Re-Introducing Northwood's Mental Health and Wellness Program

The Seeds of Success mental health and wellness program is back up and running after a brief pause last fall. The Seeds program is now lead by Leilani Reum (BSW) and assisted by Amanda Looman (BSW) who works in Client Services as a social worker at Northwood. Leilani and Amanda welcomed back past active participants into the newly painted and organized Seeds space for a Meet and Greet event on January 24. Attendees created a group collage as a first project. There was a great turnout of past participants and several interested future participants also dropped by.

Seeds has started doing a therapeutic gardening group on Mondays and a Creative Expressions group on Tuesdays. Gardening and plant care has been taking place indoors until the weather warms and then participants will be tending plants, including a vegetable garden, in the courtyard and on the Harbourview Deck this summer. Many participants have expressed excitement to

Continued from page 8 get their hands back in the soil and nurture the plants once again. The Creative Expressions group involves doing art as therapy and will explore mental health and wellness themes through painting, drawing, crafts, drama/role play, among other arts mediums. There are other programs to come, and space will open for new participants to join once Seeds gets rolling. Stay tuned! Welcome back Seeds of Success!

“It has been a long journey for the Seeds of Success Program from its humble beginnings to the new dawn we now share. The seed planted in days gone by has now, once again, felt the touch of sunlight and is sprouting from the earth.

Welcome to the rebirth of the Seeds Program. As with any new beginning, there will be challenge and reward, hope and hard work. We honour all who made the program what it was and bring the best forward to the future.

Thank you for your past and future participation. We stretch out our arms to embrace a bright, new horizon.”

Anne Jones