BeyondNow – Your suicide safety planning app

Convenient and confidential, the BeyondNow app puts safety planning in the pocket so it can accessed and edited at any time.

 

 

BounceBack® - CMHA

BounceBack® is a free skill-building program managed by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA). It is designed to help adults and youth 15+ manage low mood, mild to moderate depression and anxiety, stress or worry. Delivered over the phone with a coach and through online videos, you will get access to tools that will support you on your path to mental wellness. 

 

Buddy Up - Centre for Suicide Prevention

This resource is an introduction to men and suicide. You’ll learn about statistics, warning signs, why men are more at risk, and how suicide can be prevented. You’ll also learn how to have a conversation with someone you’re worried about. If you know someone who is thinking about suicide, or if you’re thinking about suicide, call your local crisis line.

 

Continuing Education – MHCC

Looking for free online continuing education opportunities? The Mental Health Commission of Canada’s (MHCC) webinars, case studies and more on topics ranging from workplace mental health to recovery and suicide prevention.

 

E-hub Online Self-Help 

Those are free e-mental health tools provided by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing including e-couch, MoodGym and Bluepages.

 

FOVEO CARE

Foveo Care is a mental health support app that provides an anonymous forum for people to disclose their fears and struggles, while gaining encouragement from others going through the same thing.  

 

Heads Up Guys

It is an online, anonymous resource specifically designed for men, and their families, to prevent the continued erosion of men’s mental health and deaths by suicide. Our website offers tips and articles that arm men with the tools they need to fight depression, as well as recovery stories from men who have faced depression, and an international therapist directory to connect men with local mental health professionals.

 

Medications and You

This book free, developed by The Mood Disorders Society of Canada, hopes to assist people by providing them with easy to understand information on medications.

 

Mental Health in the Workplace: An Accommodation Guide for Managers and Staff

This free guidebook aims to help employers and managers understand how to assist colleagues with mental health concerns and appropriately accommodate them in the workplace. 

 

MindShift App

MindShift® CBT uses scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety. Click here to learn more.

 

E-mental health implementation toolkit

This implementation toolkit was developed to support the establishment of e-mental health programs.

 

 

Suicide prevention and support

Crisis Services Canada (CSC) is a collaboration of distress and crisis centres from across Canada, offering Canada’s first nationally available, regionally delivered suicide prevention service.

 

 

Suicide Prevention Toolkits

The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), has developed 2 toolkits to support people who have been impacted by suicide. One toolkit is tailored for people who have attempted suicide, and the other is focused on resources for people who have lost someone to suicide.

 

Supporting a Family Member with Schizophrenia

Supporting a Family Member with Schizophrenia is a practical guide for families and other caregivers. The support strategies in the manual can help people with the illness to really engage in life—to be able to work, study, enjoy their leisure time and have meaningful relationships.

 

Hope and Recovery guide: Your Guide to Living with and Beyond Schizophrenia

This guide has been developed by the The Schizophrenia Society of Canada (SSC) to provide information and guidance to young people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and those who support them. 

 

Think Outside the Box

Information, tools and stories for people with disabilities, employers, landlords, service and transportation providers and anyone else looking to learn more about mental health accessibility and disability accommodation.

 

My Grief

Confidential and free, MyGrief.ca helps you to understand and move through your grief.

 

 

WalkAlong

WalkAlong is a free online mental health companion. Click here to access their online tools that support your journey as well as being a good resource for others.

 

Brain Connections

Brain Connections was created to share information about how problem gambling affects the brain. Brain Connections translates current research into understandable answers to these and other questions in handout and video formats. 

 

PTSD Coach Canada - Mobile App (Military/ Veterans)

Together with professional treatment, PTSD Coach Canada provides dependable resources and self-help tools based on research.

 

Anxiety in Older Adults

The Canadian Coalition for Seniors Mental Health (CCSMH) released new Canadian Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Anxiety in Older Adults.

 

 

Mental Health Resource and Practice Guide

In collaboration with the Canada Northwest FASD Partnership, CanFASD has developed resources and a practice guide for frontline mental health professionals who collaborate directly with individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).