Mental Health Support Resources

Canada​

​Look up local resources by province: 
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/mental-health-services/mental-health-get-help.html​

Centre for Suicide Prevention
Visit www.suicideinfo.ca for information, research and links to national distress websites.

USA

​​Look up local resources by state:  
https://arc.mhanational.org/find-affiliate

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org. You can also reach Crisis Text Line by texting MHA to 741741.

Other supports / resource ideas

Social resources: (Connection is the Correction!  Relationships are the most important mental health intervention):
Consider encouraging or strengthening a client's relationship to social or community resources, such as: 

• Friends, family, or mentors,
• Social activities such as a local Legion, a volunteer opportunity or a rec centre,
  
• Religious or spiritual organizations such as a local mosque, church, synagogue, temple, or similar (connecting to God is a profound relationship!),
• Sports or related activities such as a soccer team, a rowing club, yoga class, ski meetups, walking group, dance temple, etc (recall how profound exercise is for ongoing mental health), 
• Artistic or musical pursuits such as quilting, woodcarving, painting, choir, drum circle (more rhythmic, repetitive, relational activity),
• Cultural organizations such as a traditional teacher or Elder, a cultural centre, etc.

Canada: Nurseline
811

• 24/7/365 resource
• Can help with assessment of medical symptoms, and decisions about whether & how urgently to seek medical help.
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Where the client already has an established relationship with a Counsellor, Therapist, Psychiatrist, or Physician:

• Consider contacting this professional with the client's consent
• May provide insight, support, evacuation criteria, or assess medication in the field.

Other Mental Health trainings

Other Trainings

​Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training – ASIST
Livingworks

• 2-day training program specifically for suicide assessment and intervention.
• Livingworks also offers a ~90-minute online self-paced training program, called Livingworks "Start".  Both programs are excellent.
  

Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health Commission of Canada

• 2-day training program on mental health first aid in urban settings.

Psychological First Aid
Red Cross

• 12-hour training program on psychological first aid including the Red Cross "Look, Listen, Link, Live" model.

Wilderness First Aid
Slipstream - https://wildernessfirstaid.ca

• Slipstream offers a variety of certification programs on physical first aid in wilderness settings.

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