InSPIRE 2025

Thank you for attending InSPIRE 2025!

The Waypoint Research Institute hosted the Integrating Science, Practice, Innovation, Research and Experience (InSPIRE) 2025 conference in Blue Mountain, Ontario on June 3rd & 4th, 2025. This conference aimed to highlight and explore innovative and inclusive approaches to research, practice, and engagement in the mental health and substance use sector. Thank you to all our attendees, presenters, sponsors, exhibitors, and volunteers for making this a wonderful event!

This conference featured diverse topics, both academic and applied, including:

• Knowledge translation/mobilization

• Implementation science

• Quality and/or systems improvement in mental health and substance use health, and

• Collaboration/ partnerships between mental health and other related systems.

Attendees had access to lightning talks, workshops, discussions, conversations, as well as traditional academic paper presentations.

The target audience for this conference was anyone with an interest in knowledge translation and implementation science, and issues relating to evidence-based practices in mental health and addictions. The focus is interdisciplinary and was of interest to:

• Hospital or community-based clinicians 

• People with lived experience 

• Researchers and academics

• Knowledge translation/implementation practitioners

• Students 

• Public health

• Community members

• Project managers 

• Leaders and policy makers in mental health and substance use health