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New funding for KFL&A Canadian Mental Health Association

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February 21, 2012

Photo: Canadian Mental Health Association receives Community Investment Grant

(Left to Right) City of Kingston Social Planning and Policy Manager Cheryl Hitchen and United Way volunteer Shelley Aylesworth-Spink present Canadian Mental Health Association Employment Support Worker Brad Flear with the $16,000 cheque.

The Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association was presented with a $16,000 cheque Feb. 11, courtesy of the United Way and the City of Kingston. The money will go to support the organization’s new Pre-Employment Support Program, which aims to improve the basic work skills and behaviours of clients with mental illness by focusing on aspects such as social integration, volunteer participation and job readiness. Ultimately, the program’s goal is to assist clients in achieving a good work/life balance, which is critical for those living with mental illness.

Source: Frontenac EMC

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United Way of KFL&A would like to acknowledge this traditional territory’s longer existence and its significance for the Indigenous people who lived and continue to live on Turtle Island.

We are situated on traditional Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat land. There are Métis and other non-status First People from many Indigenous Nations present in our community today. This acknowledgement symbolizes the United Way KFL&A’s first step, of many, along this path toward Indigenous reconciliation, in a respectful manner.

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