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The story of one - the story of many... Think about one person receiving counselling. Now think about their family, children, partners, friends, co-workers and other who pass through their day to day lives. Counselling has a positive effect on everyone. When one person receives counselling others also benefit... when one person understands a community of people is changed. Welcome to Family Service Thames Valley, where we offer counselling services, group programs, credit counselling and workplace counselling, as well as the Community Integration Program (CIP)and youth and emerging adults based services of mindyourmind.

Family Services of Peel was established in 1971 as a non-profit, charitable agency to provide family and community support services for the people of Peel. As a multi-service agency, we provide professional counselling, support for victims of abuse, employment support services, supports for people with developmental disabilities and education programs. Sensitive to cultural social diversity, we are a community-based agency that works to strengthen individuals and families through guidance, coaching, mentoring, education and support, whether in groups, family meetings or one-to-one sessions.

Family Plus/Life Solutions (formerly Family Services Saint John, Inc.) has been serving the Saint John area since 1929. The Agency is a private, not-for-profit organization helping men, women, children and families manage the challenges of today's living conditions. As well as serving the general public, Family Plus also holds contracts with provincial and federal government departments, for whom the Agency provides various professional services. We also contract with many businesses in New Brunswick to provide Employee and Family Assistance Programs. Our Agency works in conjunction with the other Family Service agencies in Canada, as well as being a member of Family Service Canada.

Family Transition Place provides safe shelter, support and counselling to abused women and their children. We work with individuals, organizations and businesses in our community to end violence against women. Family Transition Place promotes community involvement in prevention and response to violence against women by working with schools, police, media and other concerned groups.

Ontario Nature, established in 1931, is a charitable organization representing over 30,000 members and over 140 member groups across the province, connecting individuals and communities to nature.

We are home to the Fernwood Community Centre and the people behind the revitalized Cornerstone Building and new market-based affordable housing in our village core. We created the Cornerstone Café, a local gathering place where proceeds from our great coffees are reinvested in the neighbourhood. We provide quality infant and toddler and day care and run the Best Babies program for new and soon-to-be moms at risk. We hold weekly lunches for seniors, host youth and adult recreation programs, and provide low and no-cost meeting space for a variety of groups and clubs. We support healthy food in the city through our Food Security Collective and the Good Food Box program we subsidize. We organize monthly total plastics recycling drop off. We publish a monthly newspaper, the Village Vibe, and bring you Fernwood's own free music festival, Fern Fest. We are active in planning and transforming the built environment of our neighbourhood.

FoodShare develops innovative programs and education to improve access to affordable and healthy food, reaching over 159,000 children and adults every single month. We take a long-term approach to hunger and food issues, working to empower individuals, families and communities through food-based initiatives “from field to table.” FoodShare mentors communities in drawing on their own strengths to adapt and grow tools and scalable solutions so that our work is leveraged exponentially. Our programs include Student Nutrition, Field to Table Schools, the Good Food Café (healthy cafeteria), Focus on Food youth internships, the Good Food Box, Mobile and Good Food Markets, Fresh Produce for Schools, School Grown, Community Kitchens, the FoodLink Hotline, Power Soups, Community Gardening, Composting, Beekeeping, School Grown, and Urban Agriculture.

We provide residential and day programs for adults with developmental disabilities.

Fraser Region Community Justice Initiaties (CJI) is a non-profit, charitable society based in Langley, BC. The agency has nearly 25 years' experience providing Restorative Justice based programs and services in such settings as the criminal justice system, workplaces, communities, institutions, organizations, churches, schools and businesses, and for private individuals. CJI's school based program, Educating for Peacebuilding, has become a model for school districts as to how Restorative Action can positively impact school populations. The agency's serious crime program, called the Victim Offender Mediation Program, has successfully pioneered processes for reconciling victims and offenders involved in some of the most serious crimes in the Canadian Criminal Code.

It is the philosophy of this Society that everyone has the right to enjoy a full and satisfying life. An important means to achieve this goal is through personal development and self-help. The Society believes that motivation for self-help can be instilled and nurtured through participation combined with support, facilitation and challenge.

Lives are transformed when people connect to the world of information and ideas through our libraries: * Children learn to love reading and that helps them be successful in school. * Students expand their minds and discover knowledge that inspires great achievement. * Adults enjoy reading for pleasure and dig deep for information that motivates and guides their activities. * Those who struggle with problems find help and solutions. * Those who are homebound can have library materials delivered. * Those who are print-impaired can listen to audiobooks or read large print books. * Those who are learning English can access bilingual books and join conversation circles to practice speaking a new language. * Those who need a safe place to spend time can relax at the library. * Those who want to use computers can do that free of charge at the library--and even receive instruction on how to use them. Life is good...and gets even better...at Fraser Valley Regional Library!

We operate two shelters in Fredericton - a Men's Shelter with 35 plus beds and Grace House for Women with 12 beds. Each year, nearly 500 men and women will stay at the Shelters. In total, we provide nearly 15,000 bed nights to homeless men and women in the Fredericton area. The length of stay ranges from one day to several months, depending on each client’s circumstances. The Shelters are open 23 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Approximately 75% of our clients suffer from a mental illness, either diagnosed or undiagnosed; up to 80% contend with addiction – drugs, alcohol, gambling. Low literacy skills and/or learning disabilities are common. Of course, many of our clients face a combination of challenges. It is estimated that less than 10% are employable for steady full-time work. We have provided shelter for men and women as young as 16 years of age and as old as 83 years of age.