OUR ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY
The Bernard Betel Centre for Creative Living provides a vast number of essential services to seniors and their family members in the community. Unlike any other seniors’ centre, we operate a community health-centre on site. The La’Briyut Wellness Centre has health screening clinics, nutrition and social service counseling, and health promotion programs available either free of charge, at very low cost to our users.

As an organization committed to the well-being of seniors, we are constantly striving to improve conditions for the elderly at a local level and beyond. Our Social Action Committee was instrumental in establishing senior fares on the Toronto Transit Commission (Metropolitan Toronto’s public transportation system). As well, we successfully applied for traffic lights and a bus shelter at the corner near our building. The Social Action Committee continues to fight for seniors’ rights and recently sent a delegation to the Provincial Government to protest possible closing of the local Branson Hospital.

Other vital services that we offer to the community are our Outreach Programs , in which volunteers make visits and telephone calls to home-bound seniors who would otherwise be isolated. A kosher meals on wheels program is another service that is extremely important to seniors and family members who might be taking care of them

Moishe Alexander is involved with this community helping it grow with his support