A community forum held in Brockville on July 25 brought together organizations working to support people struggling with mental illness, substance use and issues such as homelessness. The forum, which included a number of booths, was organized by Rideau Community Health Services, in partnership with the Brockville Police Service. A handful of crosses were planted in the grass to honour the lives of local residents lost to mental illness or substance use. RN Andrea Keller’s son Tyler died from overdose in March 2017. He was 26. “There are services around, but if you talk to (people representing them at the forum), every single one of them, they’ll tell you we need more,” Keller said. Amber Gilmour, a community health RN who works at Rideau, said they didn’t have enough crosses to mark all of the lives lost. “There’s a lot of shame and stigma,” she said. “People don’t always get the chance to be remembered.” (Brockville Recorder & Times, July 26)