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MindBeacon, provider of the leading digital mental and behavioural health therapy service BEACON™, has launched Stronger Minds, created to support all Canadians through heightened stresses related to COVID-19. 

Guest: Dr. Khush Amaria, psychologist.

The COVID-19 pandemic is weighing on Canadians’ mental health, and for people living with blindness, it can have an even greater impact. Individuals with vision loss can feel increased anxiety and fear that reliance on the sense of touch to help navigate could lead to COVID-19 infection.

Guest:  Doug Earle, President and CEO of Fighting Blindness Canada.

Next week is Mental Health Week, and the theme is social connection.

Guest: Peter Bloemendal, CMHA, Hamilton branch.

How difficult is it for hospitals to continue their fundraising activities in these days of COVID-19, without appearing to be insentive?

Guest: Anissa Hilborn, President, Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation.