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PROJECT REPORTProgress Report on a Health Grant
PROJECT TITLE:
Partners in Personal Growth
NAME/ADDRESS OF GRANTEE:
Social Education Corporation
Sheila Downer
P.O. Box 53
West St. Modeste, NL
A0K 5S0
PROJECT AIMS AND/OR OBJECTIVES
(see item 24 of original application)
- Improve access to mental health and addiction services for the communities of
the Labrador Straits.
- Increase community awareness of mental health and addiction issues.
- Continue to support the self-help/support groups that have begun.
- Provide consistent, regular, professional counselling services to the
communities of the Labrador Straits.
- To offer training to the population.
Objectives
1. Implement the regional strategy that proposes the formation of a mental health team made up of the mental health nurse,
the social worker, the guidance counsellor and a liaison counsellor.
2. Set up regular meetings with the new mental health team to discern together
what is best for clients using the services.
3. Offer the Helping Skills course to youth and inquire about the possibility of
offering this course to adults of the region. If this requires further training,
acquire it and give the course to adults.
4. Continue to work with schools and addiction services to improve the youth
counselling and addictions counselling for the Labrador Straits.
5. Re-activate the Anti-Violence committee and participate in its activities.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF EACH OBJECTIVE
This trimester, the main focus was to organize the training for ROOTS OF EMPATHY, a program
for the four schools sponsored by the Anti-Violence Committee and funded by the RCMP. This
program is aimed at developing empathy in children in view of reducing aggressive
behaviour.
1. Training of 11 facilitators was organized and held in West St. Modeste. The
trainers came from Prince Edward Island and from Stephenville.
2. The program consists of three classroom visits per month, one per-visit, one visit with
a baby and his/her parents, and one post visit. Each visit is on a specific theme.
3. Schools in Forteau, L'Anse au Loup, West St. Modeste, Red Bay, Mary's Harbour,
Port Hope Simpson and Charlottown are participating.
The program is well underway.
4. The Mental Health team is Marjorie Moffatt, liaison counsellor, the social worker and
the guidance counsellor. We have lost our mental health nurse. Cooperation is making
services much more effective. Grenfell is advertising for a replacement and has
hired a behaviour management specialist for the Labrador Straits.
5. The anti-bullying program is reaching its goal: schools are developing their
policies and procedures for dealing with bullying. The school board has supported
some schools with funds for an anti-bullying project. The Community Youth Network
has partnered with activities as well.
6. Partners in Community, a project for the inclusion of those with disabilities has
been started and the Community Living Association has been reactivated.
This is a support and activity group for the families and friends of those with
disabilities. Activities of inclusion have been organized as well as a trip to
Corner Brook to see the inclusion project of the College of the North Atlantic.
7. One adult was prepared for detox and treatment. Counselling is provided until
there is a place in the treatment centre, and after treatment if requested.
8. This past trimester, 7 regular clients used the counselling services weekly.
5 are using the services on an irregular basis. Clients range from 8-55 years of age.
Since the project began, 96 clients have used the services.
9. Stretching exercises and mediation is being offered once a week, was well
attended at the beginning and is down to a very small group who are not
afraid of the interiority elicited by mediation.
When a mental health nurse is hired the mental health team will be complete and Partners in Personal Growth can
end as a project. It has fulfilled its mission which was initially for three years and has been extended to five years. Further funding has not been
requested from IGA or from any other source. I have offered my services to Grenfell as part-time, temporary until they find a mental health nurse for this area. The offer has been rejected. Grenfell has gradually taken on the responsibility of
providing mental health services in this region. So far, they are still looking for a mental health nurse. As was intended, I have worked myself out of a position and can peacefully move on to another ministry, volunteering until I close all my
files or safely carry on an acceptable referral.
WAS/WERE THERE ANY SHORTFALL/S TO MEETING PROJECT
OBJECTIVES? EXPLAIN.
A. Workshops and group participation was not very high except when offered as part of a school program. Support
groups for families who are affected by alcohol are no longer meeting. There is so much invasion of privacy in these small communities, voluntary and involuntary. This leads to the attitude that a support group or even counselling would be another invasion of one's privacy.
When workshops are advertised only, workshop attendance is poor. When people organize themselves for a workshop,
there is better attendance.
B. Families participating in the Community Living Association are disillusioned with the association
in knowing that this association caused the stoppage of the special needs program in the campuses
of the College of the North Atlantic. This program is replaced by an inclusion program that has limited capacity, leaving our families to work
hard at finding training and employment for their member with a disability.
Most families involved have parents who are working on town projects until January. This has affected
the ability to meet until then. Many are interested in starting Special Olympics in the new year.
D. After working so hard to get a mental health nurse for our area, that post is vacant again. This leaves a big gap, at the clinic, in the Anti-Violence team
and in the mental health team.
E. The new guidance counsellor has no time for clinical work. She is bogged down with crises and with
testing a long waiting list of students.
F. Addictions work remains a great challenge due to many factors, one of which
is the entrenched denial around alcoholism and around its effects on the family. I hear many people speak of others with the problem,
and even about themselves, but very few come for support.
PLEASE
PROVIDE THE BUDGET FROM PROJECTS ORIGINAL APPLICATION, AS WELL AS
ACTUAL EXPENDITURE(S) FOR EACH ITEM.
| ORIGINAL BUDGET |
|
ACTUAL |
| Salary |
45,492.52 | 11805.28 |
| Merc |
4400.00 | 3910.62 |
| Rent |
4800.00 | 2100.00 |
| Administration |
1200.00 | 0.00 |
| Publicity |
0.00 | 218.50 |
| Office Supplies |
1500.00 | 770.80 |
| Travel |
3500.00 | 985.32 |
| Educational Material |
2000.00 | 0.00 |
| Telephone/fax/postage |
2500.00 | 976.10 |
| Professional Development |
800.00 | 0.00 |
| Bank Charges |
113.20 | 61.45 |
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED INCLUDES A BILL OF SALE FOR ITEMS PURCHASED IN EXCESS OF $
999.00.
I am working three days a week as of November 1. This should reduce expenditures for salary. To supplement
my salary, I am working part-time for Warren Shepell Consultants, doing the Employee Assistance Program for
the hospital in Lourdes de Blanc Sablon. The town will be requested to let the project use the office rent free, until June.
IF PROJECT BUDGET WAS INCLUSIVE OF A SALARY
OF $ 10000 OR MORE, PLEASE PROVIDE:
A)NAME(S) OF EMPLOYEE(S)
Marjorie Moffatt
B) ACTUAL DATES OF EMPLOYMENT FOR EACH EMPLOYEE:
July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004
WHAT WAS THE AMOUNT OF THE GRANT
RECEIVED FROM I.G.A?
$ 20000.00
WHAT WAS THE TOTAL
AMOUNT SPENT?
$ 20828.07
THE REMAINDER, IF ANY, IS
DUE TO I.G.A.
IF ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS FOR FUNDS
WERE MADE:
| LIST APPLICATIONS |
AMOUNT(S) RECEIVED |
| Conrad Hilton Fund for Sisters |
USD 10000 |
WHAT HAS/HAVE BEEN THE IMPACT(S) OF YOUR PROJECT
The impact of the counselling services has been at many levels:
1. At the level of Grenfell:
Most significant step: The hiring of a full-time guidance counsellor residing in Southern Labrador. She is providing
an excellent service especially to students at risk.
The hiring of a behaviour management specialist for the Labrador Straits, part time.
There are still incidences of Grenfell employees making referrals for a person to continue counselling with Sister Margorie.
In case of addictions counselling and referral to detox and treatment, I work closely with the addictions counsellor and psychiatrist in St. Anthony. The addictions
counsellor/educator comes to the Labrador Straits on request from the mental health nurse or myself. She did not do her usual visit
to the region this fall due to absence of the mental health nurse.
The mental health team has been established and is effective in many ways.
Grenfell has hired a behaviour management specialist who is much needed here and has
advertised and is interviewing for a replacement mental health nurse.
2. At the level of the school board:
The new guidance counsellor is working hard and is an active member of the
Anti-Violence team.
The schools have been very welcoming of any workshops I have been offering
about anti-bullying. All four schools in our area are welcoming the ROOTS OF EMPATHY
program which is ongoing in the grades 4-6 classrooms.
School principals have used the counselling services for children whom they see as at
risk. This is continuing since the guidance counsellor does not have time for
clinical work. I have participated on invitation, to the ISSP's concerning child
clients whom I have been supporting after trauma in their lives.
3. At the level of youth:
During times of crisis, death of a youth, I am present at the youth centre impacted
and work with the members of the mental health team to provide debriefing and grief
workshops.
I continue to be a resource person for training of the staff of the Community Youth Network
youth centres. I also help them with their policies and procedures and their manual.
4. At the level of the general population:
People are asking for services more readily, referring each other to the services. There
is much talk and questioning about the service and the workshops offered. Counselling
seems more "normal" for people here. People who have used the services on a regular
basis have grown in maturity, vitality and general sense of well-being. They have
gotten better.
Many more people are taking care of their mental and physical health.
All the communities are aware of the Roots of Empathy in their school and its purpose.
The Anti-Violence committee has had high profile in the local newspaper with its
activities. In time of crisis, the communities expect and appreciate the services
offered by the project. Exercises and mediation for physical and mental health are
offered and a small group attends.
IF APPLICABLE,
PLEASE ATTACH CATALOGUES, PUBLICATIONS, ETC. ARISING FROM THIS
GRANT. HIGHLIGHT I.G.A. AS A FUNDING
SOURCE.
SIGNATURE: Margorie Moffat
TITLE
IN RELATION TO GRANT:
Counsellor, Employee
DATE:
December 12, 2003
NOTES:
An audit may be required, subject to Grant Expenditure
Responsibility Agreement.
Raw data of research projects, if applicable, should be kept for
a 10 year period.
Site visits may be undertaken to evaluate
project.
APPENDIX
Cash Flow Report
01/06/03 Through 09/12/03
| Category Description |
01/06/03-
09/12/03
|
INFLOWS
|
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| Contract Serv |
4727.68 |
| Grant Received |
33434.50 |
| Reimb. Office |
181.14 |
| Reimb. Travel |
847.86 |
| Tax Reimb. |
73.67 |
| TOTAL INFLOWS |
39264.85 |
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| OUTFLOWS |
|
|
|
| Advertising |
218.50 |
| Bank Charge |
61.45 |
| Merc |
3910.62 |
| Office |
770.80 |
| Rent |
2100.00 |
| Salary,Wages |
11805.28 |
| Telephone |
976.10 |
| Travel,Bus |
985.32 |
| TOTAL OUTFLOWS |
20828.07 |
| OVERALL TOTAL |
18436.78 |
Article for The Northern Pen:
ROOTS OF EMPATHY TRAINING FOR LABRADOR SOUTH AND THE STRAITS
Eleven people were trained to be instructors/ facilitators for the Roots of empathy program the weekend of
October 3-5 in West St. Modeste. The trainers were Brenda MacDonald from P.E.I. and Mary Gaultois of Stephenville.
The program is for elementary school children with the goal of reducing aggression
and fostering the development of empathy and peaceful relationships. The certified instructors visit the classroom
over the school year with a neighborhood infant and his or her parents in order to build on children's social and emotional learning.
Roots of Empathy is noted for its contribution to improving the social behavior of children,
and their emotional health. The impact it has on reducing aggression, particularly the type of aggression
related to bullying is also noted since its beginnings three years ago.
As an anti-bullying program, child abuse prevention program, crime prevention program, Roots of Empathy is sponsored by the Labrador Straits
Violence Prevention Committee with funding from the R.C.M.P. As a social/ emotional competency program, and emotional literacy program, a
character building program, a human development program, a substance-abuse prevention
program, the coordination of the Roots of Empathy is sponsored by the Labrador Straits Social Education Committee with funding from the
International Grenfell Association.
Marjorie Moffatt, member of the Labrador Straits Violence Prevention Committee and coordinator of the program.
Photo: Class of instructors / facilitators in training.
Brenda MacDonald, trainer, demonstrating the meet
the baby visit with Ryan and Janice Bolger, mother.
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PROJECT REPORTS
Community Grant Reports:
- Cook's Harbour Recreation Committee
- Partners in Personal Growth
Education Grant Reports:
- Environmental Immersion Camps
- Building School Literacy Collections
Health Grant Reports:
- Dental Equipment
- Rainbow Summer Camp
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