Royal Canadian Legion Lt Col Harry Babcock Branch 137

07/06/2024

03/28/2024

Branch 137 Napanee 26 Mill St E, LCol Harry Babcock is hosting a Buddy Check Coffee on Saturday 6 April at 1000. Come on out for coffee, tea, and a good chat with your brothers and sisters Veterans. RCMP and CAF still serving or retired you are welcome

03/08/2024

Phone nr for Napanee Legion Branch 137 is 613-354-5275 see below for Veterans CAF and RCMP and still serving

02/13/2024

This is a great addition to assistance provided for Veterans and familys of Veterans

02/12/2024

We are looking for Veteran volunteers to connect with other Veterans in one-on-one social phone calls.

02/07/2024

dates for our Provincial Service Officer Pat Royle to visit this area.

March 15
April 19
May 17
June 21
July 19
Aug 16
Sept 20
Oct 18
Nov 15
Dec 13.

Veterans and still serving members needing to see our Prov Svc Off should call Branch 137 office at 613-354-5375 - visits will be at Veterans Transition Centre Kingston or a phone call can be arranged at the members' request.

02/05/2024

The Ontario Command would like to remind the Branches, Veterans and Family Members of Veterans, that it is in support of the *Mood Disorders Society of Canada’s (MDSC) programs that provide ‘free of charge’ offerings to Veterans and Family Members.



Their programs include Peer Support Training. This is an online two-day workshop. There is no preparation before this training. This program is taught by Veterans, Family Members of Veterans and Mental Health Professionals who are positive, professional and have a ‘lived experience”. The course is highly rated by the Veterans and Family Members who have previously taken it. It educates on how to provide peer support and how to maintain your wellness when providing peer support to others. Registrations are now being accepted into the last winter date of February 29, 2024 and February 1, 2024 the class starts at 8:00 AM – and ends at 4:00 PM on both days.

Registrations for this program are taken on a first come first served basis. You can enroll today by completing this registration form: https://mdsc.ca/support-for-veterans-their-family-members/peer-support-training-programs/ You can also connect directly with Debbie Turner 705-341-6366.







Debbie Turner – MPM, PMP®, Cert. APM (She/Her)

National Senior Program Manager, Mood Disorders Society of Canada

MDSC Peer Support Facilitator

Phone: 705-341-6366

[email protected]

02/01/2024

Buddy Check Coffee at Branch 137 3 Feb at 1000. come on out for a coffee/tea and sweets. All veterans and still serving CAF/RCMP

01/23/2024

My name is Vanessa Parise and I am a graduate student in the Trauma and Recovery Research Unit led by Dr. Margaret McKinnon at McMaster University. Our lab is in the process of recruiting participants for an upcoming pilot study which will explore the effectiveness of a new psychoeducational program aimed at improving posttraumatic stress injury (PTSI) symptoms among military veterans and public safety personnel (e.g., police officers, fire fighters, paramedics, other healthcare workers, correctional workers, emergency dispatchers, etc.).



This program is called SENsory Strategies Education (SENSE) and includes 5 virtual group sessions facilitated by a trained clinician and graduate/post-graduate student in a health-related field. During each of these 2-hour sessions, facilitators will provide psychoeducation on specific themes about PTSI symptoms and sensory processing. They will then discuss how the session’s topic applies to participants’ everyday functioning and will provide participants with a number of strategies designed to improve their experiences in this domain. Participants in this study will also be asked to engage in interviews, surveys, and computer-based tasks about their symptoms and experiences and will receive Amazon gift cards as a thanks for their time.



We are requesting your help in getting the word out about this study. It would be very helpful if you could please share our informational materials with your members so they can decide if they would like to participate. To be clear, we are not asking you to demonstrate support for the SENSE intervention in any way; we are only asking you to let your members know about our study. This can be done through social media posts, informational emails to your listserv(s) and/or posting physical copies of our flier around your space. I have attached a copy of our poster to this email for your reference.



Please let us know if you are willing to let your members know about our study and we will provide the necessary recruitment materials (e.g., printed posters, social media posts, listserv email drafts) to facilitate this process. Please also let me know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance.



Kind regards,



Vanessa Parise, B.Sc.

Master’s Student

Trauma and Recovery Research Unit

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University

[email protected]

647-551-2701

01/12/2024

Parks Canada announced free admission for active members and Veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces and their immediate families starting 1 January 2024. Please refer to Parks Canada for additional information.

Parcs Canada a annoncé l’entrée quotidienne gratuite pour les membres et les vétérans et vétéranes des Forces armées canadiennes et leur famille immédiate, à compter du 1er janvier 2024. Veuillez vous référer à Parcs Canada pour plus d'informations.