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Mental-health line calling for assistance
More than 11,000 people have called the Seneca Warm Line operated by Sara Riel Inc. (Robert F. Bukaty / The Associated Press files)
A mental-health call line that has helped thousands of Manitobans get through the pandemic is in danger of closing unless new funding can be found.
A mental-health call line that has helped thousands of Manitobans get through the pandemic is in danger of closing unless new funding can be found.
Since March 17, 2020, more than 11,000 people have called the Seneca Warm Line operated 24 hours a day by Sara Riel Inc., an organization supported by the Catholic Health Association of Manitoba.
Course explores holistic needs of those in care February 14, 2021
Personally and professionally, Julie Turenne-Maynard sees daily the loneliness and isolation amongst an aging population living at home or in long-term care facilities across Canada.
“I’ve got a mother-in-law who is in a long-term care facility and for many months couldn’t really see anybody,” said Turenne-Maynard, executive director of the Catholic Health Association of Manitoba (CHAM). “You hear about a lot of the residents that are really suffering from broken heart syndrome because they just long for the ability to touch and to hold and to have conversations with more than just essential caregivers.”