Membership Form

HELP US MAKE A DIFFERENCE…. Your membership with CMHA CMHA branches in BC ECOME A EMBER $20 Kootenays includes: B M  • Cariboo Chilcotin (Williams Lake)

$5 • Cowichan Valley (Duncan)  • A voice in the future direction of CMHA • Kamloops $50 Organization* through the opportunity to run for and elect • Kelowna

the governing board and attend the Annual • Kootenays (Cranbrook) General Meeting • Mid-Island (Nanaimo) • North and West Vancouver  • A subscription to CMHA BC’s free monthly • Port Alberni email newsletter, Mind Matters • Prince George * Memberships expire March 31 2021. • A free subscription to the award-winning • Shuswap-Revelstoke (Salmon Arm) New, non-subsidized memberships that begin quarterly Visions Journal within BC • South Cariboo (100 Mile House) between September 1 and March 31 need • South Okanagan Similkameen (Penticton) only pay half of the regular membership fee. (a $25 value) • Vancouver–Fraser

Date • Vernon

I would like information on volunteering  For contacts and more information, visit our  Mr. Ms. Mrs.  Dr.  I would like information on recognizing website at www.cmha.bc.ca CMHA Kootenays in my will Name  In addition to my membership, Address I would like to donate $

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 Cash Cheque Phone ( ) - 100-1000 21st Ave N Cranbrook, BC, V1C 5L9 Mentally healthy people Email Please make cheques payable to phone: 250.426.5222 in a healthy society Canadian Mental Health Association for fax: 250.426.2134  Please do not send mail, including Visions the Kootenays email: [email protected] magazine, unless required by our bylaws www.kootenays.cmha.bc.ca  Please do not send e-mail unless required by our bylaws Thank you for your membership as it Charitable registration 13766 1328 RR0001  I am under the age of 19, or an employee will assist in obtaining grants and of the CMHA Kootenays and am a non- additional funding to support our local 2020 voting member programming.

Yes, I’d like to become

a member!

Provide hope and help to people Promote mental health for all— Add strength to our voice I would like to... affected by mental illness and prevent mental illness Your membership strengthens our voice when it Provide hope to the millions of people Mental illness can cost a person their family, Many people with mental illness never receive comes to improving the way we view and treat in BC whose lives have been directly or friends, job, education, physical health, and in the treatment and support they need because mental illness in BC through: indirectly affected by mental illness some cases, their life. they are unaware of the signs of mental illness • Advocacy in the media and in public policy Help CMHA provide services across BC CMHA’s 14 branches throughout BC are here and treatments available, or are ashamed to • Community-based policy and research in and in my community seek help. to help support people with mental illness and areas including mental illness and: Join a community of people who their families on their journey to recovery. We CMHA helps battle misconceptions, empower » People who are homeless or at risk recognize the importance of helping believe everyone deserves a home, a job and a people to seek help, and raise broad awareness » Interactions with the police and justice people affected by mental illness and friend. around maintaining good mental health through: system promoting mental health of all British Across BC, CMHA provides help and hope • Public education events, displays, » Children and youth Columbians through direct services such as: publications, and resource libraries » Addictions Learn more about mental health and • Province-wide events such as Mental Health mental illness • Supported housing and shelters • Support groups and crisis lines Week in May, Ride Don’t Hide events in June

• Social and recreational opportunities and Beyond the Blues events in October

• Volunteer opportunities, skills training and • Community education and training such Stay up to date on TM employment services as Living Life to the Full, Bounce Back , mental health in BC Confident Parents: Thriving Kids, Mental • Educational supports and bursaries Your membership helps us keep in touch with Health Works and Mental Health First Aid • Clubhouses, which provide a stable, people who care about mental health in BC. respectful and supportive gathering place • Visions Journal—with your membership you for recovery Have a voice in the will receive a free subscription to this award- • Social enterprise programs, which assist winning quarterly journal on mental health direction of CMHA —Don people with mental illness to gain skills, and addictions as explored through personal productivity and income by running their With your annual membership to your local stories, innovative programs and the most up- own businesses CMHA branch, you also become a member of to-date research CMHA BC Division. • Mind Matters—an email newsletter on mental “CMHA is very, As a member you have a voice in how CMHA very helpful by health news, resources and events. Sign up at is run through your vote and/or nomination in www.cmha.bc.ca—it’s free! just being here. Mental illness will affect 1 in the election of our governing board, and your A place to come 5 Canadians directly—that’s attendance at our Annual General Meeting. to, feel > almost 900,000 in BC welcome and be respected for who I am.” Each year, CMHA serves more Our vision: mentally healthy —Wilf than 120,000 people across people in a healthy society > 100 communities in BC >