Free mental health courses being offered in Medicine Hat

Feb 21, 2025

Medicine Hat Family Service and CMHA Alberta and Centre for Suicide Prevention are partnering to open Recovery College in Medicine Hat. Recovery College offers free mental health and recovery-focused courses for individuals, families, the workplace, and cultural and spiritual communities. This program is being funded by the Government of Alberta Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction.

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). 

Courses will be offered beginning in early March; check out www.recoverycollegemedicinehat.ca to register and learn more.

Recovery College courses are also offered in Lethbridge, Edmonton, Red Deer, Camrose, Grande Prairie, and Fort McMurray.

More information about Recovery College

• 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.
• Recovery Colleges positively impact individuals, relationships, communities, and systems. Data from Recovery College participants who responded to the evaluation survey in 2023-24:
  • 91% said they felt more hopeful about the future after attending Recovery College.
  • 62% said they learned how to address challenges before they became a crisis with Recovery College.
  • 80% of participants who attended multiple sessions said they were more able to engage in their community, for example, by volunteering, working, or doing leisure activities.
  • 88% said they felt a greater sense of belonging as a result of participating in Recovery College.

For further information, please contact:

Celina Symmonds
Executive Director
Medicine Hat Family Service
403-504-8026 (w) 403-502-4485 (c)
[email protected]

Crystal Walker
Communications Director
CMHA Alberta and Centre for Suicide Prevention
[email protected]