223 episodes
People First Radio Vancouver Island Mental Health Society
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- Health & Fitness
People First Radio is a weekly one-hour radio broadcast to educate and raise awareness about issues related to health and wellness — with a particular emphasis on topics related to mental illness and mental health, homelessness and housing, and addiction, harm reduction and recovery.
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Qualicum Beach artist Amarii shares his journey to signing with Kolossal Records
Singing and songwriting have helped Parksville-Qualicum’s Amarii express things he’s struggled to talk about. Now, they’ve also helped him sign with a new label, Kolossal Records. Amarii says he remembers falling in love with music sitting in front of the television watching Much Music Videos at age 12, but that he only started making music […]
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Stepping back up after a traumatic injury in the line of duty: Laurie White’s story
Ten months after being shot in the line of duty and having her leg amputated in 1998, Laurie White was able to return to full unrestricted duties with the RCMP. When she was first asked to share her story, White says she wasn’t sure what people would want to know, but she quickly realized the […]
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The emotional impacts of harm reduction work
Gillian Kolla has been looking into the impact the drug toxicity crisis is having on people working to respond to overdose. “While people really, really find doing harm reduction work and doing service provision for people who use drugs to be valuable and rewarding work, it has been emotionally devastating as the drug toxicity crisis […]
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8 years of a public health emergency in B.C.
Eight years after British Columbia declared a public health emergency due to a significant increase in drug-related overdoses and deaths, Moms Stop The Harm co-founder Leslie McBain wants people to continue to remember the human impact of the situation. “The deaths are piling up and they are people, they’re not just a number,” she said. […]
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Talking school social media lawsuits
A group of Ontario school boards have filed a lawsuit against the operators of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tik Tok. The boards claim that social media products, which they say are designed for compulsive use, have impacted the way children think, behave, and learn. They say that they are bearing the brunt of what they […]
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Turning medical records into poetry
When Nisha Patel went through her medical records, including psychiatric records from visits to hospital and her university health clinic, the feeling spurred her to make art. “It really started this this anger within me,” she said. “These were all very personal experiences for me. But for the system, they were just yet another form […]