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🥞 Join us for coffee, tea, breakfast, and conversation! All are welcome. Pre-registration not required.

When:

📅 Every Friday

🕒 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Where:

📍 Grand River Community Health Centre (363 Colborne Street, Brantford) in Community Kitchen

For more information, please contact Melissa at msiegel@grchc.ca or call (519) 754-0777 ext. 479

✍️ Meet with a Service Canada Outreach Specialist and get information and help navigating the following programs and benefits: 

1. Social Insurance Number (SIN): Assistance with applying for a SIN.
2. Employment Insurance (EI): Helping appying for EI benefits online.
3. Canada Pension Plan (CPP), Canada Pension Plan Disability (CPP-D), Old Age Security (OAS), Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), and Survivor Benefits: Support with applications and reviewing completed forms.
4. Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP): Guidance on applying for CDCP benefits. 
5. Passport Canada Programs: Assistance with passport-related inquiries and reviewing applications. 
6. Client File Reviews: Reviewing application statuses or addressing specific client inquiries by accessing individual files (with appropriate identification). 

When:

📅 Second Friday of each month 

🕒 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 

No appointment necessary, first come first served.

Where:

📍Grand River Community Health Centre (363 Colborne Street, Brantford) in Meeting Room D

💚 Do you reach for comfort foods as your main way to cope with emotionas and feel like you need diffreent strategies? For Mental Health Week 2025, join our Emotional Eating workshop and learn tips for coping differently. 💚 Pre-registration is required. 

When:

📅 Friday, May 9th, 2025

🕒 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Where:

📍 Grand River Community Health Centre (363 Colborne Street, Brantford) in Community Boardroom

For more information or to register, please contact Melissa at msiegel@grchc.ca or call (519) 754-0777 ext. 479

🙆‍♀️ Join our free Easy Fit class where you’ll learn gentle exercises to help with posture, balance, strength, and endurance! Pre-registration is required.

When:

📅 Every Friday

🕒 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Where:

📍 Grand River Community Health Centre (363 Colborne Street, Brantford) in Community Rooms A & B

For more information or to register, please contact Amanda at (519) 754-0777 ext. 273

🪑 Join our free Sit Fit class and improve posture and strength using exercises in a chair! Pre-registration is required.

When:

📅 Every Friday 

🕒 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. 

Where:

📍 Grand River Community Health Centre (363 Colborne Street, Brantford) in Community Rooms A & B

For more information or to register, please contact Amanda at (519) 754-0777 ext. 273

🎵 Notes and Beats with Joan Minnery: Come and enjoy a fun-filled, laid-back, smile-enhancing hour of rhythms, songs, trivia, humming, drumming, swinging, instruments, harmony, melodies, tuning and crooning -- singing and mingling! Pre-registration is required.

When:

📅 Every Monday

🕒 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.

January 13th to June 16th, 2025

Where:

📍 Grand River Community Health Centre (363 Colborne Street, Brantford) in Community Rooms A & B

For more information or to register, please email Brad at bkidder@grchc.ca or call (519) 754-0777 ext. 505

Start small, start strong! 

Join the Interprofessional Primary Care Team for our Pre-Diabetes Workshop! 

There will be three sessions per workshop: 

Session 1: Defining pre-diabetes, lab values and what they mean, and goal setting 

Session 2: Nutrition recommendations for pre-diabetes and general health 

Session 3: Strategies for improving your social and mental well-being and managing stress 

The workshop is open to anyone in the community who may be interested in learning more about diabetes risk or pre-diabetes! You do not need to attend all sessions if you do not wish to. 

When:

📅 Mondays May 5th, 12th & 26th

🕒 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Where:

📍 Cowan Community Health Hub (25 Curtis Ave N, Paris)

To register, please call (226) 388-4725.

🙆‍♀️ Join our free Tai Chi class! Slow version of martial arts where you will learn to breathe, focus, and balance while building energy and learning body awareness through warm up exercises and movements. Pre-registration for each 10-week session is required.

When:

📅 Mondays from March 24th - May 26th, 2025

🕒 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Where:

📍 Grand River Community Health Centre (363 Colborne Street, Brantford) in Community Rooms A & B

For more information or to register, please contact OG at oegiebor@grchc.ca or call (519) 754-0777 ext. 233

🫀 Join our free Happy Heart, Diabetes & Me group! Learn how to manage your heart health and diabetes through this one (1) hour information and cooking class. Pre-registration for each 3-week session is required.

When:

📅 Monday, May 5th, 12th & 26th

🕒 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Where:

📍 Grand River Community Health Centre (363 Colborne Street, Brantford) in Community Room A & Community Kitchen

For more information or to register, please contact Melissa at (519) 754-0777 ext. 479