We are offering a 2 part series of online screenings of insightful documentaries that take a personal approach to exploring the struggles around screen time and the online world within the family context.
If you register for this event you will be able to view our first featured documentary in our series, Screenagers, in an "on demand" fashion. This will allow you to view the documentary at your leisure during our 2 week viewing period from September 17 to October 1, 2020.

​We hope you will join us as we engage in online community conversations around this topic. We will be offering an online Question and Answer Session on topics and issues raised in Screenagers on October 1st at 7 pm. This online Zoom conversation will be moderated by Tanya MacIntrye, an Addiction Recovery Facilitator, as well as other experts in the field.

Buy your tickets today @ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/116129493441

Gateway CERH is offering a 2 part series of online screenings of insightful documentaries (Screenagers and The Next Chapter) that take a personal approach to exploring the struggles around screen time and the online world within the family context. We are planning on offering these documentaries in an on-demand fashion and engaging in online community conversations around this topic.

We will be offering an online Question and Answer Session on topics and issues raised in Screenagers on October 1st (at 7 pm) and on October 22nd (at 7 pm) we will be chatting about concerns brought up in The Next Chapter. These Question and Answer Sessions will be moderated by experts in the field.
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Details on how to purchase your tickets will be posted shortly. Stay tuned!

On Thursday August 13th 2020 Rotary Club President Mike Strickland presented a cheque for $5430 to Nancy Simpson, Secretary of the board of directors of Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health (Gateway CERH) to support the Lonely No More Program.  
 
The Lonely No More (LNM) program consists of weekly teleconference calls between isolated seniors, facilitated by trained community members (volunteers). This program creates three components of support: peer support, health coaching and system navigation. The LNM program was originally piloted in 2019 and based on its success it was re-launched earlier this year. Due to the program’s positive impact and new partnership developments (e.g., MacKay Seniors Centre / Senior Centers Without Walls, Rotary Club of Goderich etc.), Lonely No More was able to offer weekly chats for the past 7 months (January to July 2020). The program is expected to start up again this fall. 
 
Gateway CERH would like to thank Rotary Club of Goderich, the IODE, MacKay Seniors Centre / Senior Centers Without Walls and the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy for supporting this rural based initiative this past year as well as our volunteers and leadership team. Gateway CERH looks forward to serving our rural seniors again this fall. 

​Today is Meghan Wild-Deny’s last day with us as one of our summer students. We greatly appreciated all the work and effort she has put into our Farmers’ Mental Health Project. We wish her all the best in her future endeavors! Thank you Meghan!