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News3 March 2021
By Mike Baker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Canadian Mental Health Association of Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge has launched a new program to provide additional community supports for transgender and gender-diverse individuals.
Unveiled on Monday [March 1], the Trans Peer Outreach program will assist transgender and gender-diverse people in improving their quality of life through the provision of “community-based, client-centred care that supports positive interdependence.” Services will be delivered exclusively by individuals who have lived experience as a transgender or gender-diverse person.
The new initiative replaces the local CMHA branch’s Gender Journeys program, which ended on Feb. 26 following a three-year run.
News27 January 2021
By Mike Baker
Since April of last year, the Canadian Mental Health Association of Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge has offered support to 160 individuals from across Haliburton County.
Unsurprisingly, the organization has seen a “slight uptick” in the demand for services since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, but more concerning for Jack Veitch, manager of community engagement and education with the local CMHA branch, is the severity of many of those cases.
“We have supported quite a number of people – for Haliburton, I would say 160 people is a pretty strong number,” Veitch told the Echo. “We’ve seen a slight uptick in volume, and we’re seeing that both for our general service, and also our crisis service. I think what’s most important to note, however, is that it’s not even that the general volume is increasing, it’s that the volume of intensity of need is increasing too. Even if it’s not necessarily a huge spike in th
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News27 January 2021
By Mike Baker
Since April of last year, the Canadian Mental Health Association of Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge has offered support to 160 individuals from across Haliburton County.
Unsurprisingly, the organization has seen a “slight uptick” in the demand for services since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, but more concerning for Jack Veitch, manager of community engagement and education with the local CMHA branch, is the severity of many of those cases.
“We have supported quite a number of people – for Haliburton, I would say 160 people is a pretty strong number,” Veitch told the