The Community Counselling Centre of Nipissing will add another staff member to the list this June thanks to a $40,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
The Community Counselling Centre of Nipissing will add another staff member to the list this June thanks to a $40,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
The grant will provide the centre another credit counselor who will do public outreach sessions focusing on financial planning, debt management and credit support services.
Monique Smith Nipissing MPP and Carol Ann DiBartolomeo, a volunteer with the Foundation, celebrated the news with the centre’s Executive Director Lisa McCool-Philbin.
Full details are contained in the release below.
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Thanks to a $40,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Community Counselling Centre of Nipissing has been able to add another credit counselor to their staff. Starting in June, public outreach sessions will be held on financial planning, debt management and credit support services. On Wednesday, MPP Monique Smith and Carol Ann DiBartolomeo, a volunteer with the Foundation, congratulated the centre’s Executive Director Lisa McCool-Philbin on receiving the grant and investing it in the community.
The Community Counselling Centre of Nipissing has also received a one time grant through the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in the amount of $1,500 to install outside security lighting.
“It is my pleasure to join representatives of our Community Counselling Centre to announce this provincial funding,” Nipissing MPP Monique Smith said. “Today’s grants will assist the Community Counselling Centre to enhance the great service they already provide to our community.”
The one-year grant, through the Ontario Trillium Foundation, was used to hire a new credit counsellor to enable the Community Counselling Centre to become more pro-active, reaching out to students and low-income persons before they are in trouble; giving them the tools necessary to avoid life’s financial pitfalls. Credit counselling is offered to over 400 North Bay area residents in both official languages who find themselves in financial difficulty. The Centre is dedicated to giving individuals the information they need to resolve financial problems and realize their full potential.
“Thank you to the Ontario Trillium Foundation and our MPP, Monique Smith for recognizing the value of the Credit Counselling Program here at the Community Counselling Center,” Lisa McCool-Philbin Executive Director of the Community Counselling Centre of Nipissing said. “This grant will be utilized to educate students and low income earners about the consequences of borrowing and credit use to make ends meet.”
Over twenty percent of the people who access credit counselling services are students who are burdened with debt that exceeds their ability to make their monthly living expenses. With this project, we will be reaching students and educating them about the consequences of borrowing.
Additionally, we will be reaching out to low income earners who have difficulty making ends meet.
For additional information, please contact Janique North or Melanie Lindquist at 472-6515, or view our website
http://www.cccnip.com/ .
The Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Ministry of Culture, receives annually $100 million of government funding generated through Ontario's charity casino initiative. The Foundation allocates grants to eligible charitable and not-for-profit organizations in the arts and culture, environment, human and social services, and sports and recreation sectors. For more information, visit.
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