Flora’s Walk – May 3rd
A walk to support Perinatal Mental Health
What does that mean? Perinatal Mental Health
Everyone is welcome to come out and walk with us May 3rd. We will be meeting at Meridian Place downtown Barrie from 11:30am – 1pm
Donations and/or sponsorship can be made directly to our team page at this link: https://floraswalk.ca/
Sponsorship
The Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative (CPMHC) is holding its second
annual national fundraiser walkathon – Flora’s Walk for Perinatal Mental Health – coinciding with World Maternal Mental Health Week. The walk is named after Flora Babakhani, a Canadian mom who tragically lost her life to untreated postpartum psychosis on January 14th, 2022.
Moms, babies, family & friends are all invited to join for a stroller walk to discuss, promote and support perinatal mental health. Read more about Flora at: https://cpmhc.ca/floras-story/
Please accept our invitation to be part of Flora’s Walk in Barrie to
raise awareness for the need to improve services for moms and families.
By sponsoring a walk in your city, you will be providing funds to help cover the cost of organizing the walk as well as add to the funds being raised to improve local services. You will receive
a sponsorship acknowledgement letter to submit with your business taxes – write off the
sponsorship as a business expense (CRA approved).
** We are looking for local corporate sponsors in these five categories: ***
Where the money raised will go:
75% of the funds raised will go towards CPMHCs new strategic plan that
prioritizes the development of nationwide provincial/territorial advocacy chapters.
With the government currently working with CPMHC to prioritize perinatal mental
health, we need to take advantage and advocate from the ground up and the top
down = stronger impact.
25% of the funds raised will go into our new ‘COMMUNITY POT’ that will support
new/existing community-based initiatives and training scholarships for our Walk
Leaders who support families within the perinatal period.
Why should you sponsor our walk? The Facts:
Candice Thomas BAHS
Patricia is the Business Mentor and owner of Grow Vantage and a Past President of the Barrie Chamber of Commerce. She applies over 30 years of business experience (from start-up to corporate) to mentor entrepreneurs. Since 2011, she has held over 6,500 coaching and training sessions in-person and online. Through Ask For Directions Training, her entrepreneurial training program (and parent company Grow Vantage), and as a business coach, she works with start-ups who are new (or who have lost traction) to design, launch and grow their businesses. Along with 20 other expert instructors she teaches strategies in marketing, sales, communications, and finance, as well as practical techniques to increase productivity, and manage their businesses. In other words, everything entrepreneurs need to learn to grow and run their businesses successfully, and avoid the costly mistakes they can't even see coming - that lead to delays in growth and getting stuck.
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