Family Mental Health Resources
Welcome to this issue of professional resources, produced by the BC Schizophrenia Society, in partnership with the HereToHelp.
We hope this newsletter provides you with helpful information to assist you in collaborating with family members and supporters in the care of their loved one with a mental illness. A companion enewsletter is also available for family members.
In this newsletter:
Featured Resources : HereToHelp Print Resources | Orientation to Child and Youth Mental Health: A guide for families | Ongoing Family Resources – where and how to refer relatives and supporters for support and help.
Featured Resources:
HereToHelp Print Resources
You may know that HereToHelp offers a lot of great information and tools for family members on the website at http://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/skills/supporting-family
What you might not know is that HereToHelp offers some of the most popular resources in print as well. A single copy of select resources, including the How You Can Help: A Toolkit for Families will be mailed free of charge on request to people who live in BC.
Need more than one copy? No problem. There is an order form with rates to order multiple copies. If you like you can also download the files and do your own printing of the materials for non-profit educational purposes.
Orientation to Child and Youth Mental Health: A guide for Families
BC Partners Member agency, the FORCE Society for Kids Mental Health has produced a guide for parents to help them understand and work with the child and youth mental health system.
Here is an excerpt:
"Your child is struggling…Maybe you
were the one who noticed…maybe it
was your child’s teacher…
Regardless, you took the first step
and contacted Child and Youth Mental
Health Services...
We all want the same thing...
Children sometimes need help when they can’t cope…
Child and Youth Mental Health Services provides assessment, treatment and support for families.
In this orientation, we will introduce you to these services and hopefully help smooth the road for you."
You can download the complete document here.
Ongoing Family Resources & Referral Information
Reaching Families Project (BC Schizophrenia Society/ HeretoHelp)
Families to Refer: Relatives or supporters looking for support groups or education events for themselves in their area of BC. No limitations by diagnosis. Relatives, parents, siblings, adult children, family of choice, lesbian /gay / LGTB.
Multi-agency support group listing:http://www.meetings.bcss.org
Family events calendar http://www.bcss.org/familycalendar/
Online support groups for family members – (facilitated) including groups for adult children, lesbian/gay family of choice and siblings
Population-specific resource e-newsletters - feature and promote resources for family members to various audiences.
**If your agency provides support or information events or groups to relatives/supporters of persons with a mental illness in BC, please send in your information for posting on this calendar to onlinesupport@bcss.org
Kelty Resource Centre
Families to Refer: Families needing help finding and accessing mental health info and services for children/youth with a mental health concern, youth with a mental health concern, adults/youth with eating disorder. Run by BC Mental Health and Addictions Services – office in BC Children and Women’s Hospital, service area BC-wide through phone and email.
BC Schizophrenia Society
Families to Refer: Families of persons with a serious and persistent mental illness (including but not limited to schizophrenia, psychosis, schizoaffective disorders) All family members welcome at support groups, family education groups (regardless of family member diagnosis). Kids in Control program provides service to children 8-13 of parents with any kind of mental illness, as does Family Respite program. Online support groups for family members is also not diagnosis-limited and are facilitated including groups for adult children, lesbian/gay family of choice and siblings. Referral details at the above links. Service
areas: BC wide except respite and kids programs.
The FORCE For Kids Mental Health
Families to refer:Parents of children with a mental illness looking for support and information. Service area: specific regions, see website.
Here To Help Website
BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions information offers a wide variety of general audience information on mental health, addictions and mental wellness. All information is evidence based. Funded by provincial health authority.
Research Studies/Projects looking for Participants
Looking to help researchers help understand mental illness? Would you like to be involved in helping researchers figure out what helps the most? Please see this link to the list of ongoing research studies looking for participants with a mental illness or their family members.
Acknowledgements
This resource is developed by the BC Schizophrenia Society. Funding for this project was provided by BC Mental Health and Addiction Services, an agency of PHSA.
The BC Schizophrenia Society is a member of the BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information. The BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information are a group of seven leading provincial mental health and addictions nonprofit agencies. The seven partners are Anxiety BC, BC Schizophrenia Society, Centre for Addictions Research of BC, Canadian Mental Health Association’s BC Division, F.O.R.C.E. Society for Kids Mental Health, Jessie’s Hope Society, and Mood Disorder’s Association of BC. Since 2003, we've been working together to help individuals and families better prevent, recognize and manage mental health and substance use problems. BC Partners work is funded by BC Mental Health and Addiction Services, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority. We also receive some additional support from the Ministry of Chi
ldren and Family Development. The BC Partners are behind the acclaimed HeretoHelp website. Visit us at www.heretohelp.bc.ca.
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