Mental Health Recovery Partners North Island

Strengthening Families Together  

Is offered to the public several times per year. There are 10-12 classes per session. Participants learn about different types of mental illnesses and what it's like to live with a mental illness. Other topics include communication, suicide, advocacy, substance use, self care, medications, causes and coping as a family.

This program is suitable and free for family members of a loved one with a mental illness. Staff and volunteers from local social service agencies, as well as college and university students are also welcome to take the course for a $50 fee. 

Monthly Support Group

We offer a Family and Friends Mental Health Support Group every second Tuesdays @ 6:30 p.m.  held at our office @ 850E-12th Ave. Campbell River. This is a drop in group, no need to register. april  4th 2024, april 18th, May 2nd   ect.......

This group is for parents, siblings, partners, adult children and other family members and friends of a loved one living with a mental illness.

Hearing Voices 

This empathy building, half-day workshop is offered several times a year to the public and can be done for a staff or group. Participants get a true to life experience of having auditory hallucinations, while attempting to do different tasks. This is done by listening to voices on an mp3 player that were recorded by people who have experienced psychosis. 

Anyone can take this class: a neighbour, a paramedic, a bus driver, a cashier at a local store, a counsellor at a social service agency, a volunteer at a soup kitchen or a parent of someone with a mental illness. You will gain a better understating of what it’s like to live with a mental illness, and be able to communicate more effectively and empathetically with your loved one/client/patient.

Free to family members with a loved one who has a mental illness, social work/nursing/community support worker college students and volunteers with social service agencies. $50 for Professionals.

Mental Health First Aid Basic

MHFA Basic is intended for adults interacting with adults (18 years and older). This course focuses on the four most common mental health disorders including substance related, mood related, anxiety and trauma related, and psychotic disorders. Participants who take this course are well prepared to interact confidently about mental health with their family, friends, communities, and workplaces.

We offer this course once per year. It's a 12-hour course offered over multiple days. Free to family members, $150 for everyone else.  Please call to have your name put on our wait list

Resource referral/support

If your loved one has been recently diagnosed or you believe may have a mental illness and hasn't been diagnosed, we can help you find local resources. And we are always here to listen. 

Free lending library

We have a variety of brochures, books, magazines and videos in our library.