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June Mental Health Check-up with Mike Farwell
14 August 2019In the latest edition of our Mental Health Checkup segment with 570 News Mike Farwell our Executive Director Helen Fishburn and Manager of Seniors’ Services Cathy Sturdy-Smith highlighted mental health…
Faces of CMHA: Eileen Angeles, Financial Accountant
24 July 2019I am proud of working with a group of people who are interested in making a difference in other people’s lives. The staff here, are so invested in helping others…
Faces of CMHA: Angela Kelly
11 July 2019When I first started out as a mental health nurse someone told me “you need to meet the client where they are at in order to help them”. This advice…
Here4Hope: Continuing the Conversation about Suicide
10 July 2019Please join us for an update on the new Wellington Framework
for Promoting Life and Preventing Suicide.
The framework has been developed with Input from
local community members that have attempted suicide,
that are bereaved by suicide as well as service providers
combined with the best available research on suicide prevention.
Kim Hewitt-McVicker, Manager of Eating Disorders and First Step Receives National Award for Leadership in Occupational Therapy
3 July 2019Congratulations to Kim Hewitt-McVicker, Manager of Eating Disorders and First Step at CMHA WW on receiving the National Award for Leadership in Occupational Therapy. The award recognizes and honours the…
Guelph IMPACT Receives Community Innovator Award at Guelph Chamber of Commerce Awards of Excellence Gala
28 June 2019Congratulations to our Guelph IMPACT (Integrated Mobile Police and Crisis Team) who received the Community Innovator Award last night as part of the Chamber of Guelph Excellence awards. We are…
Suicide prevention plan approved in County of Wellington – Furthering our Collaborative Work with Wellington County and Wellington OPP
28 June 2019At today’s Wellington County Council meeting, Council adopted a resolution to partner with the Canadian Mental Health Association of Waterloo-Wellington (CMHA WW) to lead the work of promoting life and…
June 27, 2019 marks Ontario’s first-ever PTSD Awareness Day
27 June 2019Today is historic for mental health awareness in Ontario as, for the first time, the province officially recognizes June 27 as PTSD Awareness Day. PTSD is a type of anxiety…
Faces of CMHA: Blaine Wolfe
20 June 2019A point of pride that I still hold on to is delivering a talk on indigenous values and history at last fall’s All-Staff meeting. It was an amazing opportunity to…