“Anxiety and Youth” Many youth experience mental health disorders like anxiety. This presentation will include an overview of common anxiety disorders in youth and the potential origins and influences of these disorders. Social media, biology, awareness, all contribute to these experiences. A review of common treatment modalities will also be discussed including resources that can […]

SPEAKER:  Rhonda Elias-Penner - Rhonda came to Thrive, then known as Pregnancy and Family Support Services, in spring of 2010 as an Applied Counselling student, working in the Resource Centre. After graduating with Honors, Rhonda was hired as the Community Support Worker for the summer program. In the fall of the same year, she was […]

One of the most devastating acts of colonization for Indigenous Peoples in Canada was the federal government’s implementation of the Indian Residential School system. For roughly seven generations, nearly every First Nations, Inuit and Metis child in Canada was interned in a residential school, in a futile attempt to assimilate and acculturate Indigenous Peoples into […]