Update: Watch the interview HERE
Watch the SSCOPE interview on Global Morning News at 7:40 am on Wednesday May 15. Recent break ins at SSCOPE, our upcoming Rockin’ the Bridge Festival4 Mental Health on May 24-25 just a few days off now, and the impact SSCOPE has on his life, expressed by SSCOPE member Mike Jackson, who will be in studio with executive director Bob Rempel, will all be part of the discussion.
SSCOPE is just about half way through it’s current list of Spring Clean Lawn properties, now that the warm weather has finally arrived, but with recent vehicle, equipment and staff additions, we have capacity to add another 24-36 regular lawn service customers.
This will create many hours of additional employment opportunities for SSCOPE member employees, and with quality service to our customers for many years in Winnipeg, this is truly a win-win situation.
Give SSCOPE a call today at 204 987-6300 today or email sscope@sscope.org for more information.
It’s Friday April 26 we begin to rock with Termanil starting at 6:15 pm and it’s our sincere tongue in cheek hope that we’ll have our outdoor patio functioning by that time. We’re really proud of our 3 great acts; it’s a wonderful bill and a great preview for our May event. Note: Our 8:15 act has had to reschedule so in that time period we will have an Open Jam and the Announcements of the Bands and other Artists playing at our May 24-25th Rockin’ the Bridge/Festival4MentalHealth 2013.
View the News Release HERE and the Poster HERE. The news release has details on how you can come on out and make a donation to SSCOPE and get free door prize tickets and reserved seating for May 24-25, our 4th annual Rockin’ the Bridge-Festival4MentalHealth Friday-Saturday community event.
Spring will eventually come (it’s true) and our yards will dry out and when it does we at SSCOPE are preparing to expand our spring summer and fall property services work by 100% to allow us to create much needed additional employment. Take a look at our door hanger in pdf form with a special offer attached HERE.
SSCOPE Lawn Services Promotion 2013
A blitz of key neighborhoods will begin on April 11th, along with a media information and communication. We will also be targeting additional commercial and business customers.
Please call us at 204 987-6300 or email sscope@sscope.org. We’d love to create what we term a “mutually beneficial customer relationship” with you.
SSCOPE will be talking with the Jets and True North to develop a partnership that helps further the mental health discussion. Our fourth annual Festival4MentalHealth-Rockin’ the Bridge 2013 will be a natural venue for the Jets organization and players to be involved and we will pitch that to them. The dates are: May 24-26, 2013, both downtown and at SSCOPE indoor and on the street.
Check this link for more information on the Jet’s announcement
http://jets.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=654022
For more information on Bell Canada’s sponsored Let’s Talk Mental Health Day on Feb 12 please visit these links
http://letstalk.bell.ca/pdf/press/2013/01-14-2013-b.pdf
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1108031/bell-congratulates-nhl-clubs-for-their-leadership-in-building-awareness-about-mental-health-through-hockey-talks?relation=org
We at SSCOPE believe we should be talking and thinking mental health every day of the day, but we applaud the NHL and Bell for their initiatives.
1. SSCOPE’s next Live Friday event is February 22, featuring The B-Side Apostles, Larry Updike and Greg Glatz. It’s a can’t miss event. They always bring their entertainment value “A-Game”. The evening starts at 6:45 pm, with Larry and Greg at approximately 7:45 pm.
Larry Updkike (l) and Greg Glatz, The B-Side Apostles, who will be playing Friday February 22th at SSCOPE’s Treasures Thrift Store Stage at 7:45 pm approx.
2. SSCOPE now accepting membership and employment applications for our spring through fall season, April 1 through October 31, with new initiatives and expanded programs, as SSCOPE keeps growing to service the needs of the community and help our member employees progress in their lives. Please contact Madelyne Ellis at 204-987-6300 to book an appointment or email “sscope@sscope.org
Terry Jones,(left) and Veselin Kristev (right), in front of the new SSCOPE vehicle donated by Manitoba Public Insurance, on Friday, February 1, a Dodge Caravan van for multipurpose use, prior to the start of their snow shoveling shift Friday. MPI Employees Donations Committee also did some internal fund raising and presented SSCOPE with gas cards and safety items for the vehicle in excess of $500. We at SSCOPE sincerely thank all the employee and management of MPI for their generous support of Mental Health through employment…the SSCOPE model.
We are often asked by potential partners and donours who are the people SSCOPE benefits? Our program of casual and part-time employment options benefits a wide variety and for many at a different time of the year. Hence we have over 200 who will be employees this year with us, but average payrolls of 40-65 person. Our members have a range of mental health issues from schizophrenia, to bipolar disorder to depression and anxiety. Some are on heavy doses of medication, others less so, or are on therapy. Some individuals have not been diagnosed with a mental health disorder, but they have been admitted to our program because we have ascertained that there is a need and there is a fit. Each one is here to work and gain employment experience again.
For a look at some of the faces of SSCOPE take a look at this video from late 2011 up on Youtube. Part 1 and Part 2
We get asked often what benefit does your program have. Why should we contribute to your Thrift Store, come out to Music Night or our Festival4MentalHealth, leave a Legacy in our will, become a Partner with SSCOPE, etc. etc.
“A Job is Therapeutic” says this article in the Globe and Mail, mid last year. It’s worth a read if you are considering whether our program provides the kind of benefits you want to support with your dollars, your volunteerism, your other donations.
Factoid: in 2012, SSCOPE had 175 employee members who had demonstrated need for our type of program, and average payrolls in the range from 40-65 per payroll. We aim to double that by 2016, with your support. All employee members participate of their own accord following the SSCOPE method of simulating the major facets of true employment, but a supportive environment.
“Changing Lives…for a stronger healthier community”…the SSCOPE way”
Erika Dilka, a SSCOPE employee member for over 2 years, in the Treasures Thrift Store, where she works her regular shift on Friday afternoons
It’s a turntable, receiver and vinyl sale from the Manager’s collection at Treasures Thrift Store as we try to get our donations and sales well past $1,000 to make our Christmas Dinner and Christmas gifts for over 100 members the best we can make it for them. View the Kijiji Ad here.
We thank those who have already supported SSCOPE’s “A Promise of Better Days” Christmas Appeal:
Parkside Ford Lincoln Ltd, Portage and Main Development (Creswin Properties), Joyce Manwaring, Manitoba Housing, Janice Rey, Boris Hwozdulych, Tom Dercola, Councillor Ross Eadie, Canada Safeway Gift Card and Giant Tiger Gift Card
Join us for our Christmas celebration day at Treasures Thrift Store and Coffeehouse, afternoon and evening at SSCOPE on Friday, December 21. View an earlier post about the combination Christmas cheer and Live Fridays event by clicking HERE. See you at SSCOPE Friday!
You can view short videos of the past Live Friday performances, click the name below, and previous ones, just search: SSCOPE2 on Youtube.com
Join us December 21 for our last Live Fridays before Christmas, with Hoppin’ Hedges, Mountain Meets Prairie, and the Riff Vandals at starting at 6:50 pm. If you are a performer or group and you want to perform for SSCOPE’s employee members and the Winnipeg community, please call 987-6300 (204) or email sscope@sscope.org. Live Fridays is the fourth Friday of every month and all performers during the year are eligible to be asked to perform for our fourth annual Rockin’ the Bridge/Festival4MentalHealth on May 24-26, 2013
Jack Grass and North of Texas, playing at SSCOPE, 1466 Arlington St, Friday November 23rd. Admission by Donation.
Join us this Friday November 23 at 7:00 pm for three great live music acts at Treasures Thrift Store by SSCOPE at 1466 Arlington as we begin our Christmas fund raising drive for our members.
Stu Porteous, Jack Grass and North of Texas and Mike Melnyk and the Flip Cats. A full night of food, thrift strore shopping, great songs and uptempo music. SSCOPE’s employee members meet at 6:00 ias part of a regular Board of Director advisory function, and then the music begins just after 7:00 pm.
For more information call 204 987-6302 or email sscope@sscope.org
Join us Friday November 23rd at SSCOPE at 1466 Arlington St (between Burrows and Magnus) as Treasures Thrift Store is transformed into Treasures Performance Stage and Thrift Store.
Appearing that evening will be Stu Porteous, singer-songwriter with a roots and country tinge (on YouTube here and here), Jack Grass and North of Texas four piece band with an uptempo country and country rock set (view their full setlist here and Mike Melnyk and The Flip Cats, back by popular demand, with another uptempo set, of rockabilly that will keep the dancers dancing after Jack Grass finishes.
Paradize Band with their great mix of Caribbean music who performed September 28th at Treasures by SSCOPE Performance Stage
Stu Porteous opens at 7:00 pm. Over 50 were in attendance at our last event and seating was limited. Come early! Food services are available. Admission is by Donation or purchases in the Treasures Thrift Store.
For more information email sscope@sscope.org or phone 987-6300.
If your band or performance wishes to play on SSCOPE’s Treasures Performance in one of our upcoming Live Fridays in December through April or even perform at our all day weekend Festival, May 24-26, 2013, please contact our Director at 987-60302 or by email: bob@sscope.org
You can view videos of previous performances and more info on SSCOPE on YouTube. Just click the YouTube link.
We are pleased to announce that Manitoba Public Insurance has agreed to support SSCOPE and our growth with a donation of a like new saftied Van. SSCOPE will use the van to transport an additional crew and equipment for our growing Snow Removal services, and for future Food Deliveries from our Food Services program.
This comes a year after Manitoba Hydro chose to donate a used SUV to SSCOPE to meet our needs last winter. We continue to use it to this day.
2000 Chevrolet Suburban 1500 donated by Manitoba Hydro fall 2011
The MPI van should be operational for SSCOPE within two weeks, just in time for the busy five month snow clearing season. Yes, this will give us additional capacity as well now to add new snow customers.
Watch this site for a picture of the new van soon. SSCOPE now has five vehicles in its fleet, including one three ton cube van with power tailgate for moving and delivery jobs and other uses.
As well SSCOPE continues to accept donated vehicles from the public and business for a fair market value tax receipt which are either used for our fundraising after sale at auction, or for practice vehicles for our employees to learn additional automotive skills.
Please contact SSCOPE Director of Development at 987-6302 for more information.
Here’s a thank you coupon for all of those who are making Treasures Thrift Store, a regular stop in their search for good and inexpensive reusable items. Watch for Treasures to grow and grown. New items daily. Click Here for coupon.
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Beatles October 1962 just before Beatlemania kicks in.
It’s all set for Friday night October 19 to take a trip down memory lane with the songs of The Beatles. Has there been a group of musicians who have been more instrumental on the shape and sound of today’s music. They are truly the ”Fab Four”. It’s 50 years ago this month that they released their first single, “Love Me Do”. We all remember their most famous songs: Hey Jude, Yesterday, All You Need is Love and the list goes on. SSCOPE is very grateful to Mark David Stollard for organizing and leading the night with fellow musicians, Reg Janz and Rob Daniels. Mark also extends a welcome to all other Manitoba musicians to come out and jam before and after. As well there will be Beatles karaoke all afternoon on the Treasures Thrift Store Stage. Do a Beatles tune and get 20% off your Thrift Store purchase. Jam starts at 6:00 pm, Rob Daniels at 7:00 pm and Mark David Stollard and Reg Janz at 8:15 pm with more jam to follow. Karaoke available all afternoon starting at 1:00 pm
View the News Release here
View the Poster here
View the story in Rolling Stone about the Beatles 50th anniversary here
Please check out the latest SSCOPE radio spots and tell us what you think. All voiced by the venerable Winnipeg radio announcer, Roger Currie. More to come. Tip: On windows machines: Click “open” if you want to play immediately, or “save” if you would like to download and play later.
Yvette delivering a talk to mental health professionals on how she successfully quite smoking herself .
Yvette has been a member of SSCOPE since 2010 and
she was nominated for the Heroes of Mental Health
Award specifically for her efforts to assist other SSCOPE
members to stop smoking.
This from her nomination:
Heros of Mental Health Nomination, September 7, 2012
I am pleased to nominate Yvette Chartrand in the Individual category as a Hero of Mental Health.
Yvette was diagnosed in 1982 with a mental health disability and has lived and coped most of her adult life with a mental health problem.
She has been a SSCOPE Employee Member since.2009. Since 2010 she has been a valuable member of SSCOPE’s office team serving as SSCOPE’s part-time receptionist for all customers and in member liaison duties such as employment shift bookings and Winnipeg Harvest co-ordination.
She demonstrates her care and concern about other employee-members and the overall SSCOPE program with her empathy and her efforts to explain to all who will listen about why the program is beneficial. Her work attendance, her punctuality, her committment and positive attitude make her a model employee-member.
SSCOPE has always focused only on providing casual and part-time employment.
In late 2011, SSCOPE Board and Senior Staff decided to add life improvement program options for its employee members so that the organization would become more involved of the whole life of its growing membership employee group.
In February 2012, Yvette was instrumental in helping SSCOPE senior staff in organizing SSCOPE’s first member employee self-Improvement program., Smoking Reduction and Cessation, in conjunction with MANTRA.
As we all know, the incidence of smoking among those with mental health problems is higher than the population norm and it seems particularly so at SSCOPE. She was both a leader in securing employmee members to participate, which was no easy task, given the direct tie noted earlier, and in inspiring others with her personal story of how she had stopped smoking herself five years ago.
As a result of her work and the program, in the first year, at least 5 specific individuals quit or cut back on the daily nicotine intake and a number of others were influenced to act in some way.
Yvette now serves as the in house support and resource person for those attempt to stop or reduce smoking. She is co-ordinating the second year of the program at SSCOPE, which has become ongoing.
Her province wide impact will be felt when a DVD video*** of a talk she gave in front of 300 mental health workers in Vancouver, BC, where she lived before returning to Winnipeg, will be distributed to mental health resource centres all around the province.
In the talk, the normally shy and reserved Yvette, spoke with conviction and asked mental workers to make that extra effort to help those they were already helping to help others to stop or reduce smoking.
The video tells the story about her experiences in quitting smoking. “I didn’t want to die because of a stupid cigarette”, she said. Social Assistance provided the patch and gum through the Quitnow.ca (in B.C.) organization.
She relates how her mother supported her long distance by phoning and encouraging her on a regular basis when she was quitting, plus the QuitNow counsellors helped frequently when she needed support.
Her father and mother had stopped smoking years before, which was an encouragement and motivation for her to do the same.
Yvette wants to help all others, especially people with mental health disabilities to quit, as it seems to her that almost everyone that she sees at SSCOPE or elsewhere with a mental health problem, also smokes.
“I don’t know if there is a proven direct connection, she says, but I want to help others like me to quit. We have enough health related issues already then to create more for ourselves by smoking, let alone the money it costs us to smoke when we are already on a fixed income.”
***Note: Clip from DVD video (or actual DVD) will be submitted under separate cover/delivery, as additional information related to this nomination.
prepared by: Bob Rempel, Exec. Dir. SSCOPE Inc.1466 Arlington St. Winnipeg R2X 1T8
Yvette’s a Hero in our eyes always. The actual award winners selected by the CMHA internal committee and announced on October 5 is here.
Book your fall Yard CleanUp now and get your Yard done before the rush that starts mid month and we’ll give you a 20% discount on our usual rate. Or we can offer you a charitable tax receipt for the discount. Our employee members need the work and we can’t have them sitting around for two weeks not working for their benefit, so we offer you an incentive to start today with the Fall Cleanup program. We bag and take away immediately all yard waste we clean up.
As well another promotion offers all new 5 month prepaid Snow Shoveling customers an additional 20% discount on Fall CleanUp Services.
Call SSCOPE today at 987-6300 or email sscope@sscope.org
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Tweet Live Friday’s Starts With Full House and 3 Great Performances…from Paulo Borges, Lee and Joe and the Paradize Band to close the night. It was Hot Hot Hot at SSCOPE on Friday September 28, thanks to the three performers … Continue reading
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Paradize Band to a full coffeehouse friday night http://t.co/TPT943Q1
10 calls today about fall yard cleanups, bagged leaf pickup and snow shoveling servies. Fall is here! #mentalhealthemployment
Need a drink? SSCOPE Inc. offers vending machine services in partnership with Coke to other non profits and activity centres.
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Poster for our September 28 Live Music Night at SSCOPE’s Treasures Thrift Store. Please retweet. Thnak you.
http://t.co/vNpI88Sv
Enjoy Paulo Borges, Winnipeg singer-songwriter with a Latin feel, Friday September 28th at SSCOPE at 7:00 pm and then stay around as the Caribbean rhythms and reggae beats start to heat up with the Paradize Band at 8:15 pm. Everyone Welcome.
Paradize Band, at SSCOPE Street Festival May 2012
Come out and support the mental health by SSCOPE in the community. Admission is Free with small Donation or Thrift Store purchase. Thrift Store open late and SSCOPE’s Little Food Feat Mobile Food Unit will be providing great food for sale and sampling all evening, plus free popcorn and coffee. It’s at 1466 Arlington St, between Burrows and Magnus.
SSCOPE Employee Members Discuss Upcoming Jobs and Program Changes with SSCOPE staff and Board members on August 24th. At meeting end, members went over to Tommy Prince Park at Selkirk and Battery and cleaned up the Park…our simple way of giving back too.
Some SSCOPE employee-members pre meeting, following the end of summer staff BBQ on August 24th
Several of SSCOPE’s senior Team Leaders and Staff cooking for employee members on August 24th
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SSCOPE issued this news release today. We are all excited to get the Music started again here 1466 Arlington and use our Big Screen and Projector to show Videos and Movies that tie in with the Music.
(Media Release:6/09/12) SSCOPE-Non Profit-Music-Performance Stage-Thrift Store-Reggae-Beatles
SSCOPE’s Treasures Thrift Store Performance Stage—- Fall Performances start Friday September 28 at 1466 Arlington St…… Paradize: September 28th 8:15 pm….performing reggae and caribbean music October 24: Beatles Theme Night with a Twist (and Shout): Vote for the Best Beatles Songs Ever…
SSCOPE is resuming its regular monthly “Performance Stage Evenings….for Mental Health and SSCOPE” Friday September 28th Performing live will be Paradize at 8:15 pm with reggae and caribbean rhythms all night. It’s a Jammin’ night for sure in the Bob Marley tradition and a call to all Manitoba musicians to participate if they can, with the Marley video to be shown on the Big Screen at 7:00 pm.
Open Mic at the Treasures Stage on Performance Stage is available from 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Admission is by donation, with great food and snacks available for purchase from SSCOPE’s Little Food Feat’s food truck.
Friday October 24 is set as a Beatles Theme Night, with Mark David Stollard and Friends and the Joy Diamond Band performing on a Beatles reworked and revisited theme night, with Beatles jams and karaoke throughout the afternoon and evening as well.
SSCOPE has also announced that it has set the weekend of May 24-262013for it’s 4th annual combined Festival4MentalHealth and the let’s get the summer started” Rockin’ the Bridge music and street festival and public awareness day, for indoors and outdoors at both 1466 Arlington St and Downtown Winnipeg. Many of the performers from previous years are returning, and bookings from new Groups and Performers are now being accepted.
The September 28th event will kick off SSCOPE’s HIRE US…forGood! community awareness campaign and SSCOPE’s Fall Cleanup yard work in October in the community, with homeowners, businesses and organizations encouraged to hire SSCOPE’s members to help support our mission of providing real work…real jobs to those with mental health problems who otherwise would not be working.
“Our standards are as high as others, our leaders are well qualified and our employee base wants and needs more work, said Bob Rempel, Executive Director. Call SSCOPE at 987-6302 to get the process started. Winter Snow Shoveling and Snow Removal services for November through March are also ready to be booked.
“All forms of financial support and partnerships are most welcome, as we strive to create more employment for those with mental health and related disabilities in ways that benefit both the community and our members. It can be as simple as hiring SSCOPE to cut your lawn or clean up and clean out your garage and basement and haul items away for recycling with our 3 ton truck,” he said.
SSCOPE assisted 140 employee members in 2011, with casual and part time employment in its various social enterprises, up from 87 the previous year. Approximately $135,000 was currently paid out in wages and benefits to those with a mental health disability or issue, working for SSCOPE. Ten to 15 new applications for employment are received every month.
For more information about donations to Treasures or the event, please contact our office at 987-6300 or email sscope@sscope.org
(Media Contact: Bob Rempel, 987-6302 (office direct) or 250-6300 (mobile)
The Best Hot Dogs in Toronto http://t.co/DLU8HHKh
Retweeted because SSCOPE’s LIttle Food Feats trailer wants to be on the best Dogs in Winnipeg list within the next year! Visit our Little Food Feats trailer daily at 1466 Arlington St. daily from 11-2 until October 1. Or follow SSCOPE @sscopeinc and get tweets on our Trailer locations.
Great post by Tamara Forlanski of Global News on Friday, August 31, perfectly in advance, but not by plan, of the start of our “Hire Us…ForGood! public campaign starting in September, along with the “Are You Enterprising Socially” tag line.
Worth sharing: View it here and follow Tamara on Twitter
As per her note, please think of SSCOPE for all kinds of jobs. Jobs like your property snow shoveling needs this winter, construction labour and construction site cleanups as well as small to medium inside janitorial and vacant house or building cleaning, and automotive cleaning inside and out. We’re at 1466 Arlington St, call us at 987-6300 or email us at: sscope@sscope.org
Get donors thinking about #SSCOPE ..10 Steps to Create The Best Year-End Fundraising Campaign Ever http://t.co/sVmYIZ1i via @sscopeinc
It’s all about mental health.
Watch for great prices in our thrift store all day and a special donations drive all day.
The weather will be hot and the SSCOPE Food Service unit along with our Little Food Feats mobile trailer will be cooking up food at noon for our Employee-Members and store visitors.
After a regular Employee-Member meeting with all those who are preparing to work in the months ahead. A group of 50-60 is expected. Details of the new employment opportunities for the months ahead will be announced. New applications are being accepted as of Friday to fill spots in our new programs.
Following the meeting SSCOPE members and staff leaders will proceed over to Tommy Prince Park at Battery and Selkirk for general cleanup.
The afternoon will be capped off with a Karaoke Stars competition with tickets and coupons donated by the Blue Bombers, Goldeyes and Subway among the prizes for participation. SSCOPE was recently able to acquire several musical performance items for its stage, including the pro karaoke equipment, through the generous support of many donours, including the Winnipeg Foundation, Printers Xclusive, and many more.
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Mental Health has high cost to economy from lost employment: Conference Board http://t.co/qKuFUSmW
Seasonal Team Leader Recruitment Starting http://t.co/QjnP2WnN
Mental Illness is costing the economy of Canada over $20 billion annually through lost employment and growing at nearly 2 per cent per year says a recently released Conference Board of Canada study.
Helping those with mental illness return to being productive members of the economy would greatly aid our economy says the report. Much more has to be done for mental health and through employment creation activities, it obviously concludes.
SSCOPE strongly supports the conclusions of the study. We add that our tested and proven approach to creating our own social enterprises and partnerships that gainfully employs those with persistent mental illness within the total economic sphere of the community is an important part of the range of solutions needed.
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SSCOPE in Winnipeg Free Press Today, Monday July 16, 2013 http://t.co/l7fhqyM0
SSCOPE in LITE Newsletter http://t.co/VmN9T2xU via @sscopeinc
SSCOPE in Winnipeg Free Press Today, Monday July 16, 2013 http://t.co/vGnJ1aeI via @sscopeinc
SSCOPE is looking to expand its Board of Directors members to 11 from the present 7 over the next two months. We have many exciting growth opportunities in the years ahead as we work to double our workforce to nearly 300 employee members by 2015.
If you a well connected member of the community and feel the SSCOPE cause, we invite you to join us immediately.
A Board of Directors application can be downloaded here and submitted by fax (415-7900) or as a scanned document to sscope@sscope.org
For more information about the Board of Directors or the organization, please contact the Executive Director at 987-6302
Erasing The Stigma article with online photo
Manitoba Movers-Board of Directors Announcement
Long time SSCOPE Volunteer, Past Chair George Pasieka, with Executive Director Bob Rempel in back. Winnipeg Free Press Photo, John Wood
Recently the SSCOPE program was one of the feature stories in the LITE newsletter. View the story HERE by clicking the link. Terry Jones, one of SSCOPE’s employee members is pictured and quoted. SSCOPE has received annual funding from LITE for the past three years, to create employment and benefit the community through our StreetSSCOPE program
SSCOPE employees on the job on the first day of SSCOPE's new 3 week construction related job on July 4th, seen here just a little drenched after some rains came to cool them down. Wescon Construction of Steinbach awarded SSCOPE the pre concrete work on a large dairy barn construction project just west of Winnipeg in the Rosser area. There is about three weeks of work in this project and it is epxected that this will lead to more construction related work for this company and others in the near future.
During the week of July 3-6 SSCOPE also supplied construction renovation labour over a four day period to our partner, Siloam Mission’s Madison Lodge project.
Meanwhile the Treasures Thrift Storeis accepting new donations daily, with a lot of new inventory in the music, clothing and furniture areas. The generous support of Winnipegers is allowing SSCOPE to currently seek partners who have possible retail locations to aid in the growth of the SSCOPE Treasures Thrift Stores in other parts of Winnipeg as well.
SSCOPE Employees out on regular StreetSSCOPE patrol recently. Here they are seen on Arlington Street near Dufferin. Over 10 different SSCOPE member employees are involved in this daily work activity.
SSCOPE’s 2011-12 Financial Statements, released at its June 24th AGM and accepted by membership is available in pdf form for download HERE. The highlights are available in the AGM News Release. AGM Photos and Video can be viewed HERE.
Three SSCOPE bylaw changes were approved at the meeting. Details are available HERE.
In addition the AGM confirmed Candace Maxymowich, Student and Youth Leader, Madelyn Ellis, social worker and Anandakumar (Nanda) Palanichamy M.Sc., P.Eng. as SSCOPE Board members
For Photos of the 2011-12 AGM held on June 22, 2012 and to view the year in Photo-Video shown at the AGM click HERE
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Supporting mental health through gainful employment since 1991-21 Years of Service To Winnipeg in 2012
“One in four Canadians will have a mental health problem at some point in their lives”
NEWS RELEASE/PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTJune 22, 2012 (For info: Bob Rempel 987-6302o or 250-6300m)
SSCOPE announces 2011-12 financial results and new Social Enterprise thrust in 2012-2015
SSCOPE Inc, a leading Winnipeg non profit organization with a mission to deliver social enterprise employment and support programs to support mental health recovery, has announced unprecedented employment creation results for 2011-12 fiscal year, along with gains in Net Assets and Net Income.
Over $146,000 was provided in direct employee-member wages and benefit programs for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, compared to $66,000 in the preceding year and Net Revenue after expenses was $24,675 compared to $1,661 in the previous fiscal year.
More than 150 employee-members benefited from SSCOPE’s programs in 2011-12. Net revenues were strongly supported by growth in social enterprise generated revenues which have grown by 90 per cent in one year and now are nearly 60% of total revenues.
“Our donours and funders have recognized the track we are on to expand our impact in the community and provide more intensive supports to our members and as a result we were also able to increase our fund raising and partnership gifts by nearly 400 per cent over the previous year”, said Executive Director Bob Rempel.
“It’s still a relatively small amount, Board Chair Ryan Clement stated, and with our goal to expand our program to nearly 300 members by 2015, and become financially self sufficient, we continue to hope for strong support from the community in the years ahead.”
Plans for 2012-13 are already being implemented, and as part of our 3 year plan, SSCOPE will create new and expanded social enterprises and training for our members in Automotive, Cleaning and Janitorial, Light Manufacturing and Window Washing, Construction and Renovations and Retail.
Our new Food Services thrust utilizing Food Trucks is now underway and our Property Services work, particularly snow removal, is buoyed by our three year contract with the City of Winnipeg for forty of their major public properties, Rempel said.
Clement added that for the future, the organization will continue to expand it’s volunteer opportunities program from the Board level on down and is currently embarking on a recruitment program to fill the necessary skill sets needed in the organization to allow for major fund raising to continue and new programs to be developed.
Rempel noted that that SSCOPE will be conducting a public awareness campaign throughout the year about the benefits of supporting Social Enterprises within the community, “Are You Enterprising Socially?” The organization has achieved some critical success in its annual “Festival4Mental Health” music and performance fund raising event, with the 2013 event set for the weekend of May 25.
It also is continuing with its Fourth Friday Music Night series at its Treasures Thrift Store at 1466 Arlington St beginning again on September 28th.
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The walk ended at the Manitoba Legislature before speakers asked the provincial government to give mental health the same priority as physical health
From the Step of the Legislature, June 15 Noon Hour
SSCOPE's Mobile Food Unit providing food to the walkers at the June 15 Walk for Mental Health
Join us on Friday June 22nd at 11:45 am at the Buchwald Room, second floor, at the Winnipeg Public Library. Open to the public and all those interesed in future development plans for SSCOPE, but very imporant that all employee-members who can attend please do.
Votes on important bylaw changes, election of new Board members, review of financial results from 2011-12, great food and desserts and door prizes, and our special guest speaker, Shaun Loney Executive Director of BUILD and member organization of the Social Enterprise Centre.
Don’t miss the SSCOPE Mobile Food Unit on display outside the Library that day.
For more information please call 987-6300 or email sscope@sscope.org
All the lovely members of Sweet Charity, our noon hour peformers, at our Hospitality Tent for performers and volunteers
a slightly fuzzy Rick Cabel, SSCOPE Star Karaoke winner, singing "With A Little Help From My Friends"
We’re proud to have Stu Porteous kick off our 2012 Rockin’ the Arlington Bridge 2012 Friday night at 7:00. Adminission is free, please donate as you can to SSCOPE and mental health.
The music experience connects us all and SSCOPE believes that this is a ideal way to bring our employee members, our volunteers and supporters and the community at large together.
More about Stu’s background can be found here. Check out his songs as well on You Tube. See at 1466 Arlington Friday night. It’s a double bill with Mike Melnyk and the Flip Cats playing their unique brand of rockabilly at 8:00 pm
And it’s open mic all afternoon until 6:45 pm for anyone interested in getting the Festival started for us earlier.
An update List of the Events at Rockin’ the Arlington Bridge 2012, Friday May 25 & Saturday May 26 a Festival and Fund raiser for SSCOPE and mental health is available Here. Performance Times for both days included. For more information call 987-6300 or email: sscope@sscope.org
Mike Madeire (l) and Yvette Chartrand (r) both seniior SSCOPE employee-members showing off our first ever Department of Health licence for Food Services at SSCOPE
It’s official. SSCOPE is now in the Food Services business. After several weeks of diligent work by all SSCOPE staff retrofitting the Mobile Unit, with special thanks to Mike Madeire for his tireless work, and with the support of various community businesses who donated their time and materials. SSCOPE is now, as of 10:00 am on May 16, licenced to create employment and serve great food, in the Food Services business. Our first Food Business venture is our Mobile Food Unit. Over 15 new jobs per payroll or more are expected to be created, adding to our present 50-55 jobs per payroll.
A full list of community supporters and business sponsors/partners to be published here shortly so we’re sure we don’t miss anyone who strongly believes in what SSCOPE is doing for mental health in this community. Come out May 25 and May 26 to our Fund raising Festival and Street Party at 1466 Arlington St (at Magnus) and enjoy some fine food from SSCOPE’s new Mobile Food Unit and enjoy great music both days.
We hope you’ll see us around and about from now on, and you’ll come up to say hello to our staff and enjoy the fine food they serve you!
Kyla Cederwall performing prior to the start of the SSCOPE Media and Public Event on May 11. Kyla and her band, along with Mark David Stollard, who performed after the event, will be back on May 25& 26 at Rockin' the Bridge for SSCOPE and Mental Health
SSCOPE Inc. announced it’s entry into the Foods Services business and the creation of a new social enterprise for the organization, on Friday May 11 as part of a Funder and Supporter Recognition Event in conjunction with Mental Health Week. Rick Frost, CEO, of Winnipeg Foundation was the keynote speaker. Representatives of most major donours and funders in Winnipeg were in attendance to be thanked by SSCOPE employee members and volunteers for their support SSCOPE’s programs.
SSCOPE’s first entry into Food Services will be a Mobile Food Unit that will allow SSCOPE to bring the food to where the customers are located and where the demand is.
SSCOPE also announced the start of its 2012-13 funding campaign with a goal of $185,000. One part of the campaign will be to raise $25,000 or more to create a Legacy Fund for the future operations of the organization, which will be matched by the Winnipeg Foundation.
View the News Release Announcements and The List of Supporters Recognized Here:
View the Background Papers on Mental Health and Employment Here (Importance of Work) Here (Hiring Those With a Mental Illness) and Here (Mental Health for All)
SSCOPE’s Treasures Thrift store at 1466 Arlington St. (between Burrows and Magnus Avenues) will open on Saturdays from 10-2 pm beginning this Saturday March 30th. Friday night shopping is already available to 10:00 pm on the fourth Friday of every month along with great music (except for March with the date being March 30th-note the promo for The Kicker and Matt Koop elsewhere).
Donours have been asking for another day on which to bring down valuable donations to the store and many shoppers who work all week want a weekend day to shop, said Lan Hong, SSCOPE’s acting retail manager. We will also keep increasing our promotions for shoppers she said. Currently we have Dollar Daze for books on Wednesday (3 for $1.00) and $1.00 for all clothing all day Friday
The store is firstly about more employment and training for our members, said Bob Rempel, Executive Director, but we increasingly recognize it has become an important destination for all thrift store shoppers and greadually becoming more of a community place, our goal, so it made sense to increase the hours we are open.
(excerpt from our March 23rd news release available here)
SSCOPE’s Treasures Thrift Store Performance Stage: An Intimate Musical Evening Series…for mental health and SSCOPE—–
Friday March 30 at 1466 Arlington St.
performing: “The Kicker” with Mike Koop at 8:15 pm. Preview The Kicker in video here
SSCOPE is holding its regular monthly “An Intimate Musical Evening with….for Mental Health and SSCOPE” series of events next Friday March 30th. Performing live will be The Kicker with Mike Koop at 8:15 pm, with their unique brand of power-pop. Admission is by donation, with food and snacks available. Open Mic at the Treasures Stage is available from 1:00 pm to 7:45 pm
The event will kick off SSCOPE’s Spring Cleanup yard work in April in the community, with homeowners, businesses and organizations encouraged to hire SSCOPE’s members for this job to help support our mission of providing real work…real jobs to those with mental health problems who otherwise would not be working. “Our standards are as high as others, our leaders are well qualified and our employee base wants and needs more work, said Bob Rempel, Executive Director. Call SSCOPE at 987-6302 to get the process started. Summer Lawn Maintenance services for May through September are also ready to be booked.
SSCOPE has also announced that it has set Saturday May 26 for it’s annual “let’s get the summer started” Rockin’ the Bridge music and street festival and public awareness day, for indoors and outdoors at 1466 Arlington St.
Already booked to perform to support SSCOPE and mental health on the 26th are: Azariah Paris, Garth German and the Biiver Band, D.B. Blues Band, The B-Side Apostles, Mercy-Mercy, The Davis Brothers, and The Shoulds, said Bob Rempel, many returning from last year, and we are now welcoming other new performers as well.
SSCOPE is presently expanding its Board of Directors from 7 members to 11 and is recruiting new Board members for an exciting volunteer opportunity to lead a growth oriented non profit with ever increasing demands on its resources. The following text is from an upcoming published Ad for Board member recruitment
Board of Directors needed
SSCOPE Inc is seeking new board members who will serve a minimum two year term. The members of the Board meet monthly and are based in Winnipeg. This is a great opportunity to build experience in a governance role, build solid relationships within the community, and garner an excellent reference for future use.
Role
Qualifications
How to apply
Please reply to Bob Rempel at bob@sscope.org to receive an application for the current Boards approval.
For more information on the organization please refer to http://www.sscope.org/
Check out Harmony’s music at this link. You’ll want to see her live.
Music and Dinner (catered by the Ellice Cafe) tickets available on our site here Enjoy a great night of music with the B-Side Apostles at 8:15 pm, and a chance to support SSCOPE, our employees, many of whom will be in attendance, and the cause of mental health at the same time.
February 10: Employee Members Advisory Group meeting-Rescheduled and now set for Friday Februrary 24th at 11:00 am
Wednesday February 15: Board of Directors Meeting 5:30 pm, 1466 Arlington St.
Wednesday February 22: Workplace Safety Committee: All Members welcome. 12:00 noon
Friday February 24: An Intimate Evening with… for SSCOPE and Mental Health series continues. Harmony Parent at 7:00pm, The B-Side Apostles (Larry Updike and Greg Glatz) at 8:15 pm. Admission with Ticket. Tickets can be obtained by calling 987-6302. Catered dinner by Ellice Cafe available.
February 24: Committee meeting for Rockin’ the Ridge 3, SSCOPE’s Music and Performance festival (for Saturday May 26) to create community awareness of our programs. New Performers welcome in our expanded format, Many others already committed to returning from 2011. 5:30 pm at 1466 Arlington St.
Friday February 24th, Open Mic at the Treasures by SSCOPE Stage 1:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Please Note: This meeting will now be held on Friday February 24th at 11:00 am, just prior to the optional Smoking Cessation orientation session.
There is a SSCOPE employee members meeting on Friday February 10 at 12:00 noon at 1466 Arlington St. to review new employment and support programs with the membership and get feedback on existing programs. We encourage everyone who wants to be considered for being part of the new employment programs to be in attendance. Staff and Board of Directors representatives will be in attendance.
This will be the first meeting at which SSCOPE will be encouraging members to bring along key support staff in their lives as well, including family members, organizational staff and even potential new members of our program.
As always there will be lots of food and beverages for everyone, plus a Gift Certificate for Treasures by SSCOPE store for all who attend.
February 24th Event Poster. Please call 987-6302 to book your tickets.
Global TV News in Winnipeg interviewed employee members of SSCOPE and ran a news story on Wednesday evening at 6:00pm January 4th, on our Christmas Tree pickup and recycling program. The program not only creates additional work for member employees with mental health difficulties, it helps raise funds for our non profit and our mission, and it’s an important part of recycling and reuse in our community.
View the Global news story HERE
Shaw Community Channel 9 is also currently airing a recent interview about SSCOPE and our Christmas Tree program which we do annually in conjunction with the City of Winnipeg CHIP-IT program, as part of our fundraising efforts to continue to expand our employment programs and services for our members with a mental health and related disabilities.
View the Shaw Community 9 story about SSCOPE and Christmas Tree recycling HERE
Here’s the link to the story.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/mental-illness-reaching-epidemic-level-136420518.html
It’s a worthy read and we encourage everyone to join this conversation about mental health.
The article notes employment levels are considerably lower for individuals with persistent mental health problems, something which SSCOPE has worked to address for the over 20 years of our existence. Currently we employ 40 to 50 individuals every payroll, with over 135 employed through SSCOPE in 2011. Our goal, with sufficient funding resources and development partnerships, is to at least double that by 2013, end of year.
Latest addition to SSCOPE's crew moving vehicles, a 2000 Chevrolet Suburban donated by Manitoba Hydro to help us serve our ever growing list of customers and jobs
SSCOPE recently found itself needing an additional vehicle to move crews around to the jobs sites as a result of a large new contract we received. A donated or loaned used vehicle would fit perfectly into our need for an additional work vehicle during high peak times.
Manitoba Hydro stepped forward almost immediately to our request, and blessed us with a fully saftied and repaired 2000 Chevrolet Suburban that just happened to be coming off it’s life for Manitoba Hydro. An almost one of a kind for them, with three rows of seats, this was very serendipitous time for SSCOPE. Thank you Hydro for supporting employment for mental health in Winnipeg and supporting the self initiated stable coping and recovery lives for our members.
One it’s first day of use, December 16, we were able to deliver Ryan and Nigel to a job site at Sentinel Storage as part of our new Community Placements employment program, vist 15 City of Winnipeg properties to clear snow and transport 12 member-workers to our Christmas luncheon. Thank you sincerely to Shirley, Doug, Steve and Mr. Brennan of Manitoba Hydro for seeing the value of the SSCOPE program to the community.
Our letter to Bob Brennan, President of Manitoba Hydro is below:
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November 25, 2011
Mr. Bob Brennan, President
Manitoba Hydro
360 Portage Ave
Winnipeg, MB R3C 0G8
Dear Mr. Brennan:
We are writing you to request your immediate assistance to our non profit organization, if possible, with an additional vehicle requirement. SSCOPE is a registered charity: # 135298115RR0001
We recently received a large snow shoveling contract with the City of Winnipeg for City Hall, police stations, libraries etc, that will create 12 new jobs within our organization, plus we do snow shoveling work for Manitoba Housing and over 75 other residential and commercial properties. Earlier this week one of our crew vehicles was damaged by vandalism and we are unable to continue to use it. We are now looking at the most cost efficient ways to replace that vehicle at this late date.
We are hoping the Manitoba Hydro may have a Crew Cab truck or passenger van you could loan or donate to SSCOPE that would at least take us through the end of the snow season season to early April, 2012. We would also be pleased to take on additional snow shoveling.
By way of background, SSCOPE is currently actively developing and expanding our mission of providing employment to needy individuals in Winnipeg with mental health issues. We are adding more and more training components to the on the job experience we already provide. The demand for our services continues to grow. Each month we receive 10-15 new applications, in November already over 20.
We want to give our over 130 active members/labour force more usable skills to help them in transition from basic labour jobs to working in construction, automotive, retail and the food services industry. Existing WRHA core funding just partially covers on the day to day operating expenses of the organization. It is the goal of the Board of Directors and the Staff for the organization to become self sufficient within two years.
Your assistance is important to allow us to continue to expand our mission to serve more individual and provide a higher level of skills and experience to them, making them more employable and more productive within the city and provincial labour force. We of course will provide full and appropriate recognition for Manitoba Hydro.
Please contact me for any more information your require about our request or SSCOPE in general. My direct email is bob@sscope.org and direct phone is 987-6302. Thank you sincerely
Yours sincerely,
Bob Rempel
Executive Director
2010 Christmas Luncheon at Canton Buffet
SSCOPE Christmas luncheon will be held December 16 at Canton Buffet at 1111 Logan Ave., at McPhillips starting at 11:45 am. See directions here. Our third year in a row at this venue, it’s a popular location with an all you can eat buffet.
All employee-members who worked with SSCOPE this past year are being contacted by the Office and being encouraged to attend our 2011 Luncheon and celebration of the strides forward for the organization in 2011. Staff and Board Members will also be in attendance. If members need a ride to the lunch please be at SSCOPE’s office at 1466 Arlington St.
We thank our many customers and suppliers who generously donated to the cost of the luncheon for SSCOPE and to our Member Support Fund to allow us to provide door prizes, gifts and certificates to our employees. Treasures by SSCOPE , our own thrift store, will be also be providing all those in attendance with a Christmas gift certificate.
In 2011, over 130 employees with mental health disabilities and other issues, have worked with SSCOPE, within our supported work environment, earning nearly $100,000 in wages.
Sign Designer and Painter, Richard Williams
Treasures window as of Friday December 9th
A new SSCOPE employee-member has brought years of signage experience to the organization allowing us to begin a new on the job training experience in the Signage industry for some of our members. What better way to get started then to get SSCOPE’s offices and Treasures Thrift store ready for the Christmas season. View the pictures and results below and we welcome you to drop by before Christmas to support our Gift Fund for our employee members through your generous donation or purchases at Treasures.
Fittingly, a SSCOPE staff member, team leader Marvin Thiessen, is the first performer on the new Treasures by SSCOPE stage
Our stage is nearing completion and other preparations are continuing for Friday’s Treasures by SSCOPE live music and karaoke fun night as we kick off the Christmas season and celebrate recent successes at SSCOPE. Everyone most welcome to join with our employees and support SSCOPE.
The L.L. Folk Group (a D.B. Blues Band spinoff) will be performing at 8:00 pm with karaoke starting at 5:00 pm. Hourly specials at the store, great donated door prizes up for auction bid and many buy-one-get-one free deals as well. For more information call 987-6300 or email sscope@sscope.org
SSCOPE has recently added a 2011 Ford F150 XLT 1/2 ton Truck to its complement of work vehicles thanks to the generosity and support of the Winnipeg Foundation, the Thomas Sill Foundation, and the Manitoba Community Services Council. It was purchased from Parkside Ford in Winnipeg after a competitive bid process. The vehicle will be primarily used as the lead vehicle for equipment and crew transportation for our Property Maintenance division. SSCOPE also continues to operate our 2000 3/4 Ton Crew Cab vehicle,, our 2007 Ford F450 3 Ton Moving and Deliveries Van, plus a rental passenger van for moving crews as needed.
New Signage Outside SSCOPE Treasures Thrift Store at 1466 Arlington St.
Please join us on Friday evening, November 25th at Treasures by SSCOPE at 1466 Arlington St. as we get Christmas Shopping started with many Buy 1 Get 1 Free Specials, plus kickoff use of our coffeehouse style permanent stage in the facility witk karaoke and live performances. It will also be a celebration of a large new contract for winter work recently awarded to SSCOPE. Treasures will be open from 10:00 am to Late that day.
See the flier here and see you at Treasures, Friday night November 25th
Four SSCOPE employees filling the North Hill order
We are nearing completion of a new assembly and packaging contract for North Hill Environmental involving the labeling and filling of 3900 units for retail sale.
Our new facility at 1466 Arlington allows us to store and warehouse the items for the owner while the work is ongoing. In addition we are able to provide transportation services to the owner’s location with the three ton truck we own, when the job will be done later this week. Jim Hilderman, owner of North Hill, has worked closely with SSCOPE during the contract and it has proven to be a good working relationship.
SSCOPE workers and supervisors demonstrated we can take on projects like this and we are actively seeking out more to continue to provide a wide variety of work opportunities through our “businesses for a cause”, at SSCOPE Inc., said Bob Rempel, Executive Director.
Work is continuing on our Employee-Member Lounge and Training Centre at SSCOPE’s 1466 Arlington St location. Demand for our job experience and employment programs in a supportive environment continues to expand rapidly and SSCOPE wants to add a training component to our activities. Just to start we have already been training over 10 employee-members in some basic construction and renovations skills, a new program for our organization.
We are grateful to all the businesses that have already donated goods and materials and we hope others will join and come on board in the next few weeks as our work continues with a Food Services area and a Performers area.
Thank you from our over 140 employees members whose lives you are positively impacting by your generosity to: (listed in random order)
Battlefield Equipment
CT Rental
Kenroc
Reimer Soils
Ambrosie Lighting
EECOL
PlasticFab
General Paint
Western Paint
Home Depot
Rona
Princess Auto
Stanley Black & Decker
Our Fall Cleanup fund raising campaign is underway. Whether it’s yard and leaf clean up, garage or basement clean up or just leaf pickup and removal SSCOPE can help you. By hiring us you are helping our employee members who cope with mental health issues daily but are ready to work hard with our supervisor. View our media release here
Text below
(For Immediate Release-(4/10/11)
SSCOPE issues timely advisory for Fall Yard Clean Up Services. Clean Up-Clean Out is the theme for October for SSCOPE!
SSCOPE Inc. a Winnipeg non profit supporting mental health through employment and job training, has issued an urgent plea to the Winnipeg community to support the organization’s job creation by booking the SSCOPE employee-member crews and supervisor to provide a full Fall Yard Cleanup service from now until the snow flies.
Executive Director, Bob Rempel said, “we have a strong growing demand for more work from our members as our programs have become better recognized in the community for the real benefits they can provide an individual wishing to resume more normal functioning.” “Our move to new quarters at 1466 Arlington St. and the opening of Treasures by SSCOPE retail thrift store, plus the start of other employment programs has obviously also helped,” he added.
Clean Up-Clean Out is the theme word for October. SSCOPE is offering a timely opportunity to its Yard Cleanup customers. For an additional $50 or more contribution to SSCOPE, the organization will help you remove up to 10 items up to medium size and weight from your garage, basement or house, such as furniture,and take them to the landfill, or if appropriate, recycle them at our Treasures by SSCOPE thrift store.
SSCOPE also picks up bagged yard leaves as part of its fund raising at a cost of $2.00 per bag, with a $20.00 minimum, and brings them to the City of Winnipeg Leaf It With Us drop off sites around Winnipeg.
SSCOPE provides a full Property service for single family properties, condos, apartments, small business, non profits and others. New equipment, with the support of the Winnipeg Foundation and the Thomas Sill Foundation, will allow SSCOPE to double its customer base this fall. Snow shoveling services start after November 1 and runs until March 31.
Rempel said all forms of support are most welcome as the non profit strives to create more employment for those with mental health and related disabilities in ways that benefit the community and our members. We continue to welcome community partners for our new SSCOPE Food Services and Automotive programs, our Retail expansion, as well as our Entertainment stage within the Store.
SSCOPE currently assists 120 employee members per year, with casual and part time employment, in its various business enterprises with a cause. Approximately $100,000 is currently paid out annually in wages and benefits to those with a mental health disability or issue working for SSCOPE.
For more information or to make arrangements for Clean Ups please contact SSCOPE at 987-6300, visit the website at www.sscope.org or email sscope@sscope.org.
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Contact: Bob Rempel, 987-6302 office
Fall Cleanup Work 2010 on Tuxedo property
SSCOPE’s fall fund raising campaign includes our Yard Cleanup work in October. For a typical fee of $75 to $150, depending on the size of property, a SSCOPE supervisor and a crew of 3 or 4 SSCOPE members will come and prepare your lawn before the snow flies.
Your property will be beneficiary, but equally important, SSCOPE’s over 100 active members, all with mental health and related issues, who are asking daily for more and more work and income from our organization, will be the beneficiaries.
Other cleanup work on your property, your garage or your basement can easily be arranged for the time when we are working on your property. Please call 987-6300 to book your address with us.
For more information on our Fall Cleanup Program please click here to view our one page Flier.
Employee-member meeting on August 19 at SSCOPE, discussing new employment programs
We received this unsolicited feedback about SSCOPE after a new employee went out on his first shift with SSCOPE. We felt it was worth sharing unedited to the community of potential employee members, donors and those who are considering hiring a SSCOPE job crew.
“Firstly, I would like to thank-you for the opportunity of working for SSCOPE.. Again, I would like to emphasize that your organization’s vision and objectives to help integrate people with mental disabilities into the work force is extremely noble and most commendable. I was able to witness (first hand) the important services SSCOPE can provide to the public and the rewarding experience this can be to a person’s self esteem.. Self esteem and self confidence are definately a major challenge when suffering from a mental disease and trying to re-enter the workforce. SSCOPE provides a “new hope” for people in this situation.”
Tommy Prince Park looking west
Off we went at 9:00 am, about 25 strong, walking from 1466 Arlington St, to Sgt. Tommy Prince Park at Selkirk and Battery, cleaning and picking up litter along the way. You would have seen the crew in their powder blue new SSCOPE Team shirts.
At the park we discovered there are no litter bins, partly the reason for the amount of litter lying around such a beautiful area. Later in the day we pitched to City Councillor Mike Paktaghan, the possibility of SSCOPE adopting the park and actually doing real enhancements to the facility.
The group dispersed and we spent approximately an hour cleaning the litter and debris in the park and cleaned along the way back to 1466 Arlington, our headquarters. SSCOPE is a NorthEnd citizen now, official on August 19th, unofficially as of July 1 and we hope to become a valued member of the community in the months and years ahead.
Special thanks to Candace Maxymowich, our Urban Green Team funded Summer Student, who organized all the details of the Clean Up and kept the Team on track through the morning. Our students always come to us with many talents, current and potential, and a big heart it seems and Candace is no exception.
The Official Ribbon Cutting of SSCOPE's new facility at 1466 Arlington St. L-R: Yvette Chartrand representing SSCOPE's employee members, George Paskieka, SSCOPE Board Chair, Bob Rempel, SSCOPE Executive Director, Councillor Mike Paktaghan, City of Winnipeg
Our employee members and the community responded enthusiastically to our August 19 opening of Treasures by SSCOPE and the official ribbon of SSCOPE’s new facility at 1466 Arlington St.
Donations for Treasures started to flow in on Friday and we are very grateful. We accept donation from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Monday to Friday, or by special arrangement by calling 987-6300
We particularly want to thank two of our current employee members: Elton Plett who performed for us after the ceremony and Garry Yanyu, who handled all the cooking for many hours. Elton does some great music and Garry is preparing to study to be a chef, and we are grateful to have two people with excellent skills assisting us.
We also want to thank Rona at Kenaston Boulevard for loaning us a commercial grade BBQ and Sobeys at Burrows and Keewatin for donating soft drinks to SSCOPE employees and the community for the day.
Special
New Signage Outside SSCOPE Treasures Thrift Store at 1466 Arlington St.
Our official opening ceremony is this Friday August 19th at Noon.
You can find the full text of our August 16th News Release Here.
An excerpt from the release:
Unlike most “thrift” stores, the people staffing the store will be the direct beneficiaries of its operation. They will staff the store and learn new transferable skills they can use to find full time work down the road.
”We know there are many places to go and shop but being right in the neighbourhood where people can get to us easily and find gently used quality goods for less is a real and needed service to our community. Best of all it supports Mental Health in a visible way by providing work for the people who are recovering from or coping with their illness”, said Rempel.
Our news release which went out on August 11th, asking for Donations from the public and business for Treasures by SSCOPE, is available for download here
Treasures by SSCOPE at 1466 Arlington St. on June 26, 2011
We need your donations of new and used items for our Treasures for SSCOPE store by Thursday August 18th and donation of BBQ’s in good condition that we can use to feed the many people who will attend our Event on August 19th.
SSCOPE is holding a Official Opening and Open House on August 19th and 20th starting at Noon at our new 1466 Arlington St. location as we celebrate the continued development of the organization. It will be a great opportunity to shop at Treasures by SSCOPE our new retail thrift store. The store is full now, but we need to double the store inventory if possible, through your donations, so we can increase our sales that weekend.
As well, if you have BBQ’s in good condition, or even new ones if you are retail store or distributor please consider donating the cooking gear to us so we can provide some thank you food to our many supporters who will come out that day.
All forms of support are most welcome as strive to create more employment for those with mental health and related disabilities in ways that benefit the community and our members. We continue to fundraise for a new Work Vehicle for the organization and just need another approximately $10,000 to take us over the top to acquire a new fuel efficient vehicle that will allow us to take on more work and more employees.
For more information or to make arrangements please contact our office at 987-6300 or email sscope@sscope.org
SSCOPE's new location at 1466 Arlington St. Official Opening on August 19th
Mark your calendars for Friday August 19th and Saturday August 20th, marking the official opening of SSCOPE’s new facility at 1466 Arlington St, particularly our Treasures by SSCOPE thrift store, our Automotive services and future cafe/food services business.
The official ribbon cutting ceremony will take place at 12:30 pm at the entrance to the building at Arlington and Magnus, followed with food, fun and music through the afternoon and then again Saturday from 9:00 to 3:00 pm. The community and all those who support SSCOPE, family, friends and customers, are most welcome to come by our Treasures by SSCOPE store for great deals all weekend and special prizes.
For our employee-members we have a day filled with a Work Party at Sgt. Tommy Prince Veteran’s Park at 9:00, our first adopted SSCOPE community project, followed by a meeting at 11:00 am. You are most welcome to join our Community Work Party that day, something we do several or more times a year to show our support for the community that supports us. Please meet us at 8:45 at SSCOPE or meet us at the Park on Selkirk Ave.
For more information contact us at 987-6300
We often receive comments of praise for our program and our workers’ effort verbally, and are mostly unable to capture them for those who are considering to whether to do business with SSCOPE and support our cause in Winnipeg. We felt the three below were worth sharing. We hope you agree.
SSCOPE Property Services business continues to grow
On July 14 one of our lawn customers, Mr. Stevens of Warsaw Ave. dropped by our office at 1466 Arlington St. to pay his monthly lawn maintenance invoice, and went out of his way to say how impressed he was with the work of our SSCOPE crews and the Team Leader during their weekly visits. He was comparing us to other services and companies in the marketplace that he had working for him in the past or he had seen working, not to critique them, but to remark on our standards and the professionalism of our Leaders.
On July 21, another customer, Mr. Ramsay of Jefferson Ave, who is one of a number of our customers who receive Veterans Affairs benefits for lawn services, said to our Team Leader, “You do a great job, I can count on you guys” Our Team Leader passed this wonderful comment on to his crew and shared it with the Office Administration staff.
We are very grateful for customers such as this who appreciate the service and effort we provide and understand the additional positive benefits they can make in people’s lives when they hire SSCOPE workers.
The next testimonial came in by email on July 18th and we feel it’s appropriate to mention the company’s name as they made an extra effort to hire SSCOPE workers when many other options were available to them.
Sentinel Storage North Winnipeg very pleased with SSCOPE workers
To: Executive Director, SSCOPE
Randy R. and Robert Z. worked at Sentinel today from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00
p.m.
They were quick and good workers and we were pleased with the work they did
for us We would definitely have them back if required.
Thank you.
Jim & Val French
Site Managers
Sentinel Self-Storage
11 Paramount Road
Winnipeg, MB R2X 2W6
P 204-694-9578
www.sentinel.ca
Most of SSCOPE’s efforts are focused on developing and operating our own social enterprises so we can create longer term employment opportunities, with our large base of registered employee members, all with mental health issues or disability, a growing component of what we do is our SSCOPE Job Force. Recent customers have included Manitoba Housing, Health Sciences Centre, various individuals throughout Winnipeg, and others in the private sector such as Sentinel, where we provided labour and support for jobs lasting a half day or more.
Call us at 987-6300 to consult with us about your project and schedule and book the SSCOPE Job Force for your needs.
SSCOPE employee members voting at June 24 AGM
Our members and those interested in mental health strategies in Manitoba will find the Mental Health Strategic Plan, released this week by the province, of interest. Download a copy of the Mental Health Strategic Plan here
SSCOPE leadership will review the document over the next couple of weeks and attempt to determine how the strategic document and statements of intent will be translated into real financial support for organizations such as ours which perform a vital role in the lives of those with mental disabilities.
SSCOPE encourages those who interact with provincial politicians and senior bureaucrats over the next few months, as we move closer to a provincial election, to tell the SSCOPE story and to ask what it will take to see provincial level support for our organization increased. We are presently receiving from 8-15 applications for work every month, on top of our existing 120 employee member base.
For more information about SSCOPE programs and how you can support mental health by supporting our employment programs, contact the Executive Director at 987-6302 or by email at sscope@sscope.org
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2010-11 AGM at Winnipeg Public Library
SSCOPE continued to grow in 2010-11. See the most recent SSCOPE Facts, released as part of our annual report by clicking SSCOPE Facts here. You can review our financial results, which were approved by the organizations’ members at the well attended June 24th AGM by clicking the link below.
SSCOPE 2010-11 Financial Statement
Accountant\’s Engagement Letter
For more information about SSCOPE and our programs please call our office at 1466 Arlington St., Winnipeg, 987-6300
Just ahead of the opening of our new retail and office/shop location at 1466 Arlington St, (between Burrows and Magnus) in Winnipeg on Monday June 27, SSCOPE’s Annual General Meeting for our employee members will be held Friday June 24 at the Buchwald Room, 2nd Floor, Winnipeg Public Library, Donald and Graham Street at 11:50 am. Food, the Year in Pictures and Video, Questions and Anwers and a short business meeting. Our guest speaker is Carolyn Strutt, Director of Mental Health Community Programs for the WRHA. Everyone welcome! Please confirm your attendance with our office at 987-6300 by 10:00 am Friday.
Paradize
Clyde Heerah, leader of the Paradize group has stepped up to support SSCOPE Inc. and mental health. We’ve added Paradize to the bill for 6:00 pm to bring Caribbean music, soca and reggae to Vimy Ridge Ridge after a great day of folk, rock, pop and alternative music at Winnipeg’s first summer festival of 2011. All performers contributing their time and energy to support the work of SSCOPE in Winnipeg. See you at Vimy Ridge. Tell your friends and neighbors and bring items for our garage sale fund raising or special donations for prizes if you can.
Winnipeg’s First Summer Festival for 2011!
Entertainment/Performers Main Stage: (subject to last minute change: contact us 987-6300 or by email sscope@sscope.org
Full news release for download here:
11:50 am: Opening Remarks and Greetings from SSCOPE member Brian Henderson
12:00 Noon: Glenn Zaretski and Emerald Highway,
12:45 pm: Azariah and Guests,
1:30 Joel Nickel,
1:45: Breathworks Demonstration and Audience Participation (Stephan Pfund)
2:00 pm: DB Blues Band,
2:45: Chill Axe
3:30 Yoga Demonstration and Audience Participation (Moksha Yoga),
3:45 pm: Garth German Band,
4:30 pm The Kicker,
5:15 pm: Stone Throw Second
All entertainers/performers performing in support of SSCOPE and mental health and we thank them sincerely. Thank you to our major sponsors: Assiniboine Credit Union, Manitoba Hydro, Payworks, Parkside Ford and many more community minded organizations and businesses that support mental health and SSCOPE’s work in the community.
