Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - BC Division

Blue Wave

Provides youth with skills and support to face challenges in their lives. Website features wellness checks and personal stories that aim to end the stigma of anxiety, substance use, suicidal thoughts, and depression. Living Life to the Full for Youth is an eight-week interactive course for youth age...
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BounceBack

A free mental health program based in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), designed to help people ages 13 years and over who are experiencing mild to moderate depression and anxiety. Through a series of workbooks and supported by a trained coach, BounceBack Telephone Coaching provides guidance abou...
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Confident Parents: Thriving Kids - Anxiety Program

Provides a free family-focused coaching service for parents of children ages three to 12 with mild to moderate anxiety. Program includes short educational online videos supported by weekly telephone coaching sessions, to build parents' skills in supporting their children. Coaching is delivered at fl...
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Confident Parents: Thriving Kids - Behaviour Program

Provides a free family-focused coaching service for parents of children ages three to 12 with mild to moderate behavioural problems. Program sessions are held weekly via telephone over six to 14 weeks and includes an accompanying workbook which participants work through with their coach. Program foc...
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Healthy Minds, Healthy Campuses

Offers an interactive website to promote mental health and healthier relationships with alcohol and other psychoactive substances at post-secondary institutions. The website is designed to engage students, campus professionals, faculty, administrators and community partners. Virtual learning events ...
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Living Life to the Full

An interactive eight-week mental health promotion course designed to help people deal with everyday life challenges and learn self-management skills based on the principles of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). Offers streams for youth ages 13 to 18, adults, seniors, and new mothers. Each session ...
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Mental Health Check-In

Online mental health self-assessment tool directs users to relevant resources and information. Not a clinical test. Service is available in English, French, Farsi, Punjabi, and Chinese. Serves BC.
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Scholarships and Bursaries

Provides scholarships and bursaries to BC adults ages 20 and up with mental illness or addiction to further their pursuit of post-secondary education. The Lorne Fraser Scholarship for Mental Health Promotion offers $1000 and $2000 scholarships to two post-secondary students entering the second, thir...
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Suicide Prevention Training

safeTalk is a half-day alertness training workshop that prepares participants to identify people with thoughts of suicide and connect them with the support they need. Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a two-day skill-building workshop that prepares participants to provide suici...
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Talk Today

A mental health education program designed to help athletes and their supporters learn about mental health and to support players who may be struggling or at risk of suicide. Mental health navigators help connect players to community supports and works with their local teams to promote mental health...
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Workplace Mental Health

Operates BC's Hub for Workplace Mental Health, an online collection of resources and links related to workplace mental health (www.workmentalhealthbc.ca). Also provides a variety of workshops and initiatives designed to create more psychologically healthy workplaces. Awareness of Mental Health at Wo...
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