Every year, one in five Canadians will experience a mental health problem or illness, at a cost of over $50 billion to our economy. Partners for Mental Health, is a national organization that works to toward a new vision of mental health. One part of their activity is a suicide prevention campaign, which has spawned an award winning video.
Jeff Moat, President of Partners for Mental Health joins us by phone from Ottawa. He will tell us about their award winning video “Right By You” and the suicide prevention campaign that the video is tied to.
Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank is hoping a student-only food depot at John Barsby Secondary School will serve as a blueprint for depots in other schools. The food depot program at the Nanaimo school supplies hampers that provide food for children for the weekend on a referral basis.
Trixie Hennessey is the program coordinator of the Woodstone Residence, a residential treatment program for young women, located on Galiano Island.
Amy Pezzente is the coordinator for the Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness (PEDAW) campaign, visiting schools to talk about eating disorders and body image as well as hosting eating disorders activities and events throughout the year.
Performance poet, community builder, change agent. Those are the words Victoria poet Jeremy Loveday uses to describe himself on Twitter and Facebook. And recently, with one YouTube video, Loveday has drawn on all three of those callings.