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Green Werks: check out the information on our news page where we are highlighting Green Werks from Team Werks in Thunder Bay, an impressive triple-benefits program for community members living with mental health challenges.
Green Werks, Developing agriculture, food prep and life skills and producing nutritious food for the community.
Co-operative Orientation: see the CareForce presentation on how new members and employees become familiar with the co-op identity and how this impacts their work and ability to provide outstanding service and care to their clients. The contact is Joel Stoddart at joel@careforce.ca or 902.365.3155.
Hans Kai: find out how to take this great program to your community to encourage individual empowerment for wellness in a peer supported context. Participate in the Feb 6th conference call. To find out more check out the Hans Kai pages and contact Michelle Kirkbride mkirkbride@norwestcoop.ca at Nor’West.
Dates:
February 22, Co-op Day in Victoria, BC hosted by the Victoria Community Health Co-op.
June 16 – 19 the first Congress of Co-ops and Mutual Canada, the newly formed national, cross-country, bilingual organization, in friendly Moncton, New Brunswick. The HCCFC membership in the Canadian Co-op Association is automatically transferred to the new CMC.
October 4 – 11, the Global Co-op Summit, the AGM of the International Health Co-op Organization and the AGM of our Health Care Co-op Federation, all in beautiful Québec City.
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