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English Network of Resources in Community Health

Project Sponsor

• ENRICH is a chartered non-profit community organisation of volunteer members recognized by Revenue Canada, the Regional Health and Social Services Board of Outaouais, and the City of Aylmer.

Project Goal

• ENRICH aims to meet the health and social services needs of families in the Outaouais by developing, offering and promoting health and social services programs in English; and by soliciting grants and donations and administering them in order to develop and deliver health and social services programs.

Project Activities

• Aware, Prepared and Linked is a program to offer a prevention and early intervention program to English-speaking youth at risk of substance abuse, school dropout and emotional distress. The project has received the support of Health Canada and funding under Canada's Drug Strategy. It has been operating for 7 years. The program is now funded by the Regional Health and Social Services Board of Outaouais and MNA Robert Middlemiss
• Aware, Prepared and Linked provides training and information sessions, off-site visits and work placement experiences for youth at risk. The program works in collaboration with the CLSCs and has established a network of 75 local businesses and organisations who are partners in offering work placements, role model speakers and off-site visits.
• The three components of this program are: o 8 week summer program for teens o 8 week family follow-up o community sensitization and support
• Aware, Prepared and Linked has been honoured twice by the annual regional conference on substance abuse for developing community partnerships and programs in promotion and prevention. In 1999, ENRICH received the Prix Persillier-Lachapelle Award from the Government of Quebec for outstanding community organisation performance.
• P.A.C.T. is Partners Against Crime Team. The project surveyed communities in the Outaouais to assess the needs of families requiring services in English. It was supported by the Department of Canadian Heritage, Health Canada and the Justice Canada. The survey allowed ENRICH to focus the activities of Aware, Prepared and Linked in targeted rural communities.
• ENRICH undertook administrative responsibility for the Wakefield Youth Drop-in Centre in April 2000. This initiative has helped stimulate involvement of parent volunteers in the programming of the centre.
• ENRICH volunteers serve on the Regional Advisory Committee on English-language Health and Social Services (regional board) and the Governing Board of the Western Quebec Career Centre.
• ENRICH has collaborated annually with Outaouais Alliance to produce 'SOS', a directory of emergency services published in 4,000 student planners in the regional secondary schools of the Western Quebec School Board and Heritage College.
• ENRICH has developed a healthy lifestyles program using the 'Early Intervention Program' developed by the Royal Ottawa Hospital. The program is operating in four secondary schools, with the collaboration of the regional health and social services board and the Western Quebec School Board

Partnerships

• CLSCs
• Outaouais Regional Health and Social Services Board
• Local businesses
• Community organisations
• Western Quebec School Board