Henry Luyombya Chief Visionary Officer, New African Canadians &Â Co-Chair GMWS 2025
WELCOME! TO GMWS-2026
TRAVEL INFORMATION
Event Venue: Charlottetown is the capital of Canada’s Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown might be a small city, but it’s bursting with big energy and infectious island vibes.
Hotel & Restaurant : Charlottetown is an incredibly vibrant seaside city. It’s full of historic charm, seemingly never-ending festivals and events, artisan shops and world-class restaurants.
Transport: Getting to PEI is EASY, you can drive over Canada’s largest bridge, come by boat, or hop on a flight.
On behalf of the Global Mental Well-being & Substance (Mis)Use Conference leadership team, it is my great honour to welcome you to GMWS 2026.
This year’s theme — Families. Communities. Futures. — reflects a simple but profound truth: the health of our future depends on the strength of our families and the compassion of our communities.
Across cultures, borders, and generations, families remain our first place of learning, love, loss, resilience, and healing. Communities, in turn, become the extended systems that hold us when families are strained, separated, or rebuilding. And it is within these two spaces — family and community — that our collective future is shaped.
GMWS 2026 invites us to move beyond individual approaches to mental health and substance use, and instead embrace a whole-system, whole-family, and whole-community perspective. We gather to listen to lived experiences, challenge existing systems, celebrate cultural wisdom, and co-create solutions that honour dignity, belonging, and hope.
This conference is more than a professional gathering. It is a shared commitment — to protect the vulnerable, empower the unheard, support the healing, and strengthen the bonds that make us human.
As Co-Chair, I invite you to engage openly, reflect deeply, and contribute boldly. May these conversations ignite collaboration, restore compassion, and remind us that when families are supported and communities are connected, futures become possible.
Thank you for being part of GMWS 2026 and for walking this journey of healing, learning, and leadership with us.
With gratitude and wellness,
Henry Luyombya
Co-Chair, GMWS 2026
Global Mental Well-being & Substance (Mis)Use Conference
Registration details can be found on our official website. Early bird and group discounts are available, and the registration deadline will be https://www.globalmws.org/.
Yes, the conference will have both in-person and virtual attendance options to accommodate participants worldwide.
Key topics include strategies for mental health resilience, global trends in mental health care, workplace mental well-being, innovations in therapy, and integrating mental health into global development policies.
The conference is open to mental health professionals, educators, policymakers, researchers, non-profit organizations, business leaders, and anyone interested in mental health and well-being.
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