Take Care Online
Our first Take Care column - Stress 101, The Basics - is now online. In this introductory column, author Kristin McKinnon looks at what stress is and how it acts as an 'early warning system' to let us know when we need to take better care of ourselves. McKinnon also offers basic strategies to take control when we begin to feel "stressed out" and shares links to online stress tests and related resources.
To be published on our website the 15th of each month, Take Care will cover a range of health and wellness topics including stress and burnout, depression, time management, information overload and the challenges of caregiving.
Take Care will also be featured monthly in Kawartha Lakes This Week. The column will be published on the second or third Friday of each month so be sure to watch out for us in your local newspaper paper. (You must read our online version, however, to access links and other extras.) A special thank you to Lois Tuffin, Editor-in-Chief and Marcus Tully, News Editor - both of Kawartha Lakes This Week - for helping to introduce our column to a wider audience in the community.
Community Living Kawartha Lakes is excited to be offering this valuable resource to our website readers. Equally as important as our role to support people with intellectual challenges is our mission to participate in the development of healthy, inclusive communities. We see featuring Take Care on our website as one way to reach out and 'take care' of our whole community.
If you'd like to be notified when the Community Living Kawartha Lakes website is updated - including the addition of new Take Care columns - please click here. We also welcome you to link our website so that you can share Take Care with your website visitors. Thank you to FriedSocialWorker.com, the first website to request a link to Take Care.
United Way Campaign is underway
United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes kicked off its 2007/2008 campaign on September 12th.
Each fall, United Way runs a fundraising campaign in support of its member agency programs. Upon completion of the campaign, the United Way's Directors decide how to distribute the funds raised among member agencies.
The mission of the United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes is to promote the organized capacity of people in the City of Kawartha Lakes to care for one another and to build a strong and healthy community for all. The role of United Way is to match the resources of the community (dollars raised in their fundraising campaign) to those areas of greatest need.
The United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes currently provides funding for 47 programs being delivered by 15 local non-profit agencies. The programs provided by these agencies collectively assist one in three local residents.
Community Living Kawartha Lakes is a member agency of the United Way and receives funding for the Family Connections Caregiver Registry.
Also supported by the United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes are:
- A Place Called Home
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Kawartha Lakes - Haliburton
- CITY OF KAWARTHA The Boys and Girls Club
- Canadian Mental Health Association, Kawartha Lakes Branch
- Canadian Red Cross
- Canadian National Institute for the Blind
- Community Care City of Kawartha Lakes
- John Howard Society of Kawartha Lakes & Haliburton
- Learning Disabilities Association
- LifeLine Telecare
- The Ontario Early Years Centre
- St. John Ambulance (Fenelon Falls & Lindsay)
- Victoria Country Career Services Inc.
- Women's Resources
Please help to support the United Way and its important work in the community. You can visit their website to make a donation or check out planned special events:
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Campaign Tee Off - Lindsay Golf & Country Club
Friday to Sunday, September 14-16, 2007
Rooftop Event - Canadian Tire (Lindsay)
Sunday, October 7, 2007
RMH - United Way walk - tentative event
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Crayola Sale - New Lindsay Fairgrounds (8:00am - 12:00pm)
Saturday, October 2, 2007
Race Through the Kawarthas - Big Brothers Big Sisters
Thursday, October 25, 2007
The Discovery Gala - Fleming College
Friday, October 26, 2007
RMH Creative Sewing & Needlework Bus Trip (Run by Sheryl Wallis, open to the public)
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Community Care Fashion Show
Friday, November 30, 2007
RMH Entrepreneur Day (Hosted by RMH employees, open to the public)
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
RMH Fudge-Off (Hosted by RMH employees, open to the public)
Wednesday, January 30, 2007
Dirty Dancing Bus Trip (Run by Sheryl Wallis - RMH, open to the public)
For more information / updates, call the United Way at (705) 878-5081 or click here.
Partnership receives Trillium funding
Job Quest, CMHA Kawartha Lakes and the Mental Health Program of Ross Memorial Hospital (RMH) are pleased to announce that they have received funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
The three partners applied for funding for the Consumer Initiated Economic Development Program, the goal of which is to support individuals with serious mental illness to prepare for and obtain employment. Individuals with serious mental illness have by far the highest rate of unemployment than any other group, disabled or not, at 75 to 89%. Despite these staggering figures, individuals with serious mental illness can work when they have specialized supports, such as those that would be provided through the Consumer Initiated Economic Development Program.
Job Quest, CMHA (Canadian Mental Health Association Kawartha Lakes) and the RMH Mental Health Program will use the funding to hire a Project Planning and Partnership Development Coordinator. The Coordinator's chief responsibility will be to move the initiative forward from conceptualization (where it stands now) to a concrete, community-supported and sustainable program model.
The Coordinator's role will focus on:
- Building community, business and employer partnerships to support the Consumer Initiated Economic Development Program, with an emphasis on buy-in and allocation of concrete resources.
- Developing detailed implementation, evaluation & sustainability plans for the program.
- Exploring and accessing revenue sources to support the program.
Also supporting this initiative are Adult Protective Services (APS), Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT), Northern Lights Vocational Services and Survivors Psychiatric Advocacy Network (SPAN).
Job Quest is a division of Community Living Kawartha Lakes. Job Quest gives people who have one or more disabilities or impairments the power to enter the workforce and access the supports that they need to succeed in employment. We also provide services to employers around both supporting individuals from Job Quest and with a focus of improving the overall workplace environment for all employees.
