Upcoming events.
Recovery College: Road to Recovery
The road to recovery is not an easy path. It is a journey of re-inventing how you think about yourself, your mental health, or substance use. Your recovery can be challenging!
Throughout this course, you will explore how to think and act in ways that move you towards a more meaningful life.
Recovery College: Art of Friendship
Strong friendships give us the power to be our true selves; when we have strong friendships, we feel respected and valued and we work hard to find ways to show our friends that we respect and value them. Strong friendships take work!
This 8-week course will help you learn about yourself, what you say, the way you act, and how all of your actions can affect relationships with others. Focusing on these aspects helps us gain confidence in our relationships and we will be more likely to achieve our friendship goals.
Recovery College: Confront the Discomfort
Whether we like it or not, anxiety and stress are a normal part of life, but they can also get in the way of us enjoying life. In this 3-session course, you will learn how to value, recognize, and respond with awareness to emotions by learning positive coping strategies through meditation and grounding techniques in order to support healing and growth.
Community Helpers Program Training
The Community Helper Program helps identify and train Alberta youth and young adults (ages 12–30) as well as adults who support this age group (teachers, coaches, employers, etc.)
The program provides opportunities to strengthen support skills, learn about mental health issues and suicide prevention. It enhances programs that reduce the risk of suicide and encourages youth and young adults to ask for help when they need it.
Recovery College: Road to Recovery
The road to recovery is not an easy path. It is a journey of re-inventing how you think about yourself, your mental health, or substance use. Your recovery can be challenging!
Throughout this course, you will explore how to think and act in ways that move you towards a more meaningful life.
Mental Health First Aid: Adults who interact with youth
MHFA Adults who Interact with Youth was developed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada and is intended for an adult audience whose primary focus is youth (aged 14-25).
In addition to the four most common disorders discussed in MHFA BASIC, this course includes instruction about eating disorders and deliberate self-injury. Participants who take this course are well prepared to interact confidently about mental health with the young people in their lives, including at schools, extra-curricular activities, social services, family, friends, and communities.
Recovery College: Confront the Discomfort
Whether we like it or not, anxiety and stress are a normal part of life, but they can also get in the way of us enjoying life. In this 3-session course, you will learn how to value, recognize, and respond with awareness to emotions by learning positive coping strategies through meditation and grounding techniques in order to support healing and growth.
CMHA Golf Tournament
The annual CMHA ASER Golf Tournament is a fun, local event that serves as a fundraiser for CMHA ASER in order to support mental health services and programs in our Alberta Southeast Region.
The cost is $600/team or $150/player. You can enter as a team or as an individual, and we will match you up with other solo entries to form a team.
SafeTalk Workshop
SafeTALK (Suicide Alertness for Everyone) is a 3.5 hour workshop, developed by LivingWorks Education. It alerts one to warning signs indicating risk of suicide. The workshop emphasizes the importance of recognizing the signs, communicating and getting help or resources for the person with thoughts of suicide.
Participants can include but not limited to: parents and caregivers; family and friends; youth aged 16 or older; natural helpers; educators and ministers; health practitioners; justice, law enforcers, emergency workers, and community volunteers. All participants will receive a certificate at the end of the course.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Attending this two-day course will train you to intervene with an individual who is thinking about suicide.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is an interactive workshop in suicide first aid develop by LivingWorks Education. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. It is by far the most widely used, acclaimed and researched suicide intervention training workshop in the world. This course will certify you for 3 years in suicide intervention.
SafeTalk Workshop
SafeTALK (Suicide Alertness for Everyone) is a 3.5 hour workshop, developed by LivingWorks Education. It alerts one to warning signs indicating risk of suicide. The workshop emphasizes the importance of recognizing the signs, communicating and getting help or resources for the person with thoughts of suicide.
Participants can include but not limited to: parents and caregivers; family and friends; youth aged 16 or older; natural helpers; educators and ministers; health practitioners; justice, law enforcers, emergency workers, and community volunteers. All participants will receive a certificate at the end of the course.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Attending this two-day course will train you to intervene with an individual who is thinking about suicide.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is an interactive workshop in suicide first aid develop by LivingWorks Education. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. It is by far the most widely used, acclaimed and researched suicide intervention training workshop in the world. This course will certify you for 3 years in suicide intervention.
SafeTalk Workshop
SafeTALK (Suicide Alertness for Everyone) is a 3.5 hour workshop, developed by LivingWorks Education. It alerts one to warning signs indicating risk of suicide. The workshop emphasizes the importance of recognizing the signs, communicating and getting help or resources for the person with thoughts of suicide.
Participants can include but not limited to: parents and caregivers; family and friends; youth aged 16 or older; natural helpers; educators and ministers; health practitioners; justice, law enforcers, emergency workers, and community volunteers. All participants will receive a certificate at the end of the course.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Attending this two-day course will train you to intervene with an individual who is thinking about suicide.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is an interactive workshop in suicide first aid develop by LivingWorks Education. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. It is by far the most widely used, acclaimed and researched suicide intervention training workshop in the world. This course will certify you for 3 years in suicide intervention.
Mental Health First Aid: Adults who interact with youth
MHFA Adults who Interact with Youth was developed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada and is intended for an adult audience whose primary focus is youth (aged 14-25).
In addition to the four most common disorders discussed in MHFA BASIC, this course includes instruction about eating disorders and deliberate self-injury. Participants who take this course are well prepared to interact confidently about mental health with the young people in their lives, including at schools, extra-curricular activities, social services, family, friends, and communities.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Attending this two-day course will train you to intervene with an individual who is thinking about suicide.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is an interactive workshop in suicide first aid develop by LivingWorks Education. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. It is by far the most widely used, acclaimed and researched suicide intervention training workshop in the world. This course will certify you for 3 years in suicide intervention.
Recovery College: Confront the Discomfort
Whether we like it or not, anxiety and stress are a normal part of life, but they can also get in the way of us enjoying life. In this 3-session course, you will learn how to value, recognize, and respond with awareness to emotions by learning positive coping strategies through meditation and grounding techniques in order to support healing and growth.
Ride Don't Hide
Ride Don’t Hide South East (Medicine Hat) is a way to take care of your mental health and take care of your community.
This June, join thousands of riders—and walkers, runners, yogis, spinners, dancers, families, rope-jumpers, HIIT trainers and more—in communities across Canada as we bring mental health into the open. We come together to ride outside, ride inside or ride in spirit to raise funds for mental health in the Alberta Southeast Region. Funds will support local programs and services, like our Addictions Crisis and Outreach Program.
AHS Community Helpers Program Training
Learn skills to support youth in our community.
The AHS Community Helpers Program helps train Alberta youth (ages 12-30) as well as adults who support this age group (teachers, coaches, employers, etc.) The program provides opportunities to strengthen support skills, learn about mental health issues and suicide prevention, and encourages youth and young adults to ask for help when they need it.
Recovery College: Road to Recovery
The road to recovery is not an easy path. It is a journey of re-inventing how you think about yourself, your mental health, or substance use. Your recovery can be challenging!
Throughout this course, you will explore how to think and act in ways that move you towards a more meaningful life.
Recovery College: Confront the Discomfort
Whether we like it or not, anxiety and stress are a normal part of life, but they can also get in the way of us enjoying life. In this 3-session course, you will learn how to value, recognize, and respond with awareness to emotions by learning positive coping strategies through meditation and grounding techniques in order to support healing and growth.
AHS Community Helpers Program Training
Learn skills to support youth in our community.
The AHS Community Helpers Program helps train Alberta youth (ages 12-30) as well as adults who support this age group (teachers, coaches, employers, etc.) The program provides opportunities to strengthen support skills, learn about mental health issues and suicide prevention, and encourages youth and young adults to ask for help when they need it.
Stress and Self Care
This year's theme of Mental Health Week is understanding our emotions. Let's talk about how stress and self-care can impact our emotions.
Good mental health is not about being happy all the time. Stress is a natural part of life, but how you care for yourself and manage your emotions will help transform your life and positively impact your mental health.
AHS Community Helpers Program Training
Learn skills to support youth in our community.
The AHS Community Helpers Program helps train Alberta youth (ages 12-30) as well as adults who support this age group (teachers, coaches, employers, etc.) The program provides opportunities to strengthen support skills, learn about mental health issues and suicide prevention, and encourages youth and young adults to ask for help when they need it.
Wellness Treasure Hunt
During CMHA Mental Health Week this year, we’re excited to be able to offer our community a Wellness Treasure Hunt Contest!!
To participate, watch for our live videos to be posted on Facebook and Instagram each morning from Monday–Friday for clues to where various wellness items will be hidden around Medicine Hat.
The draw for the grand prize of a wellness basket (valued over $500) will be LIVE on May 10th!
CMHA Mental Health Week
Even in times of extreme anxiety and stress, mental health is something we can protect, not just something we can lose. This CMHA Mental Health Week, we focus on how naming, expressing, and dealing with our emotions — the ones we like and the ones we don’t — is important for our mental health.
This Mental Health Week, don’t be uncomfortably numb. #GetReal about how you feel. And name it, don’t numb it.
Recovery College: Confront the Discomfort
Whether we like it or not, anxiety and stress are a normal part of life, but they can also get in the way of us enjoying life. In this 3-session course, you will learn how to value, recognize, and respond with awareness to emotions by learning positive coping strategies through meditation and grounding techniques in order to support healing and growth.
Recovery College: Art of Friendship
Strong friendships give us the power to be our true selves; when we have strong friendships, we feel respected and valued and we work hard to find ways to show our friends that we respect and value them. Strong friendships take work!
This 8-week course will help you learn about yourself, what you say, the way you act, and how all of your actions can affect relationships with others. Focusing on these aspects helps us gain confidence in our relationships and we will be more likely to achieve our friendship goals.
The Amazing Plate
The Amazing Plate is a fundraiser for CMHA-ASER to support mental health in our region, while also benefitting our local restaurant industry by partnering with a number of eateries in Medicine Hat!
Compete to eat.
Teams of four are invited to register for the chance to win gift cards for various local restaurants.
Learn more and register on the event page.
Recovery College: Road to Recovery
The road to recovery is not an easy path. It is a journey of re-inventing how you think about yourself, your mental health, or substance use. Your recovery can be challenging!
Throughout this course, you will explore how to think and act in ways that move you towards a more meaningful life.
Self Care for Volunteers
This webinar is open to all volunteers in Southeastern Alberta who would like to learn about Stress and Self-Care. This FREE training will help unpack the feelings of stress and dive deep into living a healthy, balanced lifestyle with self-care techniques.
Volunteers are integral to many non-profits. As you volunteer, you are at risk for burn-out if you do not take care of your mental health.
To kick off Volunteer Appreciation Week 2021, we recognize the "Value of One, The Power of Many". Take advantage of this free opportunity to improve your mental health as you continue to support and volunteer in our community.
Thank you for all you to do make our world a better place. #VolunteersBringChange
Register to attend on Eventbrite.
Mental Health for All Conference
Canadian Mental Health Association ASER presents 'Mental Health for All Conference'. To register for this FREE online conference click here.