For Parents, Guardians and Caregivers:
If you are struggling with how to parent your child(ren), aged 5-29, with a mental health challenge, we provide you with individual and group counselling and psycho-educational supports.
If you are coping with trauma, separation and divorce, complex grief, bereavement and loss or other life challenges, we provide you with mental health and well-being supports to help you navigate the complexities of parenting through difficult life circumstances.
Our trauma-informed and mental well-being approaches create agile, competitive, and productive workforces where employees can engage their full potential. We support Fortune 500 Companies, government, businesses and social sector organizations to build high-performing, psychologically safe work cultures so employees can contribute their best.
Our trauma-informed approach is grounded in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, with services across strategic planning, training, human resource development, organizational design, mental health and well-being, and compassion fatigue.
INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS.
IMAGINATIVE POSSIBILITIES.
Championing mentally healthy & trauma-informed parenting/guardian, workplaces and social sector leadership
through clinical supports and education.
Innovation & Imagination are key words in mental health and well-being. The ability to utilize the brain innovatively and with creativity and imagination is immediately diminished with trauma or other mental health challenges. i&i focuses on helping to restore the mental wellness of innovation and imagination to parents, executives, organizations, and communities.
TRAUMA BY THE NUMBERS
TRAUMA
76%
of Canadians report having experienced a traumatic event during their lifetime.
50%
of individuals with PTSD will also suffer from depression.
20%
of women report experiencing harassment in the workplace.
YOUTH SUICIDALITY
46%
of people who complete suicide have a diagnosed mental health condition.
2nd
Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for people ages 10 - 34.
4X
Lesbian, gay and bisexual youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than straight youth.
Transgender people are 12 times more likely to attempt suicide than the general population.
PARENTING CHILDREN WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
80%
of chronic mental health disorders begin in childhood.
31%
of all lifetime mental illness begins by age 14.
10%
of children and young people (age 5-16 years) have a clinically diagnosable mental health problem.
YOUNG ADULT MENTAL HEALTH
50%
of children age 14 and older drop out of school due to a mental illness
12%
of high school students report struggling with some form of anxiety
1 in 5
post secondary students meet the criteria for alcohol use disorder