Family support connects individuals who have experienced supporting their loved one through mental illness and addiction with individuals seeking help during their own support journey. Through sharing their own experience, knowledge, and understanding, family peer support focuses on decreasing loneliness, confidence building, and discovering hope while navigating the challenges involved in supporting a loved one.
What do our family peer support coordinators offer?
- Cultivating hope and growing understanding: Awareness that each family has a different journey, through this acknowledge we can explore various paths to hope and recovery with confidence.
- Building management strategies: Discovering ways to cope with stress, address challenges, while being supportive of your own well-being.
- Becoming an advocate: Gaining confidence in navigating services, while advocating for the needs of your loved one.
- Resource connection: Finding local support, addiction and mental health services and other resources.
- An ear to listen: With a family peer support coordinator, you may share your concerns, challenging experiences, and feelings in a safe, empathetic, and non-judgmental space.
- Finding connection with those who understand: Creating meaningful connections between individuals who have navigated similar experiences and comprehend the challenges involved in supporting a loved one.
Family members need support, too. Your journey does not have to be walked alone.
Tellie:
Phone: 1-877-584-2620 (ext. 311)
Email: chantelle@schizophrenia.sk.ca
Liza:
Phone: 1-877-584-2620 (ext. 310)
Email: eliza@schizophrenia.sk.ca