Mental Health Awareness Week 2025

It’s mental health awareness week. This year’s theme is community.

Community isn’t just something we value it's central to how we support people with severe mental illness and complex needs.

We use elements of the  therapeutic community model,  a participative, group-based approach that draws on the power of social connection, shared experience, and mutual support. It’s grounded in the idea that healing happens not in isolation, but in community.

First we seek to create a space were people feel a sense of safety, often for the first time in their life. Talking  is  positive, (another first for most people). In these pro-social environments, the individuals we support work together to promote healthy change, offer peer support, and build resilience.

Working together with these group values creates a therapeutic atmosphere, a base for independence preparing people with painful pasts to have better futures. 

This Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re proud to celebrate the role of community in mental health recovery and to stand with others working to make sure no one has to face mental illness alone