This Bell Let’s Talk Day, Take A Moment for Yourself

Today is Bell Let’s Talk Day, an initiative that has significantly advanced Canada’s mental health conversation since its 2010 launch.

The year’s theme is taking a moment for mental health, encouraging Canadians to prioritize mental health and give mental health the moment it deserves:

• Moments to take care of and be in tune with your own mental health
• Moments to reach out to those around you, caring for their mental health
• Moments to recognize the societal importance of mental health

EveryMind is thankful for this effort to reduce stigma and foster positive changes in attitudes and behaviors surrounding mental wellness and illness.

In keeping with this year’s theme, we would like to spotlight our Group Services, which offers free and confidential evidence-based and evidence-informed groups and workshops to children, youth and parents/caregivers throughout the year.

Groups are not only a moment of reflection and learning, but also safe spaces for sharing and fellowship. They tackle a range of topics from building self-esteem and self-confidence, improving parent-child relationships, handling stress and anxiety, maternal mental health, giving and caregivers tools to help their children and themselves. Our groups include Go Girls, Boys Council, Mother-Daughter Circle for youth, and Learning About ADHD, Circle of Security and Parenting Your Anxious Child for caregivers. EveryMind also provides a virtual Treatment Group for anxious children between the ages of 9-12 called Camp Cope-A-Lot.

We have also recently launched a 5-part virtual workshop series for youth ages 17–24, who want real-life skills to boost their mental health. Each session is interactive and packed with real-life strategies that can be used right away.

All of our groups are offered to residents of Mississauga, Caledon and Brampton multiple times a year and in both virtual and in-person formats to meet the needs of families.

There are several different pathways for families to access groups at EveryMind. The easiest is online registration via WhereToStart.ca. If a family has an EveryMind clinician, the clinician can also recommend a group and can complete a registration form for a family.  This would be part of the client’s treatment plan and the group can be attended at the beginning, in the middle of, or at the end of treatment. External referrals can also occur from other community agencies that a family may be involved with.

Groups at EveryMind bring people together, they discover they are not alone and have commonalities with others by offering cohesion and peer support.  Groups provide an opportunity to learn, reflect, acknowledge and grow, all while participants feel like they belong and are finally understood.

Visit WhereToStart.ca and click on the Groups & Webinars tab to learn more and register.

To learn more about Bell Let’s Talk, you can visit www.letstalk.bell.ca.