The Plantagenet Family Health Team will be able to offer more services to the community now that it has permission to use space at the Serge Lalonde Community Hall in the village.
Alfred and Plantagenet Township council agreed to let the family health team use the facility for free when it met on Tuesday, October 1.
The local health care provider is offering four mental health workshops at the community centre this Fall. They are about regulating emotion with yoga, gratitude, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and luminotherapy, and Christmas card making with a recipe exchange.
“This is not simply just for the patients of the clinic, but for the entire Alfred and Plantagenet community and surrounding area,” Plantagenet Family Health Team Director General Caroline Prévost said.
Prévost said the workshops bring important attention to mental health and reducing isolation for people in the community.
She said 15 people participated in recent workshops the agency offered.
“For us, that is a success,” Prévost said.
The Plantagenet Family Health Team currently serves about 7,000 patients.
For information about the workshops and other services offered by the Plantagenet Family Health Team, go to https://plantagenetfht.ca/en/.
