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Living life to the Full Program 55+ (Program available in English only)
Are you 55 years and older? Then this program is for you!
Registration: Living Life to the Full for Seniors | Cornwall Public Library
Want to know how to feel happier, more confident, and worry less right now? Would you like to learn new ways of dealing with what life throws at you? Living Life to the Full is a fun and interactive course that will help you understand your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, and what to do about them!
Congratulations, you’re about to change your life!
Too much to do? Is someone close to you ill? Can’t sleep? Feeling lonely? The way you feel is affected by things that happen to you, and you feel bad because you’re in a vicious cycle. Learn how to stop the cycle!
Living Life to the Full is a mental health promotion course designed to help people deal with everyday life challenges and learn self-management skills using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) principles. Course content and materials are practical and easily applied to everyday life situations. The course is suitable for people of all ages – from youth to seniors.
What you learn:
✔ Self-confidence
✔ Problem-solving
✔ Stress management
✔ Motivation
✔ Dealing with unhelpful thoughts
✔ Anger management
The program materials are generously sponsored by YourTV Cornwall.
Living Life to the Full
CMHA Champlain East is working in collaboration with CMHA Ontario to pilot the “Living Life to the Full” 8 week program to local schools. Over 150 students have participated in the skill building program since October 2021. Living Life to the Full is a fun and engaging eight-week course that provides people from all walks of life with effective tools to maximize their ability to manage life’s challenges. The group-oriented course is based on the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which focuses on understanding how thoughts, feelings and behaviours work together to impact well-being. See what some of the youth participants had to say: https://www.cmha-east.on.ca/index.php/en/our-services/mental-health-promotion-2
Pandemic highlights need for community mental health and addictions care: CMHA Ontario pre-budget submission
Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario Division is calling out chronic underfunding and pandemic-related strain on the community-based mental health and addictions sector in its 2022 pre-budget submission to provincial government.
The pandemic has further highlighted the need to prioritize mental health and addictions funding for the community sector, which has demonstrated nimbleness and creativity while responding to unprecedented challenges. In its pre-budget submission, CMHA Ontario says this sector needs an infusion of funding to address historical inequities and give mental health appropriate parity with other health care sectors.
Noting that mental health and addictions services will be required more than ever post-pandemic, CMHA Ontario makes funding requests in four specific areas:
Read CMHA Ontario’s full pre-budget submission to the provincial government.
The Mobile Clinic
CMHA Champlain East is proud to support The Mobile Clinic being launched in Cornwall starting March 7th, 2022. Click here for more information.
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