Families supporting Adults with Mental Illness in Alberta (FAMI-Alberta) is a grassroots community of volunteers who provide education, support and advocacy for families supporting loved ones living with serious mental illness. We’re currently focused in the Edmonton region, but are happy to hear from families across Alberta.
Latest Blog Posts
Let’s Talk… about the words we use – this week: the “I” word
This is the second in a series of four weekly posts about the words we use, culminating on January 30 – Bell’s Let’s Talk Day (last week we addressed the “C” word). You can join the conversation by posting a comment below. Your identity will be not be published. The
Let’s Talk… about the words we use – this week: the “C” word
This is the first of a series of four weekly posts about the words we use, culminating on January 30 – Bell’s Let’s Talk Day. You can join the conversation by posting a comment below. Your identity will be kept confidential. We hear it all the time. We probably
Too Deep, Yet Too Shallow
A year ago, one of our first blog posts compared emergency mental health services to emergency help for someone drowning. The post pointed out the absurdity of lifeguards using bureaucratic regulations to refuse help to a drowning person. At the time we stated, “Obviously this would never happen to someone