Please take note of our upcoming hours this Easter weekend.

Downtown clinic:

Friday, April 7: CLOSED
Saturday, April 8: 9:00am – 1:00pm
Sunday, April 9: CLOSED
Monday, April 10: CLOSED

Westside clinic:

Friday, April 7: CLOSED
Saturday, April 8: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday, April 9: CLOSED
Monday, April 10: CLOSED

By Michael Murphy, Community Clinic member

Everyone has stories to tell from their life experiences. The goal of our new ‘Write Your Life Stories’ program is to encourage clinic members to start writing these life stories creatively – story by story, chapter by chapter, or theme by theme. Previous writing experience is not essential. We will provide mentoring and encourage participants to provide support to each other.

Each informal session will include discussions on aspects of memoir writing along with participant readings of a short piece they have written in the previous week, followed by group discussion and feedback. Program facilitators will suggest a topic for the following week, but writers are free to choose any topic. Writing will not take place during the sessions, but on participants’ own time.

If participants use email, they will be encouraged to circulate their stories in advance of the following session to facilitate feedback. There will be eight weekly sessions up to 90 minutes each on Friday afternoons starting March 17. The program will take place at the Saskatoon Community Clinic’s Langer Building. Advance registration is required, as space is limited.

Michael Murphy is a long-time Community Clinic member, a member of our Foundation Board and has experience offering writing programs for Seniors in the community.

When:
Fridays from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
March 17 to May 12

Where:
Saskatoon Community Clinic Langer Building
424 1st Ave. N. – enter via back alley – blue door.

For more information or to register please contact:
Michael Murphy, Program Facilitator
[email protected]
Tel: 306-244-5267

Laurie Stone, Seniors Volunteer Co-ordinator
[email protected]
Tel: 306-664-4282

There is no cost to participate. Please register early as enrolment is limited.

The Clinic observes masking and social distancing guidelines. Sponsored by the Saskatoon Community Clinic Seniors Advisory Council and the Counselling and Community Services Department.

March 15, 2023
Open at 9:30 a.m.

All care and services will be available at that time.

Thanks for your understanding!

John Sheard, recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Volunteer Award

Congratulations to John Sheard, who was presented with the 2022 Outstanding Volunteer Award at the Semi-Annual General Meeting on January 18.

You would be hard-pressed to find a stronger voice for seniors.

John, a long-time clinic member, joined the Seniors Advisory Council in 2015 already a fierce advocate for better supports for seniors’ mental health and much-needed improvements to long-term care.

He quickly became engaged in many advisory council activities including advocating, fundraising, supporting clinic seniors’ programs and promoting accessibility.

He has spoken at a past semi-annual meeting about the need for improved mental health services and has written numerous articles for Focus over the past few years.

As a member of the advisory council executive, John helped develop and speak to numerous resolutions at membership meetings.

His list of advocacy efforts is long. He has advocated for the addition of a psychiatrist to the clinic’s mental health care team; improved access to mental health services in long-term care; the creation of a provincial Seniors Advocate; and provincial funding for seniors to receive the Shingrix shingles vaccine.

John, alongside other advisory council executive members, played an integral role in the development of an inter-generational student research program in early 2020. A retired biology professor, he generously gives his time to mentor students and works with them on research projects important to older adults, the most recent focused on the needs of clinic members around ‘Aging in Place’.

In addition to being a caregiver to his wife, Anne, who is in long-term care, John is also a patient representative with both the Saskatchewan Long-term Care Network and the Saskatchewan Health Authority Long-term Care Expert Panel.

John, on behalf of the board and clinic members, we want to extend our thanks. You have brought so much to the work of the Seniors Advisory Council. Older adults, our co-operative and the province are better because of your efforts.