By Katherine Verhagen Rodis, May 1, 2020 Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health, Melanie Siebert (Author), Belle Wuthrich (Illustrator), Orca Book Publishers, April 20, 2020, 186 pp, $24.95 For children and youth experiencing a pre-existing mental health or substance use conditions, daily stress and anxiety are amplified. In the middle of a global … [Read more...] about Heads Up: ‘These stories can be a place of refuge’
The Charity Report
The Charity Report releases its first intelligence report ‘The Cost of Conflict’
(May 1, 2020) In the face of a global pandemic, charities from food banks to shelters to community mental health centres are working in cities and towns across the country trying to fill gaps and support the most vulnerable. On its free news site, The Charity Report has covered this work, conducting probing interviews with sector leaders and conducting deep news … [Read more...] about The Charity Report releases its first intelligence report ‘The Cost of Conflict’
Senator Ratna Omidvar on COVID-19 and its impact on the charity sector
(April 8, 2020) For16 years, as executive director and president of The Maytree Foundation, Ratna Omidvar focused on local, national and international efforts to promote the integration of immigrants. She spent four years as Distinguished Visiting Professor and Founder, Global Diversity Exchange at Ryerson University. In the 1990s, she was the Executive Director of … [Read more...] about Senator Ratna Omidvar on COVID-19 and its impact on the charity sector