Category Archives: respite

🫱🏼‍🫲🏿Community Neighbours Respite Helping Through Neighbours

Community, Presentations / Workshops, respite

By Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre

A free three hour workshop that will help you make a difference in your community. Come learn the skills and basic knowledge to help support and care for people in need!

Topics include: terminology, what is respite care, what is burnout and how is it manifested, values/ attitudes/boundaries, caregiver rights and responsibilities, the role and contributions of family in caregiving/caregiving at a distance, nutrition, communication with caregivers and care recipients, grieving, elder abuse, normal & abnormal aging, what the respite caregiver needs to know, and how to help – practical tips

DATE: November 7, 2024
TIME: 1:00-4:00 pm
LOCATION: WOCRC – 2 MacNeil Court.

REGISTRATION: Please register with Angela Lorusso at lorusso@wocrc.ca

🏗️Lego Club

Recreation, respite, Social

What a great way to spend a Saturday morning – Lego Club!!

LEGO CLUB
SATURDAY MORNING 9:30 – 10:30
Ldao-c invites Lego fans to join them Saturday mornings! A chance to have fun, make friends and learn social skills in a relaxed environment. Located in their new learning centre on Merivale Road, allowing parents to have an hour to shop or relax.
Cost: $125.00. Join the Art Club that follows and save – both for $200.00
Email programs@ldaottawa.com to register.

🍂Tamir’s Fall Programs for Children and Youth

Children, Education, respite

FALL is officially HERE!!! That means that Tamir’s fall programs for children and youth are just around the corner 😀🍂
Their children and youth programs provide kiddos with opportunities for learning and socializing while providing primary caregivers time to recharge on Sundays and weekday evenings 🧡
Click through to check out all of their fall programs on offer, and visit https://www.tamir.ca/childrens-services/ to sign up! And please share with anyone you think might benefit from these amazing programs 🙏