Have an idea for a project to support Vancouver's mental health and/or substance use community? Projects funded by CIF allow peers to take the expertise they have acquired through lived experience, identify activities to benefit peers in the community of Vancouver, and bring their vision into reality. Join the CIF Project Proposal Info Session, learn how […]
This is a 5-session workshop series: 5 Thursdays, August 1 – 29, 2024 Develop an individualized plan to help maintain wellness and manage periods of feeling unwell. Throughout this 5-session workshop, participants are encouraged to reflect on themselves, what they are like when they are well, identify stressors, and develop wellness strategies to improve their well-being. […]
This is a 5-session workshop series: 5 Fridays, August 2 - 30, 2024 Increase your ability to meet your personal recovery goals by enhancing your self-determination and quality of life. Many wonder if it is indeed possible for a person living with mental health and/or substance use challenges to accomplish goals, reconnect with self and […]
This is a 4-session workshop series: 4 Tuesdays, Sept. 3 – 23=4, 2024 Feeling stressed by the news of the day? Join others to explore strategies to help cope with uncertainty and manage stress. Developed during the pandemic, this virtual 4-session series will look at stress, worry, anxiety, and common thinking traps that can affect […]
This is a 5-session workshop series: 5 Wednesdays, September 4 - October 2, 2024 Increase your ability to meet your personal recovery goals by enhancing your self-determination and quality of life. Many wonder if it is indeed possible for a person living with mental health and/or substance use challenges to accomplish goals, reconnect with self […]
Open to those with lived/living experience and their supporters! Based on the international Hearing Voices Network model, Voices & Visions Support Groups are peer-led support groups that explore living well with voices, visions, and other unique sensory experiences and/or beliefs. Voices & Visions Support Groups are intended as safe(r), supportive spaces where people can speak […]
This is a 5-session workshop series: 5 Thursdays, September 5 – October 3, 2024 Develop an individualized plan to help maintain wellness and manage periods of feeling unwell. Throughout this 5-session workshop, participants are encouraged to reflect on themselves, what they are like when they are well, identify stressors, and develop wellness strategies to improve their […]
Get the most out of your time with your doctor! Peer facilitators lead this 1.5 hour interactive workshop to empower patients to be active participants in their health care. An active patient asks questions, voices concerns and has opinions about their care which they share with their doctor(s) and other healthcare professionals. Using the PACE framework, […]
Open to those with lived/living experience and their supporters! Based on the international Hearing Voices Network model, Voices & Visions Support Groups are peer-led support groups that explore living well with voices, visions, and other unique sensory experiences and/or beliefs. Voices & Visions Support Groups are intended as safe(r), supportive spaces where people can speak […]
Open to those with lived/living experience and their supporters! Based on the international Hearing Voices Network model, Voices & Visions Support Groups are peer-led support groups that explore living well with voices, visions, and other unique sensory experiences and/or beliefs. Voices & Visions Support Groups are intended as safe(r), supportive spaces where people can speak […]
This is a 4-session workshop series: 4 Tuesdays, Sept. 3 – 23=4, 2024 Feeling stressed by the news of the day? Join others to explore strategies to help cope with uncertainty and manage stress. Developed during the pandemic, this virtual 4-session series will look at stress, worry, anxiety, and common thinking traps that can affect […]
This is a 5-session workshop series: 5 Wednesdays, September 4 - October 2, 2024 Increase your ability to meet your personal recovery goals by enhancing your self-determination and quality of life. Many wonder if it is indeed possible for a person living with mental health and/or substance use challenges to accomplish goals, reconnect with self […]
This is a 5-session workshop series: 5 Thursdays, September 5 – October 3, 2024 Develop an individualized plan to help maintain wellness and manage periods of feeling unwell. Throughout this 5-session workshop, participants are encouraged to reflect on themselves, what they are like when they are well, identify stressors, and develop wellness strategies to improve their […]
