Les Amis de la Santé Mentale (Banlieue Ouest)

Friends for mental health offers support services to people who have a loved one living with a mental health issue. Our services include individual and family psychosocial counselling support groups psycho-educational workshops and courses respite activities and conferences on various mental health topics. Since our mission is also to raise community awareness of mental health issues we have a school-based youth awareness program and a program for cultural communities. Also we offer a support group for parents of children living with anxiety. We have a workshop to help people better understand the importance of emotion validation. Our members also have access to a new form on counselling: dramatherapy.