Yesterday, in a presentation on the Confederation Constructing, the Honourable Andrew Furey, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, awarded the St. John’s Standing of Girls Council’s Managed Alcohol Program with the Council of the Federation Award for Innovation in Psychological Well being and Addictions Care.
Caitlin Urquhart, Chair, Board of Administrators; Lisa Faye, Government Director of the St. John’s Standing of Girls Council and Girls’s Centre; and Rebecca Fleming, Managed Alcohol Program Coordinator have been in attendance and have been acknowledged for his or her onerous work and dedication in psychological well being and addictions programming and providers.
The Managed Alcohol Program is a pilot that started in 2021 and assists ladies and non-binary individuals who expertise dangers and harms associated to alcohol use. This system’s hurt discount strategy supplies contributors with a protected and secure provide of alcohol, together with social and well being care assist. The crew works with Jap Well being to evaluate participant eligibility, decide a protected dose of alcohol and supply ongoing reassessment and first well being care providers.
Premier Furey was joined at this presentation by the Honourable Tom Osborne, Minister of Well being and Group Companies, and the Honourable Pam Parsons, Minister Answerable for Girls and Gender Equality.
Introduced for modern initiatives that make constructive impacts in psychological well being and addictions care in every province and territory, the Council of the Federation Award for Innovation in Psychological Well being and Addictions Care acknowledges people and organizations excelling in these fields.
Every award recipient receives a certificates, signed by the Premier of their province or territory, in addition to a $5,000 prize to advance the awarded initiative and foster additional innovation.
The Council of the Federation contains all 13 provincial and territorial Premiers. It allows Premiers to work collaboratively, type nearer ties, foster constructive relationships amongst governments, and present management on necessary points that matter to Canadians.
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“Our authorities is dedicated to offering psychological well being and addictions assist to all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, and acknowledge the significance of applications like this one. We’re happy to have fun the necessary work of the St. John’s Standing of Girls’s Council and their Managed Alcohol Program with this significant award.”
Honourable Andrew Furey
Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
“It’s so necessary to see the gifted stakeholders get acknowledged for the necessary work they do in our communities. Their hurt discount strategy supplies contributors a protected and secure provide of alcohol, together with social and healthcare assist, which align with our province’s psychological well being and addictions applications and providers.”
Honourable Tom Osborne
Minister of Well being and Group Companies
“The St. John’s Standing of Girls works day-after-day to assist individuals in our communities who’re going through challenges. The work of our Managed Alcohol Program adjustments lives – it builds a group of assist with individuals who face challenges associated to their consuming. It takes away the judgement that individuals face and helps them construct the long run that they need for themselves, to succeed in their very own objectives. Receiving this award, seeing this recognition of our onerous work and innovation could be very a lot appreciated.”
Lisa Faye
Government Director, St. John’s Standing of Girls Council and Girls’s Centre
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2022 11 04
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