December 7, 2000 | PDF | HTML
Canadian Mental Health Association Offers Ten Tips for Holiday Peace of Mind
For many, holidays can mean extra pressures: more decisions, more financial burdens, more cleaning and decorating, more cooking, more entertaining. The CMHA suggests that some of the best ways to deal with added stress around the holiday season are common sense strategies...
October 4, 2000 | PDF | HTML
Citizen's 300 km Walk from Victoria to Campbell River Comes to Successful End October 5th: World Mental Health Day
Connie Cross is finishing her historic walk from Victoria to Campbell River tomorrow, a day which also marks World Mental Health Day and National Depression Screening Day...
October 2, 2000 | PDF | HTML
Offering Hope: Depression Screening in BC on October 5th
The Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division is launching the sixth annual National Depression Screening Day province-wide on Thursday, October 5th, 2000...
September 12, 2000 | PDF | HTML
Walking for Mental Health: One Brave Citizen's Step Forward in the Fight Against Stigma
Connie Cross is an extraordinary person with an equally extraordinary mission before her. She's going to walk almost 300 kilometres in 20 days. And she's doing it all for something people rarely talk about, let alone raise awareness and money for...
September 11, 2000 | PDF | HTML
The Promise of Federal Health Care Funding: It's Time for Mental Health
Federal health reform initiatives being finalized between Ottawa and the provinces mean that it is expected money will soon be received by the government of BC to improve the health care system...
May 1, 2000 | PDF | HTML
CMHA Kicks off Annual Mental Health Week With a Focus on Coping with Workplace Stress
May 1st to 7th is the Canadian Mental Health Association's 49th annual Mental Health Week. Recognized across the country, this year's theme is workplace stress...
March 28, 2000 | PDF | HTML
Opportunity to Develop Early Intervention For Mental Illness Missed in BC Budget
The BC Mental Health Monitoring Coalition notes with alarm that the 2000/2001 budget of the BC government has missed the opportunity to develop early intervention programs for young people with a serious mental illness...
March 27, 2000 | PDF | HTML
CMHA Establishes Memorial Fund For Children of Sechelt Suicide Victim
Effective today, the Canadian Mental Health Association's BC Division, in support of CMHA's Sunshine Coast Steering Committee, announces the establishment of a memorial fund for the children of Sarah Gale, a mother of three who battled with mental illness and whose life ended in a tragic suicide two weeks ago...
March 1, 2000 | PDF | HTML
Open Letter to BC's Minister of Health
The allocation in Monday's federal budget of $2.5 billion for provincial health and education programs is an opportunity for BC's Health Ministry to fully address the commitments that it has made to mental health services for British Columbians...
