Our fourth episode in the Children's Mental Health Week podcast series is a conversation with Laurie McCann — mom, police officer, and anti-bullying advocate — on her experience with children's mental health and what we need to do to build a future that takes it seriously.

Notes:

• Join CMHO's #KidsCantWait movement at https://www.cmho.org/stay-informed!
• Laurie McCann on Twitter
• Laurie McCann on Instagram

In the third podcast in the Chatting with Casey Children's Mental Health Week Special, we chat with Patti Rantala from Thunder Bay who helps remind us that Ontario's more than just the Greater Toronto Area. Things can be very different in the north, and we need to understand where everyone's coming from if we want to find a solution.

Courtesy of Children's Mental Health Ontario, it's episode three—Toronto Isn't Everything: Mental Health Across the Province!

Make sure to visit my Children's Mental Health Week page for more great content!

For the second podcast in the Chatting with Casey Children's Mental Health Week Special, I'm chatting with Irwin Elman—the former Ontario Child Advocate—about the state of children's mental health services in our province, what he learned in more than a decade of service in the role, and the things we can do to build a future that our children can feel safe in.

Courtesy of Children's Mental Health Ontario, it's episode two—Let's Not Take Mental Health for Granted!

Make sure to visit my Children's Mental Health Week page for more great content!

It's Children's Mental Health Week, and I've partnered with Children's Mental Health Ontario to bring some additional exposure to some very real stories about children and the struggles they've endured in a world that's only growing more complicated.

To kick the week off, I chatted with Kimberly Moran, Chief Executive Officer of Children's Mental Health Ontario about what CMHO does, why Children's Mental Health Week is important, and what we can all do to be part of the solution.

Come give it a listen!

In Chatting with Casey #17, I sit with Nelson Caetano, Toronto artist, husband and father to chat about our shared histories as comic book fans and creators and his upcoming project The Gathering Place!

You can find Nelson on Twitter!

In Live from the 3.5's third chapter for 2019, we examine the question "Where are you from?"—one that every Canadian person of colour's been asked at one point or another. Not what block, not what city—what country your roots trace back to.

In this episode, I got together with Sherley Joseph from the Black Canadian Content Creators Facebook group, who's Haitian-Canadian, familiar with podcasting, and has some things to say!

Make sure to check this out!

If you want to jump on one of these podcasts yourself, check out the list of topics and let me know that you're interested!

In the midst of interviewing all these guests for Live from the 3.5, I get to bounce bits of my story off of theirs, but I never really get to dive into my story itself.

But in Chapter 2: "Being Black in the Great White North", we look back at a community talk I gave last year to give you some insights on what it's been like for me being Black in Canada! It's not always easy, but it doesn't need to be impossible—we talk about all that and more in this episode!

In 2019's Live from the 3.5 Episode 1, we chat with Asante Haughton, Dad, Black Canadian, and mental health advocate about his views on Blackness and some things we can do to better it. You can catch his work on Twitter or through one of his two TEDx Talks on YouTube.

If you want to jump on one of these podcasts yourself, check out the list of topics and let me know that you're interested!