Mental Health During a Pandemic: Tips for Teens and Parents October 14, 2020 By Heidi FitzGerald, M.Sc., L. Psych.Clinical Coordinator, Integrated Service Delivery Western Charlotte Child and Youth Team. During the early stages of COVID-19, people had many questions focused on fear and were worried about becoming ill or a loved one contracting...
Lending Kitchen Essentials: Neqotkuk First Nation’s innovative approach October 9, 2020 By Katherine Houser, Horizon Community Developer for the Upper River Valley area from Nackawic to Beechwood. Food has the power to bring people together. Enjoying a nutritious meal with family and friends can leave you feeling good mentally, physically, emotionally...
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Charlotte County Collaborative Wellness Centre brings services closer to home October 2, 2020 Keeping people off the highways by bringing health care to the community is the basis for introducing a hub and spoke model of care through Horizon’s Charlotte County Collaborative Wellness Centre (CCCWC). Christine Deveau, Community Health Program manager in Western...
Living through COVID-19 – Virtual sessions offer hope, resiliency and support October 1, 2020 Staff at Horizon’s St. Joseph’s Community Health Centre (SJCHC), located in uptown Saint John, have embraced the adversity of living through a pandemic and responded by offering virtual, supportive, educational sessions through their Hope Series. “With creativity and compassion, we...
Minto promotes activity and creativity with paint a rock program September 25, 2020 A partnership between Horizon’s Queens North Community Health Centre (QNCHC) and the Minto Public Library has facilitated a paint a rock, plant a rock program that enriches whole-person literacy. The concept of paint a rock, plant a rock is simple: you paint...
Wellness Café keeps newcomers connected September 18, 2020 By Dominique Daigle, community developer in the Greater Saint John Area A lot of effort has been invested at all levels of government to attract more newcomers to our province – to help grow New Brunswick’s population and economy. According...
Community health centres provide access to sexual health services September 11, 2020 Self-referrals are how community health centres ensure people have access to sexual health services. Chad Daigle, manager of Horizon’s Hartland Health Centre (HHC), said people in the area may not be aware, but they can self-refer themselves to the nurse...