Over the year the has been in close communication with community groups and services, and continue to make our goal of connecting people to English-speaking community on the South Shore a reality.The SSCPN record of success ...is based on providing real Help with the support of Great people
An important task the SSCPN has always taken is beginning a vital Link between the English-Language Community (ESC) on the South Shore and our community organisations, services and various government services .
Our role is to help both individuals and service providers
take advantage of the community resources available to them. In any given month we forward or reply to a hundred emails or calls requesting information or sharing news about an upcoming community events or programs. By actively participating on various committees along with providing services that meet community needs. The SSCPN and our network of members and volunteers form an integral part of the South Shore ESC. By linking together our partnership network. The SSCPN is an important funnel into and addressing the concerns of the ESC.
Acting as the most traveled bridge between different community organizations, the SSCPN has become an invaluable tool to the South Shore English Language community in many ways
: The SSCPN newsletter…Our Community Email newsletter remains our most powerful and cost effective tool in reaching community members. Each month dozens of emails are forward to us, either providing information on community events or requesting info on services and programs within the ESC. Often we receive Emails or telephone calls from individuals living away from Québec wanting to know about services for family members still here on the South Shore … From Victoria B.C to London England our SSCPN email newsletter gets around.
C.O.C.O which provides information and links to provincial government services List the SSCPN website and Contact links as their main source of Information and contact source for the South Shore
As a Board and Outreach committee member for Our Harbour.. I’m continuing to promote the issues of mental health needs and awareness of this worth while community based project.
In our role as member of the QCGN panel on services for the Greater Montreal Region project for the Arts and Culture & Heritage committee. We provided greater awareness of local Community Arts programs and how the ESC can support community arts. We are now looking at a project that will try to record part of deep history of ESC on the South Shore.
Through a series of community contacts: I have been involved in a number of proposed community projects. Subjects covers during these meetings covered a range of issues: Youth Employment, Long term care for seniors, mental health, Arts and Culture, political issues, A new Seniors residence. I attended two very important meetings hosted by the QCGN, and will be part of the follow up team come fall as the South Shore representative.
Each Month we forward to the ELAN –English Language Arts Network website a listing of upcoming arts and cultural events taking place on the South Shore. These events are then posted on their Community Arts Calendar. Thus helping promote these events and allow people across Greater Montreal know we have Arts and Culture events on the South Shore. We also review cultural events that are held in our community.
In April Ville Longueuil invited Community leaders, government and Health and social service providers, school officials, police etc to a Town Hall meeting to talk about the problem with increasing graffiti and problem youth. As a representative of the English-speaking community I was able to take part and offer input about our own youth problems I.e. Anglophone youth from across the South Shore often hang out in parks in Greenfield Park because they have friends nearby, good public Transport, the community is viewed as English and there is little offered to English youth in Brossard, St-Hubert etc. Also the unemployment rate is higher among youth who do not speak French.
During the recent income tax season, we completed 75 personal income tax forms for a range of persons aged 19 to 100 years old. We also replied to 34 contacts regarding the Québec Seniors Home Tax credit … Because of this effort many seniors are going to receive a tax credit they were unaware they were entitled to… The SSCPN will now post information regarding Tax tips and programs in our Newsletter and on our website.
THE SSCPN is an important community contact for Service Canada:
Because of our contacts an number of South Shore Churches and groups have applied for New Horizon funding for activities aimed towards seniors.
We informed the same grouping about Service Canada’s new program to make their buildings assailable for seniors and the handicap… I have been informed that St-Mary’s Church in Greenfield Park will receive $25,000 under the program. Five E-S-C churches and groups have now applied for this funding under the April 30 deadline thanks to the SSCPN.
The SSCPN is a proven community link:
On 25 May the Alzheimer Federation organized a walk for the memory across Québec and for us on South-Shore, the walk took place starting at the Place Longueuil Shopping Centre. The SSCPN was asked to be vital link into the English-speaking community and to promote community involvement.
Through our Contacts with Youth Employment services YES and area employment service providers .The SSCPN is promoting employment among young adults and linking Entrepreneurs . By forwarding job postings and info to Entrepreneur programs among our contact list. A number of these job-posting and training services have directly leaded to employment & business contacts.
