CMHA Lethbridge

Our staff have been on site at to show our thanks as Nutters across western Canada raise money for CMHA during this Mental Health Week with a round up at the till campaign!

Huge thanks to Nutters team for all the support of mental health in our communities!

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This Mental Health Week, gather a group of friends and take part in the community wide Wellness Wander Scavenger Hunt.

Grab your passport for this quest at the Community LINKS - Lethbridge desk at the Lethbridge Public Library, main branch. Solve over thrity riddles, and find posters indicating an activity at local businesses, tourist attractions and parks in our city. Fill our 75% (or more) of the passport to enter it for a draw for prizes.

Disconnect from the digital world this week, and connect with your friends and family and find places you can go throughout the year in Lethbridge to take care of your mental health!

On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, CMHA reflects on the deep and lasting harms of colonial practices in Canada, and honours the survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities.

It’s also Orange Shirt Day and we equally honour and remember those who never returned home from residential schools, while acknowledging our shared responsibility to ensure these harms are never repeated, because Every Child Matters.

СМНА acknowledges the importance of truth as part of our sector’s responsibility toward reconciliation. Early in the 20th century in Canada, pioneers such as Dr.
Clarence Hincks and Dr. C.K. Clarke, helped establish some of the earliest mental health services in our country. While their work advanced public mental health, it also carried troubling beliefs and practices of the early 20th century, including support for public health policies related to eugenics and segregation practices that harmed many including Indigenous Peoples and others living with serious mental illnesses and disabilities.

Acknowledging these legacies is heartbreaking and difficult, but necessary. It’s our responsibility to move forward in ways that support true reconciliation, healing, and cultural reclamation. CMHA will continue to build stronger relationships with Indigenous communities and support healing and wellness in the mental health sector in a good way. 🧡🧡

CMHA Staff from across all of our programs were excited to be on hand today for the opening of a new supportive housing project being unveiled by our friends and partners at Lethbridge Housing Authority, and so many incredible community partners and elected officials.

We were humbled to be present for the unveiling of the Blackfoot name, Nokoowaayi, as presented by Martin Heavy Head, and the official ribbon cutting.

Appropriate housing is critical to the mental wellbeing of our community and we look forward to seeing the positive impact that this has for folks living in our community in the months to come

Thanks to Nutters Everyday Naturals for their Round Up For Mental Health campaign, which ran through May and supported CMHA offices across Western Canada. Over $26,000 was raised by over 10,800 generous donors! Learn more at nutters.com/roundup.

In case you missed it in last week's Lethbridge Herald, here is a quick article that they published in advance of World Su***de Prevention Day yesterday.

Whenever you need to reach out, someone is there for you.

On this World Su***de Prevention Day, we want to take a moment and thank all the incredible volunteers, staff and individuals who have supported someone who has reached out, talked about, or faced Su***de in their lives.

We were on hand today at the Galt Museum & Archives for an incredible journey with John Thompson through the history of Su***de Prevention in Southern Alberta and the role that groups like the Samaritans and Lethbridge Family Services do to continually support, educate and bring people together.

So whether you have supported someone personally or professionally; whether you worked or volunteers led in su***de prevention for decades or a single day; thank you for being there when someone needed it.

Resources are still available if you need someone to talk to 24/7, including:

** 988 - National Su***de Prevention Hotline **
** 211 - Resources & Supports **
** 403.327.7905 - Distress Line of SW Alberta **