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Jun
25
Sun
Ride Don’t Hide is a family-friendly community bike ride hosted by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), with the goal to raise awareness and help break the stigma surrounding mental health, all while raising essential funds to support mental health programs.
The community event is a ride, not a race, with routes designed for riders of all ages and abilities—from novice rider to advanced cyclist. Kids under 12 ride free!
This event is hosted by CMHA Niagara.
Jun 25 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Join the Red Roof Retreat for the 8th Annual Family Croquet Day Tournament.
There will be prizes, live entertainment, and family fun! Registration fee includes drink ticket and picnic lunch.
Register online or RSVP to Karen (see contact information above) to pay at the gate.
This event is hosted by Red Roof Retreat.
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Belonging, Volunteering, Giving and Leadership
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For-Social-Profit Fundraising
Jun
27
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Jun 27 @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Shared Learning Local Hub sessions are being held in 5 areas across Niagara for front-line community service and outreach workers to:
- Connect for shared learning;
- Share ideas and best practice information to enable client success; and
- Strengthen relationships concerning clients’ access to services and benefits.
This session will be hosted by Sherry Cain, Executive Director of Rose Cottage Visiting Volunteers.
Host presentation: Community Hospice, upcoming training courses and community partnerships.
There will be roundtable updates, networking, and sharing of materials and resources.
To be part of this session, contact Faith Lowe at flowe@employmenthelp.org.
Join YouthREX for this webinar as they explore how and in what ways the youth sector could potentially leverage technology to increase access to information and resources, while also creating space for connection between stakeholders.
Guest speakers Michael Furdyk (Co-Founder and Director of Technology at TakingITGlobal), Kathryn McLeod (Marketing and Innovation Lead at mindyourmind), and Jessica Valleu (Virtual Youth Outreach Worker at East Metro Youth Services in Toronto) will share how they leverage technology to work with youth.
This webinar is hosted by YouthREX.
Jun 27 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Niagara Region will be holding a series of public meetings to provide information and consult with residents about future development of the area surrounding four proposed GO Train stations.
In 2016, the Province confirmed daily GO Train service to three station locations: Grimsby, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls, with a fourth potential future station location in Beamsville (Town of Lincoln).
The Public Information Centres, set for dates in June, will provide an opportunity for residents to learn about the status of the Niagara GO Hub and Transit Stations Study initiated by Niagara Region in 2015. The study will determine appropriate land uses for each proposed site, including scale of development and improvements to infrastructure required to accommodate future growth within the station area.
The public meetings will all take place from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. with a presentation at 6:30 p.m.:
- Niagara Falls – June 15 – Niagara Falls Public Library (LaMarsh Room), 4848 Victoria Avenue
- St. Catharines – June 19 – Ridley College (2nd Century Building), 2 Ridley Road
- Grimsby – June 22 – Grimsby Town Hall (Council Chamber), 160 Livingston Avenue
- Beamsville – June 27 – Fleming Centre (Front Lobby), 5020 Serena Drive
For more information about the study and to provide input into the planning study via an online survey, visit www.niagararegion.ca.
This session is hosted by Niagara Region.
Jun
28
Wed
The third and final round of the Local Poverty Reduction Fund is open.
The Local Poverty Reduction Fund (the Fund) was announced in April 2015 and is now in its final year of awarding grants. The Fund is providing $50 million over six years to support innovative, local, community-driven solutions that measurably improve the lives of those most affected by poverty.
The fund’s focus on measuring success – and the evidence that will be shared as a result – will help support local efforts to prevent and reduce poverty and to build a body of evidence of what works.
This grant is administered by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
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Belonging, Volunteering, Giving and Leadership
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For-Social-Profit Funding Poverty
Research shows stigma and discrimination in healthcare to be a major barrier to access, quality care, treatment, and recovery. Join this webinar to learn about the problem of mental illness-related stigma in healthcare and evidence-informed solutions.
Since 2009, Opening Minds, the anti-stigma initiative of the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), has been conducting evaluation studies of anti-stigma programs targeting various healthcare provider audiences.
Join Dr. Stephanie Knaak, MHCC Research Associate, as she highlights key findings from this research, including healthcare providers’ main learning needs for stigma reduction, key ingredients for program effectiveness, successful programming models, and specific programs available for replication and sharing.
Also learn about the By Health For Health Collaborative, led in partnership with MHCC and HealthCareCAN and the Declaration of Commitment to Psychological Health and Safety in Healthcare.
This webinar is hosted by the Mental Health Commission of Canada.
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