Learn how important peer support is to one’s mental health, and how easy it is to create a peer support network. Listen to someone with lived experience who took the “lemons” of depression and turned them into a “lemonade” to help others.
Presenter:
Jason Balgopal | Founder, Mental Wellness Support Groups
Jason Balgopal has been a lawyer since 1999 and has practiced exclusively in criminal law since 2003. Since 2004, he has been an assistant crown attorney with the Ministry of the Attorney General. In 2015, he started the Mental Wellness Peer Support Groups. He is an active member of the Scarborough HSJCC.
Presented by the Provincial Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee on November 5, 2025.