Canada’s national Mental Health Week (May 4-10, 2015) focuses this year on men’s mental health — and the correlation between physical and mental illnesses.
Mental illness often goes undetected or untreated in men due to pressures of stigma
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The City of Victoria’s poet laureate Yvonne Blomer will lead an event on May 7, 2015, sponsored by Island Health, marking the first annual Mental Health and Substance Use Awareness Day
Dialogue promotes recovery-oriented mental health care
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The World Health Organization, along with the Mental Health Commission of Canada, has endorsed the transformation of mental health care based on a recovery model that promotes consumer empowerment and involvement in service delivery
#Nanaimo marathoner to raise funds for mental health programs
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Vancouver Island Mental Health Society (formerly Columbian Centre Society) board member (and Vancouver Island University professor) Mark Blackell will head to this year’s Boston Marathon and he hopes to raise some much-needed funds for mental health programs in the process. Contribute here.
How about a little decrease in consumerism to go with your spring cleaning?
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A former professional organizer, Alison Roberts has helped thousands of people discover a new way of living (hint…less is more)
Vancouver Island communities are working to address the risks associated with hoarding
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Hoarding is increasingly recognized as a significant problem within the Island Health region. An estimated 1 in 25 people have some level of hoarding behaviour, and about 11,000 homes may have a hoarding problem in the Greater Victoria area.
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