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Simcoe County Chapter

""Children need our love the most, when they deserve it the least." -Rick Lavoie "

Come join us - Children's Mental Health is everyone's business.

Contact Information
C. Tanya Alfieri
E. simcoecounty@pcmh.ca

Is Your Child......

Anxious, Depressed, Angry, Sad, Aggressive, Suicidal, Hyperactive or Defiant?

Are You Feeling Overwhelmed?

Tired of being blamed or judged for your child's behavior?

In need of compassion, understanding and information?

We can help.

The members of the Simcoe County PCMH Peer Support Group know how challenging and exhausting it can be parenting a child with a mental health disorder.

And although this can sometimes feel like a lonely road to travel, PCMH wants you to know that you do not walk this road alone and we are here to support you on your journey.

You've made the right decision in seeking information and resources for your family and we applaud the strength and courage it has taken to get you to this point.

Please join us at our next free, confidential monthly meeting designed to allow you to connect with other parents that share in a similar situation to gain some tools and strategies that will help your family cope during this challenging time.

When: Third Monday of every month

Where: Kinark Child & Family Services -34 Simcoe Street, Barrie

Contact: Tanya 705 726 8871 x 634 or simcoecounty@pcmh.ca

About Our Families
Family is all-inclusive.  Families can be from all incomes, education, racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds.  They can be single parent or two parent families.  They can be birth parents, foster parents, adoptive parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents ~~~ they all need help, they all need support, and they all need tools to cope.

Our Goals—To Educate, Empower, Support

To advance the unique needs of children with mental health diagnoses and their families, to dissolve the stigma attached to children’s mental illness, to encourage and recommend research, prevention, early intervention, family support, and family-centred and family-driven care, to work with mental health agencies and government to ensure that children and their families with these unique needs and struggles have access to community based services to help them reach their full potential.

Please be sure to check out the resources page for some useful links.  Our Family Favourites are:

www.speakingofkidsmentalhealth.ca

www.kidsmentalhealth.ca

www.eMentalHealth.ca

www.211Canada.ca


For Teens:

www.mindyourmind.ca

www.yoomagazine.net

www.thenewmentality.ca

More Useful Resources:

Simcoe Youth Mobile Crisis Response Services:    705 728 5044 or 1 888 893 8333

Kids Help Phone:  1 800 668 6868

Simcoe County Chapter Battles the Stigma of Children's Mental Illness

Click the file folder below to see how Simcoe-County Chapter has been BUSTING STIGMA.....

Thumbs up to you all, awesome job! … Member, PCMH