Our Partners
Community Partners
- A Place Called Home
- Adult Protective Services
- Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Kawartha Lakes Branch
- City of Kawartha Lakes, Department of Health & Social Services
- FourInfo.com
- Global Human Resources Centre Inc.
- Ministry of Community & Social Services, Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) Employment Supports Program
- Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities
- Northern Lights Vocational Services
- Ontario Teachers Insurance Plan
- Ontario Trillium Foundation
- Peterborough Victoria Northumberland & Clarington Catholic District School Board
- Ross Memorial Hospital, Mental Health Program
- Sir Sandford Fleming College
- Survivors Psychiatric Advocacy Network (SPAN)
- Trillium Lakelands District School Board, Adult Education Centre
- Whitby Mental Health Centre, Assertive Community Treatment Team
Consumer Initiated Economic Development
Program
Job Quest, CMHA Kawartha Lakes and the Mental
Health Program of Ross Memorial Hospital (RMH) are pleased to announce that they
have received funding from the
Ontario Trillium Foundation.
The three partners applied for funding for the
Consumer Initiated Economic Development Program, the goal of which
is to support people with serious mental illness to prepare for and
obtain employment. People with serious mental illness have by far
the highest rate of unemployment than any other group, disabled or
not, at 75 to 89%. Despite these staggering figures, People with
serious mental illness can work when they have specialized supports,
such as those that would be provided through the Consumer Initiated
Economic Development Program.
Job Quest, CMHA
(Canadian Mental Health Association Kawartha Lakes) and the RMH
Mental Health Program are using the funding to hire a Project
Planning and Partnership Development Coordinator. The Coordinator’s
chief responsibility will be to move the initiative forward from
conceptualization (where it stands now) to a concrete,
community-supported and sustainable program model.
The Coordinator’s role will focus on:
- Building community, business and employer partnerships to support the Consumer Initiated Economic Development Program with an emphasis on buy-in and allocation of concrete resources.
- Developing detailed implementation, evaluation & sustainability plans for the program.
- Exploring and accessing revenue sources to support the program.
Also supporting this initiative are Adult Protective Services (APS),
Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT), Northern Lights Vocational
Services and
Survivors Psychiatric Advocacy Network (SPAN).
Memberships
Job Quest is a member of:
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  Job Quest, as a division of Community Living Kawartha Lakes, is supported in part by the United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes |
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