Seniors, Wellness and Social Development
May 14, 2015
Investing in Wellness for Residents
Community Groups Receive Over $540,000 for Wellness Programs
More than 80 non-profit organizations and community groups have received a total over of $540,000 as part of the Provincial Government's 2014-15 Health and Wellness Grants Program. The Honourable Clyde Jackman, Minister of Seniors, Wellness and Social Development, was at the Boys and Girls Club at Buckmaster's Circle in St. John's today, to make the announcement.
"Our government has taken a comprehensive approach to promoting and supporting overall wellness within our communities. We have developed and supported initiatives though a provincial wellness plan, a recreation and sport strategy, a healthy aging policy framework, public education campaigns, and more. We are also putting the infrastructure and programs in place, in our communities, to enable people to live healthy, more active lifestyles."
- Honourable Clyde Jackman, Minister of Seniors, Wellness and Social Development
The Health and Wellness Grants Program provides up to $10,000 to either fully fund a project or as a contribution towards the total cost of the project. Projects must support healthy living and wellness in such areas as healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco control, and injury prevention.
This year the Boys and Girls Clubs of St. John's received $10,000 to help run its Healthy Living Program for Children and Youth.
"On behalf of the Boys and Girls Clubs of St. John's, I would like to thank the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador for providing us with a health and wellness grant this year. It helps support our programs, which are designed to offer our community's children and youth with safe and supportive environments where they can experience new opportunities, overcome barriers, and build positive relationships and confidence that will help them throughout their lives."
- Jason Fleming, Club Manager, Boys and Girls Clubs St. John's
A complete list of this year's recipients is included in the backgrounder below.
Health promotion and wellness efforts in the province are guided by Achieving Health and Wellness: A Provincial Wellness Plan for Newfoundland and Labrador. For more information on this province's wellness plan and healthy living programs and services, visit: www.swsd.gov.nl.ca/healthyliving/
Quick Facts:
- More than 80 non-profit organizations and community groups have received a total over of $540,000 as part of the Provincial Government's 2014-15 Health and Wellness Grants Program.
- The Health and Wellness Grants Program provides up to $10,000 to either fully fund a project or as a contribution towards the total cost of the project.
- Projects must support health living and wellness in such areas as healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco control, and injury prevention.
- For more information on healthy living programs and services, visit: www.swsd.gov.nl.ca/healthyliving/.
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Media contacts:
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Heather May
Director of Communications Department of Seniors, Wellness and Social Development 709-729-0928, 697-5061 heathermay@gov.nl.ca |
Jason Fleming
Club Manager Boys and Girls Clubs of St. John's 709-579-0181, ext. 102 jfleming@bgcstjohns.ca |
BACKGROUNDER
Provincial Health and Wellness Grant Recipients (2014-15)
|
Applicant Name |
Town/City |
Project Description |
Approved |
|
Town Council of Middle Arm |
Middle Arm |
Healthy Living Program |
$7,200 |
|
Town of Lark Harbour |
Lark Harbour |
Physical Activity Program- Fitness Classes |
$8,750 |
|
Harbour Mille Seniors Group |
Harbour Mille |
Healthy Living Program for Seniors |
$5,000 |
|
New Harbour Youth and Recreation Committee |
New Harbour |
Healthy Living Program for Persons with Disabilities |
$4,100 |
|
Breakwater Youth Centre |
Musgrave Harbour |
Healthy Living Program for Children and Youth |
$7,500 |
|
Community Connections 2013 Inc. |
Knight's Cove |
Physical Activity Program - Run and Walk |
$5,000 |
|
Placentia West Development Association |
Boat Harbour |
Parent and Child Program |
$9,838 |
|
Local Service District of South East Bight |
South East Bight |
Healthy Living Program |
$6,000 |
|
Gateway Seniors 50+ Club |
Channel-Port aux Basques |
Healthy Living Program for Seniors |
$5,000 |
|
Flatrock Fifty Plus Fun Club |
Flatrock |
Healthy Living Program for Seniors |
$5,000 |
|
Town of Torbay |
Torbay |
Healthy Eating Program |
$5,000 |
|
North East Avalon Arena Regional Board Inc. (Jack Byrne Arena) |
Torbay |
Healthy Living Program |
$5,000 |
|
Town of Logy Bay - Middle Cove - Outer Cove |
Logy Bay |
Healthy Living Program for Seniors & New Mothers |
$5,000 |
|
Spaniard's Bay Recreation Commission |
Spaniard's Bay |
Healthy Living Program for Children |
$7,400 |
|
St. Patrick's Organic Community Garden |
Carbonear |
Community Garden Program |
$6,000 |
|
Sandwich Bay 50+ Club |
Cartwright |
Healthy Living Program for Seniors |
$8,500 |
|
Sunshine 50+ Club |
Forteau |
Healthy Living Program for Seniors |
$5,000 |
|
Tourism Bell Island Inc. |
Wabana |
Community Garden Program |
$8,000 |
|
Conception Bay Area Chamber of Commerce |
Conception Bay South |
Healthy Living Program in the Workplace |
$6,750 |
|
Beautification Committee - Town of Bishop's Falls |
Bishop's Falls |
Community Garden Program |
$5,000 |
|
Bay Bulls - Bauline Athletic Association |
Bay Bulls |
Healthy Living Program |
$6,500 |
|
Development Corporation, Petty Harbour Maddox Cove |
Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove |
Community Garden Program |
$6,500 |
|
Harbour Breton Recreation Commission |
Harbour Breton |
Physical Activity Program |
$8,460 |
|
Gander Boys and Girls Club |
Gander |
Tobacco Awareness Program |
$5,000 |
|
Airials Gymnastics |
Gander |
Physical Activity Program for Seniors |
$7,500 |
|
Broadening Horizons |
Gander |
Healthy Living Program for Persons with Disabilities |
$5,200 |
|
Lawn Recreation Committee |
Lawn |
Healthy Living Program |
$8,800 |
|
Main Street Youth Centre Inc. |
Grand Bank |
Healthy Eating Program for Youth |
$9,400 |
|
Grand Falls-Windsor Minor Baseball Association |
Grand Falls-Windsor |
Healthy Living Program for Youth |
$5,400 |
|
Town of Grand Falls - Windsor |
Grand Falls-Windsor |
Farmer's Market Promotion |
$7,000 |
|
Green Bay Community Youth Centre |
Springdale |
Healthy Living Program for Youth |
$5,520 |
|
Active Living for Older Adults |
Robert's Arm |
Healthy Living Program for Seniors |
$7,500 |
|
Triton Recreation Commission |
Triton |
Healthy Living Program |
$5,000 |
|
Town of Cupids |
Cupids |
Healthy Living Program |
$7,500 |
|
Holyrood Recreation Committee |
Holyrood |
Physical Activity Program - Exercise and Movement |
$4,000 |
|
Town of Brigus |
Brigus |
Healthy Living Program for Seniors & Children |
$5,000 |
|
Organization for Community Action - Family Outreach Resource Centre |
Corner Brook |
Family Fun Fair |
$4,000 |
|
Town of Steady Brook |
Steady Brook |
Healthy Living Program |
$5,680 |
|
Community Youth Network - Corner Brook and Bay of Islands, YWCA Site, Inc. |
Corner Brook |
Healthy Living Program for Youth |
$5,000 |
|
The Evening Breeze 50+ Club |
Jackson's Arm |
Healthy Living Program for Seniors |
$9,200 |
|
Town of Jackson's Arm |
Jackson's Arm |
Physical Activity Program |
$7,500 |
|
Deer Lake Recreation Committee |
Deer Lake |
Get Active Website Development |
$10,000 |
|
Meadows Recreation Committee |
Meadows |
Physical Activity Program for Youth - Ball Hockey |
$5,000 |
|
Canadian Ski Patrol (Humber Dorset and Terra Nova Zones) |
Corner Brook |
Ski Safety Program for Children |
$5,000 |
|
Adult Camp for the Blind - Canadian Council for the Blind |
Corner Brook |
Healthy Living Camp for Adults |
$5,000 |
|
Menihek Nordic Ski Club |
Labrador City |
Healthy Living Program |
$6,600 |
|
Trappers Running Club |
Happy Valley-Goose Bay |
Physical Activity Program - Running |
$9,974 |
|
Nunakatiget Inuit Community Corporation Inc. |
Happy Valley-Goose Bay |
Community Freezer Program |
$5,000 |
|
Labrador Friendship Centre |
Happy Valley-Goose Bay |
Physical Activity Program for Seniors - Aqua Fitness |
$5,000 |
|
SWAP (Seniors With A Purpose) 50+ Club |
Horwood |
Healthy Living Program for Seniors |
$5,000 |
|
Heart and Stroke Foundation NL |
Mount Pearl |
Healthy Drink Choices for Children |
$5,000 |
|
Parish of the Good Shepherd |
Mount Pearl |
Community Garden Program |
$8,000 |
|
Community Youth Network Placentia |
Placentia |
Healthy Living Program |
$9,515 |
|
St. Vincent's Lions Club |
St Vincent's |
Healthy Living Program |
$6,000 |
|
Sheaves Cove Recreation Committee |
Port au Port |
Healthy Living Program |
$5,000 |
|
Town of Cape St. George |
Cape St. George |
Lifeguard Training |
$10,000 |
|
Town of Lourdes |
Lourdes |
Physical Activity Program |
$3,000 |
|
Environmental Education Commission |
St. John's |
Healthy Living Camp for Youth |
$6,000 |
|
Association for New Canadians |
St. John's |
Healthy Living Program for Refugees and Immigrants |
$5,265 |
|
Community Advisory Committee, Port Saunders Area |
Port Saunders |
Healthy Eating Program |
$7,500 |
|
Town of Bird Cove |
Bird Cove |
Healthy Living Program |
$10,000 |
|
Bay St. George Status of Women Council |
Stephenville |
Healthy Living Program for Women |
$5,000 |
|
Community Garden Alliance Inc. |
St. John's |
Community Garden Program |
$7,500 |
|
Brighter Futures Coalition of St. John's and District |
St. John's |
Healthy Living Program for Parents & Children |
$6,500 |
|
Association Communautaire francophone de Saint-Jean (Francophone Association of St. John's) |
St John's |
Healthy Living Program for Francophone Youth |
$6,200 |
|
Rabbittown Community Centre |
St. John's |
Healthy Living Program for Adults and Seniors |
$6,500 |
|
Conservation Corps Newfoundland and Labrador Inc. |
St. John's |
Community Garden Program |
$8,000 |
|
Eating Disorder Foundation of NL, Inc. |
St. John's |
BodySense Program for Athletes |
$10,000 |
|
Boys and Girls Clubs of St. John's |
St. John's |
Healthy Living Program for Children & Youth |
$10,000 |
|
For the Love of Learning |
St. John's |
Healthy Eating Program for Youth at Risk |
$10,000 |
|
Eastport Recreation and Wellness (Town of Eastport) |
Eastport |
Physical Activity Program for Children - Mountain Biking |
$8,500 |
|
Dover and Area Community Family Coalition |
Dover |
Healthy Eating Program for Families |
$5,000 |
|
The Twillingate Guiding Movement |
Twillingate |
Healthy Living Camp for Girl Guides |
$4,500 |
|
Joe Batt's Arm Festival/Recreation Committee |
Joe Batt's Arm |
Healthy Living Program |
$5,000 |
|
Northern Peninsula Family Resource Centre |
St. Anthony |
Healthy Living Program for Children |
$7,000 |
|
Sandy Cove 50+ Club |
Sandy Cove |
Healthy Living Program |
$8,500 |
|
Town of Paradise |
Paradise |
Healthy Built Environment Initiative |
$7,500 |
|
Riverside Board of Management |
Salmon Cove |
Healthy Living Program for Seniors & Youth |
$4,000 |
|
English Harbour Recreation Committee |
Port Rexton |
Community Garden Program |
$5,000 |
|
Trinity Historical Society |
Trinity |
First Aid Training & Healthy Living Programs |
$9,940 |
|
Multicultural Women's Organization of NL |
St. John's |
Healthy Living Program for Elderly Immigrants |
$7,000 |
|
Independent Living Resource Centre |
St. John's |
Healthy Living Program for Persons with Disabilities |
$7,800 |
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