Health P.E.I. bringing French-language home care services to Prince County

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SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — Well being P.E.I. is now providing residence care providers in French to fulfill the wants of the francophone group within the Prince County space.

French-language residence care was recognized as a precedence by the Acadian and larger francophone group within the county by means of session beneath the French Language Providers Act.

Well being P.E.I. will determines workers French language proficiency, designate bilingual positions and supply on-line modular coaching by means of the French language program, funded by Well being Canada, providing free language coaching to residence care workers.

Crystal Praught, director of home-based care, mentioned the venture purpose is to persistently present well being service in French and plan for added bilingual human sources to fulfill the wants of the French-speaking communities on P.E.I.

“The house care French language program was launched with the purpose of creating and implementing an built-in residence care program mannequin to help the supply of care in houses for the francophone group,” mentioned Praught.

Well being P.E.I. mentioned two-thirds of residence care workers in Prince County have completed this system.

Extra details about this system might be discovered by emailing Praught at [email protected] or Lisa Gotell, bilingual venture supervisor, at [email protected].