A participant known as Nelson said he had hopes of going into acting, but was disappointed when a counsellor set him up with a theatre company dedicated to “people affected by mental illness”
A recently published UBC study reveals some moving insights into what works and what doesn’t when it comes to treating mental illness in Metro Vancouver youth. Shalini Lal conducted the study between November 2010 and March 2012 as part of her PhD while she was at the University of B.C. studying rehabilitation sciences. The qualitative study was published recently in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. Read the rest of this article at The Vancouver Sun…
Concerned citizens march in Nanaimo on February 21, 2017, in solidarity with cities across Canada struggling with effective responses to the growing opioid overdose crisis
Day of Action follows many recent steps taken by drug user communities and harm reduction advocates to share knowledge, increase frontline supports and cope with the grief of losing loved ones as fentanyl helps fuel an overdose crisis
The Ontario legislature is becoming a place where MPPs are comfortable with acknowledging they are coping with depression or other forms of mental illness. This is a pretty remarkable thing, and is worth pausing to consider.
