With more time available to concentrate on upgrading some of my technical skills, I’m revisiting Data-Driven Documents (D3) – an extensive library of JavaScript routines that supports many types of data visualization, including graphs, interactive graphics, data-based maps, and information dashboards. D3’s…
John Cutler (@johncutlefish on Twitter) has just published the latest (shorter) version of his Product Team Self-Assessment. I’ve been impressed with John’s clear, pragmatic approach to understanding and promoting team function in a software development environment. His thinking (and perhaps…
The United States confounds me: on the one hand, it evidences a dark, anti-scientific passion that threatens civil society; on the other hand, it advances the application of science and technology to promote the public good. A case in point:…
Today the National Health Service in England published The Topol Review: Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future. The Review proposes three principles to support the deployment of digital healthcare technologies: 1. Patients need to be included as partners and…
Personal Experience A few years ago, my interest in family history lead me to purchase genetic-genealogical services from FamilyTreeDNA. In 2018, FTDNA secretly agreed to allow the FBI to access its database of 2 million records to identify suspects and victims…
Last Fall, I had the privilege of working with the senior leadership, management, and direct-service providers at the Ranch Ehrlo Society, in Saskatchewan. Ranch Ehrlo delivers a wide range of accredited mental health and developmental services on campuses located in Regina,…
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Today the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families launched its self-care web page containing eighty-five mental health self-care activities for young people. The self-care resource was developed by the Common Room and young people from the mental health support group Hearts & Minds….
Yesterday, The Star reported that the Ontario government is considering a plan to consolidate more than twenty healthcare agencies into one “super agency”. The goal would be improving the integration of health services while trimming a bloated bureaucracy. One of…
It’s fashionable – almost de rigueur – these days for public services to outfit themselves as innovators. A case in point: the 2018 Annual Conference of Children’s Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) advertised over fourty keynote addresses and workshops on “Innovations…
I’ve had the privilege of consulting recently to three children and youth mental health services (two in Ontario and one in Saskatchewan) and becoming familiar with their accreditation by three different authorities: Council on Accreditation (COA). Canadian Centre for Accreditation…
Young people sometimes go into hospital for their mental health, to help them get the right level of care and support to help them on their way to recovery. A thoughtful guide – published today by Young Minds (UK) –…
Wise interventions (WIs) are precise, theory- and research-based techniques that address specific psychological processes to help people flourish across diverse life domains. WIs emphasize subjective meaning-making: how people make sense of themselves and social worlds. In turn, they can spur…
Introduction Last week the NHS published its Long Term Plan for health services in England. The plan recognizes the significance of mental health challenges among children and youth (0 to 18 years), including: Mental health problems often develop early and,…
Yesterday, I was introduced to Julia Angwin, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Markup, via a video recording of her presentation on “Journalism for an Open Source World” at the 2018 Fall Conference of the Software Freedom Law Center. In 2003,…
Ontario’s Open Data Directive is intended to maximize access to government data by requiring all data to be made public, unless it is exempt for legal, privacy, security, confidentiality or commercially-sensitive reasons. From time to time, I’ve collaborated with officials…
How to Install Ruby 2.4 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6, Fedora 27/26 Updated on January 18, 2018 by Rahul K. Ruby install ruby, ROR, ruby, ruby 2.4, Ruby on Rails, ruby stable install, ruby-lang Ruby 2.4.2 Released, Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language focused on simplicity and productivity. RVM…
February 24, 2016 By way of introduction, I am the Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC). On December 16, 2015, the OHRC announced that it will use its mandate under the Ontario Human Right Code (Code) to examine the overrepresentation of…
Re: Experiencing mental health diagnosis: a systematic review of service user, clinician, and carer perspectives across clinical settings (The Lancet, 2018-04-18). Yesterday, The Lancet published a systematic review of the research literature on the experience of receiving a mental health diagnosis. The…
COMMITMENT TO POLICY AND FUNDING REFORM First Nations Child and Family Services in Ontario On January 25-26, 2018, Indigenous Services Canada held a national Emergency Meeting to talk directly with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation leadership, and federal, provincial,…