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Applications call for Youth Resilience Grants – a partnership of Island Health and Pacific Public Health Foundation
For the first time, Island Health and PPHF are partnering to allocate up to $450,000 for the Youth Resilience Grants program (previously known as Resilience and Safety Grants). These grants, now in their third year, aim to help improve mental well-being and build youth resilience to challenging life events.
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Island Health Winter Magazine 2025
The Winter Issue of Island Health Magazine features stories about how patients are benefiting from three unique types of nursing care. From the highly specialized care provided by nurse practitioners on our heart health team, to the incredible skills helping in one of our most remote regions, to the expanding services RNs are providing at UPCCs.
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Four-year-old's visits bring joy to long-term care residents
At Cairnsmore Place long-term care home in Duncan, an unlikely friendship has blossomed between residents and a four-year-old boy named Innis Wright. His regular visits, accompanying his grandmother Joan Wright, a former Island Health employee, have become a source of delight for residents and staff alike.
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