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8 Lakeshore Advance • Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Websiteprovldes one-stopshopping for mental health servlces for
chlldren
Susan Hunderbnark children of Huron and Perth Maitland District School
QMI Agency Counties is now available at Board office.
www.mentalhealth4kids.ca, it Avon Maitland Superin-
One-stop shopping for was announced at a launch tendert Mike Ash said the
mental health services for the last week at the Avon website was originally created
ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT THE
FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE IN HURON -BRUCE?
Prior to the last provincial election in 2007 our Provincial MPP Carol Mitchell made
promises and commitments to improve hospitals all across Huron -Bruce. These badly
needed upgrades were proposed as far back as 2003 when Carol Mitchell was first
elected.
Within days of this election, Carol Mitchell AGAIN promised improvements for hospitals
In Wingham, Southampton and Kincardine which doesn't go to tender until 2015.
She has not delivered in 8 years and yet she still she says, "Elect me and 1 will bring
badly need upgrades to hospitals."
rm.& air...
ON OCTOBER 6th
VOTE LISA THOMPSON
Lisa will:
Treat our physicians and front line health workers with respect, and
demand a safe environment for them to meet the needs of their patients.
Fight hard to ensure these hospital projects
are completed in a timely manner,
Fight for Rural Health Care
Make sure that your families get
• the quality health care they deserve.
Authorized by CFO Lisa Thompson C.mpsign
Lisa Thompson
519-523-9113
www. lisathompson4huronbruce.ca
Susan Hundsrtmark
Barbara Hagerty, of thehealthline.ca, Terri Sperling, CEO of the Huron -Perth Centre for Children
and Youth, Dan Parr, of the Huron -Perth Catholic District School Board and Mike Ash of the Avon
Maitland District School Board, pose with a new website called mentalheatth4kids that lists
mental health services for children in Huron and Perth Counties.
for mental health services for children in the
London area and service provider's in 1 luron
and Perth Counties learned about it last
year.
"We felt strongly that 1vt' needed to create
a one-stop shop for mental health. They had
the infrastructure in London -Middlesex and
we thought how difficult would it be to
expand it into !him -Perth," he said.
Terri Sparling, CEO of the Iluron- Perth
(:entre for Children and Youth, saki the web-
site would allow parents, children, educa-
tors and service providers to access local
resources "anytime, anywhere."
"Once l saw what it could do for us, 1 was
really excited," she said.
Dan Parr, Superintendent with the lluron-
Perth Catholic District School Board, saki all
of the agencies working; to support children's
mental health will benefit from the website.
"All of the agencies working together who
are listed on the website can serve young
people in crisis and this is a powerful tool to
do that,' he said,
tine website is a partnership of the Student
Support leadership initiative and
thehealthlhte.ca and includes information
about over 270 organizations, a rnt'nta1
health library and interactive online
resource's for kids, parents, educators and
service providers.
Barbara 1lagarty, Regional Community
Partnership Coordinator oftheheaithline.ca,
said she would he responsible for populat
ing the website with local information about
children's mental health.
She walked healthcare providers through
the website, pointing out the four colour-
coded criteria, including prevention, sup-
port, assessment and treatment and crisis,
demonstrating how information can he
found Of each available service and over
5,000 records relating to children's mental
health services, locally and provincially.
Site pointed out that in the interactive sec-
tion, children could access an online journal
that would allow them to express their
feelings,
"'this is such a high tech world we're living'
in and this can give kids a way to voice the
feelings. 'there is a tremendous amount or
information on this website," she said.
Courthouse aids Goderich
Nell Bowen
QMI Agency
Sarnia courthouse staff, lawyers, police
and probation officers raised $1,130 this past
weeks to aid Goderich courthouse staff
Impacted by the Aug. 20 tornado.
Winds reaching 200 kilometres per hour
blew out windows in the courthouse In the,
centre of town as a 500 -metre wide path of
destruction cut through the community.
A local lawyer visiting the town was told a
Criminal (:ode text from the courthouse wits
found two blocks away.
"We knew people from the courthouse
must have suffered some damage and we
wanted theta to know we were helping the
folks of Goderich," said fundraising organ-
izer 1)ave Willson.
Everyone at the l'otlt'thouse, including the
coffee shop owner, legal aid, land registry
and the Crown attorney's staff, made, gener-
ous contributions, Wilson said.
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