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Are you a student who experiences mental health difficulties or distress?

Do you want to learn more about wellness tools and how to incorporate them into your life?

Join a free 7 week educational Wellness Recovery Action Plan© self-help group at McMaster!

Identify, decrease, and prevent intrusive or troubling feelings and behaviours and improve your quality of life

Increase self-awareness and personal empowerment

Learn about your rights and how to self-advocate

Make your own action plans to respond to distress, stay safe during crisis, and succeed at school

Feel less isolated by connecting with other students who share similar experiences and developing your support network!

Contact Alise at hamilton.mad.students @gmail.com for further info (dates/locations) and to register.

Can’t make the group? Looking for other support? Join our active email discussion listserv to continue this and other conversations. The listserv is a private place for members to talk about our lives, support each other, discuss ideas, share info/resources/events/news, and arrange spontaneous gatherings. We also host regular informal peer support meetings and social events -- details get posted to our listserv. See www.hamiltonmadstuden ts.ca for further info.

About us:
The Hamilton Mad Students Collective formed in 2012. Members are students age 16+ in the Hamilton-area who are attending or preparing to attend any school. This includes students on a leave of absence from school and planning to return.

All members self-identify as having personally experienced madness, mental health disability, mental illness, significant spiritual or emotional distress, and/or the psychiatric/mental health system. Some refer to ourselves as Mad, crazy, service users, psychiatric survivors, neuroatypical, mentally ill, or disabled.

For further info see www.hamiltonmadstuden ts.ca.