NEED HELP? Call 211 (Alberta only) or the Mental Health Help Line at 1-877-303-2642. If you’re thinking about suicide, call or text 988 toll-free.

You are currently on the:

CMHA National

Visit our provincial websites

Recovery Colleges in Alberta

Recovery Month 2023 Website Banners Slide 1
Recovery Month 2023 Website Banners Slide 2
Recovery Month 2023 Website Banners Slide 3
Recovery Month 2023 Website Banners Slide 4
previous arrow
next arrow

No matter where you are on your mental health journey, Recovery College is for everyone. Recovery Colleges in Alberta offer a range and variety of free recovery-focused courses designed for individuals, families, the workplace, and cultural and spiritual communities.

All Recovery College courses are co-developed and co-facilitated with the community and peers (individuals with “lived experience” who are role models to their peers and embody hope and recovery) exploring community strengths, as personal expertise is embedded with professional expertise.

Recovery College Participant Testimonials

“Sharing with others with different histories but similar experiences has been uplifting.”

– Peer Participant  

“Recovery College provides skills which become tools in your toolbox.”

– Peer Participant  

“Safety is created when you accept people where they’re at and show vulnerability.”

– Peer Participant  

Recovery Colleges in Alberta have been modelled after successful Recovery Colleges in the UK, USA and Australia to provide early access to mental health supports through a range of courses that help develop resiliency, wellness, connection, belonging and hope. The peer approach assumes that people who have similar experiences relate better and can offer a more authentic support to their peers. Recovery is a paradigm of service delivery which places greater emphasis on people’s strengths and possibilities than on problems and deficits. Adopting a participatory, educational, and learning approach to service delivery, programs and services are provided as a resource for individuals to use in their recovery journey.

Find recovery-focused mental health courses near you.

CMHA Recovery College Lethbridge

Learn More Learn More

CMHA Recovery College Edmonton

Learn More Learn More

CMHA Recovery College Central Alberta

Learn more Learn more

CMHA Recovery College Wood Buffalo

Learn more Learn more

CMHA Recovery College Grande Prairie

Learn more Learn more

CMHA Recovery College Camrose

Learn more Learn more

CMHA Recovery College Calgary

Learn more Learn more

Questions? Concerns? Feedback?

Email [email protected].

Skip to content