Download the Mental Health Literacy Guide for Autism
This handbook serves as a self-help guide for senior caregivers aged 55 and older, living in York Region or South Simcoe who are caring for a family member with a mental health challenge. It includes resources and supports that can help connect seniors and their loved one(s) to local formal and informal supports earlier on in the process, so that they may both live a more meaningful life.
This initiative has been funded by the Government of Canada-New Horizons for Seniors Program.
This guide aims to build genuine relationships with families, self-advocates and service providers. It was developed by Your Support Services Network (YSSN) to strengthen the working partnerships between families, self-advocates and the service providers. Many of the recommendations from this guide come from families and self-advocates who have lived through first-hand experiences. Input was gathered over several months including what has worked well and what could be improved. Family Peer Mentors were involved in gathering information and seeking feedback from families to help put together a comprehensive guide.
This project was funded by the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS) through a Modernization grant in January 2018.
The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology released its final report on mental health, mental illness and addictions, Out of the Shadows at Last.
One of the key recommendations in the report was to create a national mental health commission to help ensure that mental health issues were never again driven back into the shadows.
In its March 2007 budget, the Government of Canada provided funding for the creation of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. The Government also named the Honourable Michael Kirby as the first chair of the Commission.
We invite you to click on the link below to visit the Commission’s website to learn more and, if you are interested, to explore how you can become involved in the work of the Commission.
Our Main pamphlet is available
in several languages;
please see below.
View or Download a copy of YSSN's Main pamphlet in these languages:
View or Download a copy of YSSN's Streamlined Access pamphlet in FRENCH.
