ASSINIBOIA - The Assiniboia Mental Health and Wellness Team is made up of various local volunteers that are committed to reducing stigma, providing information and promoting general mental wellness.
We are focused on reaching as many households as possible, providing a direction for any assistance in helping to promote their and their own loved ones well being.
The Mental Health and Wellness Team has been active since 2016. We have ‘mental health kits’ available with the basic tools a person would need to customize their very own resources in regards to their own mental health journey.
These tool kits come with invaluable information for someone to start their own path towards a healthy mental well being, personalized for their own needs. We also have information cards available with phone numbers and websites for any help that is needed.
The wellness kits are available at Mom’s Florist, or you can message the Facebook Page and we can provide one. The information cards are wallet size and are available at Mom’s Florist, Frosty Foods, as well as the Assiniboia Public Library.
Our mission is to enhance and provide opportunities, resources and information that aid in the promotion of positive mental health and wellness to the population of Assiniboia and area residents.
The Mental Health and Wellness Team is not for professional services, and none of the members are to offer professional services. The team is solely a source of like minded individuals working to gather information (re: resource cards) to help provide assistance and direction to community members in need of any and all professional services offered in the area.
We are funded by donations, fundraising and grants, with one of our main fundraisers being at Mom’s Florist selling Good Neighbour Day roses (this year it will be held on September 20) with all the proceeds going towards promoting Mental Health wellness for our community.
We have used these funds for our mental health tool kits, our information cards, chocolate goodie bags at Christmas, and promoting other events such as the Mental Health tea held at the Art Gallery.
Our previous events have been very successful, having a comedian, an inspirational speaker, and we hosted one of Assiniboia’s Better Together barbecue lunches on August 8. If you have any events, or ideas that you think we can help with, contact us! We would love to hear from you.
To connect with us and stay current on our events with great helpful posts you can follow us on Facebook - Mental Health and Wellness Team, or you can email us at [email protected]. We keep our page up to date with our activities and post information about our events, and resources as they come available. You can message the page or email us with any questions and one of our team members will be happy to help to the best of their ability.
Our members are as follows: Erin Eberle, Jill Zahariuk, Shai Corman, Kristen Yorga, Andre Lorrain, Justine Heagy, Erin Toner, and Lori at the Assiniboia Public Library.
