Education
Offering continued learning and awareness across the Prairie Mountain Health region
Strive to Thrive
The Strive to Thrive program will help you move forward and learn how to thrive, even in the most difficult of times. Strive to Thrive is a 5 week program where you will explore your symptoms of wellness and improve your mental health. Throughout the program you will develop skills, knowledge and practices to empower you to THRIVE! During this program, you will meet with a trained facilitator and other staff once a week and will have an opportunity to share your experiences and improve upon your coping and resilience skills. This program offers a variety of resources so that you will find the one(s) that work best for you. We look forward to meeting you and helping you Strive to Thrive!
To register or for more information call: 1-877-509-7852 or email: HealthPromotion2@pmh-mb.ca
safeTALK
safeTALK, about three hours in duration, is a training that prepares anyone over the age of 15 to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aid resources. Most people with thoughts of suicide invite help to stay safe. Alert helpers know how to use these opportunities to support that desire for safety. As a safeTALK-trained suicide alert helper, you will be better able to:
- move beyond common tendencies to miss, dismiss or avoid suicide;
- identify people who have thoughts of suicide;
- apply the TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe) to connect a person with suicide thoughts to suicide first aid, intervention caregivers.
Powerful video clips illustrate both non-alert and alert responses. Discussion and practice help stimulate learning. Learn steps that contribute to saving lives.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
The ASIST workshop is for caregivers who want to feel more comfortable, confident and competent in helping to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. Over one million caregivers have participated in this two-day, highly interactive, practical, practice-oriented workshop.
Participation in the full two days is required. Enjoy small group discussions and skills practice that are based upon adult learning principles. Experience powerful videos on suicide intervention. Feel challenged and safe. Learn suicide first aid.
Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is the help provided to a person developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. Just as physical first aid is administered to an injured person before medical treatment can be obtained, MHFA is given until appropriate treatment is found or until the crisis is resolved.
The MHFA Canada program aims to improve mental health literacy, and provide the skills and knowledge to help people better manage potential or developing mental health problems in themselves, a family member, a friend or a colleague.
The program does not teach people how to be therapists. It does teach people how to:
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of mental health problems.
- Provide initial help.
- Guide a person towards appropriate professional help.
MHFA shares the same overall purpose as traditional first aid – to save lives. It aims to:
- Preserve life where a person may be a danger to themselves or others.
- Provide help to prevent the mental health problem from developing into a more serious state.
- Promote the recovery of good mental health.
- Provide comfort to a person experiencing a mental health problem.
For more information about courses offered please email mhpromotion@pmh-mb.ca
Centre for Critical Studies of Rural Mental Health
The Centre promotes innovative, community-connected research and education to inform rural mental health and wellness policies and practices, respond to the issues facing rural people and communities, and develop expertise for understanding and planning for Canada’s rural and remote health and wellness.
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Statistics & Articles
Cross-Canada statistics – Centre for Suicide PreventionCentre for Suicide Prevention
Resources
Centre for Suicide Prevention
Together with CMHA Regions and our partners, we’re building an Alberta where people’s wellbeing is supported in their community – by a friend, a peer, a support group, their local CMHA office, or the medical system. We equip people with the information, knowledge and skills necessary to respond to people considering suicide. We educate online, in print, and interactively. Our library of over 50,000 suicide-specific items, the largest English-language collection of its kind, informs the work we do.
A Guide to Help Prevent Suicide
Be ready to help prevent suicide before a crisis. The topic of suicide can be complex, upsetting, and confusing. We might not want to think or talk about suicide, but we really need to. There are more than 4,500 suicides in Canada each year. That’s 12 lives lost every day—deaths that can be prevented. You may have thought about suicide yourself, or you may know or support someone who’s thinking about it. Either way, the best time to prepare for a crisis is before it happens. Our guide provides tips for helping someone in distress, information about where to go for help, and a how-to for creating a personalized safety plan to help someone in a crisis.
Buddy Up Campaign
This is a men’s suicide prevention campaign: a call to action for men, by men, to drive authentic conversation amongst men and their buddies. This is suicide prevention. Participate in the campaign year-round, completing activities that promote connection and wellbeing.
Canadian Mental Health Association
Our vision: A Manitoba where mental health is honoured as a universal human right. Our mission: To advance mental health, well-being, and recovery across Manitoba.
Toolkits
Our library of over 50,000 suicide-related items, the largest English-language collection in the world, informs the work we do.
Livingworks
Global leaders in suicide prevention skills training. Evidence-based suicide prevention training for workplaces and communities. Building suicide-safer communities, together. Because everyone can play a role in suicide prevention.
Professional Resources
Talking About Suicide e-course
This free online training equips health-care providers with tools to recognize suicide risk and engage in open, supportive conversations.
Reporting on Mental Health
We hold reducing the stigma experienced by people living with mental health problems or illnesses as one of our top priorities. Because of the important role that the media plays in providing information and shaping public attitudes in Canada, our anti-stigma initiative Opening Minds began hosting symposia for journalism students at universities. These events provided opportunities to hear from a working journalist, researcher, forensic psychologist, and people with lived and living experience of mental health problems and illnesses. The popularity of these events prompted us to reach out to journalists-in-training. Opening Minds created this online program for journalism students.