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Diocesan Mental Health Ministry

If you or someone who know is experiencing a crisis, click here for crisis numbers.

Mission: To foster the Mental Health Ministry, we will compassionately walk alongside those suffering through prayer, education, accompaniment, and advocacy. As a community, we will work to reduce mental health stigmatism through this ministry for those struggling with mental health, their families, and friends.

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. 

May 5-11 is Mental Health Week in Canada. The Canadian Mental Health Association's 2025 theme for Mental Health Week is "Unmasking Mental Health."

For resources, click here. 

The Four Pillars of the Diocesan Mental Health Ministry

The four pillars, Education, Accompaniment, Advocacy, and Prayer, will work together to bring about the goals of the Diocesan Mental Health Ministry:

  • To reduce mental health stigma in our communities

  • Compassionately journey with those struggling with mental health wounds.

  • To encourage individuals who need professional help to seek assistance. 

Accompaniment

Education

Prayers for Mental Health

Advocacy

  • We will facilitate the WholeHearted Program, which focuses on recognizing and responding to life’s hardships, as well as the renewal and restoration of the person. (Beginning in fall 2025, the goal is to provide one WholeHearted workshop in each deanery.) 

  • We encourage everyone to become aware of the resources available in their community to refer those in need to help when needed.

  • The Diocesan Mental Health Ministry Team will provide training for volunteer parishioners to accompany individuals accessing Mental Health Ministry services in their parish.

  • The acronym ACCOMPANY will provide the framework for parish volunteers to be a compassionate presence as they journey with those who access the parish Mental Health Ministry.

(A= Awareness, C= Compassion, C= Community, O= Open Heart, M= Meet, P= Prayer, A= Action, N= Non-judgemental, Y= Yield)

  • As issues arise and develop in our diocese, parishes, or local communities, we can formulate a response to address them. (i.e., postcard campaign in response to expansion of Physician Assisted Suicide (MAiD) to include those suffering from Mental Health challenges).

  • If you are interested in getting involved, consider discussing advocacy groups with us to explore potential opportunities for participation.

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St. Benedict Joseph Labre,

There is so much fear, ignorance and   hurtful attitudes that the people who suffer from  mental illness needlessly suffer further. Help us to support and be compassionate to those with a mental  illness. Let us always remember that  people with a mental illness are not the illness – they are beautiful creations of God.

St. Benedict Joseph Labre, you understand and witnessed the difficulties of living with a mental  illness. You lived in the darkness but found hope. Lord our God, grant courage to those for whom we pray and  fill them with hope.

If it is according to Your Divine Will, grant them the recovery and cure they desire. Help them to remember You love them; they are never alone.

St. Benedict Joseph Labre, Patron saint of those with a Mental Illness, pray for us

Roman Catholic Diocese of  Prince Albert

Mental Health Ministry

Prayer is a source of strength in all that we do. We encourage everyone to pray for and with those they accompany, if the person is open to it, along with the parish volunteers, those suffering from mental health wounds, and their supporters. 

Saint Dymphna,

Help us understand that the way we talk   about people affects the people themselves. Often people who have a mental illness are known as their illness; “she is bipolar” or “he is schizophrenic”. People who have    cancer are not cancer; those with heart   disease are not heart disease. Let us always remember that people with a mental illness are not the illness. They are, as we all are beautiful creations of God.

Help us to support and be compassionate  to those with a mental illness. Grant courage to those for whom we pray and fill them with hope. If it is according to Your Divine Will,  grant them the recovery and cure they desire. Help all of us to remember Your love for us.

 

Saint Dymphna, Patron of those with a  Mental Illness, pray for us.

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Please sign and send in your support to stop Physician Assisted Suicide (MaiD) being offered to those who are lonely, isolated, struggling with depression, anxiety, etc. 

  • Call to Action – We encourage parishes to contact Christine to arrange training for their communities and to utilize the Crisis-Number-Prayer cards. If parishes require additional cards, please contact Nicole at the Diocesan Office.

  • Each parish’s mental health ministry will vary based on needs in your area.

  • The Diocesan Mental Health Ministry will officially be launched in the fall of 2025 at the Diocesan Pastoral Council (DPC).

  • Saskatchewan (Emergency/Crisis Hotline) - 211

  • Suicide Crisis Helpline (call or text) - 988

  • Prince Albert Mobile Crisis - 306-764-1011

  • Kids Help Phone - 1-800-338-0880 or Text CONNECT to 686868

  • Farm Stress Line 1-800-667-4442

  • Northeast Crisis Line (North Saskatchewan) 1-800-611-6349

  • Women’s Abuse Crisis Line 1-888-338-0880

  • Veteran’s Crisis Help Line Canada - 1-800-268-7708

  • For Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Peoples

  • Hope for Wellness Help Line 1-855-242-3310

  • Indian Residential School Crisis Line - 1-866-925-4419

  • Piwapan Women’s Centre Crisis Line - 306-425-4090

  • Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Crisis Line 1-844-413-6649

  • Prince Albert Mobile Crisis 306-764-1011

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