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Annual General Meeting

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:29:24 +0000

An AGM is held every year at the FOR program to elect the Board of Directors and inform people who have been connected with our program of previous and future successes. It is an opportunity for the stakeholders and partners to receive copies of the our accounts as well as reviewing fiscal information for the past year and asking any questions regarding the directions the actions and directions we will take in the future.

Notice of 2010 Annual General Meeting of Board Members

NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Members of the Family Outreach and Response Program will he held on Monday September 20th, 2010 at 6:30pm at Scarborough Civic Centre, Committee Room. Invitation is open to anyone interested in attending.

1. Below is a copy of the agenda.
Dated at Toronto this 20th day of August 2010.

Members:

Rebekah Tsingos
Eric McKnight
Deanna McNeil
Stella Emmanuel
Taketo Murata
Sue LeMesurier
Steve McIntyre
Mike Huges
Nisa Mullaittilaga

Invitee(s):
Karyn Baker
Lyne Arseneau
______________________
Deanna McNeil
Secretary

Family Outreach and Response Program

ANNUAL General MEETING 2010

AGENDA

1. Introductions and Greetings
Rebekah Tsingos

2. Approval of Previous AGM 2009
Minutes
Motion Required

3. Chairperson and Executive Director’s Report
Rebekah Tsingos
Karyn Baker

4. Auditor’s Report
Lyne Arseneau
a) Motion to accept the Financial Statements for 2009-2010
Steve McIntyre
b) Motion to appoint Lyne Arseneau as auditor of the
Corporation for 2009-2010 with enumeration to be fixed by the Board of Directors Steve McIntyre

5. Nominating Committee Report
Resignation of Directors
Presentation of the Slate of Directors
Deanna McNeil

7. Adjournment of AGM
Rebekah Tsingos

8. Presentation of Amato Art Award
Karyn Baker

9. Adjournment & Refreshments
Rebekah Tsingos

10. Convening of Board Meeting
Rebekah Tsingos

Golf For Good: September 30th, 2010

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:22:52 +0000

Golf for Good is a fundraising initiative of the Family Outreach and Response Program (FOR). FOR supports and educates families and friends during the mental health recovery process. Last year, over 200 families used our services. Now in its 6th year, this charity golf event continues to build in popularity and is a key platform to the charity, providing essential services not covered by base funding.

One Spectacular Club

The Royal Ontario Golf Club’s property was originally a stable and equestrian center, with large meadows and dense woods covering the acreage. Placing the holes within these spaces allowed for the woods to frame the fairways and greens. After experiencing Royal Ontario, the enticing shape of many holes will easily become ingrained in the golfer’s memory.

The course has five sets of tee blocks to provide a different experience with each visit. Visitors playing Royal Ontario will be reminded of the Masters course at Lionhead.

Despite its hazards of fescue and water, it is the variety of tee blocks that allow for golfers of all calibers to find the desired amount of challenge to suit their game. The tees stretch from 5225 back to 7074 yards making a different course possible with each visit. When you add the scenery and vistas visible around the links, enjoyment is easy to find.

Agenda

Registration 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Lunch 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Golf Shotgun 12:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Cocktails 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Dinner and Auction 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Player Fees:

$350.00 Per Player
$100.00 Dinner and Auction only
$1,400.00 Four Players
$1,700.00 Corporate Foursome plus Hole Sponsor

Royal Ontario is conveniently located on Trafalgar Road, just minutes south of the 401. The entrance to the facility is on the west side of Trafalgar, between Derry Road and Britannia Road. Pearson International Airport is only 20 minutes away, and we are 45 minutes from Downtown Toronto.

For your $ 350.00 registration fee you will receive the following:

1. Round of golf with cart at a challenging and scenic golf course
2. BBQ Lunch
3. On Course events with prizes to be won
4. Cocktail Reception
5. Silent Auction
6. Gourmet Dinner
7. FREE pair of Nike Sandals
8. A warm fuzzy feeling that you have supported a very worthy charity!

NIKE AIR MAX SLIDE SANDALS

- Phylon midsole with heel Max Air unit – for ultra cushioning
- Rubber outsole with forefoot flex grooves
- Velcro top flap for adjustability
- Mesh, syntehtic and TPU combination for easy wear and care

PREMIER SPONSORSHIP ($ 10,000.00)

- Company Logo and listing as title sponsor in all promotional material
- Logo, acknowledgement and link to corporate website on the FOR website
- Corporate recognition at dinner
- Full page ad (back cover) in Tournament Program
- Banner at display at the event
- Signage at the registration table
- Distribution of promotional materials in gift bags
- One foursome for Golf, cocktails and dinner

DINNER SPONSORSHIP ($ 5,000.00)

- Official designation as the Dinner Sponsor in all promotional material
- Signage at the dinner
- Logo and acknowledgements on printed materials
- Corporate recognition at dinner
- Half page ad in Tournament Program
- Two players for Golf, cocktails and dinner

PUTTING CONTEST SPONSORSHIP ($ 2,000.00)

- Official designation as the Putting Contest Sponsor in all promotional material
- Signage at the Putting Green (halfway point on the course)
- Logo and acknowledgement on printed materials
- Corporate recognition at the dinner
- Half page ad in Tournament Program
- One Player for Golf, cocktails and dinner

18 HOLE SPONSORSHIP ($ 300.00 per hole)

- Signage at each hole sponsored
- Official designation as a Hole Sponsor in all promotional material
- Acknowledgement in the Tournament Program
- Corporate recognition at dinner

Charitable receipts will be issued for the full amount of sponsorships. Charitable receipts for the registration fee will be issued for the net proceeds of the golf tournament.

We look forward to seeing you there …Family Outreach and Response Program
6th Annual Charity Golf Tournament

Thursday, September 30th 2010
Royal Ontario Golf Club
6378 Trafalgar Rd.
Hornby, (Milton) Ontario

Online registration will soon be available, but in the meantime, if you’d like to register now, please print out the following documents and email of fax them to:

Karyn Baker
Tournament Coordinator
(416) 535-8501 Ext. 2011
Fax # 416-583-4335
karyn_baker@camh.net
www.familymentalhealthrecovery.org

Sponsor Form
Donation Form
Registration Form

Meeting of The Minds

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:52:17 +0000

The Meeting of The Minds Fundraiser for the TTYL Program was a big success!

The circus acts were amazing, the clown hilarious, the dancers phenomenal, the silent auction exciting, the music composed by Rochelle and Jeremy moving and catchy, and of course the TTYL Youth Troupe Play was a big hit!

If you weren’t able to make it out to the show, get a peep at the fun through this short video!

Thanks to everyone who came out to support the event! Also if you missed it but want to support the growing TTYL program, don’t forget you can donate by clicking here!

Event!

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:50:09 +0000

WORDS ON THE WALL: GEOFFREY REAUME IN CONVERSATION WITH RUTH RUTH
To celebrate the re-issue of his groundbreaking study, Remembrance Of Patients Past (University of Toronto Press), scholar and activist Geoffrey Reaume will conduct a walking tour of the wall surrounding the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH ) grounds at 1001 Queen St. West. He will then guide the group to the Gladstone Hotel, where he will have an on-stage conversation Ruth Ruth Stackhouse of Friendly Spike Theatre Band. Three of the installation pieces from The Story Behind The Wall, an exhibition by Workman Arts (WA) inspired by Reaume’s text, will be featured on-stage. There will be a silent auction of bricks painted by local artists. Proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Psychiatric Survivors Archives of Toronto (PSAT) for the purpose of purchasing commemorative plaques detailing the history of the 19th century patient-built wall and other aspects of unpaid patient labour. Marc Glassman, Executive Director of This Is Not A Reading Series, will host the evening event. – A TINARS event presented by University of Toronto Press, Gladstone Hotel, NOW Magazine, Torontoist.com, Take Five On CIUT, Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto and Workman Arts.
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto
Wed Apr 21: 8:00pm (Doors 7:30pm) $5 (Free With Book Purchase)

EVENT ITINERARY
Silent Auction Viewing Begins 4pm, Gladstone Hotel Ballroom,
Wall Walking Tour 6pm, Main Entrance, CAMH, 1001 Queen St West
Interview / Auction 8 pm (Doors 7:30pm), Gladstone Ballroom, Gladston Hotel, 1214 Queen St. West

REMEMBRANCE OF PATIENTS PAST Historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients in his groundbreaking study, Remembrance Of Patients Past, by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health – CAMH) from 1870-1940. Psychiatric patients endured abuse and could lead monotonous lives inside the asylum’s walls, yet these same women and men worked hard at unpaid institutional jobs for years and decades on end, created their own entertainment, even in some cases made their own clothes, while forming meaningful relationships with other patients and some staff.

Using first person accounts by and about patients – including letters written by inmates which were confiscated by hospital staff – Reaume weaves together a tapestry of stories about the daily lives of people confined behind brick walls that patients themselves built.

GEOFFREY REAUME is an associate professor in the Critical Disability Studies Graduate Program at York University.

RUTH RUTH STACKHOUSE is a proud member of the psychiatric survivor community. She studied theater in New York City and is currently Theatre Director of the Friendly Spike Theatre Band. A long-standing activist, she has protested against institutional confinement and the exploitation of patient labour. www.friendlyspike.ca

THE PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVOR ARCHIVES OF TORONTO (PSAT) is dedicated to ensuring that the rich history of people who have experienced the psychiatric system is preserved for our community and the wider community as a resource from which everyone can share and learn. PSAT is a grass roots organization that is run for and by psychiatric survivors and seeks to reflect the broad diversity of views that are expressed by all people with a psychiatric history however they choose to self-identify. www.psychiatricsurvivorarchives.com

THE STORY BEHIND THE WALL is a mixed-media and cross-disciplinary project created by artists of the Workman Arts Project for Scotiabank Nuitblanche 2009. Six artists chose six former patients from the Toronto Hospital for the Insane as depicted in Geoffrey Reaume’s book Remembrance of Patients Past – Patient life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940. Their goal was to create figurative sculptures to creatively and expressively tell the stories of these individual patients from the past who have mostly been confined to a history of silence.

WORKMAN ARTS (WA) facilitates aspiring, emerging and established artists with mental illness and addiction issues to develop and refine their art form through its arts training programs, public performance/exhibit opportunities and partnering with other art organizations. As well, WA promotes a greater public understanding of mental illness and addiction through the creation, presentation and discussion of the artistic media.
www.workmanarts.com

For Media / Info
Geoffrey Reaume: Andrea Wilson, awilson@utpress.utoronto.ca
PSAT Silent Auction: Andrea White, psychsurvivorarchives@gmail.com
TINARS: Chris Reed, coordinator@tinars.ca

Meeting of the Minds

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:32:39 +0000

Please join us for our first-ever Circus Fundraiser, called Meeting of the Minds on Sunday, May 2nd from 2-4pm at Second City, featuring professional and emerging performers, including aerial trapeze and silks, dance, live music, clowns and our very own Talk To Youth Lately (TTYL) youth theatre troupe performing 2 brand new original skits! Meeting of the Minds also features an amazing silent auction with generous donations from many local stores, including: Simon Carter, Ritual2 spa, Helmutt’s Pet Store, Crumpler, Plastic Wrap, SPAW Boutique, Fairies Pyjamas, John Steinberg & Associates and much more! All support will go directly to funding our youth engagement program where TTYL youth educate other youth and the broader community about recovery and mental health. Tickets are only $20 for adults and $10 for students! Please click here to download the flyer or call 416-535-8501 ext. 1927 for more information and to purchase tickets!

$250 Bobbi Nahwegahbow Award Looking for Nominations

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:01:12 +0000

Bobbi Nahwegahbow was an active member of Psychiatric Survivor, Mad Pride, Women’s and Native rights communities in the city of Toronto. Psychiatric Survivor Archives Toronto, The Lakeshore Asylum Cemetery Project, Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre, The Native Centre, The Friendly Spike Theatre Band, St. Francis Table, Toronto Rape Crisis Center, are but a few of the organizations which benefited from this energetic, passionate and righteous human being who was dedicated to equality rights for everyone.
Although Bobbi Nahwegahbow passed on November 4th, 2007 her tenacious example will always be remembered by the people she worked with.
In memory of Bobbi Nahwegahbow, The Mad Pride Organizing Committee has established a $250.00 award in her name, to be presented during Mad Pride Toronto celebrations in July 2010.

The committee requests suggestions from the community in the spirit of who best exemplifies the work which Bobbi so actively nourished. These nominations should be made in the form of a simple statement not more than one page in length, which highlights the person or group’s contributions to our community. Please send to either friendlyspike@primus.ca or Friendly Spike Theatre Band, #210, 2466 Dundas Street West, Toronto M6P 1W9
Suggestions will be reviewed and decided on by the Mad Pride Organizing Committee.

Deadline April 30th 2010

Call For Submissions!

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:54:00 +0000

University of Alberta Women’s Centre Collective has put out a call for submissions from people who identify with feminism and have lived experiences of a psychiatric diagnosis.

Their upcoming anthology, Feminists Navigate Mental Health (working title), will explore the complexities of navigating mental health and how a feminist identity may (or may not) shape those experiences.

Submissions are welcomed in the form of personal short stories.

The submissions received will shape the outcome of the book. The final manuscript will be submitted to relevant Canadian independent publishers. They are looking for contributions that explore the relationship between feminist identity and experiences, thoughts, and feelings related to mental health.

Possible themes may include (but are not limited to):

* Coping – what works and what doesn´t
* Any positive aspects of your mental health that are commonly considered deficits
* Treatment preferences and past experiences
* Medication
* Personal/lived understandings of your diagnosis (acceptance or rejection)
* Stigma/tension around mental health issues in the feminist community
* Feminism and well-being/strength/empowerment
* Feminism and distress

Guidelines:

* Remember to take care of yourself while writing about topics that may be distressing;
* Good writing skills are great, but not mandatory! We will work with you to edit your piece;
* Submissions should be saved in .doc or .rtf, size 12 font, Arial or Times New Roman, and double spaced;
* 500 to 3000 words
* Include contact information and a brief biography;
* Only email submissions will be accepted;
* Submission deadline is June 1st, 2010.

Comments, concerns, questions and submissions should be directed to:
fnmhsubmissions@gmail.com

Daniel Mackler Talks about Recovery

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:38:12 +0000

Take These Broken Wings, a feature-length documentary film by director and psychotherapist Daniel Mackler, shows that people can recover fully from schizophrenia without psychiatric medication. According to most of the mental health field, and of course the pharmaceutical industry, this is not possible. How little they know – or want to know! The film centers on the lives of two women – heroes of mine – who both recovered from severe schizophrenia. The film traces the roots of their schizophrenia to childhood trauma and details their successful psychotherapy with gifted clinicians.

The first woman is Joanne Greenberg (fully recovered for fifty years), the bestselling author of I Never Promised You A Rose Garden. The second is Catherine Penney (fully recovered for thirty years), a mental health nurse in California whose healing tale was chronicled by her therapist, Daniel Dorman, MD, in the book Dante’s Cure: A Journey Out of Madness.

Their accounts are interwoven with interviews with giants in the field of schizophrenia recovery. These include Peter Breggin, MD (author, Toxic Psychiatry), Robert Whitaker (journalist, author, Mad in America), and Bertram Karon, PhD (author, Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: Treatment of Choice). Also featured throughout the film are over 100 interview clips of strangers filmed in New York City’s Washington Square Park who share their points of view on schizophrenia.

Here is Daniel Mackler talking about why he made this documentary:

For more information or to purchase the video, please visit here.

Dr. Dan Fisher Talks Recovery

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:25:23 +0000

New Groups Downtown!

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:59:59 +0000

There are three new groups to get involved in at the downtown location!

Families for Mental Health Recovery Committee
An ongoing group for families to advocate for changes to the mental health system. The group meets monthly on the second Monday of the month at 6:00pm at our 901 King Street West location. Please call 416-535-8501 ext. 2011 for next meeting time.

Fundraising and Events Committee
An ongoing group of families, board members and staff that work together to raise donations for the family and youth programs. The group meets monthly on the third Monday evening at 6:00pm at our 901 King Street West location.

Ongoing Family Support Group
This support group meets monthly to discuss ongoing recovery for their family members. This is for families who have already taken the Family Mental Health Recovery Course. The group meets monthly on the fourth Monday of the month at our 901 King Street West location.

Please call 535-8501 ext. 2011 to let us know you are coming.