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The Mental Illness Foundation is very concerned by the extent of the issue of mental illness in Quebec. Because of the scope of the phenomenon, the Mental Illness Foundation has taken up for mission the prevention of mental illness in order to reduce the suffering of people affected and that of their loved ones by mobilizing individuals and society. There’s an urgent need to act and that is why the Foundation offers various services meeting the needs of people who are ill, their loved ones as well as of company managers, high schoolers and their parents, educational leaders and health care workers.
Mental illness
No one is immune to mental illness. What is a mental illness? What are the symptoms? Who is affected? What are the risk factors and causes? How can mental illness be prevented and treated? This section provides answers to these questions and many others.
Our assistance programs
The Mental Illness Foundation reaches out to the public through its Partners for Life and Nothing's Working? programs. Information, awareness, prevention and mobilization in the face of depression: these are the Foundation’s objectives in going where people are, whether at school or at work. By informing, offering potential solutions and the tools needed to deal with this issue, the Foundation hopes to lessen the human suffering and the social and economic costs.
Resources directory
Get quick and easy access to one of the most extensive directory of specialized mental health resources with the Provincial Directory of Mental Health Resources―a resource compiled by the Mental Illness Foundation that lists close to 1,000 public and community mental health organizations.
Need help? Wherever you are in Quebec, the Mental Illness Foundation has a help line (514.529.1000 or our toll-free number: 1.888.529.5354) to direct people to resources in their area.
The Mental Illness Foundation is very concerned by the extent of the issue of mental illness in Quebec. Because of the scope of the phenomenon, the Mental Illness Foundation has taken up for mission the prevention of mental illness in order to reduce the suffering of people affected and that of their loved ones by mobilizing individuals and society. There’s an urgent need to act and that is why the Foundation offers various services meeting the needs of people who are ill, their loved ones as well as of company managers, high schoolers and their parents, educational leaders and health care workers.
Mental illness
No one is immune to mental illness. What is a mental illness? What are the symptoms? Who is affected? What are the risk factors and causes? How can mental illness be prevented and treated? This section provides answers to these questions and many others.
Our assistance programs
The Mental Illness Foundation reaches out to the public through its Partners for Life and Nothing's Working? programs. Information, awareness, prevention and mobilization in the face of depression: these are the Foundation’s objectives in going where people are, whether at school or at work. By informing, offering potential solutions and the tools needed to deal with this issue, the Foundation hopes to lessen the human suffering and the social and economic costs.
Resources directory
Get quick and easy access to one of the most extensive directory of specialized mental health resources with the Provincial Directory of Mental Health Resources―a resource compiled by the Mental Illness Foundation that lists close to 1,000 public and community mental health organizations.
Need help? Wherever you are in Quebec, the Mental Illness Foundation has a help line (514.529.1000 or our toll-free number: 1.888.529.5354) to direct people to resources in their area.