COVID-19 human challenge trials could speed up vaccine development
AUDIO | It’s currently uncertain how many people COVID-19 will affect worldwide and at what speed its impacts will be felt. Possible outcomes are shaped by interventions like social distancing, the capacity of health systems, potential drug treatments, and many other...
Canada-based youth mental-health resource wins award for world’s top health website
Barely a year after its launch, the Canadian website BeThere.org, an education tool that helps youth recognize when a peer is struggling with mental-health issues and shows them how to offer the best support, has won a Webby Award as the top health website in the...
Thousands of volunteers come forward to offer mental health support during COVID-19
As Canadians continue to grapple with an unprecedented level of stress as the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, thousands of volunteers have come forward to offer emotional support to others — a move experts say could benefit their own mental well-being as much as the...
UN leads call to protect most vulnerable from mental health crisis during and after COVID-19
Decades of neglect and under-investment in addressing people’s mental health needs have been exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations said on Thursday, in a call for ambitious commitments from countries in the way they treat psychological illness, amid a...
COVID-19 has taken away many of the comforts we rely on to preserve good mental health
Even when COVID-19 is beaten, the stress and depression of the pandemic will still be with us. How do we recover? The corona virus has killed our loved ones, sown fear among us and taken away many of the comforts we rely on to preserve good mental health. Erin...
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VIMHS is very grateful for a donation of hand sanitizer produced by Arbutus Distillery
Arbutus Distillery, located locally in Nanaimo, has begun making hand sanitizer, as many local distilleries have been doing within British Columbia and across Canada. Arbutus has been working diligently on the project and, based on very limited supply, the Distillery...
In this time of uncertainty, Vancouver Island Crisis Society is here to help
Our Crisis Services (Line, Chat, and Text) remain available to support you.Please refer coronavirus questions and inquiries by dialling 811. We have informed all participants that our Community Education workshops and our Volunteer Training program have been either...
Here’s our VIMHS Currents newsletter for March 2020
Schizophrenia...Treatment and recovery...The importance of insight in recovery from mental illness...Inpatient care for people with serious mental illness... Acquired brain injury and opioid overdose... VIMHS updates... Read our March 2020 newsletter online here.
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UN leads call to protect most vulnerable from mental health crisis during and after COVID-19
Decades of neglect and under-investment in addressing people’s mental health needs have been exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations said on Thursday, in a call for ambitious commitments from countries in the way they treat psychological illness, amid a...
COVID-19 has taken away many of the comforts we rely on to preserve good mental health
Even when COVID-19 is beaten, the stress and depression of the pandemic will still be with us. How do we recover? The corona virus has killed our loved ones, sown fear among us and taken away many of the comforts we rely on to preserve good mental health. Erin...
Mental health struggles may be the next pandemic
There’s the deep dread of being unable to provide as economic consequences continue to kick in, jobs vanish and businesses close. There’s the simmering anxiety that a second surge of COVID-19 is coming, or that every trip outdoors could be literally sickening or...
PEOPLE FIRST MEDIA
Making music in a time of crisis reminds us we belong
AUDIO | With constraints on our movements and general way of life becoming more and more restricted, we are feeling a loss of control not experienced since the second world war. In being confined to our homes, we are missing our normal social support from friends and...
Singer-songwriter James Kasper and his new single, released during COVID-19
AUDIO | Vancouver Island singer-songwriter James Kasper has just released his brand new single "How Blue is Your Hell", and it’s a song that speaks of these times of isolation, patience, and the hope of moving forward amidst adversity. James is also the founder of...
“The Stigma-Free COVID-19 Youth Wellness Tool Kit” is now available online
AUDIO | The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create massive challenges -- and potentially long-lasting changes -- in our individual and collective experience of family, community, and nationhood. We’re learning more about the need for mental, as well as physical,...
