Mad Pride arrives on the Rock
Group launches initiative to celebrate madness and advocate for experience-based understandings of mental health.
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Let’s talk about Bell
“This type of corporate fundraising has become necessary because as a society we are underfunding and undervaluing public services and community organizations.”
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“This is a crisis”: Mental health and the 2015 Election
How the parties plan to address the province’s mental health and addiction crisis.
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Vigil remembers Waterford victims and survivors, calls for new hospital
Amid urgent calls for new mental health facilities and implementation of the ‘recovery model’ of mental healthcare in N.L., people and groups continue to explain the problems and solutions to policy-makers, who have been saying for decades the hospital is coming “soon”.
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A Time to Remember and Stand
Remembering The Waterford, those we have lost, and the tired explanations of the past.
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On sexual violence, gender oppression and mental health
“People feel that they can’t safely disclose to anyone the violence that they have experienced and repress it, try to live with it, internalize it, blame themselves for it, and learn that it’s how the world is and it’s what they deserve, until that kind of internal toxicity becomes too much to bear.”
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Waterford Hospital: Closing since 1971
“The lunatics of 2015…will be digging no more trenches because those who are responsible for the health and well-being of the people of this province fail. We will work in an entirely different way.”
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Short, tragic… meaningful
Ashley Smith: What the death of one means to many
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Fixing NL’s “broken” mental healthcare system
Groups launch Community Coalition for Mental Health in St. John’s, call for government action and a strategy to deal with province’s mental health crisis
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“Asks” for improved mental health and mental illness prevention and services in NL
Dozens of people affected by mental health and mental illness took to the stage Oct. 15 at Holy Heart Auditorium in St. John’s to share their “asks” with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador as part of a provincial mental health strategy
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Statement from health minister and Deputy Premier on mental health and mental illness in NL
Steve Kent responds to launch of Community Coalition for Mental Health Newfoundland and Labrador
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It takes all kinds
The intersection of Newfoundland and Labrador’s culture and emerging conceptions of mental health as a human right
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Committed
In the wake of yet another high profile suicide, it seems like an appropriate time to have a conversation about how it is that we talk about it…
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“The silence is killing us”
Hundreds gathered in St. John’s Wednesday to share stories and concerns around the state of mental health services in the province
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Another…
Why are young men and women choosing to take their own lives?
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Starter thoughts on something like Mental Illness
A challenge to understand madness, or mental illness, in a more compassionate way.
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Starving for it
A disturbing new trend with horrifying results
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