Upcoming webinars
Integrated Mental Health Care for Refugees - What Works? For Whom? Why?
Thursday, June 11, 1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
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Dr. Nancy Clark, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Victoria, British Columbia)
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Alejandro Argüelles Bullón, GMBPsS MRSPH, Graduate Mental Health Researcher and PhD Student, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Frontline providers know this reality well. Refugees don’t arrive with “mental health needs” neatly separated from housing, income, language, family reunification, or immigration stress. Yet our systems are still organized as if those needs exist in isolation. The result? Clients fall through gaps, staff burn out trying to hold systems together, and meaningful integration remains the exception rather than the norm.
This engaging and practice-focused webinar shares findings from a British Columbia based realist study that asked: what actually makes integrated mental health care for refugees work, and what causes it to fail?
The session will resonate deeply with frontline staff who regularly “stretch” their roles to support clients, as well as leaders grappling with system pressures and sustainability.
About the presenters:
Dr Nancy Clark is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Her research focuses on social and structural inequities experienced by underserved populations, including groups negatively affected by displacement (i.e., refugees and other groups that experience displacement and structural vulnerabilities due to war, environmental change, and political persecution). She examines how age, sex/gender, ethnicity/race, class/poverty, and other social identity categories shape and are shaped by structural determinants of mental health, and how health and social systems respond to build resilience and adapt to the needs of these population groups.
Alejandro Argüelles Bullón, GMBPsS MRSPH, is a mental health researcher and PhD candidate in Mental Health at Lancaster University, where he received the Dean’s Ben Booth Award for Outstanding Contribution. His research focuses on a wide range of mental health topics, using realist approaches to understand what works, for whom, and why across different contexts and populations. He places a strong emphasis on inclusion, lived-experience roles, and health system responsiveness. He is currently affiliated with Lancaster University, the University of York and the University of Victoria as a mental health researcher.
