Mental Health Support Services

Online resources to help young individuals living with death of someone important to go through their grief.

Provides social activities for people living with mental health conditions. Includes monthly events such as:

• Beach days
• Dances
• Soccer
• Baseball
• Bingo and more
• Christmas gift program for members and clients

Donations accepted for Christmas campaign.

An Online resource designed for families and caregivers supporting someone with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), offering essential information, practical strategies, and reflective activities to help them navigate the challenges of addiction with knowledge, compassion, and confidence.

Provides online meetings to grieving parents. There are three online meeting held across Kanata / Canadaand anyone in Epekwitk / PEI is welcome to join any of the groups below.

For Ontario online group zoom link can be found here
For Manitoba online group zoom link, contact mtanner@hsc.mb.caFor Vancouver online group zoom link, contact cathysosnowsky@gmail.com

Connects UPEI students with trained peer support staff who have lived through similar challenges. Unlike clinical professionals, peer supporters focus on listening, understanding, and providing a safe, non-judgmental space based on lived experience, helping students feel connected and less alone in their journey toward well-being and recovery.

Offers various training programs help the public and families learn to assist or interact with individuals who have a mental illness, includes:

• ASIST: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
• LivingWorks "Start": 90-minute online training program to learn how to recognize when someone is having thoughts of suicide and to take meaningful action to keep them safe
• Mental Health First Aid: Aims to help individuals manage potential or developing mental health problems
• safeTALK: Suicide alertness training

• Self-care
• Mental health
• Self-defense
• Wellness
• Community care and more

Supports 2SLGBTQQIA+ (2S+) individuals living off-reserve on Epekwitk / PEI by promoting mental well-being, understanding of issues, and reducing gender-based violence within the community. The program includes:

• Monthly group meetings with cultural teachings
• Quarterly land-based teachings and healing circles led by Elders
• Public outreach sessions
• Cultural retreats highlighting the historic role of 2SLGBTQQIA+ peoples in Indigenous culture and addressing current issues

Provides a confidential peer-support phone line for anyone impacted by a loved one in active substance use or by a substance-use-related death. Situations supported include:

• Mental health challenges related to a loved one's substance use
• Concerns about a loved one's substance use and its impacts
• Grief and loss related to a loved one's overdose
• Wanting to talk to someone about a loved one's substance use or a substance-use-related death
• Connection to a broader peer-support network