Print Publications from SHRC
Looking for resource materials related to self-help and peer support strategies?
The following list includes publications that are available from SHRC in print format. We also maintain a reference library with issue-specific group development and facilitation manuals as well as more theoretical literature on self-help/mutual aid strategies.
To order these resources, you have several options. To order a free publication, just send us an email with your address or download it if it's available online. To send payment for a publication, please print out this order form, indicate your request and mail it with a cheque (or fax it and phone us with payment info). You can also order by phone with your credit card.
Free publications
Some of these are also available online (check out our Top 10 resource lists or
browse our online
resource database to download these documents and save us the cost
of postage!).
How to Start and Maintain
a Self-Help Group (6 page article)
Self-Help/Mutual Aid and Ethno-Cultural Communities (available
in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Hindi, Swahili and
Somali) (8 page booklet)
Shared
Leadership Workbook (9 pages)
Self-Help: Steps for Evaluating Your Group (8 pages)
Working
with Health Promotion's Informal Economy (4 pages)
SHRC Catalogue
of Workshops (11 page booklet)
Self-Help
Groups: Moving from Professional Leadership to Mutual Support originally pub. as OHPE Bulletin # 296 (5 pages)
Healthy Ways to
Prevent Stroke- A Guide for You
Healthy Ways
to Prevent Stroke In Your Community-Facilitators Guide
Self-Help Toolkit for Eating Disorders Groups (60 page booklet)
Factsheets:
-Confidentiality
in Self-Help Groups
-Families and
Self-Help/Mutual Aid
-Tips
on Finding the Right Group
-Integrating
Self-Help Strategies
-Self-Help
and Health Promotion
-Tips for
the Helping Professional
Publications for a fee
Mutual Aid and Self-Help Directory 2008
$30 for members, $35 self-help group and non-profits, $40 professionals
Our entire updated database of groups, cross referenced by name and topic, is now available in a handy reference format!
Place your order now and we will send you our new Directory - now available in a low-cost format with three-hole punched 8 1/2 x 11 paper.
If you pick up the Directory in person from our office, you get a free binder. Our office is located here
Making Self-Help/Mutual Aid Work: The Resource Kit
$25 SHRC members, $35 self-help groups and non-profits, $50 professionals and for-profit organizations
The Self-Help Tool-Kit is a compilation of the most relevant and best-ever literature on self-help.
Click here for the table of contents
How to Lead a Workshop on Starting a Self-Help/ Peer Support Group in Your Community -- $10
Everything you need to know about the basics of starting a self-help group.
Diversify the Source, Enhance the Force: Using Peer Support to Create Volunteer Opportunities for New Canadians -- $5.00
Confidentiality Resources Workbook -- $5
(first copy free to self-help/peer support groups only)
Confidentiality is the anchor of mutual support. The Ontario Self Help Network is launching a new resource to self-help/mutual aid groups build clarity and commitment about confidentiality agreements.
OSHNET’s Confidentiality
Resource Kit includes:
· An introductory Fact Sheet
· Planning Guides
to help you build clarity and commitment in your group
· Help Sheets for
difficult challenges you may face
· Group Activity Sheets to help you
talk about and practice tough situations
· Information about the Ontario
Self-Help Network program and services.
To order: (please do not send credit card information via email)
Phone: (416) 487-4355 (in Toronto)
1-888-283-8806 (in Ontario)
Fax or mail. (416) 487-0344.
Print out this general order form or directory ordering form and fax or mail it in.
Email: Send an email request to shrc@selfhelp.on.ca
Click here if you want to become a SHRC member and get a discount on your purchase.