Community Mental Health Centers

Provides an actionable program that encourages student-to-student conversations about mental health, facilities peer-to-peer support networks, and funds on-campus mental health programs * encouraging peer-to-peer conversations about mental health among students * educating students about the causes of mental illness, and how to build resiliency * connecting more students to on-campus and in-community mental health resources Friendship Bench * more than 60 yellow benches installed in seven Canadian provinces * for teens and young adults attending high school, college or university * volunteers work with on campus groups to install a yellow friendship bench to remind students to get support if they are dealing with loneliness, depression or other mental health-related issues * bench is embossed with website address, which explains the purpose of the bench and promotes the mental health resources available at the school as well as a list of resources available provincially and nationally Benches in Halton * Notre Dame Secondary School, 2333 Headon Forest Drive, Burlington * Corpus Christi Catholic Secondary School, 5150 Upper Middle Road, Burlington * Aldershot School, 50 Fairwood Place West, Burlington * Holy Trinity High School, 2420 Sixth Line, Oakville * Sheridan College - Trafalgar Campus, 1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville * St. Marguerite d"Youville Catholic Elementary School, 1359 Bayshire Drive, Oakville