PODCAST: Courtnall Society funds charities that help mental health issues
Through celebrity fundraisers in the early 2000s, Victoria’s Courtnall brothers were able to help fund the Archie Courtnall Centre, which helps provide specialized mental health and addiction services for patients arriving in emergency at the Royal Jubilee Hospital.“We thought, ‘let’s take it a step further’, not just have events not just be event driven, but create a society that can carry on and raise money every year,” he said.
Former NHL star Geoff Courtnall explained that there was a huge need for the centre named after his father. “I know before we built the Archie Courtnall Centre, the problem was people would come and check in and say they were suicidal and then nobody would be able to treat them for hours,” he said. “So they would leave and either get better slowly or not get better at all.”
Bruce and Geoff Courtnall talk about their hockey careers on this edition of ‘Today in B.C.’, as well as a hockey program supported by the Courtnall Society, ‘Buddy Check for Jesse’. “The Buddy Check for Jesse program, after he unfortunately committed suicide, was started by his dad and some of the teammates on his team,” said Geoff Courtnall. “They started up a program to check on other kids on different sports teams. So it’s not only great for hockey, but all sports, and I think it’s very important in our society.”
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