Thanks to all of the staff and students we visited while touring throughout the Cariboo last week! We had nine fantastic shows and presented to over 2,000 students! Check out some of our photos in the gallery and email us with any comments or thoughts you might have! A special thanks to Correlieu Secondary in [...]

What a fantastic year the ReachOut Psychosis Program has had in 2007/2008! Thanks to all of the youth, teachers and administration who hosted this important presentation. Diminishing the negative stigma and increasing awareness and understanding surrounding Psychosis and Mental Illness is absolutely necessary in the education of today’s youth. Through the efforts of fantastic school and [...]

The ReachOut Psychosis Team wrapped up the 2007/2008 school year with a successful tour through the Kootenay region of BC. We visited 7 schools throughout the area and had a blast while we were there! Thanks to all of the teachers, students and administration at each of the schools we visited for their warm reception and [...]

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The ReachOut team just completed another great week in the Okanagan. We visited nine high schools in five days and had a great time at all! Thanks to all of the teachers and students who made us feel so welcome while there. We’ll definitely be back!

“Thanks to Tracy, Barbara and The Matinee Band. Our students and staff really enjoyed ReachOut’s upbeat approach to informing us about Psychosis. Who would have thought that talking about mental illness could be so fun!” - Vikki Dash - Cariboo Hill Secondary School, April, 2008

While on the Island, the ReachOut team was fortunate enough to visit beautiful Gold River where four schools came together for a presentation.

The ReachOut team is heading off for another tour to the Okanagan the week of April 14th-18th! With so much success during our December tour, we’ve been asked back…We’ll be making stops in Kamloops, Kelowna and Vernon. Check out our tour schedule to see which schools we’ll be visiting!!

Well..the ReachOut Psychosis team has arrived back home after a successful week long tour on Vancouver Island. We had a great time and reached over 2500 students! We visited 8 different schools and one Naked Bungy Jumping Fundraiser for the BC Schizophrenia Society!!
Thanks to all of those students who participated in the shows and congratulations to [...]

–Excerpts from The Brain Brief Vol. 5, No. 1 January 2008“Canadian Idol is for Sissies!”
First Canadian National Brain Bee Competition http://schools.ibro.info/Pub/Pub_Main_Display.asp?LC_Docs_ID=2832
 
The Brain Bee is a competition for high school students, grades 9 through 12. It is fashioned after a traditional Spelling Bee, except that students answer questions about the brain and neuroscience research.
 
The Brain Bee is [...]

Highlights from the Okanagan Tour: Reaching Out to a classroom where a student is recovering from psychosis

A successful show is always satisfying, however, at OSS, our time spent with some students in the Alternate classroom with teacher Ardie, after the show, was particularly rewarding. Our band’s bass player, Mike Young, discusses his experience with psychosis related to depression in high school during our show, and students always find his story fascinating. As we sat in a circle in the Alternate classroom, students asked Mike and me, (the show Coordinator & Emcee), various heartfelt and touching questions surrounding psychosis and its impact on one of their students.