Peer Facilitated Workshops

Vancouver Coastal Health offers several Peer Facilitated Workshops with a focus on mental health, psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery.

Participants can include: people with lived experience and addiction issues, staff of VCH, clients of VCH, people with lived experience not connected to a mental health team and supporters and family members.

For more info call Amanda Berg
at 604-708-5274

BRIDGES – Building Recovery of Individual Dreams & Goals through Education & Support

Talking with Your Doctor and other Health Care Providers

Voices and Visions Drop in Support Group

WRAP – Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP)

心理健康行動計劃課程畢業生互動小組
Mandarin WOW (Working Our W.R.A.P.) 

Your Recovery Journey

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2	3	4CIF Crisis GrantsCIF Crisis GrantsTime: 12:00 pm First deadline of the month for CIF Crisis Grants - applications due by 12 noon. Grants to those who receive them will be issued Wednesday of the following week.	5	6Vanc Voices & Visions Supp GrpVanc Voices & Visions Supp GrpTime: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Drop in support group based on the international Hearing Voices Network. This group explores living well with voices, visions and other unusual sensory experiences. What do these experiences mean to you? You don't have to be a mental health team client. Location: Grandview Woodland Mental Health Team - 310-1669 East Broadway. First and Third Fridays of the month. No meetings on stat holidays.	7	8Peer Education & Support GroupPeer Education & Support GroupTime: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm An ongoing support group open to anyone who has a diagnosis of a mental illness or addiction, or families and supporters. The group meets every 2nd Sunday of the month at 1725 Venables Street by Commercial Drive at the Kettle Friendship Society. The support group uses principles of support, emotional stages of recovery and problem solving skills from the BRIDGES course material. Call 604 708 5274 for more details
9	10	11	12	13	14WOW: Working Our WRAP Drop-in Support GroupWOW: Working Our WRAP Drop-in Support GroupTime: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • Meet up with new as well as familiar people who are also on their recovery journey • Share your successes and challenges with putting your W.R.A.P. into action • Share ideas for completing or updating your W.R.A.P. (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) • Share and explore wellness tools • Learn of community resources and events • Support ourselves and each other as we create the lives we want to live Ravensong Community Health Centre 2450 Ontario Street Vancouver, BC Voices & VisionsVoices & VisionsTime: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm This is a peer led, drop in support group for people who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual sensory experiences. It is based on the International Hearing Voices Network. You do not have to be a mental health team client to attend. Location is: 300-30 East 6th Ave, Vancouver, in the boardroom. The group meets on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. There are no meetings on stat holidays. Questions? Call: 604-708-5276. at Open Door Group	15
16	17	18CIF Crisis GrantsCIF Crisis GrantsTime: 12:00 pm Second deadline of the month for CIF Crisis Grants - applications due by 12 noon. Grants to those who receive them will be issued Wednesday of the following week.	19	20Vanc Voices & Visions Supp GrpVanc Voices & Visions Supp GrpTime: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Drop in support group based on the international Hearing Voices Network. This group explores living well with voices, visions and other unusual sensory experiences. What do these experiences mean to you? You don't have to be a mental health team client. Location: Grandview Woodland Mental Health Team - 310-1669 East Broadway. First and Third Fridays of the month. No meetings on stat holidays.	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28Voices & VisionsVoices & VisionsTime: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm This is a peer led, drop in support group for people who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual sensory experiences. It is based on the International Hearing Voices Network. You do not have to be a mental health team client to attend. Location is: 300-30 East 6th Ave, Vancouver, in the boardroom. The group meets on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. There are no meetings on stat holidays. Questions? Call: 604-708-5276. at Open Door Group	29
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