We need to talk about Suicide Prevention. By MP HAROLD ALBRECHT | Published: Monday, 05/05/2014 12:00 am EDT Today marks the start of Mental Health Week. For those few of you who don’t subscribe to the Hill-Times, please read and share this note about … Continue reading
Bruce Cockburn supports Collateral Damage Project
BRUCE COCKBURN LENDS HIS VOICE TO SUICIDE PREVENTION AND THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE PROJECT MEDIA RELEASE: Canadian singer-songwriter and internationally recognized humanitarian Bruce Cockburn, is lending his voice to suicide prevention by partnering with the Collateral Damage Project. The Order … Continue reading
Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Today was a very special day for the Collateral Damage Project and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) with campuses in Sudbury and Thunder Bay. Perhaps most importantly, today was significant for all residents of Northern Ontario including people … Continue reading
The Arizona Project
Buy ‘Arizona (I MIss You Most)’ now for $1.29 from iTunes. 100% of the proceeds will support the Collateral Damage Project. 100% of the proceeds from the sales of ‘Arizona (I Miss You Most)’ will support the Collateral Damage … Continue reading
Firefighters Coping with Suicide
Firefighters, Fire Administrators and those who support them, we need your help. The Carson J Spencer Foundation, in partnership with the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, and the American Association of Suicidology, launched a video in June 2013 entitled … Continue reading
Behind the Scenes with Bruce Cockburn
Our goal is to create a pro-active dialogue on suicide, mental health and all the issues that lead up to suicide. I don’t believe there is a more powerful way than to have legendary Canadian recording artist and internationally recognized … Continue reading
Arnold Devlin Community Award
I am proud, honoured and humbled to be chosen as one of the two recipients of the Arnold Devlin Community Award by the Ontario Association for Suicide Prevention for 2013. I want to give my congratulations to the Suicide Prevention … Continue reading
This Fathers’ Day ask, “Dad, are you ok?”
Did you know that men, aged 40-59 are amongst the highest rates of suicide and are in a group that continues to climb? That’s our Dads. That was my Dad, he was 46 years old when I lost him to … Continue reading
You’re Still Bullying…Really? By: Kevin Hines
You’re Still Bullying…Really? By: Kevin Hines I was relentlessly bullied from the earliest days of grade school that I can remember. I was thrown to the ground, picked back up and punched in the gut by schoolyard bullies. I was taunted … Continue reading
“Music is Healing” by Katharine Fountain
Guest blog by Katharine Fountain. In first year of University I told my friend that I couldn’t play because my guitar would be too loud in the dorms. He randomly had this baby Fender amp and passed it on to … Continue reading