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DC MOVES FORUM June 24th
DC MOVES Forum - June 24, 2020
details to be posted to the Website soon.
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To all front line responders: Our community cares about you!

During this difficult time, we recognize your courage, sacrifice, and the many challenges that you or your family may be facing. We want you to know that we care and truly recognize the demands that you are, and have been, facing.

The agencies forming the Hills of Headwaters Collaborative—CMHA Peel Dufferin, DCAFS, Dufferin Area Family Health Team, Family Transition Place, SHIP and Hospice Dufferin— have joined together to provide mental health ...therapists/counsellors; representing our Dufferin community, for you. We would like to help—even in a small way. If you need emotional support, encouragement, or just someone to talk to about your well-being or your concerns—we are here for you.

Please visit https://dcafs.on.ca/ and click the green 'Book Appointment’ button and follow the prompts. A trained mental health professional will call you at the number you provide. This is a confidential service available to health care workers and support staff (including kitchen, admin, cleaning, and other staff) in hospitals, long-term rare, retirement homes, group homes, and shelters.

You matter, and your well-being matters! Please reach out.
Dufferin Food Share has a new delivery service.
Check the WEBSITE for the fillable form.
Check out the Food Share video


Dufferin County Equity Collaborative
DCEC
Find out what the DCEC accomplished in 2019
With the on-set of the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to collect further data from businesses to determine how COVID-19 had changed their workforce. 49 manufacturing employers gave us an update and those results are also included in this presentation.
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Resource Sharing
These Organisations have something they need to
GET
Sample taken from the June 24th Forum Resource Sharing exercise - watch WOTMs for more information in the July 17th issue.
These Organisations have something to GIVE
To respond to the COVID-19 emergency, the Children’s Foundation in partnership with other local organizations, has created a temporary emergency support initiative called Fresh Food for Kids https://www.childrensfoundation.org/ways-to-help/fresh-food-for-kids which has provided nutritious food to local children and youth in need in Dufferin, Wellington and Guelph.

Due to the need in our communities we are now offering registration https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4MgRkHFnbJMBuZUfaeARdNCc0WbWvk-73BwmJMfGMLnE4Uw/viewform to all Dufferin children and youth.

**This support is available until August 21st.**

Mental Health Commission of Canada launches free online crisis training for essential workers during COVID-19

Crisis Response training - Caring for Yourself  (2 hours) - Participants will be introduced to the Mental Health Continuum and the Big 4 Coping Strategies, to help learn how to better understand their own mental wellness, notice if they might be moving into unwell areas, use practical actions to help with stress, and know when to reach out to get professional help.

Crisis Response training - Caring for your Team  (3 hours) - Participants will be introduced to the Mental Health Continuum, the Big 4 Coping Strategies, and Ad Hoc Incident Review to help learn how to better understand their own and their team's mental wellness, notice if they might be moving into unwell areas, use practical actions to help with stress, know when to reach out to get professional help and learn tips to support team members

Crisis Response Training - Caring for Others  (2 hours) - will focus on how to create a safe space to have conversations about mental health and/or substance use problems. This training will prepare participants to have conversations confidently about mental health during a crisis, with their family, friends, communities, and workplaces. Participants will also be taught the skills required to respond to a mental health crisis until professional help arrives.
Registration for these courses will be on a first-come, first-serve basis and will be available at no-cost for essential workers as defined by the Government of Canada   here .