UNITE: Disrupting Stigma for Better Care

The UNITE Project is a journey into understanding each other’s experiences of stigma to celebrate diversity and create change. Through UNITE, we aim to come together to disrupt social and structural stigma in mental health and substance use care.

About the project: UNITE is a multi-year (2020-23) initiative to address and combat stigma faced by people living with mental health and substance use challenges. It involves a number of initiatives, including a video series, facilitated dialogues with staff, clients and families, community events to promote understanding, and journey mapping with clients to help foster an ongoing culture of excellence in patient experience.

Project Initiatives:

• "Stories of Stigma" mini-documentary series
• Resources for understanding dialogue
  • Understanding dialogue
  • Principles of dialogue
  • Asking good questions
  • Listening
• Resources for facilitating dialogue
  • Hosting dialogue
  • Applying the principles of dialogue
  • Using dialogue to address stigma and discrimination
  • Facilitating dialogue: A toolkit
• Resources for co-design
• Patient and client journey mapping