{"id":476759,"date":"2026-02-15T15:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/476759\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:55:08","slug":"major-donation-to-help-ruah-counselling-reach-rural-remote-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/476759\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Donation to Help Ruah Counselling Reach Rural, Remote Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/amelia-odea-lis.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Major Donation to Help Ruah Counselling Reach Rural, Remote Areas\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amelia O&#8217;Dea, Executive Director with the Ruah Centre<\/p>\n<p>A non-profit community counselling agency is expanding its services thanks to a major donation from the <a href=\"https:\/\/northpinefoundation.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northpine Foundation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ruahcounselling.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruah Counselling Centre<\/a> offers counselling services for individuals, couples, families and teens 16 years of age and older.<\/p>\n<p>Executive director Amelia O\u2019Dea told VOCM Open Line host Brian Callahan that they\u2019ve recently received support from the Northpine Foundation to the tune of $875,000 to fund their operations for a two-year period.<\/p>\n<p>She says the funding will help them expand their services to rural and remote areas virtually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich is going to increase accessibility to mental health services, reduce wait times, which is often a huge issue, and we\u2019re just so grateful and excited for this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Amelia O&#8217;Dea, Executive Director with the Ruah Centre A non-profit community counselling agency is expanding its services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-476759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}