Pascale Ouellette is the Visitor Experience Leader at Parks New Brunswick. What that entails are the Visitor experience program and Get Outside! NB and some other programs. She is a biologist, attended UNB Fredericton with a focus in forest ecology and botany.

Ashleigh Milani, with Coach NB, shares office space with Andrew. She is the manager of coaching education with Coach NB, a non-profit organization that aims to educate coaches and help them through their coaching pathways. This includes certifications and continuing education. She completed a Kinesiology degree from University of Manitoba and has a history of coaching in rowing and strength training.

Christine Roherty is the Vice President of Health Promotion for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of New Brunswick. Her job is to ensure the Foundation has mission impact within our programs, projects and special events for all New Brunswickers. They collaborate with other like-minded government and non-government stakeholders on many risk factors related to cardiovascular disease (Heart Disease and Stroke). Tobacco free is one of these risk factors.

On this months Podcast we have Charlotte Hill. Charlotte is currently Marketing and Events Coordinator for New Brunswick Trails Council Inc. and will be talking about: Parks & Trails Day 2018.

Top 3 in 10 is a campaign that aims to get NB in one of the top 3 healthiest provinces in Canada in 10 years. Looking at the health indicators right now, NB is in the bottom 3, so this campaign was launched to focus on the health systems that surround us – poverty, literacy, where we work, where we live, our education, family size and how we social determinants of health. The ideal goal is to engineer the healthy choice to be the easy choice.

Hey everyone, the Healthy Eating Physical Activity Coalition, aka HEPAC is coming to you with Season 2 of “Q & A The Hepac Podcast”. Get ready to hear the back stories on some of the rad wellness initiatives happening around New Brunswick, reasons why you shouldn’t depend on celebs for diet advice, and why getting your kids moving will do more than just tire them out. Tune in for up to date information from experts from around the province in both of our official languages while you’re out for a walk or commuting to work. Stay connected while you’re staying active with your hosts Andrew Holloway and Gillian Salmon.

Laura Oldford is a Recreation Therapist at the Stan Cassidy Centre for Rehabilitation in Fredericton. She is one of two rec therapists at SCCR, and works with people all over the province, specializing with people with neurological impairments (brain/spine). She works with people across the lifespan, which is unique at Stan Cassidy. She started at Memorial in Newfoundland in Kinesiology, then tested out Recreation Therapy and switched programs. She finished her undergrad there, wrote a national exam (Certified Therapeutic Recreational Therapist), and got her Masters in Integrated studies from Athabasca with a focus on disability awareness.

 

If anyone asks you who you are, you never start with what’s wrong with you, more of what’s important to you. Laura’s really passionate about the fact that disability doesn’t need to be on the forefront of people. Rec Therapy is a strength focused program- focusing on what’s right with you vs what’s wrong with you.  Rec Therapists help clients achieve their goals regarding what they want to do with their time and what they want to get out of life. The harder things are, the less apt we are to do things, but often those are the more rewarding things.

 

Laura works with the tools that can be given to clients that can help them live a better life and helps clients try these out to see what works best for them. She also helps people identify what’s available in clients’ communities.

 

Laura mentioned a lot of access is gained through phone access, which is being looked at right now at the centre. Many of Laura’s clients are “Gamers” so she, along with an Occupational Therapist, has created an adapted gaming service for clients. In “Game Changers”, they have a variety of systems and adapted controllers, as well as modifiers that can work across platforms. Laura helps identify what movements are needed to play these games and what would work best for clients to play. This project is being evaluated from a research perspective at the same time in partnership with SOAR through Horizon.

 

The real intention in Recreation Therapy is to level the playing field for people with disabilities, allowing someone to choose and not letting their disability define or limit them. Their work also looks with the social and emotional pieces of a client’s life- what they love vs what they need to do to stay active or functional.

 

People need to have knowledge about recreation and leisure opportunities that are important to them, and rec therapists are catalysts/gateways to those areas in the world of rehab and disability. Everyone deserves the right to leisure, and the goal is for independence with this.

 

SCCR also does a lot of community outings to show how clients can still go out and how that works while in a supportive environment.

 

There are lots of organizations that Laura relies on for resources and events (links below)!

 

Laura’s top 3:

Favourite place in NB: Her cottage in Yoho lake. https://goo.gl/maps/yhj3znjnKp52

Favourite food: Pizza.

Favourite activity: Stand Up Paddle boarding! And also biking with her kids.

Links

Stan Cassidy Centre for Rehabilitation: http://www.stancassidy.ca/

Game Changers: http://stancassidyfoundation.ca/uploads/Project_Sheet_GameChangers_Feb2016.pdf

SOAR: http://en.horizonnb.ca/home/research/services-for-researchers/support-opportunities-and-assistance-for-research-(soar).aspx

SCCR Foundation Info on Game Changers: http://stancassidyfoundation.ca/en/news/stan_cassidy_foundation_awards_30000_for_first_accessible_gaming_service_in_canada

Para NB: http://paranb.ca/

Parasport NB:  http://www.

HEPAC Podcast Notes- Jenn Carson

 

Jenn Carson is the library director at the LP Fisher Public Library in Woodstock, NB and is also a yoga teacher. She has a Masters degree from the college of Computing and Informatics from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.

 

There are 63 public libraries in the province:  5 regional offices, 52 public libraries, 11 public-school libraries (for a total of 63 public branches), a virtual branch and a provincial Books-by-Mail and Talking Book Service for people with print disabilities. Most work independently with municipalities and there are a few that are in schools. They offer services such as digital resources, e-books, audiobooks and a variety of programming as well (aside from just taking books out). 2 libraries just started a program that you can borrow musical instruments-  “The Sun Life Financial Musical Instrument Lending Library” and it is available at Fredericton Public Library and Nashwaaksis branch. Some have seed libraries as well where you can take seeds out and if you save seeds, you can take them to the library. Other neat things are activity packs in Riverview, and other alternative collections (sewing machines, baking pans, tools, etc).

 

Physical literacy, like regular literacy, is a skill, which is something you gain from an early age. As you grow, you explore your environment and learn how to move your body in time and space. It’s important in libraries as they’ve become cultural centers, to focus on the whole-person, so they are concerned with whole-person literacy (financial literacy, digital literacy, textual literacy, etc…) of which physical literacy is one component. They are seeing this in terms of kindergarten age kids not being able to cut with scissors or hold a pencil properly, or even sit on a chair, so it is important for libraries to teach physical literacy because if you can’t hold a pencil properly, you can’t write properly and that holds you back for your regular literacy skills.

It’s also important to teach this to older people as well, for example, seniors are coming in to the library and learning how to ballroom dance or run or rock climb!

 

The NB Public Library system is unique for a variety of reasons, but since we are such a small province, we can share resources and collections across the whole province. We also have a “books by mail” service so if you can’t get to a physical library, the library will mail you a book and you can just send it back when you’re done. This started after the bookmobile service ended and it’s really popular!

 

Fredericton is starting the Bibliobike this summer too- so you can get a book on the trail, and in Halifax they are going to “books on the beach” so you can attend storytime and check out a book or a magazine while you’re at the beach and bring it back to the library later.

 

Check out the links below to find your local library and the amazing online resources and tools available to you for free!

 

Jenn also wrote a book about incorporating physical literacy programs into your programming! It’s called “Get your Community Moving- Physical Literacy Programs for all ages (ALA Editions, 2018)” and you can buy it on her website!

 

Jenn’s Top 3:

Favourite place- Fundy National Park

Favourite food- Corn on the cob, with butter, salt and pepper

Favourite activity- right now, stand up paddleboarding, and then Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

 

Links:

NB Public Library Service- http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/nbpl.html

Tumble books-  http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/nbpl/collections/content/databases.html

Genevieve Audet-Perron is a social marketing consultant with the Wellness branch of the Department of Social Development and works in support of  The Wellness Movement. She’s originally from Quebec and has a background in public communication, and has been a self-proclaimed naturalized NBer for 5 years and counting.

 

Wellness Week is happening October 1-7 in NB as always and fun activities are happening in all regions. Gen shared a variety of health and wellness fairs, classes, hikes, activities and other fun events that are happening around the province and you can find info on these on the Wellness Events Calendar which is linked below (you can search by region to find what’s happening nearby to you). Go ahead and follow the Wellness Movement on Facebook and Twitter so you are up to date on what’s happening in your region!

 

Something Gen wish she had mentioned is how October 1st to 7th is also World Breastfeeding Week, which is celebrated across NB with local participation to the Quintessence Challenge. With breastfeeding being connected with wellness in many ways, it makes a lot of sense for these two thematic weeks to be celebrated hand in hand.

 

A short list of Wellness Week events highlights to check out:

Capital:

The Multicultural Association of Fredericton’s Annual Newcomers Health and Wellness Fair

A Day for Action

North West:

Edmundston’s Wellness Exhibition/Salon mieux-être d’Edmundston

The Valley’s Wellness Day/Journée mieux-être La Vallée

Fundy :

Super-sized Zoomers’ Class

Charlotte County’s Seniors Wellness Fair

Dominion Park Family Fun Day

Western Valley:

Tomlinson Lake Hike to Freedom

South East:

Village of Salisbury’s “Do the Loops Challenge”

Village of Memramcook’s Community Walk

Chaleur-Peninsula:

Acadian Peninsula’s Book Fair/Salon du Livre Péninsule Acadienne

Color Run in Neguac/Course des couleurs à Neguac

Chaleur’s Regional Mini-Forums

Restigouche :

Wellness Fair/Foire mieux-être

Miramichi/Kent :

The Live Feed Festival

 

 

Gen’s top 3:

Favourite place in NB: Split Rock Trail: https://goo.gl/maps/4CUfp5oAyKn

Favourite food: Despite Andrew’s original assumptions, Cashew Chicken

Favourite activity: Dirtbiking

 

 

 

Links

Wellness events calendar: http://calendar.wellnessnb.ca/

Hike to freedom: https://www.tomlinsonlakehiketofreedom.ca/

The Wellness Movement Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WellnessNBMieuxEtreNB

The Wellness Movement Twitter: https://twitter.com/WellnessNB

The Old Sow Whirlpool: https://www.bayoffundy.com/about/old-sow-whirlpool/

Geneviève Audet-Perron est conseillère en marketing social à la Direction du mieux-être du ministère du Développement social, où elle travaille pour appuyer le Mouvement du mieux-être. Originaire du Québec, elle a des antécédents en communication publique et elle se dit Néo-Brunswickoise naturalisée depuis déjà cinq ans.

La Semaine du mieux-être a lieu du 1 au 7 octobre au Nouveau-Brunswick comme toujours et des activités divertissantes se dérouleront à la grandeur de la province. Gen nous a parlé de la brochette d’activités et d’événements amusants – salons de la santé et du mieux-être, cours, randonnées pédestres et bien plus – qui auront lieu dans la province et que vous pouvez trouver dans le calendrier des activités de mieux-être dont le lien se trouve ci-dessous (vous pouvez faire une recherche par ré...

Genevieve Audet-Perron is a social marketing consultant with the Wellness branch of the Department of Social Development and works in support of  The Wellness Movement. She’s originally from Quebec and has a background in public communication, and has been a self-proclaimed naturalized NBer for 5 years and counting.

 

Wellness Week is happening October 1-7 in NB as always and fun activities are happening in all regions. Gen shared a variety of health and wellness fairs, classes, hikes, activities and other fun events that are happening around the province and you can find info on these on the Wellness Events Calendar which is linked below (you can search by region to find what’s happening nearby to you). Go ahead and follow the Wellness Movement on Facebook and Twitter so you are up to date on what’s happening in your region!

 

Something Gen wish she had mentioned is how October 1st to 7th is also World Breastfeeding Week, which is celebrated across NB with local participation to the Quintessence Challenge. With breastfeeding being connected with wellness in many ways, it makes a lot of sense for these two thematic weeks to be celebrated hand in hand.

 

A short list of Wellness Week events highlights to check out:

Capital:

The Multicultural Association of Fredericton’s Annual Newcomers Health and Wellness Fair

A Day for Action

North West:

Edmundston’s Wellness Exhibition/Salon mieux-être d’Edmundston

The Valley’s Wellness Day/Journée mieux-être La Vallée

Fundy :

Super-sized Zoomers’ Class

Charlotte County’s Seniors Wellness Fair

Dominion Park Family Fun Day

Western Valley:

Tomlinson Lake Hike to Freedom

South East:

Village of Salisbury’s “Do the Loops Challenge”

Village of Memramcook’s Community Walk

Chaleur-Peninsula:

Acadian Peninsula’s Book Fair/Salon du Livre Péninsule Acadienne

Color Run in Neguac/Course des couleurs à Neguac

Chaleur’s Regional Mini-Forums

Restigouche :

Wellness Fair/Foire mieux-être

Miramichi/Kent :

The Live Feed Festival

 

 

Gen’s top 3:

Favourite place in NB: Split Rock Trail: https://goo.gl/maps/4CUfp5oAyKn

Favourite food: Despite Andrew’s original assumptions, Cashew Chicken

Favourite activity: Dirtbiking

 

 

 

Links

Wellness events calendar: http://calendar.wellnessnb.ca/

Hike to freedom: https://www.tomlinsonlakehiketofreedom.ca/

The Wellness Movement Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WellnessNBMieuxEtreNB

The Wellness Movement Twitter: https://twitter.com/WellnessNB

The Old Sow Whirlpool: https://www.bayoffundy.com/about/old-sow-whirlpool/