Canadian students call for help with mental health issues
Students in Canada continue to face numerous challenges to their mental well-being. With increased awareness and rising rates of mental illness, campus counselling and other mental health services are often overwhelmed. In fact, the percentage of students prescribed...
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Palliative care could alleviate harms of homelessness
A three-year University of Victoria study of people living homeless or barely housed while struggling with life-threatening medical conditions confirms that when palliative care can be found, it improves the difficult life circumstances and worsening vulnerabilities...
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Read our VIMHS Currents newsletter for November 2018!
Campbell River’s Sobering and Assessment Centre marks one year of service...United Way, Giving Tuesday...VIMHS board of directors considers communications, key messages...Our new website is now up at vimhs.org...Seniors Connect Nanaimo celebrates, educates and...
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Island Voices: Affordable housing is a human right
Last week, the story of Camp Namegans residents and their recent eviction and arrest at Woodwynn Farms was not front-page news. Instead, municipal-election results captured the front page. It was good to see that the majority of councillors elected in the City of...
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Opioids, patients, users, overdoses and harm reduction: An overview
Writer and journalist Carlyn Zwarenstein has written extensively about her own experiences living with pain and depending upon opioid medications in order to have a functional life. Carlyn’s first book Opium Eater: The New Confessions is about opioid painkillers and...
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Read our VIMHS Currents newsletter for November 2018!
Campbell River’s Sobering and Assessment Centre marks one year of service...United Way, Giving Tuesday...VIMHS board of directors considers communications, key messages...Our new website is now up at vimhs.org...Seniors Connect Nanaimo celebrates, educates and...
read moreDevelopment permit issued for a VIMHS 23-unit personal care facility in Nanaimo
“This will provide an opportunity for those folks who are currently living in a transitional housing situation to have a lifetime home,” Vancouver Island Mental Healthy Society executive director Taryn O’Flanagan said. “We’re going to provide staff support to folks...
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Palliative care could alleviate harms of homelessness
A three-year University of Victoria study of people living homeless or barely housed while struggling with life-threatening medical conditions confirms that when palliative care can be found, it improves the difficult life circumstances and worsening vulnerabilities...
read moreIsland Voices: Affordable housing is a human right
Last week, the story of Camp Namegans residents and their recent eviction and arrest at Woodwynn Farms was not front-page news. Instead, municipal-election results captured the front page. It was good to see that the majority of councillors elected in the City of...
read moreNew resource helps physicians support individuals with mental health and substance use problems
The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) and the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) launched the Best Advice guide: Recovery-Oriented Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Patient’s Medical Home at the Canadian Mental Health Association’s 3rd annual...
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Canadian students call for help with mental health issues
Students in Canada continue to face numerous challenges to their mental well-being. With increased awareness and rising rates of mental illness, campus counselling and other mental health services are often overwhelmed. In fact, the percentage of students prescribed...
read moreOpioids, patients, users, overdoses and harm reduction: An overview
Writer and journalist Carlyn Zwarenstein has written extensively about her own experiences living with pain and depending upon opioid medications in order to have a functional life. Carlyn’s first book Opium Eater: The New Confessions is about opioid painkillers and...
read moreSeniors Connect Nanaimo celebrates, educates and connects at Expo
The growing population of aging Canadians has led to an increased focus on the needs and interests of Canadian elders across the country. Seniors Connect, in the city of Nanaimo, is a collaborative project focused on reducing the social isolation of adults aged 55 and...
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