Workplace can play a critical role in your #mentalhealth. Join the conversation for #MHW16 & #GETLOUD https://t.co/CAYyDeR7nE #WorkplaceMH

— CMHA National (@CMHA_NTL) May 4, 2016

Vancouver Island Mental Health Society (VIMHS) is passionate about mental health. We provide supportive housing and psychosocial rehabilitation for adults who are actively experiencing serious mental illness right here at home. VIMHS is committed to raising awareness about mental illness and psychiatric disorders and community education is part of our mandate. We encourage YOU to #GetLoud about mental illness and join our campaign. You can click here to join.

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We all have mental health, just as we all have physical health. Mental health is more than the absence of mental illness. It’s a state of well-being.  Read more about Mental Health Week here…

April 28, 2016–On one typical day late last year, 416 women and children across Canada sought shelter to escape violence. Of that total, however, shelters were forced to turn away 73 per cent of those in need due to a lack of resources and capacity, an annual tally to be released Thursday shows.  Read the rest of this article at The Globe and Mail…