Vancouver Island Mental Health Society has seen significant change over the past two years, and the organization expects new programming will be added in the near future
Collaboration vital in providing mental health care for kids in northern, rural BC
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Child psychiatrist Dr. Matthew Burkey on challenges and opportunities, and lessons learned from interventions in low- and middle-income countries that can make a difference
Disabled woman faces government threats, nightmarish process over three cents interest
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“This humiliating procedure is repeated monthly, not just for Brown but for all the other people with disabilities, for whom government’s default position seems to be that they must be scammers”
Comment by Stephen Hume — A. J. Brown, the artist challenged by deafness and cerebral palsy yet forced to live in poverty because the provincial government claws back her Canada Pension Plan disability benefits, sends me the official monthly financial disclosure form she must submit. It compels her to declare three-cents interest income earned by a bank deposit or face losing provincial benefits. Read the rest of this article at The Vancouver Sun…
Not about us, without us: Creating a program advisory committee for inner city youth
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A Vancouver-based Inner City Youth program, along with its Youth Advisory Committee, provides ways for young people to inform their own mental health care, in a “not about us, without us” approach
United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island makes generous contribution
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Representatives of United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island attended the recent Vancouver Island Mental Health Society annual meeting to present a cheque for $9,500
New board members elected at VIMHS annual general meeting
June 21st, 2016 | Posted by in uncategorized - (Comments Off on New board members elected at VIMHS annual general meeting)Vancouver Island Mental Health Society @VIMentalHealth #Nanaimo new board of directors at tonight's annual meeting pic.twitter.com/ZCf7k3AfFk
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