Well-Being Connection
By Canadian Mental Health Association - Manitoba and Winnipeg
Well-Being ConnectionSep 20, 2021
Employment With Supports Program Showcase - Part 2
In part two of our showcase of the Employment With Supports Program, James interviews Sarah - a mental health recovery champion currently involved as a participant with the employment program. She shares her story of recovery and you will see how incredible her resilience and strength is. I was so inspired to hear it, and although you can't see my face, I was beaming with a smile knowing the strength inherent in Sarah, and in turn, all of us. You will understand what it is like to be a part of the program as a participant, from reaching out to graduating with employment secured. Most importantly, you will find hope.
Employment with Supports at CMHA Manitoba & Winnipeg provides the tools and information for the achievement of satisfying and successful employment. A rapid employment approach is used to support participants looking to join or return to the workforce.
The Employment with Supports Program is designed to focus your journey on increased well-being and satisfaction in your life and assist you to develop a work-life balance.
Check out the link below for more information:
https://mbwpg.cmha.ca/programs-services/employment-with-supports/
Employment With Supports Program Showcase - Part 1
In this two-part showcase of the Employment With Supports Program, James interviews Orianne Donig-Harder. Orianne has worked for CMHA since 2014. She worked as a Rehabilitation Worker in the Rehabilitation & Recovery Service and jumped at the opportunity to work in the Employment with Supports program when it started as a federal pilot project. She is passionate about psychologically healthy workplaces and helping people meet their goals.
Employment with Supports at CMHA Manitoba & Winnipeg provides the tools and information for the achievement of satisfying and successful employment. A rapid employment approach is used to support participants looking to join or return to the workforce.
The Employment with Supports Program is designed to focus your journey on increased well-being and satisfaction in your life and assist you to develop a work-life balance.
Tune in next week for a conversation with a participant who is currently in the Employment With Supports program. You won't want to miss out!
Check out the link below for more information:
https://mbwpg.cmha.ca/programs-services/employment-with-supports/
Ride Don't Hide 2022
WE'RE A MOVEMENT FOR MENTAL HEALTH.
JOIN US!
Ride. Walk. Run. Dance. Do what you love while you do some good. Move for yourself, for your mental health and for the people around you.
Ride Don’t Hide is a chance to:Move More. Give Back. Cope Better.
WHAT IS RIDE DON’T HIDE?
Ride Don’t Hide is the largest mental health bike ride in Canada. Over ten years, thousands of people rode millions of kilometres and raised millions of dollars for community mental health.
Ride Don’t Hide 2022 is your ride, your way. In June 2022, thousands of riders across Canada will come together to move for their mental health and for their community. Ride Don’t Hide isn’t just a fundraiser, it's a movement for mental health.
And it’s needed now more than ever.
ARE YOU IN? HERE’S WHAT TO DO!
1. Register and choose your adventure – pick an in person ride, choose a Spirit Week activity and/or an activity that excites you.
2. Set your activity minutes goal from now until the end of June. (Pro tip – Don’t wait. Get started on your goal right away!)
3. Set up your personal Ride Don’t Hide page to track your activity and achievements.
4. Set your fundraising goal to $330 - Or - register as a team by and set your fundraising goal to $3,300.
THANK YOU to our sponsors:
Ride Don't Hide Presenting Sponsors: Talbot Marketing
Nourishment sponsor: Red River Co-op
Ukrainian Bravery: How Unity Helps Ukrainians Survive Tragedy and Master Resilience
CMHA Manitoba and Winnipeg Board Member, Olga Shmelova, joins our host James Welsman to give a brief historical perspective on the current Ukrainian situation and outline factors that help Ukrainians stay strong and fight for their freedom. After listening to this episode, you will have a greater understanding of intergenerational trauma and how it has contributed to Ukrainian culture and mentality, you will learn how bravery is a secret weapon for Ukrainians as a national response to trauma. This war has affected us all globally, and Olga provides tangible ways for you to support Ukraine.
Olga Shmelova - Ukrainian immigrant, Mental health Clinician, certified psychotherapist, instructor, and world explorer - moved to Winnipeg from Ukraine after Crimea's annexation in 2014. She has worked with psychological trauma for over 10 years, helping her clients to find meanings of their experiences and find strength to move forward with their lives. She brings a multicultural perspective into her professional approach, and strongly believes that we all are citizens of the world.
To get involved volunteering to help settle Ukrainian refugees in Winnipeg, please click HERE
Read more about these efforts HERE
Bell Let's Talk - Listening In
Bell Let’s Talk promotes mental health awareness, acceptance and action built on 4 key pillars: Fighting stigma, improving access to care, supporting world-class research and leading by example in workplace mental health. Bell Let's Talk 2022 is focused on supporting ourselves and each other. Learn how you can get involved at letstalk.bell.ca
Join hosts James Welsman and Stephen Sutherland for interviews with Alex Tapscott, and Ten Koriyama about Bell Let's Talk 2022. You will learn their perspectives on Bell Let's Talk and how they commit to being effective active listeners. This year, we call on our listeners to not only talk about mental health, but to commit to listening.
Alex Tapscott is the co-founder of CAMH Engage - a dynamic community of young professionals driving social change through mental health education and fundraising for CAMH. Since his work as a mental health advocate and champion, Alex Tapscott has become a globally-recognized writer, speaker, investor and advisor focused on the impact of emerging technologies, such as blockchain and cryptocurrencies, on business, society and government. Check outwww.alextapscott.com and www.twitter.com/alextapscott to follow his work.
Ten Koriyama is the President of Active Minds at University of Manitoba. Active Minds is a student led, student run, mental health awareness and advocacy group. You can find out more at www.activeminds.org follow them at https://twitter.com/ActiveMindsUofM
Care For All In Education
Post-Secondary Part One - Ontario Shores and the Post-Secondary Recovery College Movement
Welcome to Part One of our three-part series, "Return to Post-Secondary." Your hosts James and Stephen talk to Holly Harris and Julia Houston, Post-Secondary Peer Support Specialists at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in Whitby, Ontario, about their work pioneering the implementation of the Recovery College model of Peer Support into Post-Secondary Institutions across Canada. You will learn what resources are available in your Post-Secondary journey, how to navigate connectedness and what that looks like for the 2021-2022 academic year, and how to get started learning about recovery while balancing the competing priorities and opportunities in Post-Secondary.
Check out Holly Harris' blog post, Understanding the Mental Health Needs of Post-Secondary Students, to learn more!
Bruce Oake Recovery Centre - Celebrating Recovery Month
Join your hosts Stephen Sutherland, James Welsman, and Kyle Goertzen as they celebrate Recovery Month this September. You will learn some insights into CMHA's great partnership with Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, feel inspired for the power of recovery, and hear stories of lived experience.
About the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre: "The Bruce Oake Recovery Centre is dedicated to the memory of Bruce Oake, who passed away from an accidental drug overdose in 2011 at the age of 25. Scott and Anne Oake, Bruce’s parents, along with brother Darcy, are determined to have his life and death return something positive to this world. The Centre is a purpose-built, long-term residential treatment centre serving those seeking support for problematic substance use."
World Suicide Prevention Day 2021
**Trigger Warning** This podcast discusses suicide and suicidal ideation, and some people might find it disturbing. If you’re thinking about suicide, or you are worried someone you know is suicidal, please, contact your physician, or if it’s an emergency, please go to your local ER. Manitoba residents call the Manitoba Suicide Prevention and Support Hotline at: 1-877-435-7170 or call the Canada Suicide Prevention Service at 1-833-456-4566 who are available 24/7 for voice and 4 pm to 12 am ET for text. Websites you can go to include reasontolive.ca and Crisis Service Canada website at crisisservicecanada.ca You are not alone, they can help you.
Mara Grunau is the Executive Director of the Centre for Suicide Prevention and joins Well-Being Connection to help you understand World Suicide Prevention Day 2021 and the theme for this year - Creating Hope Through Action.
We also talk about Buddy Up - a men's suicide prevention communications campaign: a call to action to men, by men.
World Suicide Prevention Day Toolkit for 2021
Speak Up
Speak Up is a 5-day school-based mental health literacy and stigma reduction program designed for grade 7, 9, and 11 students. Mental health literacy intervention is an evidence-based approach to increasing mental health knowledge, breaking down stigma towards people living with mental health problems and illnesses, and encouraging help seeking behaviours. In this episode, Stephen speaks with Youth Mental Health Promotion Coordinator - Speak Up Program Lead, James Welsman, about his own journey of recovery, the Indigenous aspects of the program, and how Speak Up has helped to equip mental health champions. Stephen also speaks with Winnipeg School Division Healthy Minds Specialist, Fiona England, about her perspective about the program's success in helping students take ownership of their own mental health trajectory.
Thrival Kits
Visit thrivalkits.ca, manitobaadvocate.ca, and mbwpg.cmha.ca, to learn more!
Well Central: The Virtual Recovery College
This episode highlights Well Central, the Virtual Recovery College at CMHA Manitoba and Winnipeg. James and Stephen speak with Research and Evaluation Specialist Laurie McPherson about Well Central's innovative, evidence-based model, and the learning journey participants experience on the platform. Later on, our hosts have a conversation with Well-being Learning Centre Peer Facilitator Karen Hoersch about her experience participating in the program and how it empowered her to land her dream job.
Visit www.wellcentral.ca to learn more and get connected with this innovative program.
Wrapping Up Ride Don't Hide + Spirit Week 2021
Ride Don't Hide + Spirit Week - Youth Hub Part 2
Levi Labelle is the Manager of the Integrated Youth Hub in Winnipeg’s Downtown West Broadway neighborhood that will open this Fall. Today, he joined us from the location of our Integrated Youth Hub. He was our guest on this week’s podcast for part 2 of our conversation and shares about the importance of having a place where youth are able to co-design programs, express their creativity, and receive the support necessary to be the best version of themselves.
Virtual Ride Don't Hide 2021 + Spirit week continues on! Move more, give back, and feel better by riding your way, donating, and learning more at ridedonthide.com/manitoba
We want to give a special shout out to our incredible partners who are making Ride Don’t Hide + Spirit Week 2021 possible:
Corporate Challenge Champion: MGEU
Spirit Week Sponsor: Talbot Marketing
Family Ride Sponsor: Manitoba Hydro
Nourishment Partner: Red River Co-op
Ride Don't Hide + Spirit Week - Youth Hub Part 1
Levi Labelle is the Manager of the Integrated Youth Hub in Winnipeg’s Downtown West Broadway neighborhood that will open this Fall. He was our guest on this week’s podcast and shares about the importance of having a place where youth are able to co-design programs, express their creativity, and receive the support necessary to be the best version of themselves. We are thrilled that this part one of two episodes which will run back to back!
Virtual Ride Don't Hide 2021 + Spirit week continues on! Move more, give back, and feel better by riding your way, donating, and learning more at ridedonthide.com/manitoba
We want to give a special shout out to our incredible partners who are making Ride Don’t Hide + Spirit Week 2021 possible:
Corporate Challenge Champion: MGEU
Spirit Week Sponsor: Talbot Marketing
Family Ride Sponsor: Manitoba Hydro
Nourishment Partner: Red River Co-op
Ride Don't Hide + Spirit Week - Intellectual Wellness
Holly Enns is an Administrative Assistant for the Bounce Back program at CMHA Manitoba and Winnipeg. She was a guest in our podcast this week alongside her father, Eric Enns, a firefighter who also contributed to Ride Don’t Hide. Eric shares his ride experience and the challenge he was able to overcome after an accident. Meanwhile, Holly shares some input about her father’s commitment to help with the fundraising event. Brandon and James chat about the 330 Ride Challenge that Brandon completed June 26th and 27th, and they reflect on intellectual wellness and what it means to them.
Trigger Warning: Current events in Indigenous communities are discussed in the last segment of the podcast.
Virtual Ride Don't Hide 2021 + Spirit week continues on! Move more, give back, and feel better by riding your way, donating, and learning more at ridedonthide.com/manitoba
We want to give a special shout out to our incredible partners who are making Ride Don’t Hide + Spirit Week 2021 possible:
Corporate Challenge Champion: MGEU
Spirit Week Sponsor: Talbot Marketing
Family Ride Sponsor: Manitoba Hydro
Nourishment Partner: Red River Co-op
Ride Don't Hide + Spirit Week - Spiritual Wellness
Emily Potter is a professional basketball star and a mental health champion who completed the 330 Ride Challenge on June 26th and 27th alongside Brandon Friesen, co-host of Well-Being Connection and Ride Don't Hide 2021 CMHA Staff ambassador, and their respective siblings. Four inspirational heroic individuals completed the ride, and Emily and Brandon recount the meaning behind their actions, the challenges they faced, and touching anecdotes along the way. Thank you Emily for all that you do!
The 330 Ride Challenge, 330 kilometres from Selkirk to Hecla Provincial Park and back, representing the $330 it takes for one person in Canada to receive mental health care that they need, is complete, but the work is not yet over. We need you to share this with the people who mean the most to you, to connect, to talk about how important it is to support youth mental health in Manitoba. Invite them to ridedonthide.com/manitoba to learn more and donate.
Move more, give back, feel better.
We want to give a special shout out to our incredible partners who are making Ride Don’t Hide + Spirit Week 2021 possible:
Corporate Challenge Champion: MGEU
Spirit Week Sponsor: Talbot Marketing
Family Ride Sponsor: Manitoba Hydro
Nourishment Partner: Red River Co-op
Ride Don't Hide + Spirit Week - Vocational Wellness
Grant Reid is the CEO and Founder of GFit Wellness, a fitness coaching platform that assists in your physical well-being. In this episode, Grant highlights GFit’s progress helping people maintain a balanced lifestyle, and he shares some of his personal learnings and growth through challenges we all face during the course of the pandemic. We, the staff of CMHA Manitoba & Winnipeg, feel honoured to call GFit Wellness a partner in our work.
We want to give a special shout out to our incredible partners who are making Ride Don’t Hide + Spirit Week 2021 possible:
Corporate Challenge Champion: MGEU
Spirit Week Sponsor: Talbot Marketing
Family Ride Sponsor: Manitoba Hydro
Nourishment Partner: Red River Co-op
Ride Don't Hide + Spirit Week - Social Wellness
Tristan Dreilich is a Mental Health Resource Developer for the CMHA Interlake Eastern region. In our fifth episode of Well-Being Connection Tristan shares the importance of social wellness and his commitment in teaching.mental health education. We continue to follow the 330 Ride Challenge that Brandon Friesen and Emily Potter along with their siblings will ride on June 26 & 27 from Selkirk to Hecla Provincial Park (and back) to raise funds for Youth Mental Health.
We encourage you to visit: www.ridedonthide.com/Manitoba to join the 330 Ride (virtually) and share with others how they too can support this amazing initiative.
Listen to this episode and learn how you can participate in this movement to promote, support and ensure that youth mental health services are available for the communities the CMHA Manitoba and Winnipeg serves.
We want to give a special shout out to our incredible partners who are making Ride Don’t Hide + Spirit Week 2021 possible:
Corporate Challenge Champion: MGEU
Spirit Week Sponsor: Talbot Marketing
Family Ride Sponsor: Manitoba Hydro
Nourishment Partner: Red River Co-op
Ride Don't Hide + Spirit Week - Environmental Wellness
James Welsman is CMHA’s Youth Mental Health Promotions Coordinator and Co-host of Well-being Connection. In the fourth episode of our podcast, he shares some of his personal struggles with environmental wellness and encourages listeners to think about what the youth are going through when contributing to Ride Don’t Hide.
Get involved and join Brandon’s team
Ride any way - your way, and join the movement to raise $330 – $1 for every kilometer Brandon rides. These funds will directly support youth mental health programs at CMHA that reach thousands of youth across Manitoba annually.
We want to give a special shout out to our incredible partners who are making Ride Don’t Hide + Spirit Week 2021 possible:
Corporate Challenge Champion: MGEU
Spirit Week Sponsor: Talbot Marketing
Family Ride Sponsor: Manitoba Hydro
Nourishment Partner: Red River Co-op
Ride Don't Hide + Spirit Week - Physical Wellness
Join James and Brandon for an interview with Junel Malapad - Ultramarathon runner and leader of the annual Trash Stigma fundraiser event for CMHA Manitoba and Winnipeg. Get inspired with discussion on our third topic from the eight dimensions of wellness - Physical Health. We discuss motivation, perseverance, the power of connecting with your inner strength, and how it relates to raising funds for Ride Don't Hide and Youth Mental Health.
Get involved and join Brandon’s team
Ride any way - your way, and join the movement to raise $330 – $1 for every kilometer Brandon rides. These funds will directly support youth mental health programs at CMHA that reach thousands of youth across Manitoba annually.
We want to give a special shout out to our incredible partners who are making Ride Don’t Hide + Spirit Week 2021 possible:
Corporate Challenge Champion: MGEU
Spirit Week Sponsor: Talbot Marketing
Family Ride Sponsor: Manitoba Hydro
Nourishment Partner: Red River Co-op
Ride Don’t Hide + Spirit Week – Financial Wellness
Join James and Brandon for an interview with Marion Cooper - Executive Director of CMHA Manitoba and Winnipeg. Also, hear an update about Brandon's Ride 330 Challenge for Ride Don't Hide 2021, and get inspired with some discussion on our second topic from the eight dimensions of wellness - financial wellness. We discuss budgeting, different ways we can give back, and how it relates to raising funds for Ride Don't Hide and Youth Mental Health.
Get involved and join Brandon’s team
Ride any way - your way, and join the movement to raise $330 – $1 for every kilometer Brandon rides. These funds will directly support youth mental health programs at CMHA that reach thousands of youth across Manitoba annually.
We want to give a special shout out to our incredible partners who are making Ride Don’t Hide + Spirit Week 2021 possible:
Corporate Challenge Champion: MGEU
Spirit Week Sponsor: Talbot Marketing
Family Ride Sponsor: Manitoba Hydro
Nourishment Partner: Red River Co-op
Ride Don’t Hide + Spirit Week – Emotional and Mental Health
Join James, Brandon, and Stephen as we introduce Brandon as the CMHA Manitoba and Winnipeg Staff Ambassador for Ride Don’t Hide 2021. Learn about Brandon’s 330 km challenge as he rides from Selkirk to Hecla Provincial Park and back on June 26th & 27th.
Get involved and join Brandon’s team
Ride any way - your way, and join the movement to raise $330 – $1 for every kilometer Brandon rides. These funds will directly support youth mental health programs at CMHA that reach thousands of youth across Manitoba annually.
We want to give a special shout out to our incredible partners who are making Ride Don’t Hide + Spirit Week 2021 possible:
Corporate Challenge Champion: MGEU
Spirit Week Sponsor: Talbot Marketing
Family Ride Sponsor: Manitoba Hydro
Nourishment Partner: Red River Co-op