December 18, 2018
Do you want to know more about the wonderful world of ACCESS Open Minds? If so, take a look at our first public annual report! It’s full of updates, facts, stories and pictures from the 2017-18 fiscal year and we hope you will enjoy reading it as much as we did writing it. We…
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The third edition of the CMHA’s annual Mental Health for All (MH4A) Conference took place in Montreal, from October 22nd to October 24th 2018. The conference gathered health care providers, front-line workers, researchers, funders, policymakers, and individuals with lived experience. 2018 was CMHA’s 100th anniversary, and the conference’s theme was “Ahead by a century: the shape of things to come”….
Read moreNovember 2, 2018
Three members of the ACCESS Open Minds Eskasoni First Nation team – Jeannine Paul, Bernadette Bernard, and Kirsten Denny – shared about their work on CBC’s Information Morning – Cape Breton with Steve Sutherland. Listen to the two segments here to learn more: “Seeing them happy makes me happy” – Eskasoni Youth Centre (Oct 3, 2018) “This is…
Read moreSeptember 25, 2018
The ACCESS Open Minds Eskasoni First Nation team needs our help — Eskasoni Band and Council has successfully made a submission to the Aviva Community Fund Project to fund the procurement of a Community Connection Bus… and now the idea is being put to the VOTE! In order for the Eskasoni Community Connection Bus to…
Read moreAugust 14, 2018
August 2, 2018: The team at Dans la rue, along with six youth, were invited to have front-row seats at a rehearsal of the Orchestre de la francophonie, at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. About 90 student musicians make up this international orchestra, under the baton of Jean-Philippe Tremblay, and the DLR team had…
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