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Welcome to New Regional Coordinators
The Provincial office of the BC Schizophrenia Society arranges for an manages twenty one regional and program coordinators in locations near you throughout BC. Your tax deductible donations to the provincial office help us make sure coordinators are there to provide services in regions in and around Abbotsford, Burnaby, Burns Lake, Dawson Creek, Delta, Fort St. John, Kamloops, Mission, New Westminster, Powell River, Prince George, Queen Charlotte, Richmond, Smithers, Surrey, Terrace, Vancouver and Williams Lake along with provincially and regionally delivered services like BRIDGES, family respite, Kids in Control, the province wide online support groups, toll free number and website.
BCSS would like to welcome our recently hired coordinators, who are already doing a great job in their regions:
- Debbie Thom in Kamloops
- Patricia Pedersen in William’s Lake
- Collette Burque in Dawsons Creek
For information on how to contact the provincial regional coordinators near you, please visit http://www.coordinators.bcss.org For information on regional services including all regional and branch services, please visit http://www.bcss.org/regions
Facebook and Twitter Update
Are you on Facebook? Did you know you can become a fan of the BC Schizophrenia Society on Facebook now?
Becoming a fan means you will get periodic status updates in your news feed when new information is posted on the BCSS website or we have news to share. You also get to support BCSS by letting your friends know you’re a proud supporter of BCSS, which not only helps us spread the word about services that families in need of support may not yet know about, it helps reduce stigma, by allowing people to associate real people with real sources of help. We also have a fan page for the ReachOut Psychosis High School tour that you can see at www.reachoutpsychosis.com
Becoming a fan is as easy as visiting our website at www.bcss.org and clicking on the ‘become a fan on facebook’ button. If you’re not already signed in to Facebook, you will be prompted to do so.
For those of you who like to be kept up to date via Twitter, you can visit our twitter feed and follow us at http://twitter.com/BCSchizophrenia
Kids in Control
Kids In Control is a support group for children aged 8 to 13 that have a parent with a mental illness offered by BC Schizophrenia Society in the lower mainland and by the Victoria branch on Vancouver Island. The focus of the group is to help children cope with and understand their parent’s illness. In the group the children learn:
- That they are not alone in their experience
- How to identify feelings
- About healthy boundaries and how to communicate feelings
- About mental illness and it’s treatment
- Ways to develop resiliency
- About societal attitudes and stigma
- Healthy self-care tools while building self-esteem
The issues are addressed using arts and crafts, group discussion, games, teaching and guest speakers. The children have fun and learn skills at the same time. One of the greatest benefits from the group is that kids get the support of other children who share their unique experience. Whether kids have a parent with depression, anxiety, schizophrenia or any other mental illness, they all find that they have some common experiences.
For more information on Kids in Control or to refer a child to this program in your area please visit our website.
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