About Newfoundcare
Mission
Building Healthy Businesses for the 21st Century
Vision
Abundance for all Communities.
Newfoundcare promotes healthy lifestyles and communities' via latest events, publications, and unique stories that attribute to the good news surrounding a living culture. Helping businesses with free advertising, is where Newfoundcare maintains long lasting relationships and professional work.
Values of Newfoundcare
Newfoundcare values are communications, analysis, research and evaluation. The acronym C.A.R.E. is the overall theme that portrays the type of help offered to you by Newfoundcare as a way to look at individuals and business’ overall potential and enhance current methods of operation.
Summary
Established in 2004, as an independent strategy to magnify primary healthcare, Newfoundland and Labrador Communications Analysis Research and Evaluation was born. What started out as Newfoundland and Labrador Communications "Action" Research and Evaluation was to encourage activity from the policies that were full of analysis yet no action taken or very little to achieve success for our healthcare standards. During the Romanoff Report (2004) Samantha wrote a proposal to focus on getting to the "root cause" of problems in our healthcare system. Utilizing Chinese Medicine and other holistic practices. Samantha developed a formula for the government to achieve and sustain our MCP coverage. This proposal gained a great deal of attention from government advisors however was never implemented.
Combined with a background in Tourism and Communications and having served in several leadership roles, Samantha Gerbeau, founder of Newfoundcare, noticed a real gap in the health and education system and found a possible solution. Along with her proposal was her children’s food book, The ABC’s of the Real Treat! Concentrating on the 5 senses the picnic program was developed for young children to enjoy healthy eating. Once it was published and delivered as a gift to 15,000 children in the province of NL, The ABC's of the Real Treat! was recognized by the Canadian Teachers’ Federation in 2008, a national publication of Healthy Learning. It has also been supported by the NLTA (NL Teachers’ Association) and the Aliant Pioneers plus those involved in food security.
That same year, began the network with various stakeholders, teachers and mentors to provide the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador with the healthcare proposal to combat long waiting lists and invest in more preventative primary healthcare, agriculture and sustainable fishing for NL, especially on account of the increase in type-two diabetes; hence her organization’s name that complies an umbrella of activity to encourage healthy living and business tactics. Newfoundcare continues to advocate for better education and healthcare for all.
Various entrepreneurial experience from restaurant ownership to independent distribution, and her superior customer service training program, Newfoundcare continues to pioneer a constant approach to developing a broader audience of positive action. Specializing in media relations, Newfoundcare remains involved promoting the fisheries and agriculture for NL and a healthy lifestyle for all communities.
Working within the community and several nonprofit organizations, Samantha developed an awareness campaign during the pandemic November 2020. BullyBeKind #bullybekind gained much attention as a month-long campaign, as several seen the need to encourage respect and manners via social media platforms. The initiative aimed to reduce online harassment and promote positive interactions.