Testimonials
Our mental health training programs change lives.
From firefighters who credit our training with saving more lives than decades on the front lines to youth who finally feel heard to Indigenous leaders championing resilience in their communities.
Each voice echoes a shared truth: when we understand, we heal.
These testimonials celebrate courage, empathy, and the power of practical skills to unlock conversation, connection, and care.
Let their words remind you that you, too, can foster safe, supportive spaces—at work, at home, and within yourself—one conversation and one course at a time.
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“The different lines of evidence converged to highlight strong acceptability, mixed reactions to the cultural adaptation, and gains in participants’ knowledge, mental health first aid skill application, awareness, and self-efficacy, and reductions in stigma beliefs. Beyond promoting individual gains, the course served as a community-wide prevention approach by situating mental health in a colonial context and highlighting local resources and cultural strengths for promoting mental well-being.”
“Qualitative outcomes for both programs suggest that participants seek help earlier and support others to seek help.”
“The Opening Minds Initiative of the Mental Health Commission of Canada has worked with many workplaces to implement and evaluate mental illness stigma reduction programs.”
“The Opening Minds Initiative of the Mental Health Commission of Canada has taken a novel approach to reducing the stigma of mental illness by targeting specific sectors.”
“The implementation of the program was associated with moderate reductions in stigma and increased self-reported resilience and coping abilities.”
“[Enabled] enhanced dialogue about mental health and the introduction of a common language, a supportive workplace culture, increased help seeking, and organizational momentum for additional mental health programming and policy initiatives.”
“The Working Mind program was effective at decreasing mental health stigma and increasing self-reported resilience and coping skills”