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Here’s our Currents newsletter for December 2022
It's the season of giving and gratitude…thank you for your help! VIMHS...a look back over the past year...People First Radio: 10 podcasts from 2022...Harm reduction, safe consumption and drug testing to prevent poisoning deaths...VIMHS opens sobering and assessment...

VIMHS annual general meeting on Thursday October 6, 2022
Vancouver Island Mental Health Society's annual general meeting will be held on Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 5 p.m. in Beban Park Social Centre (2300 Bowen Road, Nanaimo). Please join us!

Visit our VIMHS job fair in Campbell River on Wednesday July 13, 2022
We are hiring harm reduction, housing support, and sobering & assessment workers in Campbell River! Join us at the VIMHS Job Fair on July 13th to learn more about helping folks in need of harm reduction, supportive housing, and sobering and assessment services....

It’s CMHA Mental Health Week. Let’s #GetReal about how to help.
It's CMHA Mental Health Week. Let's #GetReal about how to help. Every May for the last 71 years, Canadians in communities, schools, workplaces and the House of Commons have rallied around CMHA Mental Health Week. Just as Canadians are experiencing pandemic fatigue...

VIMHS is hiring casual mental health support workers
Mental Health Support Worker (Casual), Nanaimo -- The Mental Health Support Worker (MHSW), under the direction of the Clinical Manager, provides support to adult residents with mental health and addiction issues. The MHSW facilitates life skill development using the...