Hello everyone!

This is Mental Health Week from May 3 - 9, 2021. This year's theme is understanding our emotions. Regardless of whether or not we have a mental illness, our mental health is something we can protect and nurture. Everyone deserves to feel well and understanding our emotions is a part of feeling well. Putting a name to our uncomfortable emotions can help us to feel better; family caregivers can access support to do this through virtual psycho-education and support groups.

The posters for the upcoming educational sessions and support groups are included below.

FMHI's Facebook page helps keep us connected.

You can also find FMHI on Twitter and Instagram

 In this Issue:

• Get your toolkit for Mental Health Week

• Virtual Family Caregiver Psycho-Education 

• Virtual Family Caregiver Support Group

• Crisis Services

Take care, 

Tara Maxwell

CMHA's 70th Annual

Mental Health Week - May 3 - 9, 2021

Get your toolkit at mentalhealthweek.ca

A mentally healthy life includes the full range of human emotions—even the uncomfortable ones like sadness, fear and anger. This #MentalHealthWeek, #GetReal about how you really feel.

Virtual Family Caregiver Psycho-Education

These sessions are offered monthly via Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN).

May 2021

June 2021

Virtual Family Caregiver Support Groups

The support groups are offered on the 2nd Tuesday & 3rd Monday of every month via Zoom.

Crisis Service

Crisis Services offers 24hr telephone support to assist individuals, community agencies, emergency services and family or friends, to work through resolution of identified issues and challenges. The team is comprised of mental health and addiction professionals, who are trained in suicide intervention, and can help stabilize pre and post-crisis, developing coping strategies and plans for ongoing mental health and addiction support and follow up.

Family Mental Health Initiative of Simcoe County

90 Mulcaster St.

Barrie ON L4M 3M5

705-725-0363 / 1-800-324-3252

fmhi.ca