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September has come and gone and it’s time for our monthly update. To start, I wanted to reflect on our progress. As of October 1st we have:

• Engaged 47 youth in 3 provinces and 1 territory 
• Encouraged and supported the youth in gaining 803 hours of volunteer service
• Supported youth in securing $6500 of funding through the #RisingYouth grant
• Co-created 7 community-specific resources to support

This month we want to feature our third partner, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare (HDGH). HDGH is based out of Windsor, Ontario. We worked with the team from the Regional Children’s Centre, which offers crisis services, walk in counselling, outpatient counselling and therapy, assessment and consultation, day treatment, residential treatment and in home treatment. The Centre also runs a youth council, Y

This month we would like to highlight two more of our amazing partners! We want to highlight the work of the HeartWood Centre for Community Youth Development and Laing House, both of Halifax, NS. We had our final webinar with the Halifax group and our work is complete, as a result we thought this would be a great time to send them a giant THANK YOU!

The HeartWood Centre for Community Youth

We wanted to change things up this time around and highlight the work of one of our amazing partners! Sea to Sky Community Services (SSCS) in Squamish, British Columbia, has been around since 1978 and provides vital services for the residents of the Sea-to-Sky Corridor. They help children, youth, adults and seniors with just about anything and everything. Check out this link for a full listing of

March has flown by and we are relieved that spring is finally here! The mindyourmindteam has been very busy with the exciting Canada Service Corps initiatives.

Congrats to the Squamish youth team, who were successful in receiving a #RisingYouth grant. This group will be hosting a Youth Leadership Summit during British Columbia Youth Week, the event will be on May 27th. The summit is designed to

The mindyourmind team and the youth teams are on a roll… around the country!

We kicked the month off with our third Design Lab in Windsor, Ontario. We partnered with Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare and twelve youth from the Windsor community. The group decided to create an interactive mental health workbook as well as a self care quiz. To learn more about this Design Lab and to meet the youth check

January has flown by, probably because we’ve been hard at work! If you’re just joining us get up to date on the Canada Service Corps project here.

The mindyourmind team has been busy putting the finishing details on the Anchor workbook for the Halifax, NS group. This workbook focuses on tangible self-care strategies and general mental health information. It is fun and engaging, it has coloring