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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:

• Provide greater financial footing for CMHA branches across Ontario with an immediate base budget increase of 8 per cent ($24 million), a commitment to sustainable and ongoing funding, and repealing Bill 124. These measures can help to offset the historical underfunding of the community mental health and addictions sector and bolster providers who are facing greater demands for service brought on by the pandemic.

• Invest in the development of 3,000 supportive housing units, at an approximate cost of $242 million per year. Additionally, invest another $45 million per year for associated support services to help individuals with mental health or addictions issues live meaningful lives in their communities.

• Increase investments and provide an integrated response to the urgent and escalating drug poisoning crisis in Ontario.

• Invest $10 million for mobile crisis services and $7 million for safe bed programs to support mobile crisis teams. Investment can help to ensure mobile crisis response teams, both police- and non-police models, are available in every community.

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 7^th, 2022. Click here for more information.