Wellness & Prevention
Free Recovery Resources
Staying connected to your recovery is more of a challenge now, but it's also as important as ever.
The Mental Health Resource Guide from The Canadian Mental Health Association
Podcasts
- A Sober Girls Guide
- The Addicted Mind
- Back From Broken
- The Bubble Hour
- Dopey
- ODAAT Chat
- Recovery 2.0
- Recovery Happy Hour
- She Recovers
- That Sober Guy
- Unruffled
Blogs
- The Fix
- Hip Sobriety
- Last Call
- Liv’s Recovery Kitchen
- The Miracle of the Mundane
- This Naked Mind
- Off-Dry
- Recovery Speakers
- Sasha P. Tozzi
- Sober Courage
- A Sober Girls Guide
- Sober Mommies
- Sober Senorita
- Soberocity
- SobrieTea Party
- The Sobriety Collective
- Unpickled
Substance Use and Mental Health Helplines
- Wellness Together Canada
- Adults: text WELLNESS to 741741
- Youth: text WELLNESS to 686868
- Front Line Workers: text FRONTLINE to 741741
- Indigenous People: Hope for Wellness Help Line:
- 1-855-242-3310
- Suicide Prevention Service:
- 1-833-456-4566
Mental Health & Wellness Resource Finder
Supportive Online Communities
- Addiction Support Group
- Bridge Club
- Faces and Voices of Recovery
- Families for Addiction Recovery
- Forever35Sober
- In The Rooms
- LifeRing
- Living Sober
- r/stopdrinking
- Recovery 2.0
- Recovery For Life
- Redditors in Recovery
- Refuge Recovery
- She Recovers
- Sober Grid
- Sober Sisters
- Soberistas
- SoberRecovery
- This Naked Mind Group
- Voices To End Addiction & Inspire Recovery
- Women for Sobriety
Family Support
For every single person with an addiction that struggles with the disease, there is a also a multitude of people that are impacted and suffering. The torture of helplessly watching the erosion of a loved one’s life is devastating. If you have a person with a substance use disorder in your life, you likely know the feelings of helplessness, frustration, despair, and resentment. The good news is: you don’t have to live in the shadow of addiction.
Family Education and Support Services
The Bruce Oake model will integrate the support of family and loved ones through in-house clinicians as well as its strong parternships and formalized collaboration agreements in the community. Providing evidence-based programs and services to family members is integral to the model and culture of the organization. Examples of this include family services and supports provided by CMHA Manitoba and Winnipeg that are co-produced by family members and provide ongoing peer support from trusted and recognized mental health leaders in the community. In person, CMHA Recovery College and virtual Well Central courses for family members of those who use substances will be offered to ensure the availability of stigma-free and easily accessible no cost-supports.
Peer Support Groups
Virtual/Online Peer Support meetings
- Adult Children of Alcoholics
- Al-Anon
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Cocaine Anonymous
- In The Rooms
- Narcotics Anonymous
- Overeaters Anonymous
- Refuge Recovery
- Smart Recovery
- SOS Winnipeg