St. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation

At St. Joe’s Foundation Hamilton, we believe in adhering to the highest standards of accountability and excellence. That's why we are excited to share that we have been re-accredited by Imagine Canada's Standards Program! We first received accreditation in 2013 and 10 years later, we’re still committed to meeting 73 rigorous standards spanning areas such as fiscal management, transparency and accountability, fundraising practices, board governance, human resources, and volunteer involvement. We are one of only 280 organizations across the country that have been accredited through this program. To learn more about this achievement and the trust and confidence it offers supporters of our Hospital, visit https://lnkd.in/gsMBj_5u  

Ready, set…the table! 🍽️✨ St. Joe’s annual Gala is set to take place on November 2 at LiUNA Station, where guests will explore the classic origins behind today’s advanced technology. With a nod to da Vinci (both the artist and the Hospital’s surgical robot), our talented Gala committee has been busy behind the scenes, planning baroque decor, delicious food and drinks, an artist in residence, a photobooth and more! 🎨📸 Our gala is more than just a glamorous night out. It’s one of the events that helps our Hospital the most. This year, funds raised through the Gala will help fund robotic surgery innovation at St. Joe’s. 💙 We are incredibly thankful to all our sponsors who have helped this event come to life: 🍴 Dinner Sponsor: LiUNA Local 837 🍷 Table Wine Sponsor: Pettinelli Mastroluisi LLP 🥂 Sparkling Wine Sponsor: Hi Rise Group 🍸 Cocktail Sponsor: Seasons Retirement Communities ☕ Espresso Bar: LiUNA Local 506 🍰 Late Night Buffet Sponsor: Global Citrus Group 🎉 Reception Sponsor: RBC 🎨 Artist in Residence Sponsor: LiUNA Local 183 ⚙ Technology Sponsor: Honeywell & Plenary Americas 📸 Photobooth Sponsor: Extend Financial 🚗 Valet Sponsor: Beringer Capital 🖨 Print Sponsor: Spallacci Homes 🎈 Decor Sponsor: LiUNA Local 527 & 527A 💙Corporate Table Sponsors: American Iron & Metal (AIM), Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG), FirstOntario Credit Union, Greentario, Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation, Hicks Morley, McMaster University Department of Medicine, McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University – The Marnix E. Heersink School of Biomedical Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Molinaro Group, The Research Institute of St. Joe's Hamilton, & WTW 💙 Partner Sponsors: Canadian Council of Construction Workers, Koskie Minsky LLP, People Corporation, Wilk Grzadka Group, PBI Actuarial Consultants / PBI Conseillers en actuariat 💙 Supporter Sponsors: Canadian Construction Workers Union, Halton Forming Ltd., Leeswood Construction, Samuel, Son & Co., Percy & Edith Pierre, White Pine Waste Services To learn more, please visit: https://lnkd.in/g7PuMVhz #StJoesGala2024 #SupportStJoes #WeAreStJoes

Guitar Strings & Kidney Things is back this coming Friday, October 25th with the Lowest of the Low and Ace of Wands Band taking the stage at Bridgeworks Hamilton. 🎸🎶 Raising funds for kidney care at St. Joe's, Guitar Strings & Kidney Things is not only offering you a fun night out filled with great music, but the chance to win a WestJet Flight Voucher for 2 Round-Trips tickets to any WestJet destination. This incredible prize is valued at over $4,000! ✈ Raffle tickets are available for $20 each, or 3 for $50! 🎫 Sales close October 25th, and the winner will be drawn on October 28th. Get Yours Here: https://lnkd.in/g5Rm2BDe 🎸 Reminder: A limited number of Concert Tickets are also still available! 🎸 Don't miss out, secure your spot here: https://lnkd.in/gdUfkiRt Thank you again to concert organizers David and Ken Angus for once again choosing St. Joe’s as the beneficiary of funds raised through this annual event and our appreciation goes out to event sponsors Smiths Funeral Homes, Home Instead, Grimsby Hyundai and Elmwood Cabinets for their generous support of this event. Lottery / Raffle License: #866646

We are excited to welcome our guests back to the beautiful LiUNA Station for our 27th annual Gala on Saturday, November 2, 2024. It will be a night of fine food, friendship, auctions, entertainment and some after dinner dancing, too! But, our Gala has always been more than a glamorous night out - it’s one of the events that helps our Hospital the most. For more than a quarter century, guests and sponsors of our Gala have helped to raise more than $7.3 Million to support patient care, vital health research and essential equipment purchases at St. Joe’s. 💙 This year, Joseph and Enza Mancinelli are the curators behind our 27th Annual Gala, a night celebrating the art, science & innovation of da Vinci while raising funds for robotic surgery at St. Joe’s. As always, we are incredibly thankful to our generous Gala sponsors who are committed to helping St. Joe’s provide our community with the best care possible: 🧡 Premier Sponsor 🧡 LIUNA 💙 Co-Presenting Sponsors 💙 CARSTAR Canada & Driven Brands DiCenzo Homes The Effort Trust Company Joseph & Enza Mancinelli McKeil Family Foundation TNG Capital Corp 💜 $20,000 Sponsors 💜 Fengate Asset Management LiUNA! Local 837 Ullico Inc. To learn more, please visit: https://lnkd.in/g7PuMVhz #StJoesGala2024 #SupportStJoes #WeAreStJoes

Split the Pot is back with MORE chances to win than ever before! 🎉💰 By partnering with 68 Ontario hospitals, Split the Pot Lottery brings players an exciting opportunity to win big while supporting healthcare close to home. Expect amplified payouts 💰, more winners 🏆, and an effortless way to make a positive difference. 🏥💙 Buy your tickets now: https://lnkd.in/gmTRt2fV When you support St. Joe's in the Split the Pot Lottery, you'll be helping to fund the renewal of the Emergency Department at our Hospital. As the busiest ED in the city, our care teams treat more than 60,000 patients each year. These renovations are essential to ensure our community continues to receive the care they deserve. 💙 #WeAreStJoes #SplitThePot #HospitalLottery

A warm congratulations to our 2024 Spirit of Hope Award winners, who were recognized for their inspirational achievements at A Mental Health Morning yesterday. 🌅 This year’s recipients include: 🏆 Youth Category: Re-create Art Studio 🏆 RE-create Studio is an open, free art studio and outreach program for vulnerable Hamilton youth between the ages of 16 – 24. The studio is a safe and welcoming space that provides a community for youth facing barriers such as poverty, mental health issues, homelessness, low socioeconomic status, family conflict or whatever else life has put in their path. The youth-led activities and workshops allow those in attendance to self-express in a supportive environment, develop healthy relationships, and build community. 🏆 Group Category: Wayside House of Hamilton 🏆 Wayside House of Hamilton is a bedded addictions treatment facility that provides abstinence-based care to men living with substance use disorder in Ontario. Working tirelessly to reduce the severity of substance dependence through client-centered counseling and evidence-based therapeutic interventions, Wayside House has made concurrent disorders a central focus of their program as addiction is often intimately linked to depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. Wayside House’s holistic approach also extends care to the loved ones of participants, provides accessible educational materials, and offers a Supportive Housing program, resulting in over 85% of Wayside House graduates reporting an increased confidence in their ability to stay sober in the face of mental and physical pressures. 🏆 Individual Category: Sid Stacey 🏆 Sid is a suicide-loss survivor with the death of his teen daughter, Rachel, in 2007. To honour her memory, Sid established an annual city-wide awareness and fundraising event for suicide prevention called Running for Rachael. Sid Stacey is also well known for his leadership roles in our community, including his work in facilitating the development and launch of the citywide Hamilton Suicide Prevention Strategy in 2010, and chairing the Suicide Prevention Community Council of Hamilton since 2014. He also currently Chairs the Regional Suicide Prevention Committee. Additionally, he has been a key propeller of mental health education in our community over the years, coordinating the suicide prevention training efforts, leading the process to provide mental health awareness grants to schools, and developing educational tools such as ‘suicide is everyone’s responsibility’ cards that contain tips for identifying when someone may be considering suicide. Congratulations to this year’s winners and nominees and thank you to our generous sponsors Bell Let's Talk, HMECU, and LIUNA 💙 To learn more, visit: https://lnkd.in/gnHHtAFw

Thank you to everyone who joined us earlier today for A Mental Health Morning – presented by ArcelorMittal Dofasco. 🌅 ☕ With thanks to the support of our guests, sponsors and speakers, today’s event raised over $45,000 for mental health and addictions care at St. Joe’s. 💙 This year’s event featured best-selling author, DEI expert and psychiatrist-in-residence, Dr. Samra Zafar, M.D. who through a mix of personal experience and powerful storytelling, spoke on Mental Health Through the Lens of Intersectionality. Exploring themes of healing with trauma; the importance of self-compassion; the power of authenticity, acceptance and belonging; and the collective effort it requires to build and support resilience throughout her keynote, we are incredibly thankful to Samra for providing us with the opportunity to reflect and learn, and for inspiring us to continue breaking the stigma around mental health and addictions care. A special thank you goes to St. Joe’s Mental Health and Addictions team and our friends from Ontario Structured Psychotherapy who were on-site at the event to provide support and resources for those in need. As always, we are grateful to our event sponsors directworx, Manulife, FirstOntario Credit Union, The Effort Trust Company, & McMaster University Department Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, as well as our corporate table sponsors! Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gnHHtAFw

During Mental Illness Awareness Week, we are excited to announce a new donation of over $200,000 made by Sun Life and earmarked to support two research projects investigating novel treatments to support the mental health of women who have experienced trauma and are affected by hormonal sensitivity. These important projects will be led by Dr. Benicio Frey, Medical Director of the Women’s Health Concerns Clinic at St. Joe’s, and the Homewood Chair in Women’s Mental Health and Depression, along with his talented research associates. Data shows that women who’ve experienced trauma live with its after-effects like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). At the same time, these women are also more likely to experience hormonal sensitivity which causes severe changes in their mood and mental health following normal hormonal fluctuations across the menstrual cycle. The challenge is that at present, these women are often only treated for their anxiety or their PTSD, but not their complex, co-presenting symptoms. As a regional lead for mental health and addictions care and a major birthing centre, St. Joe’s has a unique opportunity to explore the link between women’s reproductive milestones and their mental health and well-being. “The connection between trauma and hormonal sensitivity and their compounding effect on the mental health of women is currently under-researched, and that leaves room for gaps in care,” says Dr. Frey. “There is a vulnerable population of patients whom we hope to help through these projects, and we’re grateful to Sun Life for their support. With this boost in funding, we’ll not only test our new treatments and hypotheses, but widely share this new knowledge with others. So that, ultimately, we’re improving the care for women locally, nationally, and around the world.” 💛 To learn more about these exciting projects, read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gn3ji5GM

October 6-12 marks Mental Illness Awareness Week (#MIAW2024) in Canada, and we thought it was the perfect opportunity to recognize some of our generous donors that have supported youth mental health in our community through their generous gifts to St. Joe’s Youth Wellness Centre (YWC). 🤍 Joyce Family Foundation: Renewing Support for Youth Mental Health 🤍 Over the years, The Joyce Family Foundation has built a strong partnership with St. Joe's YWC. Most recently, gifts of $225,000 in 2021 and a new donation of $500,000 in 2024 from The Joyce Family Foundation have allowed the YWC to expand via The Joyce Link and build out its Transition Support Program so that youth in our community have access to personalized support to help guide them as they age out of the pediatric mental health system and enter the adult one. 👟 A Run for Chris: Raising Funds for Youth Mental Health & Addictions Care 👟 On August 18, 2024, over 400 participants, donors, and sponsors came together for the third edition of A Run for Chris. The 5k run/walk hosted in memory of Chris Owens, who passed away in 2021 after losing his battle with mental health and addiction, raised more than $41,300 in support of St. Joe’s YWC. 🧠 ArcelorMittal Dofasco: Mental Health Matters to Our Local Steel Giant 🧠 ArcelorMittal Dofasco (AMD) has long been a strong supporter of St. Joe’s and mental health, most recently donating $20,000 towards You Thrive, a program at St. Joe’s YWC committed to providing culturally safe mental health and substance use care to youth who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Colour (BIPOC). (AMD is also the presenting sponsor of #AMentalHealthMorning they have been since its inception!) 💙 RBC: Connecting Youth & their Families to the Mental Health Care They Need💙 In 2020, RBC Foundation pledged an initial $300,000 to help fund St. Joe’s YWC’s Transition Support Stream, which serves young people transitioning from child and adolescent mental health services to the adult mental health system. This year, RBC Foundation renewed their commitment to St. Joe’s, increasing their pledged gift total to $400,000. This gift will continue to benefit the Transition Support Stream, while also supporting other mental health navigation services offered by the care teams at the YWC to connect youth to the care they need. To learn more about the amazing work the YWC is doing, visit reachouthamilton.ca. 🌐 Want to know more about these donations and their impact? Read the full stories in this year’s Donor Impact Report, arriving in your mailboxes and on our website soon 📪💌

Every year at A Mental Health Morning 🌅, St. Joe’s has the honour of presenting the Spirit of Hope Awards 🏆 to acknowledge and celebrate those in our community who have overcome mental health or addiction challenges, or made impactful contributions to these fields. Please join us in congratulating our 2024 Spirit of Hope Award nominees: 🌟Group/Organization Category Sponsored by HMECU 🌟 💙 Body Brave 💙Mohawk Students’ Association 💙Wayside House of Hamilton 💙Women’s Health Concerns Clinic: Community Advisory Committee 💙YouThrive (Youth Wellness Centre) 🌟Youth Category Sponsored by Bell Let's Talk 🌟 💙Farhana Chowdhury 💙Paige Epp 💙RE-create Art Studio 🌟 Individual Category Sponsored by LIUNA 🌟 💙Ben Bailey 💙Bill Baker 💙Sonia Kumar 💙Anneliese Lawton 💙Samantha Mercanti 💙Henriette Pinto 💙Sarah Simpson 💙Sid Stacey 💙Christine Yanke 💙Christopher Yendt The Spirit of Hope Award winners will be announced this Thursday, October 10 at A Mental Health Morning, presented by ArcelorMittal Dofasco and featuring keynote speaker Dr. Samra Zafar, a psychiatrist, DEI expert and Author of A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose, who will touch upon the themes of healing with trauma, the importance of self-compassion; the power of authenticity, acceptance and belonging; and the collective effort it requires to build and support resilience in her talk on mental health through the lens of intersectionality.