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You can help Canadian Mental Health Association/Peel Branch in the
following ways: Donations
Create a buzz
Candy Dispenser Program
Employment
Fundraising
Membership
Volunteer
Donations
Canadian Mental Health Association/Peel Branch is a charity and
gratefully accepts contributions. Webster's dictionary defines
"donate" as "to make a gift of, contribute." When you make a gift
to CMHA/Peel you contribute to its success in your community. The
World Health Organization estimates that one in four is affected
by mental illness during their lifetime. It's an issue that
affects everyone -- directly or indirectly. To donate now,
click
here. To learn various ways to give,
click here.
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Create a buzz
Ready to start creating a buzz in the community? Click here to
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Candy
Dispenser Program CMHA/Peel's Candy Dispensing
program is an easy way to contribute. A candy dispensing machine
will be delivered and maintained AT NO COST TO YOU… unless
you count the quarters you feed it to satisfy the cravings of your
staff, customers or clients. There are two, three, four and
six-headed machines which take up only 1 sq. ft. of space.
This is what a two headed machine looks like:
 The
program began in 1978. Representatives from Ev’s Vending, working
with Canadian Mental Health Association, delivers the dispenser to
your place of business. You’ll have a choice of quality products,
like Reese’s pieces, M & M peanuts, jelly beans, Skittles or
chocolate covered almonds. Each dispenser carries the CMHA logo
and says you care about mental health.
Please call Laura at (905) 451-2123 ext. 432 for more information
or e-mail
hampsonl@cmhapeel.ca [ back to top ]
Employment
Our staff team is comprised of over 90 people from varied
backgrounds, each bringing expertise unique to the program within
which they work. Social service work, nursing, occupational
health, psychology, forensic, crisis, voluntary sector management,
fund raising, communications, and administration are among the
fields of expertise sought by the Branch to form a comprehensive,
well-rounded staff team. Our staff is highly valued as they are
the primary way through which our clients realize their goals. We
are a human service organization and as such, bring much integrity
in our interactions with staff and treat them with the utmost
respect. It’s critical in order to do the best for our clients.
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Fundraising
You can help by participating in one of our annual fundraising
activities, i.e., Annual Geranium Sale, PAR South
Bake Sale and Lunch. For more information
click here. [ back to top ]
Membership
Your membership lets us:
- Promote mental health more broadly
- Ensure continued access to funding sources
- Demonstrate that we have community support
- Send a message to our clients that they are important and
cared for.
Membership in CMHA / Peel:
- Involves a broad section of the community to ensure the
Association's policies and directions are relevant and
sensitive.
- Provides a medium to inform the public regarding mental
health issues.
- Provides a source of volunteers for the Association's
broad range of activities, since an informed citizen is more
likely to get involved.
- Reflects citizen power in negotiations with government and
other institutions.
Privileges include:
- Use of the Resource Centre library and its services
- Voting rights at Annual General Meeting (except for
Associate members)
- Senior volunteer positions (i.e., Board of Directors)
- Complimentary public presentation (i.e., usually one
presentation during Mental Health Week in May)
- Subscription to Network, CMHA, Ontario Division’s
seasonal magazine
The cost is nominal. Join
now and your membership will be valid until March
31. (If you join after October 31st, your membership will
not expire the following March 31st but will be valid until
March 31st of the next year. For example, if you join CMHA/Peel
on November 1, 2008, your membership will be valid until
March 31, 2010.)
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Volunteer
Canadian Mental Health Association/Peel Branch is a
voluntary, non-profit organization, valuing the
contributions of many volunteers. However, we currently have
too few resources secured to build our capacity in this area
of operations. Therefore, front-line volunteer opportunities
exist primarily through student placements. It’s a win-win
scenario with placement students, as they have a clear
mandate to learn by doing and we benefit from their “doing”
as we invest our time to teach. If a volunteer position is
available in a particular program, it will be posted on the
web site. Likewise, our Board of Directors is comprised of
volunteers and if there are vacancies, the job description
will be posted on this page.
Click here for a Volunteer
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