Poet puts pen to paper for journey into mental wellness
AUDIO | Ryan Antooa is a creative – through and through. He's a creative artist, photographer, graphic designer, copywriter, dancer, freelance creative director – and he’s also a poet. Ryan’s poetry appeared in print for the first time in a book called Better In Tune...
Gender Journeys program to include support, education and outreach
AUDIO | Society still isn’t built to be accepting of people who don’t identify as their gender assigned at birth. But attitudes are starting to change for the better. Things like government forms and identification, too, are beginning to include gender identities...
Just one strong emotion away: Conspiracy theories and misinformation
AUDIO | Misinformation is not new, and propaganda has been part of political communication since the dawn of politics. While misinformation can be spread by government and corporate public relations officials, celebrities and international bad actors, it is enabled...
Supporting first responders’ mental health through COVID-19 pandemic
B.C. first-responders experience traumas and stressors on the job unlike those of almost any other occupation. The added stress of being essential workers during COVID-19 highlights the importance of caring for our mental health more than ever before. Research has...
Nanaimo’s homeless youth share their stories, poems, artwork
Delaney Gunn, a youth literacy coordinator at Literacy Central Vancouver Island, has been working to collect the stories of youth experiencing homelessness in and around Nanaimo by sharing them with the public in a magazine series called Place. “One of the biggest...
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VIMHS NEWS
Here’s our VIMHS Currents newsletter for November 2020
It’s that giving time of year…VIMHS updates from Campbell River and Nanaimo…Stats, infographics, and the continuum of housing…COVID stress syndrome…Mental health challenges among women and girls who are homeless…and more. Download a PDF copy of our...
Bridge housing and supportive housing in Campbell River
Provinces across Canada face similar issues as attempts are made to provide housing to homeless citizens. In British Columbia, the provincial government is acting on several fronts, across a spectrum of programs, from emergency shelters to temporary, transitional, and...
VIMHS Rosehill Apartments in Nanaimo are now available for rent
23 units of new rental housing are now available in Nanaimo at VIMHS Rosehill Apartments (located at 285 Rosehill Street). Rental rates are governed by BC Housing's Community Housing Fund. "There is an urgent need to create more options for those struggling to find...
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Susan Inman: Why the B.C. children and youth rep’s report is alarming
The recently released and widely publicized report on involuntary hospitalizations from B.C.’s children and youth representative seems meant to alarm us. The report, Detained: Rights of Children and Youth under the Mental Health Act, is alarming, but for very...
Prioritize vaccinations for people experiencing homelessness, shelter staff
The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness and the Canadian Network for the Health and Housing of People Experiencing Homelessness call on federal and provincial/territorial governments, COVID-19 Vaccination Task Forces and health system vaccination lead organizations...
B.C.’s tiny houses show big promise for homeless
When homeless people in Duncan, B.C., were asked two years ago how they’d like to live, they said a small cluster of simple sleeping cabins would be great. That way, they’d have a few others around for some protection but not so many that it would become a chaotic,...
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Gender Journeys program to include support, education and outreach
AUDIO | Society still isn’t built to be accepting of people who don’t identify as their gender assigned at birth. But attitudes are starting to change for the better. Things like government forms and identification, too, are beginning to include gender identities...
Just one strong emotion away: Conspiracy theories and misinformation
AUDIO | Misinformation is not new, and propaganda has been part of political communication since the dawn of politics. While misinformation can be spread by government and corporate public relations officials, celebrities and international bad actors, it is enabled...
Nanaimo’s homeless youth share their stories, poems, artwork
Delaney Gunn, a youth literacy coordinator at Literacy Central Vancouver Island, has been working to collect the stories of youth experiencing homelessness in and around Nanaimo by sharing them with the public in a magazine series called Place. “One of the biggest...
