From May 3-9, the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) joins Canadians across the country in celebrating the 70th annual Mental Health Week. The focus of this year’s Mental Health Week is to promote the importance of emotions and the role that understanding them plays in good mental health. New national monitoring results from CMHA and […]Continue readingCMHA Celebrates Mental Health Week
Cycling is a simple, fun and easy way to achieve your weekly exercise plan. It is currently recommended that each Canadian adult accumulate 150 minutes of aerobic physical activity in a week. What better way to build your physical fitness than throwing on your shoes and a helmet and jumping on a bike! Spin the […]Continue readingEasy Exercise – Spin the Lakes
The power of people working together can bring about monumental changes. That’s why CMHA Muskoka Parry Sound joins organizations across the country this week in celebrating National Volunteer Week. The theme this year, The Value of One, The Power of Many, reflects on the acts of kindness by millions of individuals and the magic that […]Continue readingCMHA celebrates National Volunteer Week 2021
Our office remains open for harm reduction supplies and naloxone kits for those that would like to access these services. Visit our Bracebridge office during office hours or our Gravenhurst location at 685 Muskoka Rd, Unit 2 on Friday afternoons only.Continue readingHarm Reduction and Naloxone
This CMHA Mental Health Week, we’re diving into how we feel. It’s hard to deal with our emotions when we don’t know what we’re feeling. You may have been taught to push your bad feelings away, but research shows that understanding and naming our feelings can make sadness, anger and pain feel less intense. And […]Continue readingGet Ready to #GetReal about how you feel
With news of today’s stay-at-home order, Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Muskoka Parry Sound reminds people that they can take some simple and basic steps to help them manage their mental health during these challenging times. It’s normal to feel anxious. Try not to avoid, ignore or suppress anxious thoughts. Instead, be aware of your […]Continue readingTry simple, helpful methods to manage mental health during this stay-at-home period
Province’s mental health leaders launch Everything Is Not OK campaign calling on governments to take immediate action TORONTO, ONT. (March 9, 2021) – Ontario’s leading mental health and addiction organizations are coming together to say Everything Is Not OK in a new campaign that highlights the impacts of COVID-19 on the mental health of children, […]Continue readingEverything Is Not OK: 74% of Ontarians experiencing increased mental health and substance use challenges during the pandemic
(Toronto, March 3, 2021) – A new mental health awareness training program specifically for farmers will soon be available to rural and agricultural communities across the province through a partnership of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA), the University of Guelph and Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario Division. In the Know is a mental […]Continue readingCMHA Ontario launching mental health awareness training for the farm community
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) network consists of 28 branches across the province that provide community-based clinical and social services to Ontarians living with mental health and substance-use issues. All CMHA branches work from a harm-reduction framework that aims to support individuals with substance-use concerns and connect them with services. Some of our branches […]Continue readingExpand access to harm reduction interventions during COVID-19: CMHA Ontario branches support safer supply approaches
On February 9, CMHA joins educators, industry professionals and the community worldwide in acknowledging Safer Internet Day, which aims to create both a safer and a better internet, where everyone is empowered to use technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively. When it comes to new technologies, one of the biggest concerns with regards to mental […]Continue readingResource on using social media to benefit your mental health