Shawn Fisk

Contributor

Shawn Fisk, Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships, CAPSA, has more than 20 years of peer leadership and clinical experience in national implementation, practice transformation, leadership development and systems design focused on dignity as the starting point for care.

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Oct 27, 2026

by Shawn Fisk AnneMarie Churchill

Substance use health: A different starting point

For decades, Canada gradually shifted its thinking, and its language, from mental illness to mental health. That evolution was about much more than terminology. It broadened the conversation beyond diagnosis and treatment to include prevention, wellbeing, resilience and the conditions that help people thrive.