Why Get Involved
The National Mental Health Inclusion Network (NMHIN) ensures that the voices of those with mental health or disability issues are not fragmented by province, region, city and/or diagnosis, but are heard as a unified voice across the country, on decisions that affect us.
NMHIN is the only national non-diagnosis-specific group for people with lived experience of mental health issues.
Help ensure that we all have a national voice, by becoming a member.
We can't do it without you!
There are 3 kinds of membership:
• Voting Member with lived experience of mental health or disability issues
• Supporting Member without lived experience
• Partner Organization wanting to collaborate
Voting Member with lived experience
As a Voting Member with lived experience of mental health issues or disability, membership in NMHIN will enable you to:
- Support our ability to provide a unified voice across the country on decisions that affect you, as a person with mental health issues or disabilities.
- Have your voice heard by participating in Members-Only Surveys.
- Know the latest mental health and disability news by subscribing to NMHIN updates.
- Learn what others with lived experience think about mental health and disability issues.
- Tell us what issues or questions you’d like us to ask our members.
- Suggest blogs on mental health and disability issues to be published on our website.
- Vote on proposed Board Members at our Annual General Meeting, and the ability to apply for committees and the Board of Directors.
- Give your input on our strategic direction.
Invite your friends to join! Send them our website link: nmhin.ca
Supporting Member without lived experience
As a Supporting Member without lived experience, you will:
- Support the NMHIN’s ability to ensure the voices of people with mental health issues are heard on decisions that affect them.
- Be better able to understand what people with lived experience think about mental health issues.
- Express your views by participating in our surveys and the Members- Only Forum.
- Know the latest Mental Health news by subscribing to NMHIN updates.
- Understand perspectives on mental health from blogs our members like.
- Help ensure that our members’ views have more influence by increasing our membership ranks.
Annual Supportive Member donation for people that do not have lived experience of mental health issues is $39, to enable us to keep operating and representing our members’ views at a national level. Donations are discretionary and any amount is appreciated.
Partner Organization wanting to collaborate
As a Partner Organization, your donation to NMHIN will enable your organization to:
- Increase national awareness of your services in every region across Canada.
- Make it easier for our members to learn about your organization with a 30 word-description on our website as a “Helpful Place”. Our members, who have experienced mental health issues, will know who you are, what you do in the mental health arena, and be able to easily access your website.
- Gain additional coverage for your events by asking us to list them on our national site.
- Support our ability to provide a forum for discussion and a cross-country voice for those with mental health issues.
- Know the outcomes of our Members-Only Surveys on mental health issues.
- Suggest survey topics to ask our membership.
- Suggest Blogs on Mental Health to post on our website.
Any of the 3 Partnership levels will provide a link to your organization and a 30-word description of the work your organization does, on the National Mental Health Inclusion Network website. Partnership starts at $95, however you can reduce the amount by up to $45 if links and information about NMHIN are shown on your organization’s website.
For full details on how to enable people with mental health issues to easily learn about your organization with a 30-word description of your organization on the NMHIN national website click here.
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