Programs & Services for Families & Friends

Strengthening Families Together

This 8-session national education program for family members and friends of individuals living with and recovering from serious mental illnesses aims to increase accessibility to Canadian-based information on the topics associated with living daily with a mental illness. The program is about more than education; it is about strengthening family members and friends of individuals with a serious mental illness by providing support, awareness, and tools.

Support > Families have an opportunity to discuss the daily challenges they face and learn how to connect with others through their local schizophrenia provincial society.

Awareness > Families get reliable and consistent information about mental illness, causes, treatment options, recovery, and available mental health services, in the hopes of diminishing the stigma attached to diagnosis.

The Program Outline
Session 1 > Introduction to Mental Illness & the Strengthening Families Program
Session 2 > Facts about Psychosis (Causes & treatments)
Session 3 > Coping as a Family
Session 4 > Self Care
Session 5 > Communication
Session 6 > Living with Psychosis
Session 7 > Understanding the Mental Health system & Advocacy
Session 8 > Recovery with guest speaker

This 8 week workshop will run each Monday evening
at the Manitoba Schizophrenia Society
100-4 Fort Street, Winnipeg
Starting: March 5, 2012 -April 9, 2012, Time: 7pm


Strengthening Families Together is offered twice a year.
Please call for more information or to register at 786-1616.
Family consultations available upon request.