We Matter uses social media and video to speak directly to young aboriginals struggling with desperation, writes Mark Hume
Kelvin Redvers’s work to create a forum for speaking out about suicide among aboriginal youth started last summer when he visited the hamlet of Fort Resolution, in the Northwest Territories, where his mother grew up on the shores of Great Slave Lake. Read the rest of this article at The Globe and Mail…
Family Fun Dayz at McNab’s Corn Maze, originally planned for Saturday October 22nd, has been cancelled due to excessive rain and ongoing storms. The event vendors were not able to access the area to setup. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. We will reschedule and appreciate your ongoing support! — Vancouver Island Mental Health Society
“You can’t break down over everyone who dies because there’s a guy going down like every week,” says Drake Smith
VICTORIA — Drake Smith knew he was going to overdose. He was in a bathroom downtown. His friends had told him to only do half a hit, but if you only do half, he said, you can’t get the same rush. So he did the whole thing. The heroin was laced with fentanyl, an opioid up to 100 times stronger than heroin. Read the rest of this article at Times Colonist…
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
Author Zander Sherman says that “the point of institutionalized education has never been to benefit the student for his or her own sake, based on the understanding that the activity of learning is an intrinsically worthwhile endeavour”
Study from Mental Health Commission of Canada warns that costs for crisis care could spike
Canada must match its multicultural, open-door immigration policy with tailored mental health services or face inflated costs for crisis care down the road, warns a new report being released today. The sweeping study by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, obtained by CBC News, finds that immigrants generally arrive with better mental health than the Canadian-born population — something referred to as the “healthy immigrant effect.” Read the rest of this article at CBC…
