Websites
Sunnybrook Hospital Brain
Science Program
http://sunnybrook.ca/content/?page=BSP_About&gclid=CNOehZTc76oCFSEEQAodyXx3Pg
Interview on CNN "How to
help a mentally ill child"
http://www.peteearley.com/2011/01/16/ill-be-on-cnn-sunday-discussing-mental-
health/#
North American Society
for Childhood Onset Schizophrenia
http://www.nascos.org/home/
British Columbia
Schizophrenia Society
http://www.bcss.org/
European Federation of
Associations of Families with Mental Illness
http://www.eufami.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=75
Here to Help: Information
you can trust
http://www.heretohelp.bc.ca
Canadian Mental Health
Association
http://www.toronto.cmha.ca/
Family Mental Health
Initiative of Simcoe County
http://www.fmhi.ca/
Family Outreach and
Response Program
http://www.familymentalhealthrecovery.org/
Information/Privacy
Commissioner Ontario
http://www.ipc.on.ca/english/Home-Page/
National Network of Adult
and Adolescent Children who have a mentally ill Parent
http://nnaami.org/ Parents'
Family Support Program
http://www.wotch.org/family-support/index.php
Krasman Centre
http://krasmancentre.com/
Toronto Schizophrenia
Peer Support Group
http://www.thesecrethandshake.ca
F.A.M.E Family
Association for Mental Health Everywhere
http://www.fameforfamilies.com/
Mood Disorders
Association of Ontario
http://www.mooddisorders.on.ca/
Friends for Mental Health
West Island
http://www.asmfmh.org/html/english/index.html
Support groups at CAMH
for families and friends
http://www.camh.net/Care_Treatment/Resources_clients_families_
friends/support_groups_families_friends.html
Planning for when you
won't be available
http://www.specialneedsplanning.ca/
Video, Audio (Radio)
The Canucks hockey team
backed this site following the suicide of Rick Rypien. This is particularly
geared toward helping young people.
http://mindcheck.ca/
5 Types of Bipolar
Disorder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyJn_3LkE8w
Mental Health First Aid
Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN8go6iB_O0&feature=related
Inspiring CBC Radio
broadcasts!
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2011/01/07/mental-health---guest-host-steven-page/
Steven
Page, Kurt Vonnegut and others talk about their recovery from mental illness
One minute trailer for a
documentary film of three artists living with schizophrenia.
(Scroll down
to click on the video.)
http://www.bridgeross.com/thebrush.html
Newspaper Articles,
etc.
STATE
OF MIND PART 1: THE STIGMA
Mentally ill and ‘out' but not
yet embraced
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/conditions/addiction/mental-health/mentally-ill-and-out-but-not-yet-embraced/article2302213/
STATE
OF MIND PART 2: COLLATERAL DAMAGE
When mental illness becomes
part of the family
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/conditions/addiction/mental-health/when-mental-illness-becomes-part-of-the-family/article2309983/
STATE
OF MIND PART 3: RICK RYPIEN'S STORY SHINE'S BEACON OF HOPE
There
was a time when Rick Rypien was going to tell his story
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/gary_mason/rick-rypiens-story-shines-beacon-of-hope/article2318301/
National Post: Mental
Health Commission struggles to find balance in developing strategy
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/08/mental-health-commission-struggles-to-find-balance-in-developing-strategy/
Macleans article: Each
year, seven million of us experience mental illness. Many can’t get help.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/03/22/mental-health-care-for-the-few/
André Picard's
article in the Globe and Mail: "Mental health strategy draft doesn’t go
far enough "
http://tinyurl.com/3f6nzjv
Click here to review:
The
Draft Strategy or The
Priorities & Actions Strategy
A heart-felt story of one
family's dealing with mental illness in a talented son.
25-5%20bedford%20&%20cover.pdf
MPs urge
serious money to keep ill people out of prison...
Robert Springer spent a
month in the Don Jail before being recognized as having a mental illness.
Others were not so lucky. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/mps-urge-serious-money-for-mental-health-to-keep-ill-people-out-of-prison/article1838045/
The pain has gotten too great!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/breakdown/
Shock
treatments saved my lifehttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/shock-treatments-saved-my-life/article1660852/
My deep, dark secret
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/my-deep-dark-secret/article1574804/
Article by
André Picard
Patients' Rights Frustrate
Families
Quality of Life Summary Report: As defined by people
living with schizophrenia & their families
http://www.schizophrenia.ca/QualityLife.htm
Information on the Disability Tax Credit (DTC), the
Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP), and other related Disability Tax
Credit information
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/sgmnts/dsblts/menu-eng.html
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