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CFS RESOURCE GUIDE 

Organize your world - Your environment directly affects how you feel, how you feel directly affects every aspect of your life.  "Symmetry Works " helps
clients RECLAIM THEIR SPACE which in turn helps them reclaim their time, their energy - they reclaim their life!

Contact Natasja through her website Symmetry Works

Reiki - An energy that helps to remove blockages from your mental, emotional, and physical body.  It helps to heal all areas of the body and return balance and harmony.

Reflexology-The feet are a map of the body, and through pressing on reflex points that directly relate to the organs and tissues it helps to heal  the entire body by improving circulation, and bringing nutrients to these targeted areas.

For more information see Healthyou

Kim Marsh & Associates - Life and Career Transition Coaching and Consulting.  They help people navigate their course in life clarifying vision and values; goal setting and implementing strategies for success; refining personal and professional skills; career transition work; experiencing more fulfillment and balance; helping them take charge of their inner saboteur and stay unstuck. They offer 15 minute FREE sample sessions!   Contact them at 403-547-8955.

MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE

Immediate Assistance - Calgary

Mobile Response Team                                                            403-266-1605
For those experiencing a crisis in relation to mental health problems or to respond to psychological and psychiatric emergencies in the Calgary region.  Offers telephone counseling and mobile outreach. 

Walk in Mental Health Services - Calgary

Urgent Care Mental Health @ South Calgary Health Centre - open 8 AM to 10 PM seven days per week.  This service is located in the Urgent Care Service located on the first floor.  People who wish to see the mental health team, must talk with the urgent care  triage nurse first.

 

Mental Health Walk-In @ South Calgary Health Centre - open 4 PM to 7 PM Monday thru Thursday & 12 PM to 3 PM Sundays; closed statutory holidays and long weekends. This service is located on the second floor. 

The telephone number for information about either of these services is 403-943-9374. 

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 

Canadian Mental Health Association                                       403-297-1700
The Canadian Mental Health Association is a nation-wide charitable organization that promotes the mental health of all and supports the resilience and recovery of people experiencing mental illness. 

INTERNET RESOURCES  

This is an excellent video on depression. If you think you are depressed or know someone who may be, this may transform a life. It's unfortunate how few people understand this serious illness or that people are afraid to seek treatment perhaps because of the stigma of mental illness or their fear of taking medication.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1123470503077018830

Note: the introduction has poor sound quality so you may wish to skip to 3:47.

“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humourless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You’re frightened, and you’re frightening, and you’re “not at all like yourself but will be soon,” but you know you won’t.”  - Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Benefits Navigator from Poverty Reduction Coalition - The Navigator is a very simple on-line “calculator” that helps families identify what government benefits they might be eligible for.  It’s intended to help put additional dollars into the pockets of low-income Calgary families. Users are asked to input their family demographics and financial information into the Navigator.  Once this information is submitted, the Navigator indicates the benefits the family may be eligible for and provides links to the necessary applications and information.

Depression Assessment Tool

Inform Alberta

Kirby Report: Out of the Shadows at Last: Transforming Mental Health, Mental Illness and Addictions Services of Canada or google “Out of the Shadows”  

Mental Health Commission of Canada The Mental Health Commission of Canada is a non-profit organization created to focus national attention on mental health issues and to work to improve the health and social outcomes of people living with mental illness.