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Student Well-being Guiding Principles
Student well-being teams focus on wellness and timely access to services for children, youth and their families, based on the following principles: 1. Student-centred Every aspect of the program has the student and family at the center. Teams strive to build on the strengths of...
Addressing food security with fermented food
With the early arrival of winter, gardening is a faded memory for most Islanders. The tradition of pickling the harvest is a resourceful way to keep fruits and vegetable into the colder months. A lesser-known preserving method is fermentation and it's gaining attention thanks to...
Report sets course for Island children’s future
Prince Edward Island’s first-ever children’s report examines the health and well-being of Island children. Released today (March 1) by the Chief Public Health Office, Children’s Report 2017: Investing in our Future is intended to serve as a source of information, a tool for...
Suicide Prevention Action Plan
Together, the Province of Prince Edward Island and the Canadian Mental Health Association - PEI Division have developed a Provincial Suicide Prevention Action Plan. The focus of the action plan is to build HOPE for individuals and for communities and to challenge factors that...
Community Services and Seniors 2014-2015 Annual Report
2014-2015 Annual Report for the Department of Community Services and Seniors
Winner of palliative care award the 'real deal'
When he worked in the kitchen of the former Prince Edward Home on Brighton Road in Charlottetown, Joey Matheson was nervous to go into the palliative care unit. Two decades later, he has been awarded the province’s highest honour for excellence in palliative care. “I was...
Saving lives and reducing risk through proper antibiotic use
Antibiotics are one of medicine’s most powerful tools – when used properly. Sarah Lutes and Dr. Greg German are working to make sure these important drugs don’t lose their power to cure. Lutes, an antimicrobial pharmacist, and German, an MD and medical microbiologist, are hoping...
Islanders with vision loss get more help with drug costs
Vision loss is very personal to David Hilchey. His daughter lives with a syndrome that will - within this decade - limit her vision to what would be seen looking through a straw. After almost 10 years of volunteering for the national organization that supports Canadians living...