A Nationally Award-Winning Journal
Published quarterly, Visions is a nationally award-winning journal which provides a forum for the voices of people living with a mental illness or substance use problem, their family and friends, and service providers in BC. Visions is:
- written by and for mental health consumers (people who have used mental health services) and those with substance use problems, mental health and addictions service providers, family, community members, and mental health and addictions leaders and decision-makers
- a resource for understanding mental health issues and learning ways to put leading mental health policies and programs into practice
- creates a place where many perspectives on mental health issues can be heard and therefore values and promotes contributions of all those who touch and are touched by mental health and addictions issues
- always trying to ask the question, What does it look like in real life? Why should this matter to me? How can I make a difference?
From its inception in 1997 to mid-2003, Visions was a publication produced by CMHA BC Division. Since the fall of 2003, Visions is now a mental health and addictions journal, and is published under the banner of the BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information, a collective of leading, provincial mental health and addictions agencies in BC, of which CMHA BC Division is a member.
Current & Past Issues
- Workplaces: 2009
- Schools: 2009
- Campuses: Spring 2008
- Medications: Fall 2007
- Housing and Homelessness: Summer 2007
- Tobacco: Spring 2007
- Trauma and Victimization: Winter 2007
- First Responders for Young People: Fall 2006
- Treatments for Young People: Summer 2006
- Alcohol: Spring 2006
- Criminal Justice: Winter 2006
- Suicide: Fall 2005
- Stigma & Discrimination: Summer 2005
- Men: Spring 2005
- Women: Winter 2004
- Families: Summer 2004
- Parenting: Spring 2004
- Concurrent Disorders: Winter 2004
- Self-Management: Summer 2003
- Supported Education: Spring 2003
- Eating Disorders: Fall 2002
- Seniors' Mental Health: Summer 2002
- Anxiety Disorders in Children and Youth: Spring 2002
- Employment: Winter 2001
- Spirituality and Recovery: Spring 2001
- Mood Disorders: Fall 2000
- Housing: Spring/Summer 2000
- Cross Cultural Mental Health: Winter 2000
- Sexuality, Intimacy and Relationships: Summer 1999
- Poverty, Unemployment and Income: Winter 1999
- Approaches to Building Mental Health Accountability: Fall 1998
- Community Inclusion: Summer 1998
- What is Mental Health?: Spring 1998
- Women's Mental Health: Winter 1998
- Rehabilitation and Recovery: Fall 1997
- Early Intervention: Spring 1997





