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The Creating Web-based Educational Resources on Deinstitutionalization project is a British Columbia initiative which we envision growing to encompass professional post-secondary education across Canada.

We are using seed funding to develop a comprehensive grant application during 2009-2010.  Our project will be an interprofessional mental health curriculum package about mental health for application in professional programs in social work, nursing, education, law and medicine. This set of teaching materials will be based on the rich array of patient narratives, professional publications, multi-media material, and policy documents gathered through the Open Doors: Locating Mental Health after the Asylum project.

Key to the process of creating a larger national project will be a series of consultations which we will be conducting with educators, practicing professionals, consumer/survivor and other community groups, and specialists in web-based teaching and learning technologies across BC.  We will explore how the exciting set of data generated by the Open Doors project, and the multi-media technological potential offered by the web, can be incorporated into an innovative set of educational materials.  We believe that the result will enhance the graduate education of practitioners in a broad range of mental health-related fields.

Please revisit this page for project updates.

Funding for Creating Web-based Educational Resources was provided through an Open Learning Award (Thompson Rivers University), 2009.

Collaborators: Diane Purvey (Thompson Rivers), Katherine Teghtsoonian (University of Victoria) and Megan Davies (York University)

For futher information regarding this project please contact:

Diane Purvey, Thompson Rivers:  diane.purvey@historyofmadness.ca
Kathy Teghtsoonian, University of Victoria: kathy.teghtsoonian@historyofmadness.ca