Dr. Tatiana Zdyb Mental Health Promotion Fund

Dr. Tatiana Zdyb Mental Health Promotion Fund

by Dr. Zdyb

Dr. Tatiana Zdyb

The purpose of this fund is to promote the mental health of materially vulnerable Londoners. Health promotion is, as stated in the 1986 World Health Organization (WHO) Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, "the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health." There can be no health without mental health.

While there are a number of social determinants of health that are beyond one's control, access to mental health services should not be one of them. My hope is that this fund will improve access to evidence-based interventions, and in so doing, will improve the mental health of the people in our community.

At present, the fund supports the local collaborative project Bridging Community and Campus Services to Support Students' Mental Health, as well as LCF's Community Fund.