Take a look at the latest SSCOPE 2013 newsletter with great stories about Tyler Fehr, one of our members, a story about the Winnipeg Jets mental health initiative, a feature on Split Crooked, a featured act at our May 24-25 Festival4MentalHealth at SSCOPE and much more. We welcome your comments after you read the newsletter. Please be a SSCOPE ambassador and forward a copy to your friends and network.
Read it HERE
This is an ad we recently posted on a high traffic classified ad website.
“SSCOPE Inc. is a non profit organization supporting mental health recovery through employment t 1466 Arlington St, operating Treasures Thrift Store from one location.
We wish to partner with a supportive landlord/developer or tenant with considerable extra space or sublet space to help us open additional medium to high end thrift and recycling stores in good to very locations in Winnipeg over the next 12-24 months in a cost effective manner to assist our fund raising and employment generation. Thank you.
Please contact our executive director for more information or reply by email. Bob Rempel, SSCOPE Inc. 204 987-6302 More information on our organization is available on our website at sscope.org”
As we grow, retail stores, help SSCOPE create more employment for a wider group of individuals that want and need to get back into regular employment with additional income. If you know of some potential opportunities for SSCOPE please contact us.
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Winnipeg’s first summer festival!
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Watch an excerpt of the original song, “The Snow Shoveling Blues” written for SSCOPE and SSCOPE employee members who have the challenge of serving SSCOPE many snow shoveling to honour SSCOPE committments through -30 windy conditions and often several feet of snow to contend. The Snow Shoveling Blues
Marvin Thiessen works for SSCOPE as our Operations Supervisor, and wrote the song and performed it first time in public with his band seen also at this link, The Snow Shoveling Blues at SSCOPE Live Friday February 22 event.
Watch more great LIve Performances at SSCOPE recent Live Friday nights on YouTube here. Or search for channel SSCOPE2 at http://www.youtube.com
We will be announcing our Live Streaming For Charity Channel for our events soon as well.
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
The Myths of Mental Illness…it’s worth reading, by clicking the link, and perhaps help you understand why providing meaningful jobs to those working hard to recover and cope with mental health problems is so important to help them get healthier. Please use the comments to let us know what you think about the Myths and whether the SSCOPE system is an effective support program.
The Davis Brothers are one of our featured acts on January 25 at SSCOPE’s Treasures Thrift Store Cafe and Coffeehouse, playing a great set of classic rock and blues.
Live Fridays are back January 25th at SSCOPE’s Treasures Thrift Store Cafe and Coffeehouse Stage starting at 6:45 pm. Come out and hear Mykala Zacharias (link to reverbnation website), The Davis Brothers and Unkl Elephant (click for You Tube link) as they play sets of folk, classic rock and blues, and originals that will get your hands clapping and feet moving. Please mark the date now and come out and support Manitoba’s great musicians who entertain and support SSCOPE’s work to make this community a more caring and healthier community for everyone.
Mark the dates of May 24-26 as well for SSCOPE’s fourth annual Rockin’ the Bridge-Festival4MentalHealth music festival and community days.
The Christmas Tree pickup program took centre stage at SSCOPE late last week keeping our employees busy. We expect the demand to continue to for another two weeks or so bringing welcome employment and revenue to SSCOPE in our efforts to help those with mental health difficulties by creating real employment.
The fee for a SSCOPE Team Leader and employee-members to come by and pickup your tree for recycling throughout the City of Winnipeg is $25.00, cheque, cash upon pickup or credit card in advance. There is an additional $5.00 surcharge for pickups in outlying regions of Winnipeg.
To book your Christmas tree pickup please email sscope@sscope.org with details, with the words Christmas Tree Pickup in the “subject” line, or call 204 987-6300.
View our website post of media coverage of last year’s program HERE
Thank you for your ongoing support of SSCOPE’s programs to support mental health recovery through real employment and our efforts n this initiative to make Winnipeg a better community through recycling and reuse. Please consider using our other SSCOPE services that provide a true win-win: Snow Shoveling, Lawn Maintenance, Moving, Cleaning and Janitorial, Thrift Stores, Vending, Construction Site Services, Automotive Detailing and more.
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Tweet December 21 at SSCOPE. Great day, wonderful support from donours to our employee member Christmas party which coincided with our Live Fridays Christmas show in the evening. Without the very generous support of Wescon Enterprises, Parkside Ford, Creswin Properties … Continue reading
Watch for the following two messages at the large signboard at the Portage and Fort, courtesy of Creswin Properties. SSCOPE member-employees sincerely appreciate the ongoing partnership we have with Creswin and their staff.
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
| 6th Mth Totals | 6 Mth Totals |
| 2012 April 1 to September 30 | 2011 Year April 1 to September 30th |
| Total Employee Members 132 | 90 |
| New Applications 61 | 58 |
| New Employee Members Starting 33 | 44 |
| Total Jobs All Members 1671 | 1526 |
| Total Hours Worked 5718.4 | 5471.70 |
| Total Payroll Dollars $62,529.35 | $54,179.50 |
| Average Payroll Size 54 | 45.5 |
SSCOPE continues to show positive growth in terms of serving our employee members with gainful employment to support their mental health recovery. We are well on track to having close to 200 employees on payroll this year We are being challenged to put more new employee members to work until we can develop new employment generation partnerships with the business and government sector.
When we do develop those partnerships we ask for the communities generous donations to help us backfill all the job equipment and support needs we have for our members. We give them “A Reason To Believe”, “A Promise of Better Days”. We Aim To Help To Keep Them From the Expensive Hospital and Care System and Bring Stability To Their Lives. Can We Count On Your Support??
Please call the Director of Development at 204 987-6302 or email: bob@sscope.org to talk about SSCOPE’s needs and how you can get involved with our mission and purpose.
You can view videos of SSCOPE activities and programs on YouTube. Just click the YouTube link.
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
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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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.
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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.
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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.
Melanie Wight, the MLA for Burrows dropped us a note recently to say “thank you for the excellent work this summer”…for me and my constituents…”Do you do winter work”.
And of course we responded that we certainly do and are looking to expand our snow shoveling customers in 2012-13 to help us create more work for the every growing demand. We also for her assistance in helping getting the word out to her constituents about SSCOPE and of course she responded positively. We are very grateful to Melanie; she is a strong supporter of our organization and our mission and purpose and our activities such as our music nights and festivals.
Get donors thinking about #SSCOPE ..10 Steps to Create The Best Year-End Fundraising Campaign Ever http://t.co/sVmYIZ1i via @sscopeinc
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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
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"
Treasures by SSCOPE retail is expanding its Music and Video Department and is asking for the community to search for all types of musical and video equipment and recordings you have stashed away that will help SSCOPE in our work to create more employment and programs for those with mental health issues. Pickups of a large quantity of donations can be arranged by contacting us by email at sscope@sscope.org or by phone to 987-6302.
We will make special arrangements and provide donation receipts to pickup on Estate house clear outs, as well as accept vehicles and boats, property and securities for donations. Please call our Director at 987-6302 for donations valued at over $1000.00
We sincerely appreciate your support of our programs and ongoing developments at SSCOPE.
We’re picking up Trees again in 2012 for removal and recycling at the Chip It sites operated by the City of Winnipeg. Donation per tree to our non profit is $20 or more per tree. Please call 987-6300 to book your pickup or email sscope@sscope.org.
Thank you for supporting SSCOPE and our employment programs for mental health!
Unloading at a local Chip It Site in 2011
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
Here is the text from our flier for our new Automotive program at SSCOPE.
SSCOPE opens Automotive and Small Engine Service at 1466 Arlington St.
SSCOPE Automotive
Repairs, Servicing & Detailing at Great Rates for a Cause
Or Donate Your Vehicles(s) To SSCOPE
Automotive and Small Engines Servicing, Repairs and Detailing now available. Support our cause and get a great job at some of the best rates in the city! Call 987-6300 and ask for the Automotive Dep’t. We are located at 1466 Arlington St. All work by prior appointment. Opening specials lasting through end of August.
SSCOPE Inc. is a Winnipeg non profit that operates various business enterprises, including property services, moving, vending, commercial cleaning and now Treasures, our retail thrift store. Our cause is training, employment and income for our employee members with mental health and related issues. See our website at http://www.sscope.org
Detail your car, truck or other vehicle prior to show and sale and save big. Many automotive and small engine services available including Automotive Detailing, Repairs (vehicles, mowers, etc., servicing, Light parts remove and replace, Tire plugs, Mirror and Glass replacement and much more. Consult us today at 987-6300
DONATE YOUR VEHICLE(S)
Yes! SSCOPE will take your unwanted vehicle in donation at 1466 Arlington St, and use it to provide training and work for our employee members who have mental health issues or to assist our fund raising. Donation receipts are available.
If you want to support an organization whose cause is mental health and providing jobs and wages for those who have mental health problems, and you have a unneeded vehicle or more, this an easy way to do it.
Call us today at 987-6300 or visit us from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm Monday to Friday at 1466 Arlington St. (between Burrows and Magnus)
News Update:
1. Our May 28th event, which we moved indoors at the last minute to our new home at 1466 Arlington St., was successful with many strictly volunteer performers, great music and we don’t meant that lightly, and lots of bargain hunters all afternoon into the early evening. Watch for pictures and detailed list of all those who performed on the website shortly. Nearly $2,300 was raised for SSCOPE, even though our goal was just to create greater public awareness for the organization.
2. We are almost at full capacity for our Lawn Services Business with 62 customers, a record high for the organization, up over 10-14 over previous years. In addition we have two large Manitoba Housing commercial projects at their condos, just started in late May, which we thank them for, that will create at least 5 new job positions for our employee members. We currently average 8 new applications a month with some months as high as 15.
3. SSCOPE’s new office location, retail and customer service training centre, plus shop facilities will all be at 1466 Arlington St., as of June 27. SSCOPE’s office remains at 1000 Notre Dame until the 27th. The shop facilities and employee-member bases for lawn and moving work is at Arlington as of June 3rd.
4. SSCOPE’s AGM will be held on Friday June 24th at 11:50 am at the Buchwald Room at the Winnipeg Public Library. Carolyn Strutt of the WRHA is the guest speaker. The event is open to the public and all those interested in SSCOPE’s work are welcome.
RTR 2011...for mental health
Two new musical additions that we’re excited about are The Kicker and Second Time Around, joining returnees: Azariah, Connie Miron Band, Garth German Band (also known as Biiver Band), D.B. Blues Band and Chill Axe.
Check out their music at the following links:
Performances start at Noon. Free Admission. The entertainment lineup for the day will be announced on May 16. Please be a SSCOPE and mental ambassador and tell your friends face-t0-face and through the social media.
Rockin’ the Ridge 2011…for mental health Performers Announcement
RTR 2011...for mental health
Entertainment Main Stage: (subject to change: set times to be announced May 16-Music Start at Noon)
Azariah, Garth German Band, Connie Miron Band, DB Blues Band, The Kicker, Stone Throw Second, Chill Factor, Glenn Zaretski and Emerald Highway and more
All performers performing in support of SSCOPE and mental health.
Connie Miron Band back at the 2011 Rockin' the Ridge...for mental health
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Website: http://www.sscope.org (Contact: Bob Rempel-987-6302)
Supporting mental health through gainful employment since 1991-20 Years of Service To Winnipeg in 2011
NEWS RELEASE/PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT-April 25, 2011
“One in four Canadians will have a mental health problem at some point in their lives”
Winnipeg’s first summer festival for 2011….SSCOPE’s Rockin’ The Ridge2011…for Mental Health-Saturday, May 28th-Mark Your Calendars
Winnipeg’s first summer festival of 2011, Rockin’ the Ridge 2011 Saturday, May 28 at Vimy Ridge Park in Winnipeg, organized by the non-profit SSCOPE Inc, has announced its performers lineup, starting at noon. An afternoon of great music is set with eight groups already confirmed.
The annual free admission outdoor event is in its second year and is set to be a fun day for all ages, kickin’ off summer fun in the City. This year’s event is a special anniversary as well, it marks SSCOPE’s 20th year of service to Winnipeg, and to those with a mental health disability.
SSCOPE (www.sscope.org) supports mental health in Winnipeg through the flexible part-time employment it offers, and resulting income it creates for its member-employees, and through the various enterprises it operates and partnerships it creates.
Great Classic Rock, Blues, and Folk music all afternoon starting at 12:00 noon on the bandstand. Horticulture and Art will be featured plus a fund raising Garage Sale, auctions, and food available throughout the day. Vimy Ridge Park is located on Portage Ave. at Home St. Bring your festival chairs, blankets and tarps. For more info about this event call SSCOPE at 987-6300 or sscope@sscope.org
Entertainment Main Stage: (subject to change: set times to be announced May 16-Music Start at Noon)
Azariah, Garth German Band, Connie Miron Band, DB Blues Band, The Kicker, Stone Throw Second, Chill Factor, Glenn Zaretski and Emerald Highway and more
All performers performing in support of SSCOPE and mental health.
The public can help out by contributing gently used items to the garage sale at noon or new items for our prizes and support of our volunteers and performers. Pickup is available. Please call 987-6300 for more details about the event. Volunteers are also needed for various tasks prior to the event and during the day.
SSCOPE operates services such as lawn and yard maintenance, snow removal, moving, deliveries, building cleaning and vending services. Current fund raising is crucial to support expansion into storefront activities, to be opened May, 2011 as well, and additional work in community recycling.
For information on mental illness and stigma please see http://sscope.ca/2011/02/stigma
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Rockin’ the Ridge 2011 for mental health is supported by the Assiniboine Credit Union (ACU), Manitoba Hydro and other caring community members, in addition to all performers listed above
CALL FOR BOARD MEMBERS/BUSINESS LEADERS/FUNDING PROPOSALS
SSCOPE Inc. is seeking leaders to join its Board of Directors and assist us in achieving successful major funding campaigns to support enhanced services. SSCOPE supports mental health with employment and training through our own social enterprises and community partnerships.
Particular skill sets or experience we are seeking include financial; legal; fund raising, business and marketing, with, or an interest in mental health and community programs. A strong community network is also preferred.
Board Members of SSCOPE Inc. commit to attend and participate in monthly meetings and be active between meetings in ongoing board level projects. The monthly commitment for a Board member can vary, but on an average is between 3 – 5 hours a month.
If you are interested in getting more information about this potential volunteer experience, please call (204)987-6302 to request an application. You may also download an application from our website at www.sscope.org Your application and a current resume should be received by October 27th, 2010 for consideration and appointment at our next meeting on November 17, 2010.
Download the Application Form as a pdf file here
Download the Application Form as a .doc file here
Download the SSCOPE Factsheet here
