3 Options for Peer Support: MadCamp, Connection Salon, and Coast Mental Health

Peer Support with MadCamp, Connection Salon, and Coast Mental Health: RTM explores three options for finding peer support for folks with mental health challenges. Dina Tyler talk to us about MadCamp - a camping event happening in Northern California in July 2023 for folks who identify as living with mental health challenges. Connection Salon is showcasing an art exhibition (Mar 3 to April 4) with low barriers for 16 artists here in Vancouver BC. Organizer, Pierre Leichner, and artist, Leef Evans, invite us to join them on March 10th for a meet and greet at The Gathering Place. Fraser McKenzie from Coast Mental Health talks about how it rose out of the psychiatric survivor movement of the 1970s, continues to provide peer support opportunities (including training) from the ground up to a wide-range of individuals who live with mental health challenges. It is combo program full of helpful information.

More Information:

• madcamp.net

• connectionsalon.com

• https://www.coastmentalhealth.com or via email peersupport@coastmentalhealth.com or outreachresourcecentre@coastmentalhealth.com.

music by Shari Ulrich

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