Our Stories
Monthly Donor Profile: Susan Hsu
We recently had the opportunity to connect with Susan to hear her personal experience with the Mental Health Foundation and what motivates her to contribute month after month. Her story is an inspiring reminder of the incredible change we can make when we come...
Katya’s Story: A Mom’s Journey to Empowerment and Giving Back
In January 2023, we had the very good fortune to call a winner of the WinWin50 quarterly cash draw. The lucky winner, Katya, had designated the Mental Health Foundation as the recipient of a portion of the proceeds. We were ecstatic not only to tell her but to later...
Alberta Hospital Edmonton
Alberta Hospital Edmonton (AHE) is a fully accredited psychiatric hospital operating under Alberta Health Services. The Mental Health Foundation is proud to support Alberta Hospital Edmonton, enhancing patient care with essential programs and services. AHE delivers...
Access 24/7
Adult Intake Services The Mental Health Foundation is proud to support Access 24/7, ensuring mental health and addiction services for adults are easily accessible. Adult mental health and addiction intake services are available over the phone or in-person at Edmonton...
Kickstand & Kickstand Connect
Kickstand offers free integrated mental health services for young people ages 12-25 in Alberta. The Mental Health Foundation is proud to partner with Kickstand, ensuring mental health and addictions services for youth are easy to access across the province. While...
A Beautiful Mind
Angelika: Living Fully and Sharing Insights About Her Mental Health OnlineAngelika Matson remembers feeling low and unsafe with herself. She lives with treatment-resistant depression and credits a medical procedure, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), for changing her...
Little Things
Two care specialists share how donations sometimes mean survival. The Mental Health Foundation is proud to support Little Things, ensuring vulnerable people have support. Some people don’t notice them. Others choose to ignore them. Often, they fall through the cracks....
Text4Hope
This free service provides daily supportive text messages written by mental health therapists. The Mental Health Foundation is proud to partner with Text4Hope, bringing positive, supportive messages to your phone. You are not alone, there are supports, and there is...
Hope4Ukraine
A text-based mental health resource for Canadians Free messaging service provides support in four languages. Resilience&Hope4Ukraine is an Alberta-based, multi-lingual innovation that follows the success of Text4Hope. Anyone feeling increased anxiety, stress, or...
Text4Amal: Text4Hope in Arabic
The Mental Health Foundation is proud to collaborate with the Canadian Arab Institute and the RBC Foundation to launch Text4Amal, a free supportive texting program for the Arabic community in Canada. Text4Amal is an expansion of a research-proven Albertan-based mental...