Community Mental Health Centers & Support Groups & Community Mental Health Centers

Support House"s Centre for Innovation in Peer Support provides wellness-based, peer-led self-help and social connections programming to community members; and support to organizations who have peer staff, through training in peer-support program implementation, capacity-building, evaluation, research, knowledge brokerage, and quality improvement Peer Support Programs include: Virtual Self-Help to ensure confidentiality and safety of the group, all participants new to the Centre are required to register for Virtual Self-Help groups Community Resource and Wellness Series Daily Wellness Planning Well Being Drop-In Navigating Stress & Anxiety We Matter Social Connections free, drop-in, virtual social connection opportunities are open to anyone aged 16 and older, no registration or commitment required Lit Grit Creative Writing The Games Room The Sharing Circle Just Be You (OAK0144) Peer Support Navigation (one on one) offers one-to-one peer support appointments via phone/teleconference Peer Warm Line (one on one) talk, and be heard by someone able to offer supportive listening call 289-644-1480, Mon-Fri, 12 noon-5 pm Peer Supporters & Organizations Supports include: Provincial Systems Virtual Learning Centre & Resource Hub weekly on-line Communities of Practice for Peer Support Worker and one for Peer Support Supervisors, open across Ontario guidelines, manuals & toolkits, open to province training for peer positions, supervisors, teams and organizations support for peer program implementation quality improvement & evaluation support infrastructure & governance influencing policy & decision makers