When first contacting my community connection(better help), I emailed the organization explaining this project and why I chose this topic etc. They then responding telling that they couldn’t help me because all of their representatives are all busy working with patients so I chose to change my organization to CAMH. CAMH is a teaching hospital that is focused around mental health. I contacting them by emailed and they replied saying that all of the information I could find was on their website and through their educational courses about mental health and it also goes into depth about certain mental illnesses.
The only challenge with my community connection is that I’m not directing speaking to a representative from CAMH, which gives me less of a personal approach and it is also a disadvantage for me because I won’t be able to do interviews. Although I’m not talking to someone personally, their website provides all of the information I need to complete the project and I’m getting what I need.
My SMART goal is to educate myself and others about mental health and to also just gain all the knowledge I can. The CAMH website has been helping me to reach this goal, I am using their education tool that provides a course on depression and other mental illnesses, and I am acquiring a lot of information.
My next step with pairing my topic/project with this organization, is to use all of the information from the course(s) and other tools on their website; and incorporate it into my project so that all of the information is reliable.
Passion Project-Mental Health 