{"id":510908,"date":"2026-06-25T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510908\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:24:09","slug":"cmha-offering-free-counselling-services-to-merritt-residents-impacted-by-2021-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510908\/","title":{"rendered":"CMHA offering free counselling services to Merritt residents impacted by 2021 flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Flood waters in the City of Merritt on Nov. 15, 2021. (Image Credit: City of Merritt\/File photo)<\/p>\n

By Aaron Schulze<\/p>\n

Merritt Flood 2021<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tJun 25, 2026 | 11:17 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

MERRITT, B.C. \u2014 Merritt residents will be able to access counselling services to address their emotional impacts, nearly five years after the entire community was evacuated due to flooding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Kamloops branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA Kamloops) says people in the Merritt area will be able to get free counselling supports until Sept. 30, 2026.\u00a0It notes the service is funded by the Canadian Red Cross and offered through the Merritt Resiliency Project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All approximately 7,000 residents of Merritt were forced to evacuate on Nov. 15, 2021, as an atmospheric river brought heavy rain to the area. According to city estimates<\/a>, 300 millimetres of rain was recorded over a 48-hour period, leading to the largest water flows on record in the region as well as a 1,000-plus-year return period for the Coldwater River\u2019s peak. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2021 floods affected people in different ways, and emotional impacts can continue long after the immediate emergency has passed,\u201d a statement from CMHA Kamloops said. \u201cCounselling may help with anxiety or depression, stress related to displacement, recovery or rebuilding, relationship or family difficulties, or ongoing emotional impacts connected to the floods.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flood waters in the City of Merritt on Nov. 15, 2021. (Image Credit: City of Merritt\/File photo) By…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-510908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}