SSCOPE Supports Winnipeg Jets Promoting Mental Health Discussion

Posted on February 6, 2013 by admin

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.

Manitoba Public Insurance supports SSCOPE

Posted on February 4, 2013 by admin

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.

SSCOPE has new Public Service Advertising Spots

Posted on October 8, 2012 by admin

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.

Spot 1

Spot 2

Spot 3

Fall Cleanups Start Now…all October

Posted on October 1, 2012 by admin

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

SSCOPE in Winnipeg Free Press Today, Monday July 16, 2013

Posted on July 16, 2012 by admin

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

SSCOPE in LITE Newsletter

Posted on July 12, 2012 by admin

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

Mental Health Problems Reaching Epidemic Levels, says Winnipeg Free Press article

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

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.

Fall Clean Up-Clean Out Campaign Starts October 4th

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

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

Special Plea For Assistance-We Need Your Donated Items Now

Posted on August 9, 2011 by

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 Workers Do Great Job-3 Testimonials

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

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 2010-11 Financial Statements Released

Posted on July 1, 2011 by

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

SSCOPE now accepting new donations for retail, other fund raising

Posted on May 15, 2011 by

Our 2010 Garage Sale at Vimy Ridge. Bigger and better this year on May 28th. Starts at 12:00 noon.

This is our online advertising regarding our new Donate to SSCOPE…support Mental Health program.
“SSCOPE Inc. will pick up your donated items for resale and reuse at our garage sale and a soon to be opened retail and food services training location for our employee members. Watch for our opening announcement re our 1466 Arlington location.

Automoibiles, books, vinyl, other music, working electronics, arts and crafts, furniture, collectibles, building materials, etc. Donation receipts for items with established market value over $100. We appreciate your support. Please call our office at 987-6300 or email us. We also pick up your usuable unsold garage sale items.

Our website is http://www.sscope.org . We create and provide employment for people with a mental health disability. Lawn, snow, moving, window washing, cleaning services, general labour and more. You can support SSCOPE and mental health by hiring for work you need done as well. Our membership is growing rapidly and we need more work.

Join us at Rockin’ the Ridge 2011…for mental health at 12:00 noon for garage sale, great music all afternoon and a lot more for all ages. Vimy Ridge Park, Winnipeg. Winnipeg’s first summer festival each year. Donations welcome.”
Of note: SSCOPE is initiating it’s new programs to create more employment in Winnipeg during Mental Health week May 1-7th. We fully support an excellent initiative by one of Canada’s leading corporate entitities, Bell Canada, called, “Let’s talk about mental health”, featuring Manitoba native Clara Hughes.

Let’s talk….! Let’s act…!

A Customer Tells Us The Relevance of SSCOPE!

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

SSCOPE takes on large and small snow shoveling jobs on contract to provide meaningful work for our members

Joyce M. is a lawn and snow customer who lives in the West

End and started using our services this spring. She

recently made a generous donation to our Christmas

lunch and gift fund for our employee-members and

made these comments at the same time.

“I have a daughter with a disability and I know how

important meaningful work can be in a person’s life.

I have spent most of her life advocating for equality for

her with government. I think you are providing a

wonderful service, not only to the community, but also

to the individuals associated with your organization, who

regardless of their personal challenges, take pride in their

work. It is so important for us all to have a purpose and

a sense of accomplishment in our day-to-day living.

Quality of life is so important and employment

enhances a person’s self-esteem and motivation. Bravo!

I will certainly continue to be a loyal customer and have

told many of my contacts/friends about your services.”

Snow Shoveling Service on TV

Posted on November 28, 2010 by

Condo Client in East Kildonan

Our snow shoveling was at one of our many customers

on Thursday, November 25th when Shaw TV caught

up with us. You can view their television piece HERE

or catch it on Cable Channel 9. We continue to add

customers who want to support the SSCOPE

mission of providing gainful employment for those

with a mental health disability in return for the

good quality of supervised work we provide.

SSCOPE Christmas Fund Raising

Posted on November 17, 2010 by

The Helping Circle

View the Christmas Fund Raising flier sent out to supporters of SSCOPE in the past two weeks…here. Please consider supporting our Christmas dinner and gift presentations for our employee members with a mental health disability with a donation. And equally as beneficial, support their desire to work by giving SSCOPE your snow shoveling, lawn cutting, light moving, building cleaning or general labour job. Your donations in kind of useful resaleable products are also much appreciated.

Download the flier here

SSCOPE INC….supporting mental health recovery

Treasures, our retail thrift store Hrs: 9-4 M-F, 9-1 Sat. and SSCOPE offices, 8-4 M-F, are located at 1466 Arlington St. Winnipeg, MB. R2X 1T8 (204) 987-6300, sscope@sscope.org

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