Family Guide to Mental Health Recovery

09/13/2023

Happy Birthday Christine Cooper! You are the little engine that made this project possible! Happy and healthy birthday and many, many more!

09/13/2022

More happiness. Thank you to the Toronto Public Library for purchasing 6 copies of our book "Finding Our Way" for the greater Toronto community. It is greatly appreciated. https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM4234580&R=4234580

09/13/2022

Happy Birthday to Christine Cooper! Without whom our project would have not been done. Christine Cooper can be found on Twitter.

09/13/2022

Proud to work with University of Toronto's Dr. Charmaine Williams at the Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, to create more Family resources. Please check out the "Family Caregiving Project" and the Family Cafe videos on our site! www.familyguidetomentalhealth.com

a family support website for mental health info & recovery

05/27/2022

The Toronto Public Library now has 10 copies of "The Journey Home" DVD documentary available at branches across the GTA.
We are very thankful for their support. Yes, FREE viewing is just around the corner at a branch near you! And you can watch select clips at our website, 24/7 anytime you like.

07/19/2018

We are super pleased and thankful to share the news that our book "Finding Our Way: Family Experiences in Mental Health Recovery" has been completed, with the support and participation of many, many folks. It is being used by Prof. Charmaine Williams PhD of the U of T Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and without her support and enthusiasm to share it, this would still be a hope, rather than a book. Thank you! And of course to all the folks who did interviews with us for the project and whose insight, generosity and courage make the book, film and website of value. More news to come on where and how we can share it. Early days! We just had the first bunch printed a few weeks ago. The image of the cover is....

05/30/2018

Do you want to meet other family members and share your family's experience of mental illness and recovery so we can learn more for a study on the family experience?

Come to our Family Cafe, in Toronto at U of T! Sat. June 16th, 9 am to 12 pm. To sign up or more info, go to our Eventbrite page at: bit.ly/2s7lm3r

Family Mental Health Cafés are community conversations for a research project by Charmaine Williams, PhD, Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto and Family Guide are proudly partnering in creating media content for them.

Welcome to our Family Mental Health Cafe! This ticket reflects your interest to participate in a group discussion with other families, including individuals living with a mental illness, as well as service providers in the community. The Family Mental Health Café is part of a research project funde...

11/16/2017

Hello to all. We are working towards developing new content to launch in 2018 for families, that will include more family perspective video content, text and hopefully, a re-fresh on our website. All exciting and stuff we will let you know about it as it develops. Thanks for all your support and generosity!

06/13/2016

Thanks for Family Outreach for a fun event at St. Joe's on Thursday June 9th. Standing room only! It was great to share "The Journey Home" with more families. If you really look closely, you will see a celebrity newspaper writer, or at least the back of their head :-) Thanks Elly!

06/05/2016

Thursday June 9th, at 7 pm we are presenting clips from The Journey Home documentary at St. Joseph's Hospital in Toronto as part of an event for Families presented by FOR "Family Outreach and Response Program" in association with CMHA Toronto. See poster... All families are welcome - free event.

04/22/2016

Thank you ALL! Much appreciated. We're going strong until 11:59 pm tonight but hopefully, you're all too busy with holidays, dinners, friends, families, ballgames, checking lottery tickets...you know, the usual.

For any curious last minute facebook visitors, here is the link:
www.indiegogo.com/at/kensington150 We begin shooting next week, and we look forward to sharing it with you soon. SC

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04/22/2016

TODAY is the last day in our Indiegogo campaign for Kensington 150. We start shooting interviews next week.
To celebrate - whoever gives us the biggest donation walks with the an autographed copy of the "Colours of Kensington" artist created, adult colouring book. Yes, the wave that's taking over the world has come to Kensington. Good for folks with a Peter Pan complex, a membership to a pot clinic or want to reverse dementia. Or those who just want to step up and support our project!
Thanks to everyone who has helped us. It takes a village to make a documentary. If you've been on the fence, jump off onto our side and help us out. All of you will walk with a nice gift. One of you will get this one with our deepest thanks. www.indiegogo.com/at/kensington150