This Mental Health Week, CMHA is inviting you to connect with your community and yourself! Together, we can strengthen belonging, reduce isolation, and support well-being, because connection strengthens mental health.
Social connection is essential to overall health and well-being. But too many people are feeling alone. In Canada, millions of people say they feel lonely often or always.
This May 4-10, CMHA is inviting people across Canada to Come Together. It’s a call to spark small, everyday actions of connection, and to recognize the role we all play in supporting mental health through connection.
Together, we can strengthen mental health, build healthier communities, and help more people feel connected.
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Find resources, ways to get involved, discussion guides, and activities for schools and workplaces.
Get the facts on connection
Get the facts on the science behind connection, and why social connection is so critical to our mental health.
What kind of connection style best suits you?
Building new connections, nurturing existing ones, or joining a new community can be daunting. Take our non-diagnostic quiz to learn what form of connection works best for you!
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*Images in this work were created by a human author with the assistance of AI technology.
