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Here are just a few examples of how, thanks to the generosity of your donations; lives for the clients at The Royal have been enhanced:
- Provide vital training for staff in areas like CBT, DBT and autism. This training helps staff to better care for the youth patients.
- Purchase hundreds of resource materials and books for youth patients and their families. These additional resources are helping to better care for youth patients.
- Purchase vital equipment, like pressure relieving mattresses and wheelchair cushions, in addition to DVD and CD players, wall murals, and outdoor furniture and flowers for the Geriatrics courtyard.
- The Brockville Mental Health Centre was able to open a client-run café to equip clients with life and work skills to help them transition back into the community.
- Important equipment that has the ability to transform the lives of patients is now available. Some examples include picnic tables in the various department courtyards, a ping-pong table and exercise equipment for all departments to use.
- Provide life skills in the Occupational Therapy kitchen, where patients run the Bakeology Program, and Occupational Therapy Computer Lab, where patients can complete their education while receiving care at The Royal.
- Purchase holiday gifts and special meals. Feelings of loneliness and isolation during the pandemic are real for many patients.
- Many scientists in the IMHR are able to fund ground-breaking research studies that are changing and improving the ways that we care for patients.
- Help transform the lives of patients with art therapy workshops, gardening therapy, and providing grocery gift cards for patients with limited income.
- Deliver the important “Is It Just Me?” program, that educates secondary school students about mental health.
- Renovate two Brockville patient and family visiting rooms, creating a more comfortable and uplifting environment for patients and their families who use this space daily.
The staff at The Royal are so grateful to donors for helping take care of our community each and every day.