An inspiring story of recovery, presented by this year’s Courage to Come Back Award recipient in the Mental Health category, Tina Tomashiro.

Tina will talk about her incredible journey through serious mental illness, from self-medication with street drugs to dull the pain of living with untreated schizophrenia and depression, to making a new life for herself with a home, a fulfilling career, and volunteer work to help the people in her community.

Where: Lions Gate Hospital Auditorium
When: Wednesday, September 30 at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, call the the Family Support Centre at 604-926-0856 or go to http://www.northshoreschizophrenia.org/lecture.htm.