The cause: The Canadian Mental Health Association York Region & South Simcoe A few years ago, Judy Brunton stumbled across a fundraising event sponsored by…
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The cause: Canadian Mental Health Association York Region and South Simcoe
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A few years ago, Toni Schofield was struggling as a parent and searched in vain for mental-health resources near her home in rural Ontario.
“I was just looking for some help for myself and for my child,” Ms. Scholfield, 48, recalled from her home in Everett, Ont., about 100 kilometres north of Toronto. “Anybody who could point me in the right direction of where to get my child help, and even as a struggling parent how to help myself.”