SHARE Canada is a social innovation aiming to promote self-care, educate about self-harm & provide support for anyone affected by self harm, including friends & family. Self Harm Anonymous Recovery & Education Canada was inspired by the Facebook group S.H.A.R.E (www.facebook.com/groups/Elite.S.H.A.R.E/) originally created by a young woman, Beth Davis, with the support of her many friends. looking
for support and guidance during their recovery and has helped many since it's creation in early 2012. Being a great beneficiary of S.H.A.R.E, I still strove to find and offer support in my local community in a physical face-to-face setting. After much research, I was disappointed to find that there are plenty of physical support groups such as (AA, NA, OA, SAA, Gam-Anon, CoDA etc.) but nowhere could I find even one such support group for self-harm in Canada, let alone Vancouver. Let down by this discovery, I only imagined how many others encountered the same disappointment, and I decided to take action. Therefore, with the encouragement of S.H.A.R.E, SHARE Canada was founded. We started the first physical SHARE group here in Vancouver as our first project.
