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...
Creating jobs for Islanders - If there’s one group that stands to gain from attracting more skilled people to Prince Edward Island, it’s the construction industry. The fast-growing sector has been enjoying the benefits of a booming housing market, together with active commercial...
More Prince Edward Island students than ever before participated in a nationwide young leaders program supported by the provincial government. SHAD – named for the Aurora, Ontario creek where the program began – is a summer enrichment program hosted by 16 different universities...
Growing up in a small rural community, it was being surrounded by strangers in a big city that made Penny Walsh McGuire yearn for home. The Savage Harbour native -- and her high school boyfriend -turned-husband Ryan McGuire– left for the U.S. in 2004, she with a diploma from...
Let’s face it – most people don’t want to talk about sexually transmitted infections. But now the Prince Edward Island government is offering non-judgemental, confidential sexual health clinics each month, alternating between Summerside and Charlottetown. The clinics are open...
Private nursing homes across Prince Edward Island will get up to 100 new beds over the next year that will further improve Islanders’ access to long-term care. The provincial government is requesting proposals until July 25 (available at www.princeedwardisland.ca/tenders) for the...
Students, parents, educators and community leaders gathered today in Rollo Bay to officially open the new École La-Belle-Cloche and Pavillon de l’Est. Located on the site of the former Rollo Bay school, the facility houses a provincial Early Years Centre, a K-12 school for up to...
Islanders taking action to help protect our environment through the Women’s Institute’s Roadside Cleanup on Saturday, May 12 will have more locations to access the designated cleanup bags this year. The Department of Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy will provide the free...
Strengthening mental health services - Island students will soon get more help to understand and improve their own mental health. More than 30 Island educators received master training this week in mental health literacy and how to deliver a new provincial mental health...
Creating jobs for Islanders - Island marine technology company Aspin Kemp and Associates sees great opportunities in the federal government’s approval today (February 15) of an Ocean Supercluster based in Atlantic Canada. The Ocean Supercluster is one of five Innovation...