December 5, 2005 | PDF | HTML
Canadian Mental Health Association Offers Tips for Coping with holiday Anxiety and Stress, and Hope for Those who Suffer Year-Round
The Canadian Mental Health Association's Givehope.ca website provides strategies for battling holiday anxiety, and an opportunity to give so that people most affected by mental illness will continue to find a place where they are not alone...
November 25, 2005 | PDF | HTML
Canadian Mental Health Association's BC Division Endorses Establishment of new Mental Health Commission
The Canadian Mental Health Association, BC Division, applauds yesterday's announcement by federal Health Minister, Ujjal Dosanjh, to establish a Canadian Mental Health Commission. "This is a significant milestone nationally in creating a strategic mechanism to better support people with mental health and substance use problems in our communities," says Bev Gutray, Executive Director of CMHA BC Division...
April 15, 2005 | PDF | HTML
Canadian Mental Health Association Kicks off Annual Mental Health Week in May with a Focus on Mind+Body Fitness
It's one thing to look after your body, but don't forget about your mind! Mind+Body Fitness is the theme of the Canadian Mental Health Association's 54th annual Mental Health Week, May 2 to May 8, across BC and Canada. This year's theme asks British Columbians: what if we paid as much attention to or knew as much about nurturing our mental health as our physical health?...
March 7, 2005 | PDF | HTML
BC Launches New Program to Improve Police Response during Mental Health Emergencies
The provincial office of the Canadian Mental Health Association has just launched a program to improve responses by police to people with mental illness in crisis. The six-month pilot project, called Building Capacity: Mental Health and Police Project (BC:MHAPP), will involve six communities across BC: Cranbrook, Williams Lake, Nanaimo, Vancouver, Richmond and Delta...
February 17, 2005 | PDF | HTML
Canadian Mental Health Association Launches Art Book on Depression
The Canadian Mental Health Association is proud to announce the release of Responding to the Call, an adult picture book to help those suffering from depression understand what Vernon artist Suzan Milburn calls 'a gift'. The full-colour art book features drawings by Milburn, an artist who prior to her depression had never drawn anything in her life, weaved together with a narrative by the author about what the 'gift' of depression feels like from the perspective of those living with it...
February 17, 2005 | PDF | HTML
Federal Health Minister, former CNN Anchor, author of The Corporation among speakers at February 3rd workplace mental health conference
With cutting-edge speakers from across North America, the February 3 Bottom Line Conference at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre hopes to demonstrate to business leaders that there are definite financial benefits to creating healthy workplaces. The conference is of particular interest to the business community including CEOs, labour leaders, managers, HR professionals, Employee Assistance Program professionals, benefits administrators, government officials and those interested in occupational health...
