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At-home help for end-of-life care
2017-10-31
Supporting Island families -
For Jeremy Measham, the Paramedics Providing Palliative Care at Home Program is an opportunity to help people through some of the hardest periods of their lives.
The program, launched by Health PEI in 2015, involves paramedics providing ongoing care - often during...
Better health and healing for teens with mental illness
2017-10-30
Strengthening mental health services -
The world can be a stressful and threatening place for many teens, and especially for those with mental health challenges.
Through Health PEI’s INSIGHT program, a group of trained and concerned professionals is offering these Prince Edward Island youth aged...
First responders better equipped to treat opioid overdoses
2017-10-27
Rod MacDonald says he is glad that Prince Edward Island’s first responders now have a valuable tool to help people who have overdosed on dangerous opioid drugs.
This fall, Island medical first responders, firefighters and police departments received kits containing naloxone – a medicine used to...
Harvest and Prosper offers experience ‘in the field’
2017-10-27
Creating jobs for Islanders -
When Lorne Valley Ranch developed a new crop - high-bush blueberries - co-owner Phil Jennings IV said the province's Harvest and Prosper program helped fill jobs they were having a hard time filling.
“We had done different things trying to find help, putting ads on...
Water utilities serve quality by the glass
2017-10-18
Investing in Infrastructure -
Water quality is both a complicated job and a sacred public trust for the members of the Atlantic Canada Water and Wastewater Association (ACWWA).
The ACWWA meeting this week in Charlottetown brings together 300 water experts from across the region. The Prince Edward...
She’s in the worker’s corner
2017-10-18
Creating jobs for Islanders -
Maureen Peters likes a challenge, and she gets plenty in her role as Prince Edward Island’s worker advisor.
She acts as a free legal service – funded by employers -- that helps injured workers and their families navigate the Worker’s Compensation Board (WCB)...
Family centred approach offers help for addictions
2017-10-17
Strengthening mental health services -
A family can feel trapped inside a cycle of anger and blame when one of their own suffers from addiction - but a new approach from Prince Edward Island's addiction services offers a way out.
Greg Purvis, addictions team lead at the Provincial Addiction...
‘New Leaf’ for chip plant means new products, markets
2017-10-13
Creating jobs for Islanders -
A former potato chip plant is creating new market opportunities and lucrative new crops for the farmers of Prince Edward Island.
Earlier this year, New Leaf Essentials East took over facilities in Slemon Park previously used by Small Fry and Humpty Dumpty to...
WorkPEI connects employers with the talent they need
2017-10-06
Creating jobs for Islanders -
When Road Trax -- a Kensington company that provides maintenance for the trucking industry – needed to fill a long-standing vacancy, staff turned to WorkPEI.
Road Trax had been advertising for four months to fill a mechanics position, with no success. But shortly...
Subsidy changes make big difference for Cornwall mom
2017-10-06
Supporting Island families -
Alyse Rossiter is a single mom with three kids under 6. Her life is busy with a full-time job and the everyday responsibilities of parenting. She is solely responsible for the financial needs of her family and, even though she works, money is tight.
However, Alyse...