Art and Peer Support at the Coast Mental Health Resource Centre

Art and Peer Support at the Coast Mental Health Resource Centre.  Bernadine heads down to Coast Mental Health Resource Centre on Seymour St in downtown Vancouver and speaks with folks about the Art Studio which is open to anyone with a mental health challenge. Betty Yan tells us about the Peer SupportTraining Program that Coast Mental Health has developed and runs.  Shahal  Bozorgzadeh  was trained here as a Peer Support Worker and she describes why this job is so vital to her and those she works with.  Shawna Butterwick is a volunteer at the Art Studio and fills us in on the day to day activities there and then artist, Leef Evans, talks a bit about his process, his depression and Margaret, the “spider” inside him (represents his depression) and how he has come to resolve that Margaret needs to get out every once and a while.     

Music by Shari Ulrich, Jack Harris, and Milanda