Welcome to this issue of family and supporter resources, produced by the BC Schizophrenia Society, in partnership with the BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information.

Ongoing BC-Wide Family Resources

• Reaching Families Calendar - support and education events.
• Family Support Groups
• Online Facilitated Family Support Groups
• Kelty Resource Centre - child/youth mental health
• BC Schizophrenia Society - family info/services
• The FORCE For Kids Mental Health - kids mental health
• Here to Help - information

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Experiences with CBT or trying to get access to CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)

Visions Journal is looking for family members or persons with a mental health, mental illness, or addictions issue to write a short (1.5 page) piece on their own experiences with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) or in trying to get access to CBT help. If you’re interested, please contact Sarah Hamid-Balma at sarah.hamidbalma@cmha.bc.ca It’s best to contact her before writing.

‘Writers chosen for publication will recieve an honorarium of $75 and stories will need to be completed by the end of May.

Visions Journal Workplace Issue

Below, the family and supporter resources newsletter features the table of contents from the web version of Visions Journal, produced by HereToHelp. We hope you enjoy these articles about mental health and addictions in the workplace.

Background

• Editor’s Message (Sarah Hamid-Balma)
• The Final Frontier in Workplace Health (Margaret Tebbutt)
• The Economic Impacts: Workplace mental illness and substance abuse (Claudia Steinke and Ali Dastmalchian)
• Substance Use: The monster we work with (MaryAnne Arcand)
• Human Rights and Employer Responsibility to Accomodate Disability in the Workplace (Jennifer Lynch)
• Wired in the Workplace (Deena Waisberg) [web-only]

Experiences and Perspectives

• A Little Help From My Friend (Jude Morrison)
• Transitioning from Disability Pension to Full-time work: Scary but liberating (Tara Timmers)
• Insurance Reassurance: Disability income a must for recovery (Ross Taylor)
• A Triple Threat: Workplace isolation, West Coast grey and the “black dog” (Gwen Marsh)
• The bottom line: There is no health without mental health (Arto Tienaho)
• The Mostly Incompetent Employee (Frank G. Sterle, Jr.)
• Return to Work: Ready or Not? (Karen Six) [web-only]
• Taking Care of That Little Girl (Maureen Lavallee) [web-only]

Alternative Approaches

• Employee Assistance Programs (Raymond W. Lam)
• Guarding Minds @ Work: A new guide to psychological safety and health (Joti Samra and Merv Gilbert)
• Drug Testing in the Canadian Workplace (Scott Macdonald)
• Stress in the Workplace (June Earle) [web-only]
• Peer Supprt for Medical Professionals (Dr. Paul A. Farnan) [web-only]
• Good News About Workplace Mental Health (Mary Ann Baynton) [web-only]

Regional Programs

• Healthy Workplaces-Healthy People: Fraser Health’s recent focus on mental health (Elayne Preston and Rosemary Nemanishen) 
• Mental Health Awareness for Managers: An integrated approach (Jan Mitchell)
• Quittin’ Time: A smoking cessation program for the BC Public Service (Maureen Foxgord)
• Employers Who Are Walking The Walk (Donna Panitow)
• Mental Health Works (Mary Ann Baynton and Margaret Tebbutt)