Living with a mental health or substance use challenge is hard enough; masking can make it even harder. Living with mental health challenges often forces people to hide behind a “mask” to protect themselves from judgment and discrimination. But the heavier the stigma, the heavier the mask becomes, and the more isolated we feel.
This May 5-11, CAMH is encouraging people across Canada to look beyond the surface and see the whole person. By embracing honesty and vulnerability, this opens the door to deeper connections and the mental health benefits that come with it. In doing so, we can create a ripple effect of courage and understanding across the country.
Visit Mental Health Week 2025: Unmasking Mental Health to learn more.
Don’t miss out on our upcoming Mental Fitness & Suicide Awareness training. This MITE coded training is available to promote mental fitness and lessen the incidence of mental health injuries including deliberate self-harm and suicide within the military community.
Mental Fitness & Suicide Awareness (MFSA) 7 May
1-DAY WORKSHOP
Mental Fitness and Suicide Awareness is designed to promote awareness and skill-building, to maximize mental fitness both individually and in the workplace, and to lessen the incidence of mental health injuries including suicide.
Topics covered:
- The Mental Health Continuum and mental fitness
- How to maintain and improve your mental fitness
- How to practice 4 different types of stress management techniques
- The role of a supervisor in promoting a culture of understanding and mental fitness
- How to recognize the signs of a person in distress
- How to intervene and help someone having thought of suicide, get the help they need.
- Create a personal action plan to strengthen and maintain your personal mental fitness.
The benefits:
- Individual
- Be able to take concrete steps towards maintaining your own mental health, while also watching over that of others.
- Know how to recognize the signs of a person at risk of suicide.
- Community
- Foster a culture of understanding and greater safety.
- Be there for your peers!
All Health Promotion programs and workshops are open to military personnel (Reg and Res Force), retired military personnel, DND and NPF civilian employees AND their spouses/family.
Register now: CFMWS | MFRC | Kingston | CFMWS