Mental Health & Addictions Provincial Webinar Series
The Mental Health & Addictions Provincial Webinar Series provides information about mental health and/or addictions topics, services, programs and related organizations. Webinars are free. To access a specific webinar, click on its participant link. Users will need to register for the webinar to access/view the recording.
Breaking Free
Breaking Free is an online program available to support individuals 16+ years of age whose life is being significantly affected, or whose health is being damaged, by their drinking or use of drugs. It’s effective for those who want to reduce their drinking and drug use to less harmful levels, or those who want to stop completely.
BreathingRoom
BreathingRoom™ is an online self-management program for individuals ages 13-24 years looking to find ways to manage stress, anxiety and depression.
CheckItOutNL.ca
CheckItOutNL.ca is a program for adults 18+ that focuses on the early identification of issues, using screening tools customized with links to local resources in each health zone of the province.
E-Mental Health Orientation
An orientation session that reviews Bridge the gapp and the e-mental health services available to residents of Newfoundland and Labrador in detail.
fasdNL
fasdNL offers supports and training for individuals, families, and professionals impacted by FASD across Newfoundland and Labrador.
Feather Carriers
The Feather Carriers: Leadership for Life Promotion initiative encompasses a community mobilization strategy and collaborative life promotion training approach. The training speaks to the heart and minds of people working with First Nations, Metis and Inuit individuals and families who are at risk of premature death, as well as supporting loss survivors.
Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT)
Overview of the FACT model and a provincial update on implementation.
Grace & Humberwood Treatment Centres
Humberwood is a live-in, non-medical treatment centre located in Corner Brook that offers help with drug, alcohol and/or gambling concerns. The Grace Centre is a live-in addiction treatment Centre located in Harbour Grace that offers help with drug and/or alcohol concerns.
HOPE Program
The HOPE Program is a provincial day treatment program committed to helping change eating disorder symptoms, challenging thoughts and behaviors, and developing new means of coping with everyday stressors.
Hope Valley Youth Treatment Centre
A provincial residential addictions treatment program specifically for youth between the ages of 12 and 18 years.
Kids Help Phone & Crisis Text Line
Kids Help Phone is Canada’s only 24/7, national support service offering professional counselling, information and referrals and volunteer-led, text-based support to young people in both English and French.
Lifewise
Lifewise is the only provincial organization in Newfoundland and Labrador created by and for individuals living with mental health and addictions issues. It exists to support and encourage individual recovery through self-determination, while working to break the stigma surrounding these issues in society. In addition to its Provincial Warmline, Lifewise offers individual, family and community peer support, peer group support, family group support, Doorways peer support, and wellness workshops.
Managed Alcohol Program
In 2021, the St. John’s Status of Women Council launched Newfoundland and Labrador’s first Managed Alcohol Program (MAP). The service is for women and nonbinary people whose drinking is harmful or risky to them, and they want to make a change to increase their safety. Based on harm reduction principles, recognizing that some individuals cannot quit alcohol cold-turkey, MAP provides a safe and stable supply of alcohol with accompanying social and health supports.
Duration: 46 minutes
MindWell
MindWell is a virtual education platform, for individuals 13 years of age and older, that delivers mindfulness-based e-mental health tools shown to increase resilience, lower stress, and improve performance.
Mobile Crisis Response (MCR)
Mobile Crisis Response (MCR) is a service provided by a team of individuals with significant mental health experience. The team travels as needed to assist/intervene with a mental health-related crisis in a person’s home or community.
Opioid Dependence Treatment in Newfoundland & Labrador – A Provincial Approach
Research and experience advises that most people cannot just walk away from opioid addiction. Medication-assisted treatment can help individuals to ‘feel normal again’ and live healthy lives by controlling withdrawal and cravings. Opioid dependence treatment is available in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Duration: 1 hour, 1 minute
Perinatal Mental Health
Perinatal mental health refers to one’s mental health during pregnancy and the postpartum period. This period is often a window of opportunity: treating mental health problems during this time prevents avoidable suffering and isolation, strengthens families, ensures children have a healthy start, has economic benefits and helps to prevent suicide.
Power Over Pain Portal
Designed for youth and adults living with pain, family members, caregivers, and healthcare providers, the Power Over Pain Portal provides free, evidence-based resources and support so individuals living with chronic pain can feel empowered. With Power Over Pain, users can learn about pain and pain management, watch videos, listen to podcasts, take self-directed courses, connect with peers, and access one-on-one counselling by text, telephone or video.
Provincial Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Program
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a comprehensive cognitive behavioural treatment for complex, difficult-to-treat mental health conditions. Learn more about DBT, the details of the provincial program, the role of a DBT Coordinator, what/who makes up the DBT teams in NL, and the referral process.
Provincial Mental Health Groups
Provincial Mental Health Groups, delivered by local NLHS mental health clinicians, are offered around a wide variety of mental health and addictions issues, and are continuing to expand in their diversity.
Provincial Mental Health & Addictions Systems Navigator
The Provincial MHA Systems Navigator has knowledge of all mental health and addictions services provided by the health zones and the community. The Navigator helps individuals consider options and find the right services for them and their families.
Recovery Centre
Learn about the Recovery Centre, a 19-bed provincial inpatient withdrawal management service located in St. John’s.
Roots of Hope
The Roots of Hope project is a nation-wide suicide prevention project focused on reducing the impacts of suicide within communities.
Smokers’ Helpline
The Smokers’ Helpline is a free, confidential service providing information, resources, advice, support and motivational counselling to individuals while they are working toward being smoke free.
Specialized Training for Working with Seniors: Part One
Specialized Training for Working with Seniors, a two-part learning experience for persons working one-on-one with older adults in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Session one explores the larger context of seniors’ lives as viewed through the eyes of an older woman; the experiences of aging members of the Indigenous, disability, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; and the perspectives of family caregivers as they age.
Specialized Training for Working with Seniors: Part Two
Specialized Training for Working with Seniors, a two-part learning experience for persons working one-on-one with older adults in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Session two focuses on ableism and elder abuse, seniors with trauma history, bereavement versus mental illness, new versus pre-existing mental illness, the impact of medications on mental health, and the impact of mental health medications on physical health.
Strongest Families Institute (SFI)
Strongest Families Institute (SFI) is an award-winning charity providing timely, evidence-based services to families, children, youth and adults seeking help to improve mental wellness.
Therapy Assistance Online (TAO)
Therapy Assistance Online (TAO) is a free cognitive behavioural therapy suite of online tools and educational sessions to help people, 16 years of age and older, learn about and change how they think and feel. TAO can be completed as a self-guided option, or combined with the support of a therapist via secure videoconferencing.
Tuckamore Youth Treatment Centre
Tuckamore is a residential treatment centre for youth aged 12-18 years with complex mental health challenges. Located in Paradise, NL, the centre services youth from all over Newfoundland and Labrador.
Well Central: Virtual Recovery College
An introduction to and overview of Well Central, an online virtual Recovery College, that offers visitors free, bilingual courses that support and enhance mental health and well-being, beginning with the foundational Well-Being Course.