Asante Haughton
Asante Haughton is a Jamaican-born Toronto-based human rights and mental health advocate and the co-founder of Reach Out Response Network.
Family life[edit]
Haughton was born Jamaica before moving to Toronto with mother where he was a gifted student.[1] He has two brothers.[2]
Haughton speaks openly about his depression and anxiety[3] which developed from his experiences as a 10th-grade student when his mother tried to take her own life, but ended up instead hospitalized for months.[2]
He used poetry and rap as an outlet for his emotions and excelled at basketball[2] before getting help from his family doctor.[4]
Career and activism[edit]
Haughton is the manager of peer support training[2] at Stella's Place youth mental health organization in Toronto[5][6] and a mental health consultant for Vice.[7]
He co-founded Reach Out Response Network with Rachel Bromberg in 2020[8][3] and contracted COVID-19 the same year.[9]
He does research with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.[10]
Music career[edit]
Haughton raps and has collaborated with Toronto rapper Derek Christoff.[11][12]
Publications[edit]
- Haughton wrote the foreword for Brainstorm Revolution: True mental health stories of love, personal evolution, and cultural revolution, 2018 ISBN 978-1-894813-95-2[13]
- Haughton, A, Ashcroft, R, Menear, M, Greenblatt, A, et al. Patient perspectives on quality of care for depression and anxiety in primary health care teams: A qualitative study. Health Expectations. 2021; 24: 1168– 1177. doi:10.1111/hex.13242
- Ferrari, M., Flora, N., Anderson, K.K., Haughton, A., Tuck, A., Archie, S., Kidd, S., McKenzie, K. and (2018), Gender differences in pathways to care for early psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 12: 355-361. doi:10.1111/eip.12324
- The alternative to calling the police during a mental health crisis, Toronto Star, 2020[8]
References[edit]
- ^ "Asante said Not Today". CAMH. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ a b c d Siebert, M. (2020). Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health. Barbados: Orca Book Publishers.
- ^ a b Gillis, Wendy (2020-08-03). "These mental health advocates are working on an alternative to police intervention when someone is in crisis". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ "Mental illness impact said to be bigger than cancer". CBC. 10 Oct 2012.
- ^ McGillivray, Kate (5 Oct 2021). "Mental health impacts of pandemic on Toronto's young people could linger for years: report". CBC.
- ^ "Meet Our Team at Stella's Place | Young Adult Mental Health". 2021-03-31. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ "Asante Haughton | Canadian Music Week". Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ a b "Blurring the Blue Line | University of Toronto Magazine". University of Toronto Magazine. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ Lavoie, Joanna (23 Dec 2020). "'Never been so sick in my entire life': Toronto man shares his COVID-19 story". Toronto. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ Ferrari, Manuela; Flora, Nina; Anderson, Kelly K.; Tuck, Andrew; Archie, Suzanne; Kidd, Sean; McKenzie, Kwame (2015-01-01). "The African, Caribbean and European (ACE) Pathways to Care study: a qualitative exploration of similarities and differences between African-origin, Caribbean-origin and European-origin groups in pathways to care for psychosis". BMJ Open. 5 (1): e006562. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006562. ISSN 2044-6055. PMC 4298103. PMID 25588783.
- ^ "D-Sisive returns to music after struggle with depression and addiction". NOW Magazine. 2019-01-30. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ "Meet #CAMH #DifferenceMaker Asante Haughton". give.camh.ca. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ Down, Heather; Harris, Natalie M.; Taylor, Courtney (2018). Brainstorm Revolution. Wintertickle Press. ISBN 978-1-894813-95-2.