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Community Inclusion

Get Set & Connect is a peer-driven program designed for people who have lived experience with a mental health concern and/or substance use issue. The program focuses on enhancing mental health and well-being through leisure and/or volunteer activities in the community.  The goals are to encourage community inclusion and building meaningful connections.  

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Are you a Get Set & Connect member?
​We'd love to hear from you! Here's our survey!
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Is Get Set & Connect for You?                                  

Looking to connect with others, make new friends, be more involved in your community
​and have support with your goals?

Criteria to Join Get Set & Connect

What Does the Program Offer?

  • Have a lived experience of a mental health and/or addiction concern 
  • Have community inclusion as a goal
  • Be 19 years of age or older
  • Be a resident of Vancouver
  • Have other professional mental health supports  
  • One to One Leisure and Volunteer Access Coaching
  • Connecting with others through peer led leisure activities in the community
  • Independent & Group Volunteer Exploration 
Next Volunteer Exploration Workshop

Participant Quotes about Get Set & Connect 

"It has made me feel more positive and more connected to others"
"A chance to do activities with other people who have the same interests as me and to make new friends"
“My coach is easy to reach when I have questions about certain activities. She also really listens to my concerns and appreciates my needs”
“It was easy to become comfortable with the participants in the group and I began to develop friendships”

Upcoming 2025 Orientations

Contact a GSC Coach! 
Email: [email protected]  

Telephone
​Marnie L. 
  • Office: 236-317-3312
  • Cell: 604-512-7294

Christine
  • Office: 236-317-3314
  • Cell: 778-991-3637

Marnie A. (New Coach Marnie)
  • Office: 236-317-3313
  • Cell: 778-387-9495

Talia
  • Cell: 778-387-5162​
If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 310-6789 or 988 for 24/7 support.
You can also call 911 or go to your nearest emergency department. 

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​​We at Get Set & Connect acknowledge that our program is based on unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.