by CAYR Community Connections | Oct 3, 2018 | Blog Archive
ACYR recently took a day long Crisis Intervention Training Program with the Safe Management Group. It was a good training to go through as a service provider organization, just to make us all more mindful and prepared. Avoiding crisis is always what we want, but...
by CAYR Community Connections | Sep 3, 2018 | Blog Archive
Overdose is very real and prevalent across Ontario. In this province alone, more than 1,200 people died from overdoses in 2017. Harm reduction practices such as Overdose Prevention Sites, Supervised Consumption Sites and the proper use of Naloxone are integral parts...
by CAYR Community Connections | Aug 17, 2018 | Blog Archive
Live and Love with HIV is a new blog and online community where women, partners, and couples living with HIV, and the people who love them, can come together to talk about sex, love, relationships, and pleasure. We believe it’s time to de-medicalize our sex lives, and...
by CAYR Community Connections | Jul 16, 2018 | Blog Archive
Canada is one of 194 countries that endorsed the World Health Organization’s Global Health Sector Strategy on Viral Hepatitis in 2016, committing to – among other things – the elimination of viral hepatitis as a major public health threat by 2030. But what does...
by CAYR Community Connections | Jun 14, 2018 | Blog Archive
So June is brain injury awareness month here in Canada, a time to recognize and try to understand the complications that brain injury can bring into one’s life. A movement titled #unmaskingbraininjury that my mom took part of. This is her mask and her feelings;...
by CAYR Community Connections | May 9, 2018 | Blog Archive
From May 7th to the 13th it is Mental Health Week, and leading the charge is the Canadian Mental Health Association. https://mentalhealthweek.ca/ So let’s #GETLOUD about what mental health really is. Mental health is about more than mental illness It is about finding...
