Reports - Regional: Swift Current

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2006/07 Submitted by Jean-Claude Dumais, President

Once again the Swift Current Branch was very excited and pleased to have been chosen as Canada Safeway’s charity partner. This was a very successful partnership for the Branch in 2005-2006 resulting in more food for the breakfast and lunch programs and excellent opportunities for fundraising and public education. We look forward to our partnership again this year.

The Branch once again held the Christmas party for our clients and a Community Christmas supper for our clients and others who have no one to spend the holiday with. Approximately 25 clients attended the Christmas party and had a great time. There were about 60 people in attendance at the Community Christmas supper. Nancy Peters’ band provided the entertainment and there were gifts for everyone. This event was another great success.

In April the Branch had the opportunity to meet with our Mayor to declare the week of May 6th to 12th, 2007 Mental Health Week. A Mayor’s lunch was planned, however, the walkathon originally planned for this week was moved to September due to the number of other fundraising events being held in the same time period.

2006-2007 was a busy year for our Program Director, Nancy Peters. There were several
opportunities to provide advocacy for consumers and their families, as well as many opportunities for public education in the form of presentations, and community partnerships. Numerous funding requests and proposals were developed over the year. Nancy also had the opportunity to attend several conferences on topics such as charitable number laws and regulations, working with mandated and challenging clients, making our workplace healthy and the SAHO conference in Regina regarding interpretation of the collective agreement between SGEU and CMHA. These all proved very interesting and beneficial.

Swift Current Branch
Nancy Peters, Executive Director
170 - 4th Avenue NW
Swift Current, SK S9H 0T6
Phone 306 778-2440/773-0601, Fax 306 773-0766
e-mail sccmha@shaw.ca