The Comox Valley Pregnancy Care Centre received a $4654.80 grant this year from the Comox Valley Community Foundation (The Rotary Club of Courtenay Foundation Fund and The Community Fund) to fund its Tangible Assistance Program.
The Tangible Assistance Program includes the centre’s Free Clothing Room (birth-2T clothing and maternity clothing), diapers, wipes, formula, breast pumps and more). This program includes in service support groups on topics that support women and families such as education, budgeting, self-care, nutrition, pregnancy support and parenting skills. All of these supports and programs are free.
“There were times this past year when we were very low on supplies like formula, certain sizes of diapers and breast pumps,” said Comox Valley Pregnancy Care Centre executive director, Lisa Brown. “This grant will help to ensure that we do not run out of some of these staples that families need. We are also looking forward to staffing our in service support groups and offering practical supplies and supports needed to give families a hand up. We so appreciate the vision of the Comox Valley Community Foundation because we also strive to create legacies in the form of healthy families.”
The Comox Valley Community Foundation has served our region for over 20 years, working with donors to create legacies in the form of permanent endowment funds. Grants are distributed from income earned, preserving the capital to ensure a perpetual stream of funds.