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CMHA-ER: Welcoming Prosper Place into the CMHA family
It’s officially been two months since Canadian Mental Health Association-Edmonton Region and Prosper Place joined forces as one organization, to continue under the Canadian Mental Health Association – Edmonton Region (CMHA-ER) banner.
Improving Wellbeing through Social Research and Development
RECOVER Urban Wellbeing works to improve individual and community wellbeing. Here’s a bit about their research and approach.
Celebrating 5 Years for EMCN’s Rainbow Refuge Program
EMCN’s Rainbow Refuge program celebrates 5 years in 2022 and continues to educate, advocate, and serve the LGBTQ+ community.
Red Road Summer Message
Our dreams are gathered and held sacred by those who believe in us …When I left those lonely roads and took the one that led in a long, curving line of years to here, to a home in the mountains where I write.
Get Moving for Mental Health: Ride Don’t Hide
Read on for details about Canadian Mental Health Association Edmonton’s event that runs throughout the month of June!
Addictions Don’t Discriminate: Building Connection through Storytelling
This in-person interactive exhibit that takes participants on the journeys of real people whose lives have been impacted by addiction. It is designed to inspire understanding, empathy and action, and is now available to organizations to host.
The Living Nature of Living Hope – Highlights from the Collaborative Renewal Process
Key insights and highlights from the collaborative process to refresh Living Hope: Edmonton’s community-based plan to prevent suicide.
My Journey to Finding and Living Hope
Salvi Cammarata speaks about his own personal journey to living hope.
Living Hope | A Time of Transition
At the End of March 2022, Living Hope: A Community Plan to Prevent Suicide in Edmonton is coming to the end of its three year implementation period. It is a time to celebrate the plan’s successes, learn from its challenges, and imagine a hopeful future for the next steps of suicide prevention in our City.
Brite Line: Bringing Hope to the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community
Brite Line creates a safe space where the 2SLGBTQIA+ community can connect with supports free of judgment or stigma. It operates 24/7 and can be reached at 1-844-702-7483.
Love Letter to Men
To say that the inaugural Love Letter to Men Forum on Men's Mental Health was a massive success would be a complete understatement. The amount of collaboration from organizers, presenters and participants was incredible.
What’s Kicking at Kickstand
In 2020, “AB-IYSI” began engaging youth & families in Alberta. Since then, we’ve built: our brand Kickstand, e-mental health interventions & core partnerships for our virtual clinic launching this year.
Red Road Spring Message
In a few more weeks, we will see the lovely crocuses poking their heads out of the prairie grasslands; to once again, reflect the joy and beauty of spring. The MIRACLE and the continued RENEWAL of life!!
Hope to Heal
Spruce Grove's Dochas Psychological Services and Stony Plain's Coordinated Suicide Prevention Program have come together to offer a support group for those who have attempted suicide; the only one of its kind in western Canada.
Living Life to the Full!
Want to know how to feel happier, more confident and worry less right now? Would you like to learn new ways of dealing with life’s challenges? Living Life to the Full is a fun,interactive online course offered by CMHA Edmonton that will leave you with the inspiration and tools to get the most out of life!
Edmonton Suicide Trends Report: Exploring Suicide-Related Injury Rates in Edmonton
Living Hope’s Research and Surveillance Committee is pleased to present the Edmonton Suicide Trends Report, an exploration of Edmonton’s suicide-related injury rates at a local level.
How Living Hope Has Kept My Hope Alive
Living Hope has been one of the only constants in my life these last few years, and I love knowing that every month I get to sit down among friends in a safe place and hammer out ideas on how to change the world
Alberta Men’s Collaborative
This newly formed collaborative is designed to be a hub for all working in the space of men’s mental health to come together to share resources and information for a united vision.
Buddy Up and offer your support to someone who may be struggling
Hey Clay, how are you really doing? Clay’s farm isn’t doing well this year and he says he hasn’t been able to finish his daily jobs.
Introducing the Community Engagement Framework
The Community Mental Health Engagement Framework was developed to support people looking to engage their communities in impactful ways around the conversation of mental health.