The Upper Room Hospitality Ministry

  St. John Ambulance volunteers provide over a million hours of volunteer service to Canadian communities each year. Our nationally-recognized core community service programs include: Therapy Dog Program-  Volunteers and their dogs provide regular visitation to hospitals, seniors' residences, nursing homes, or a growing number of institutions on a regular basis. Through petting, affection, and consistent visitation, many people benefit both physically and emotionally from the unconditional love of a dog. Volunteers and their dogs go through an evaluation to ensure they are a comfortable visiting in these environments. Volunteer Medical Responders (VMR)- are a group of uniformed individuals trained to a minimum of Standard First Aid, who volunteer their time to provide First Aid services at a wide variety of public events (sporting, cultural, musical, etc.). By being there, SJA volunteers are “first on the scene” in the critical minutes until medical assistance arrives. If you would like more information on how you can get involved in your community please contact us!  

Kids Help Phone is Canada’s only 24/7 e-mental health service offering free, confidential support to young people in English and French. We began in 1989 as a unique telephone counselling service, launched to provide free, accessible support to any young person reaching out from coast to coast to coast. Our focus was supporting young people experiencing abuse, but almost immediately, young people let us know they needed more from the service than one focus and one way to reach us. For over 30 years, we’ve evolved our response and offerings. We concentrate on staying relevant to youth, recognizing the complexity of issues they face, and we help to ensure our professional counsellors and volunteer crisis responders are ready to address young people’s continuum of emotional and mental health needs, from crisis situations to the everyday concerns of growing up.

Building GRAND-Families Inc. is a Prince Edward Island nonprofit organization supporting grandparents, great-grandparents, relatives and other kinship caregivers who are raising children when parents are unable to do so. We help grandfamilies navigate the unique emotional, financial, legal and practical challenges that can come with kinship caregiving. Our work includes peer support, caregiver education, family activities, resource navigation, advocacy and connections to community services. Building GRAND-Families also works to increase awareness of the needs of kinship families and to strengthen the network of support available to caregivers and the children in their care across Prince Edward Island. Volunteers, community partners and supporters play an important role in helping us create stronger, more connected grandfamilies.