We aim to make sure that the mental health and substance use resource you find on the HeretoHelp website and in Visions Journal are as useful as possible. We’re asking for your thoughts so we know what’s working and what isn’t working.
The survey is split into two parts: one part for Visions Journal and one part for the HeretoHelp website. You can complete one or both parts.
All of your responses are anonymous and will help us serve you, our audience, better.
Visions: BC’s Mental Health and Addictions Journal is looking for new external members to join our editorial board. External editorial board members bring their diverse experiences and perspectives as we work together to educate, enlighten, inspire, and spark conversations about mental well-being. In order to represent all British Columbians, we are seeking members from outside Greater Vancouver (or, if in Greater Vancouver, who who have strong networks with people on the Island, Interior or North).
HeretoHelp produces Visions magazine, and stories from it are featured throughout the website and in our print publication.
One of our upcoming issues of Visions is focusing on Workplace Transitions, particularly leaving the workforce (e.g., retirement, job loss, sick leave etc) and the connections to mental health and substance use. Leaving the workforce may be sudden or planned, voluntary or involuntary, temporary or permanent and the mental health or substance use connections may be positive, negative or mixed.
As summer winds down, many young people feel anxious about starting school or going back to school. It’s normal and expected for young people to worry about the upcoming school year: they may worry about making friends, fitting in, getting good grade, and many other aspects of school. AnxietyBC shares great tips and strategies that parents and caregivers can use to help a young person manage back-to-school worries in the info sheet Helping Your Child Cope With Back-to-School Anxiety.
We need more room, so we are giving away back issues of Visions Journal [before Volume 9 (2013)]—just pay shipping and handling! Great for display tables, libraries or publication racks, these issues are a fantastic opportunity to learn from people with lived experience, find background information and research, discover current programs, and explore innovative ideas or approaches. Visions Journal brings diverse readers and diverse contributors: from individuals and loved ones to educators to service providers to policy-makers.
Visions is a theme-based magazine, and each issue focuses on a specific area or topic related to the theme. We need your help in choosing topics for upcoming issues: Young People, Workplace, and Culture and Diversity. Let us know what you would like to see in Visions in our poll at www.heretohelp.bc.ca/visions/choose-upcoming-themes-for-visions-journal.
The new issue of Visions Journal, Housing: Discrimination and Inclusion, is online!
HeretoHelp produces Visions magazine, and personal stories from it are featured throughout the website and in our print publication.
In the past few months, we’ve received great feedback on the HeretoHelp website: what users want to see, how they’re finding information, and what they’d like to change. In response, we will be testing two new homepages designs to see which option works best for site users like you. All of our content is the same and will remain in the same places—only the look of the homepage will change.
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