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Welcome to the CMHA Nova Scotia division website.

Canadian Mental Health Association Nova Scotia (CMHA NS) division delivers safe, inclusive evidence-based programs, training and navigation support that Nova Scotians need to be well and stay well. These programs are free to access and available to everyone living in Nova Scotia.

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Resilient Minds

Resilient Minds™ is dedicated to building resilient fire teams and services – to educate, empower and equip fire fighters with the skills and resources to grow and maintain psychological wellness. CMHA believes in inspiring fire fighters to recognize and respond to psychological injuries and trauma in the workplace, promoting a shift to a supportive, mentally fit culture.

Making Connections

Looking for ways to support the Trans, Intersex, or Gender-diverse youth you care about? Making Connections can help.

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ACT for Mental Health

We all have the right to mental health care that is publicly funded and free. Yet millions of Canadians are struggling and only some will get the care they need. The Act for Mental Health campaign is supported by a network of Canadian organizations pressing our leaders for Universal Mental Health Care.

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Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST)

Anyone can make a difference. ASIST empowers participants with the skills to intervene and help someone stay safe.

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Chronic Pain Peer Support Group

Living with chronic pain can be stressful, isolating and increase or lead to feelings of depression and anxiety. If you live with chronic pain, you don’t have to struggle alone. The CMHA NS Chronic Pain Peer Support group is a safe place to connect, learn and share insight with others who know how it feels to live with chronic pain.

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THRIVE Learning Centre

Mental health. It wasn’t a class at school. So where can adults go to learn about mental health and well-being? Your wellness journey starts here.

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What’s New

Move your mental health this May! 

Register for the 2023 Emera Blue Nose Marathon and support CMHA NS Division! If you’re planning on participating in the Blue Nose Marathon this year, why not go the extra…

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Thank you Keith Toon

[In photo from left, Keith Toon and Karn Nichols, executive director of CMHA NS Division.] A HUGE heartfelt THANK YOU and congratulations to Keith Toon for his Walking Home for…

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Make it monthly and an make impact!

When you commit to a new monthly donation of $20 or more during March, CanadaHelps will add-on an extra $20. One in four Nova Scotians live with a mental illness….

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We’re Hiring: Changing Minds Facilitators 

The Canadian Mental Health Association Nova Scotia Division is looking for eight individuals from across Nova Scotia to deliver our Changing Minds program in communities across the province on a…

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Land Acknowledgement

The Canadian Mental Health Association Nova Scotia Division Nova Scotia Division recognizes that we live work and play in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia, Canada), the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People.

This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship,” which Mi’kmaq, Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet), and Passamaquoddy Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725. This treaty continues to be upheld today.

We are also in HRM which was settled and built by people of African ancestry in the 18th and 19th centuries.

African Nova Scotians were formative in the building of our communities in meaningful ways and have contributed to the development of Nova Scotia as we know it today.

At CMHA NS we acknowledge that we have benefited from the colonization of this region, and we strive for respectful relationships with the stewards of this land.

We must not forget that we are all treaty people and that we have responsibilities to each other and to this land.

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