Winnipeg Free Press By: Aaron Epp
Sean Miller, executive director of Peer Connections Manitoba, the organization formerly known as the Manitoba Schizophrenia Society.
James was experiencing severe depression, anxiety and loneliness exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic when he visited the Mental Health Crisis Response Centre on Bannatyne Avenue last fall.
James was experiencing severe depression, anxiety and loneliness exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic when he visited the Mental Health Crisis Response Centre on Bannatyne Avenue last fall.
As part of their response, health-care workers referred the 65-year-old retiree to Peer Connections Manitoba for one-on-one peer support.
Through this program, people experiencing mental illness or addiction issues are paired with a peer support worker with lived experience who listens, answers questions regarding accessing mental-health services and helps the person they are working w