono one-to-one teletherapy for those who need it. We are doing this as a temporary measure during the crisis to help reduce friction, offer fast mental health support, and address a terrible gap in our system around mental health. All therapist volunteers are licensed to perform the controlled act of psychotherapy in Ontario and have generously agreed to provide short-term pro bono one-to-one teletherapy.
- Mental health services
- Community Health Workers
- Medical Imaging Workers
- Medical Laboratory Technologists
- Mental Health Workers
- Midwives
- Nurse Practitioners*
- Nurse Specialists*
- Nurses - Licensed Practical
- Nurses - Registered
- Occupational Therapists
- Paramedics
- Personal Support Workers
- Pharmacy Workers
- Physical Therapists
- Physicians - Emergency
- Physicians - Intensive Care
- Physicians - Primary/Family
- Physicians - Specialists
- Public Health Workers
- Respiratory Therapists
- Social Workers
- Speech/Language Pathologists
- Other Health Care Workers
- Mental Health Services
- Urban/Suburban
- Rural
- Remote
Research Intervention - outcome data available
Karen Dougherty, MA, RP
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Canada - Ontario
Canada