Expand your Mental Health knowledge
Increasing mental health awareness, enhancing wellness and reducing stigma starts with all of us. CMHA York and South Simcoe offers our community a comprehensive education and training program designed to give you and those around you, the mechanisms to promote, support and achieve enhanced mental health wellness in your home, in the community and in your workplace.
Mental Health Facts
Mental health is not only the avoidance of serious mental illness. Your mental health is affected by numerous factors from your daily life, including the stress of balancing work with your health and relationships.
Anxiety Disorders
We all feel nervous or worried at times. This anxiety can be a helpful feeling when it motivates us or warns us of danger. An anxiety disorder…
Youth and Self-Injury
People cope with difficult thoughts, feelings, or situations in different ways. Some people cope by injuring themselves on purpose—and it may…
Stress
I am texWe all talk about stress, but we’re not always clear about what it is. Stress comes from both the good and the bad things that happen to us….
Is what you heard true?
Mental health myths revealed
Client Stories
By age 40, 1 in 2 Canadians will have – or have had – a mental illness. Mental Illness affects us all – it doesn’t discriminate by age, gender, race, or social status. It doesn’t care if you’re a celebrity, parent, neighbour, friend, or just you. Our inevitable link to mental illness is the same. But what is different, is our story.
The support I receive from the Wellness Outreach Worker at CMHA York South Simcoe in my home, has helped me to return to school to complete my grade 12 diploma.
- Nancy Smith
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Recent News
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Bell Let’s Talk gets people talking
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29 January, 2016Help CMHA support Bell Let’s Talk Day!
Canadians from coast to coast will join the conversation again this year to help
01 February, 2016World Suicide Prevention Day
The Canadian Mental Health Association York South Simcoe branch joins people wit
22 June, 2016
