Reduce the suffering

Over the past 10 years, the Mental Illness Foundation has set up services designed to lessen the suffering of people with mental illness and that of their loved ones, including a help line and support for organizations.

Help line 

The Mental Illness Foundation offers a help line to orient people who need services to resources in their area, no matter which region of Quebec they live in. It has also listed close to 1,000 public and community mental health organizations in a Provincial directory of mental health resources, available on this site (in French).  

Support for organizations 

In an effort to relieve the suffering of people struggling with mental illness, the Foundation has supported numerous assistance and intervention projects across Quebec by awarding grants to support organizations. This has helped establish many support groups and enabled existing ones to pursue their activities. Since 2001, the Foundation has mostly dedicated these funds to associations that support the mentally ill, whose activities are related to its mission and to which it has already been contributing financially for several years.