- Access mental health information and services
- Connect to others with similar experiences
- Improve your mental health
- Address post-partum depression
- Cope with a loss from suicide
- Recover from an eating disorder
- Manage pain
- Manage post-traumatic stress disorder
- Consider a service dog
- Support others with mental health concerns
- Support a child with mental health concerns
- Support a friend or family member with dementia
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Access mental health information and services
These organizations provide resources, tools and information to help you understand mental health and mental illness. The information contained in these resources does not constitute and should not be relied on as professional advice. Always consult your physician or appropriate healthcare provider with respect to your own particular circumstances.
The Mental Health Commission of Canada has curated a list of crisis and help lines as well as information about where to find treatment in Where to Get Care: A guide to navigating public and private mental health services in Canada.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's leading addiction and mental health teaching hospital. CAMH works to apply the latest scientific evidence through an integrated and compassionate approach to research, health promotion, and education.
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) is a non-profit organization that has been providing services to people with mental health issues since 1918. CMHA offers information on mental health, mental illness and understanding your own mental health.
Provides an online directory that lists mental health services available in your community. Other useful resources include mental health screening tools, a calendar of upcoming events in the field, and mental health info sheets.
Helpguide.org Includes information about a wider selection of mental health issues, including ADD/ADHD, autism, abuse, Alzheimer's disease, burnout, eating disorders, grief and loss, parenting and suicide prevention.
The Institute for Advancements in Mental Health (IAM), is a connector, collaborator, thought leader and solution driven organization, supporting, innovating and driving change for better mental health.
The Mood Disorders Association of Ontario provides general information about mood disorders. It provides peer support to people experiencing anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder, and to their families.
Connect to others with similar experiences
The Moods Disorder Association of Ontario
provides information and resources about mood disorders - including anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder, and hosts online support forums for depression and bipolar disorder, family support and postpartum depression.
is an organization that seeks to improve health outcomes by providing opportunities for patients to learn from each other. Many mental health and behaviour issues are represented among the registrants. It is free to use the website, but registration is required.
Improve your mental health
Black Dog Institute is an educational, research, clinical, and community-oriented resource that offers information about depression and bipolar disorder to medical professionals and the general public and includes free online education programs and self-test tools.
Address post-partum depression
eMentalHealth.ca shares supports and treatments for overcoming post-partum depression, a very real form of depression that can go beyond just the stress, overwhelm, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes of becoming a new mother.
Cope with a loss from suicide
is a one-stop repository of high-quality, publicly available resources. Resources range from general to specific, including how to survive the holidays, guidelines for survivor advocacy, and how to start a suicide survivors support group.
Hope and Healing: A Practical Guide for Survivors of Suicide focuses on the practical matters to deal with after a loved one has died by suicide.
Recover from an eating disorder
National Eating Disorder Information Centre provides information and resources about eating disorders. A toll-free Canadian helpline provides information on services and support.
Manage pain
Retrain Pain Foundation Is a free online course for people with persistent or chronic pain to learn a science-based approach to reducing symptoms and getting back to the life you want to live. Available in 21 languages.
Manage post-traumatic stress disorder
Provides information about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), particularly as it affects front-line personnel who work in correctional, public safety, and military services, along with information about acute stress disorder, effects of traumatic experiences, crisis response, crisis team selection and training, and research in the field of critical incident trauma intervention.
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) states that 8% of Canadians will experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The webpage provides information on different options available to you to help combat symptoms of PTSD.
Consider a service dog
Support others with mental health concerns
provides resource guides to help adults experiencing specific mental health concerns.
It can be hard to know what to do when supporting someone with a mental health problem. Mind's information is aimed at helping friends, family, carers and others to give support and take care of themselves too.
Depression Hurts is a Mood Disorders Society of Canada resource that provides ways to recognize depression, talk about it, and offer support to someone you know who is suffering from depression.
The Family Guide to Mental Health Recovery
is an interactive documentary project designed to help all family members through the journey of recovery, including peer-to-peer family interviews, documentaries, online community forums and text information resources.
Care for the Caregiver from the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) shares
information about supporting loved ones who have been diagnosed with mental illness, but also the importance of taking care of yourself, preparing for a crisis and reaching out for help. Additional resources to further your understanding of mental illness are also available.
Support a child with mental health concerns
provides guides to help children who suffer from specific mental health concerns.
Kids Help Phone is more than just a telephone number. They are a national community that supports young people through phone, text and online. Resources for parents are caregivers are also available.
Support a friend or family member with dementia
Alzheimer Society of Canada provides many resources for people living with dementia, their family members, caregivers, healthcare providers and more.
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences provides resources for caregivers to support a loved one with dementia.
The Someone you care about may have dementia page offers questions and strategies to help you have a supportive conversation when someone you care about may have dementia.
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