canadian mental health association

Regional Mental Health Care London London, Ontario, Canada N6A 4H1 Curves 166 Inkerman St. W Listowel, ON N4W 1B8 Canadian Mental Health Association 648 Huron St London, ON, N5Y 4J8 J Locking 685 Inkerman St E Listowel, ON N4W 2N9

I am doing a project to raise awareness in school for the Canadian mental health association i need information on suicide.....ways people have done it, news articles, family words after a suicide....stuff like that. How it affects people in general. ways to predict suicide tendincies in a person, ways to help, this is for a highschool.....Seriously

I am doing a reserch paper on Alien Abductions. I am comparing this with Post Traumatic-Stress Disorder. I am using books with cases and testimonials and one website; The Canadian Mental Health Association. If I make multiple quotes from one source, how do I do it? Do I put the number after the last quote, or after every quote? Or should I just put one quote per source since I'm looking at cases? Please show me an example or a link to a website that has one? Thanks :)

"Canadian attitudes toward mental illness are a cause for concern, the Canadian Medical Association said Monday in releasing its annual report card on health care. The group's eighth annual report surveyed Canadians to measure attitudes and experiences with the health-care system. "This year’s report card shines a harsh, and frankly unflattering, light on the attitudes we Canadians have concerning mental health," said the group's president, Dr. Brian Day, in a release. "In some ways, mental illness is the final frontier of socially-acceptable discrimination." The survey found: - Almost half of Canadians, 46 per cent, think people use the term mental illness as an excuse for bad behaviour. - One in four Canadians are fearful of being around those who suffer from serious mental illness. - Half of Canadians would tell friends or coworkers that they have a family member with a mental illness, compared to 72 per cent for a diagnosis of cancer or 68 per cent for diabetes. - Most Canadians, 61 per cent, would be unlikely to go to a family doctor with a mental illness, and 58 per cent would shy away from hiring a lawyer, child-care worker or financial adviser with the illness." http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/08/15/mental-health.html

It wasn't a sexual assault -- it was sleep sex. In an unusual case in a Scarborough, Ontario, courtroom, Jan Luedecke was acquitted of sexual assault after a judge ruled he was asleep during the attack -- a disorder known as "sexsomnia." "This is indeed a rare case ... His conduct was not voluntary," said Justice Russell Otter, as Luedecke's victim shook, sobbed and then left the courtroom. The judgment has outraged women's groups. "This is infuriating. It's another case of the courts not taking a woman seriously, adding yet another list to the list of excuses which men use for sexual assault," said Suzanne Jay, of the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centers. Luedecke, a 33-year-old landscaper, met his victim at a party on July 6, 2003. Both had been drinking. The woman, who can't be named, had fallen asleep on a couch. She woke up to find him having sex with her. She pushed him off, then reported the rape to police. She didn't know Luedecke before that night. Luedecke claimed he fell asleep on the same couch and woke up when he was thrown to the floor. He only suspected he had had sex after using the bathroom and discovering he was still wearing a condom, court heard. He confessed to police. During his trial, sleep expert Dr. Colin Shapiro testified Luedecke had parasomnia -- a disorder with symptoms such as sleepwalking. Shapiro testified Luedecke suffered from sexsomnia, which is sexual behavior during sleep. BROUGHT ON BY ALCOHOL It was brought on, he said, by alcohol, sleep deprivation and genetics. Luedecke previously had sleep sex with four girlfriends, court heard. Yesterday's decision comes after a hearing on whether Luedecke had a mental disease. Had he been found not criminally responsible, he would have had his case reviewed by a mental health board. That could have meant restrictions on his freedom, said University of Toronto law professor Hamish Stewart. But his disorder doesn't mean he has a mental disease, Otter ruled. That means he faces no sentence. News of the success of the sexsomnia defense may give rapists ideas, Stewart said. "We may hear more forms of this defense from accused persons," he said, adding he has never previously heard of such a case. Luedecke has cut down on his drinking and is taking pills to stop a repeat of his crime So what say you, you Yahooligans, you? Rape? or Not Rape? --Ray