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The CPFQ Child Sponsorship Program is designed to build bridges between the Canadian community and Palestinian children living under occupation or in refugee camps. Children enrolled in our program live under conditions of extreme poverty and unemployment. Many of them live in densely populated refugee camps. A suitable infrastructure is absent, seriously threatening the physical and mental health of residents. Many children suffer from serious health problems and disabilities. Due to financial hardship, many have to leave school at a very young age to help support their families. The severe restrictions on employment and movement make the future of these children very bleak. In addition to providing much needed financial assistance, the program helps maintain stable and rewarding relationships between each child and their sponsor. This simple message of hope can offset some of the effects of the chaotic and insecure conditions in which they live.

The Pet Therapy Society of Northern Alberta was created to provide the benefits of the human-animal bond that is well documented in medical, psychological and social literature. At all stages throughout our lives animal companionship can stimulate sensitivity and learning. In adolescents, involvement in animal assisted activities (AAA) can add a perspective not usually available in many non-pet home or classroom situations. Interaction with companion animals can involve values, morals, modes of behaviour, attitudes and self-examination as well as skills. While the focus is on the human-animal relationship, other aspects including environmental issues, personal health and safety and cooperative learning may also be associated. Members volunteer their personal time along with their pets, providing animal-assisted therapy and animal-assisted activity programs in hospitals, nursing homes, mental health and corrections programs to name a few.

Our Programs: PRSCH comprehensive, well-designed programs recognize the wide-ranging impact of substance abuse on a person’s physical and mental health, family, friends and employment. Our programs address the challenges the men may be experiencing. Our programs: · individual and group/family counselling; · relapse prevention; · conflict and anger management; · budget planning, career planning, employment skills; · health, nutrition and wellness; · journalling for gratitude, personal growth and reflection; · meditation; · discharge planning. Our programs are essential to recovering clients who are returning as productive members to our community. Our programs are action oriented to focus on the person’s present thoughts and feelings and constructively teach alternative ways to successfully manage high-risk situations whether emotionally or environmentally influenced. The delivery of our programs change according to the needs of the men, their goals and choices.

The Wellesley Institute is a Toronto-based non-profit and non-partisan research and policy institute. We focus on developing research, policy and community mobilization to advance population health. We conduct our work through four core pillars: housing, health care, economics, and immigrant health. The Wellesley Institute is a registered non-profit charity.

In 2005 our sister organization, Village Schools International, opened our first 3 schools, built 22 classrooms, received 13 missionary teachers from America, and enrolled 832 students. Today, we have twenty-six schools in villages in Tanzania which are providing an education to nearly 7300 students, and we are currently partnering with people in 188 villages, working together to try to build an additional 138 classrooms this year and to open at least two more of the six new schools under construction.

We are Canadians who want to reduce suicide and its impact in Canada. We represent experts and volunteers, school and community suicide prevention initiatives, mental health workers, researchers, crisis centres and families who have been impacted by suicide. We are survivors of loss. Among us, we have lost children, parents, family members, neighbours, friends, patients and clients. So have most of you. We want to end the silence. We want to ease the suffering, to heal our communities and our neighbours, as we have healed ourselves. We want to prevent others from experiencing such pain and such loss.

Established in 1965, Street Haven was one of the first shelters for women in Toronto. We are dedicated to providing help and support to women in need. We serve women who are abused, homeless, socially isolated and those living in poverty as well as women who come from abusive situations or have mental health, alcoholism and/or addiction challenges. We provide emergency shelter, permanent supportive housing, a drop-in centre & food program, addiction case management, residential addictions programs, education programs and recreational/social opportunities. Women who use our services find ways to improve the quality of their lives.

Therapeutic Paws of Canada is a national Non-Profit volunteer organization providing dog and cat visitation resources for human needs (physical, mental, educational, motivational, and socialization) through regular visits to hospitals, residences, schools, etc.

Safe Workers of Tomorrow provides workplace health and safety information to students at no cost to the school, anywhere in Manitoba. Our presentations range from a one hour general health and safety presentation, to a full day health and safety practicum. Topics covered in the presentations include worker rights and employer responsibilities, hazard recognition and control, health and safety legislation and WHMIS, and injury reporting and the role of the Workers Compensation Board. Presentations are delivered by energetic and knowledgeable SAFE Workers of Tomorrow staff and volunteers who employ a variety of techniques to engage participants and foster student led discussions. Students receive a workplace safety and health resource book and other useful take away items to help them after the presentation is done.

STRIDE is a non-profit, community based vocational rehabilitation program founded in 1983. STRIDE is the only Halton-based organization whose primary purpose is to serve the employment needs of residents who are living with a mental illness or addiction issue.

The mission of the School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts (SANCA) is to improve the mental and physical health of children of all ages and abilities by engaging them in the joyous creativity of acrobatics and circus arts. SANCA offers experiences that are physically challenging, socially enriching, encourage participation in the arts, and reach youth of all ages and abilities who have the least access and opportunity to participate in healthy, creative, physical arts activities. SANCA gives youth a safe, social, constructive environment to be physically active, to learn physical literacy, and to learn physical creativity and performing arts. Our programs create opportunities for young people to explore their interests and build positive relationships with peers and adults.

Our objectives are: To plan, develop and deliver social and heath care programs for communities within the Skeena Health Unit District To support community involvement through participation with other agencies, societies and citizens To act as an advocate for social and economic improvement throughout the region To promote community awareness of social and health care issues To work with federal and provincial health and welfare planning and fund raising organizations in order to achieve community based services