{"id":657320,"date":"2026-05-09T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/657320\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:59:10","slug":"medicine-hat-family-service-emphasizes-importance-of-accessible-counselling-and-community-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/657320\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine Hat Family Service emphasizes importance of accessible counselling and community support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/93ec5f47-26b6-41ae-a720-00f88971844e-scaled.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: Microgen\/Dreamstime.com)<\/p>\n<p>By Jett Schwaier<\/p>\n<p>Mental Health Week<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 8, 2026 | 7:01 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Medicine Hat Family Service said improving access to affordable counselling and encouraging open conversations about mental health remain key priorities as Canadian Mental Health Week comes to a close.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Feere, clinical supervisor with Medicine Hat Family Service, said the organization offers low-cost counselling, family-focused programs and community education initiatives aimed at helping people address challenges before they escalate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very much trying to be an upstream organization, trying to help people before they fall in the river,\u201d Feere said.<\/p>\n<p>Feere said trauma remains one of the main issues the organization works with, alongside depression, anxiety, grief and loss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: Microgen\/Dreamstime.com) By Jett Schwaier Mental Health Week May 8, 2026 | 7:01 PM Medicine Hat Family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-657320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}