Focus: Mental Health
Family Support fosters networking and peer support among family members or loved ones of those living with a serious mental illness. Family can be defined as partners, parents, children, siblings and/or friends of an individual living with serious mental illness. Family support workers have lived experience supporting a family member or loved one with mental illness. The worker can assist with system navigation, boundary setting, instilling hope, self-care, advocacy, resource connections, general listening, and skill development. Groups offer opportunities to meet people with similar challenges helping to nurture feelings of strength and togetherness.
Focus: Mental Health
The Group Services program offers drop-in and scheduled programing. Each location offers a range of different recreational programing opportunities that are scheduled in consultation with the members. A monthly schedule is posted for each site and participants can attend as many activities as they are interested in.
Focus: Mental Health
Peer support workers have lived experience with mental illness and or addictions and intentionally share parts of their lived experience and recovery journey in their role as a supporter. This fosters a connection and a sense of hope while promoting coping strategies and self-help. Peer support workers provide one-to-one and group peer support to help with system navigation, encouragement of self-advocacy, general listening, support, and skill development.
Focus: Mental Health
The Social Recreation and Rehabilitation program offers drop-in and scheduled programing at 5 different sites across Grey and Bruce counties. Each location offers a range of different recreational programing opportunities that are scheduled in consultation with the members. A monthly schedule is posted for each site and participants can attend as many activities as they are interested in.
The program provides social opportunities and recreation and leisure activities; and to provide groups that are accessible and meet the needs of a diverse range of interests and abilities.
Focus: Mental Health
The Grey Bruce Friends and Neighbours (FAN) Club program is a children’s mental health awareness program using child-sized hand and rod puppets to discuss social issues affecting them. Using hand and rod puppets, skits are presented to children on issues such as attention deficit disorder, smoking and self-esteem to help promote mental health awareness and healthy lifestyle choices to the children. A typical presentation is 30-55 minutes in length (based on age of audience) and consists of introductory activities, a puppet skit, and a question-and-answer period.
Focus: Mental Health
Multi-visit program designed to help intermediate age youth develop and maintain good mental health, while decreasing stigma surrounding mental illness and its treatment. Minimum presentation of two, but typically Let’s Talk is an 8-visit program covering topics such as: mental health awareness, resource awareness, goal setting, values, relationships, coping with stress, etc.
Each “Let’s Talk” visit is approximately 75 minutes in length and is best held a maximum of a week apart. To “encourage” discussion, peanut-free snacks are often provided during the presentations. Let’s Talk can also be offered as a monthly 8-visit program in intermediate classrooms.
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Mental Health and Addiction Peer Support (MAPS) offers peer support services to those on Probation or Parole. MAPS workers have lived experience with mental illness and or addictions and intentionally share parts of their lived experience and recovery journey in their role as a supporter. This fosters a connection and a sense of hope while promoting coping strategies and self-help. MAPS workers provide one-to-one and group peer support to help with system navigation, encouragement of self-advocacy, general listening, support, and skill development.
One-to-one and group peer support is offered to help with system navigation, encouragement of self-advocacy, general listening, judgement free support, Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) development and other skill development. In addition, a free lending library is available, which offers educational resources regarding mental health and overall well-being.
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
CMHA Grey Bruce Recovery College provides an innovative learning space where anyone can access free courses, webinars, workshops, and events to learn, gain new skills, connect with others in their community and explore new roles for themselves in a supportive environment. The College offers a variety of courses that will be accessible to anyone who wants to learn about recovery, self-management and overall well-being. Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is an ongoing course that builds an individualized system for self-monitoring and responding to stressors, identifying early warning signs, developing wellness tools, coping skills, and crisis plans.