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Monday February 11, 2013

Mental health Warm Line
The Warm Line is a peer-support line for people with mental illness. The phones have been busy since the expansion to serve Northern Ontario last year. We spoke to Kaarina Ranta about the service and how it's being overwhelmed with calls. Listen audio

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Bringing warmth to those in need:

NISA/Northern Initiative for Social Action’s 2012 Quilt Donation

See the Sudbury Star Newspaper Article Here!

NISA-Then and Now!

Movie of NISA's beginnings and the year in review.

One of NISA's new programs has been featured online. Go here to check it out!

Dynamic Minds: Mind and Body Wellness for Mental Health

National mental health strategy includes recommendation to boost spending .

Sudburian featured in mental illness ads

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Shana Calixte is well-known in several circles in Sudbury, but her recognition factor is about to soar when a commercial begins airing nationwide on television this week. more

Watch Warm Line Peer Support worker Kaarina Ranta talk about this important service!

Greenhouse helps mental health patients blossom

May 10, 2012- 4:11 PM

By: Heather Green-Oliver - Sudbury Northern Life Staff

National mental health strategy includes recommendation to boost spending

Shana Calixte, 36, executive director of the Northern Initiative for Social Action, a community organization in Sudbury that works with mental health consumers, said "mental health isn’t just about feeling low today, but also worrying about things like your food security, your housing, your education, those kinds of things.”

Read more here:

Bell 'Let's Talk'...Watch Shana share her personal experiences with Mental Illness.

Enhanced Regional Warm Line

North East LHIN responds to call to help enhance services for mental health and addictions.

The North East LHIN today provided $170,000 to the Canadian Mental Health Association - Sudbury/ Manitoulin Branch (CMHA-SM) to help it enhance its “warm-line” so that residents across

Northeastern Ontario can access its services.

The enhanced warm line will be implemented and coordinated by NISA/Northern initiative for Social Action and CMHA – Sudbury/Manitoulin.

They will work in partnership with five other consumer/survivor initiatives across the region to staff the hot line.

This toll-free telephone line, staffed by trained individuals with “lived” experience, will be available to people across Northeastern Ontario who are in need of mental health and addiction support after regular office hours, 6 p.m. to midnight, seven days per week.

This funding is part of the NE LHIN’s strategy to enhance mental health and addiction services while helping to decrease the number of repeat visits to emergency departments across the region.

The need for more mental health and addition services for people living in Northeastern Ontario was stated loudly and clearly in the NE LHIN’s recent engagements with more than 600 people across the region.

The number to call is 1-866-856-9276.

Pictured: From left to right; Michael Clark, regional warm line coordinator, Louise Paquette, CEO of the North East Local Health Integration Network (NE LHIN), and Shana Calixte, executive director (NISA).