Madeline Springle is a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Calgary, who is winning awards for her ability to mobilize knowledge. Specifically, she is taking the research she has done into one-way video interviews, and using it to help people who might use this knowledge to better prepare for their own job search.

Visit our 2025 Psychology Month page as we add spotlights throughout February.

Knowing that a federal election is around the corner, the CPA recognizes the importance and need to continue to invest in our collective mental health; which brings with it a number of health, social and economic dividends that benefit individuals, families, communities and the country as a whole. With the objective of contributing to the country’s public policy-making when it comes to mental health, the CPA has developed a policy primer entitled The Federal Government & Mental Health Policy…Preparing for the Next Federal Election. The CPA has focused on a select number of policy issues where the federal government can play a strong leadership role: (1) improving and expanding publicly funded access to psychological services; (2) improving employer-based coverage for psychological services; (3) increasing the number of practicing clinical psychologists, and (4) increasing investment in psychological research.

The CPA has created new “Psychology Works” Fact Sheets on Narcissism and on Family Building for Gender Diverse Individuals.

Narcissism – PDF | HTML
Family Building for Gender Diverse Individuals – PDF | HTML

You can find all of our “Psychology Works” Fact Sheets here

The CPA is pleased to offer four grants valued at $2500.00 each for equity deserving psychology student affiliates, and two grants valued at $2500.00 each for black psychology student affiliates. To qualify for this bursary, students must be enrolled in, or have been accepted into, a psychology graduate program at a provincially or territorially chartered Canadian University as a full-time student and be student affiliates of the CPA in good standing, at the time of application and if successful, for the duration of the bursary. The purpose of this bursary is to off-set personal living expenses and/or tuition fees.

Deadline for applications is March 31, 2025.

For more information, click here.

CPA2025 will take place from June 12-14, 2025, at the St. John’s Conference Centre in St. John’s, NL. Pre-convention Professional Development Workshops to take place on June 11^th. This is an event not to be missed!

CPA Members and Student Affiliates who identify as Indigenous can obtain a registration fee waiver if registering by June 3rd.

(http://convention.cpa.ca/registration/)

The Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) released it 3^rd annual mental health-substance use health report card. It is clear that there remains a gap between what the people of Canada expect from their governments and what they are delivering. More must be done to ensure people in need of support for their mental health and substance use health get the care they need, when they need it. See news release and survey.

While completing her psychology PhD, Sommer Knight is busy putting everything she learns to use. She co-hosts a radio show and has now written a children’s book to advance the conversation about mental health in Black families and Black communities. She joins the CPA podcast Mind Full to talk about Today is a Rainy Day.

Podcasts and Profiles

The CPA has signed a statement published by the GPA, Democratic Systems and Psychological Science: A Collective Statement and Call to Action. The members of the GPA have recognized the profound impact of social and political determinants on mental health and call upon psychologists worldwide to advocate for the protection and promotion of democratic systems as a means to enhance health globally.

A call for articles is now open for a new issue of Psynopsis titled Application of Psychological Research to Policy Making, Interventions, and/or Programming. We are inviting insightful articles that discuss instances where psychological research either has been or could be used to inform policy, interventions, and/or programming. We also are inviting articles that discuss the importance of using psychology to inform policy, interventions, and/or programming, as well as the challenges of bridging the gap between research and application.

The deadline to submit your article is March 3, 2025. For more information on this issue and submission guidelines, see here.

Dr. Mitch Colp has been elected by the CPA Board of Directors to the position of CPA President and Chair of the Board for the 2025-2026 term. Dr. Colp will bring a collaborative, solutions-oriented approach to this role, dedicated to addressing the evolving needs of our members and the communities we serve.

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As the CPA’s 2020-2025 Strategic Plan comes to an end, the CPA invites all current members and affiliates, which includes its Board of Directors, Committees, Working Groups, Sections, Journal Editors, as well as its Partner Representative Organizations, other external parties, and non-members and non-affiliates of the association to provide input into the CPA’s next strategic plan. Your input is welcomed on the proposed vision, mission, and goals.

The deadline to complete the survey is February 7, 2025. To access the survey, please click one of the links below:

English – https://web2.cpa.ca/membersurveys/index.php/917736?lang=en

French – https://web2.cpa.ca/membersurveys/index.php/917736?lang=fr

The Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH), of which the CPA is a founding member, released a report Take the Money and Run which reviews how the provinces and territories are spending the $25 billion that was part of the 2023 ten-year health agreements with the federal government. The report notes that while the provinces and territories have taken the money, many of them need to up their game in terms of investing these resources to improve timely access to mental health and substance use health care services. See the news release and report.

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We look forward to supporting, promoting, and advocating for you in 2025.