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When it was founded in September The Inner Man Project gave men in the community a virtual place to go for mental health support and to raise awareness of the issue.
Four months later, they have a physical place to call their own. The Inner Man Project has its own community centre at 6 941 South Railway St.
Co-founder Dylan Eckes says it’s huge for the group to have the space.
“On average we have 30-40 people coming into our peer sessions every week,” he says. “We have two or three counsellors now that basically show up to the peer sessions if anybody needs to talk. They use this space or one of the offices to do their appointments and a lot of these counsellors are doing it volunteer basis so we want to give the space to help each other out.”
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Students and staff at Vincent Massey School are reaching out to the community and paying forward a little TLC this holiday season.
Grade 5/6 teacher Tracy Elderkin calls herself a huge fan of Christmas and asked the rest of the school to make Christmas cards or Christmas videos that will be delivered to seniors’ homes in the city.
“I would think that we’re probably going to run in about three, four hundred Christmas cards and then the video we have at least eight different videos coming in that I’ll put together as one,” said Elderkin. “Some people are singing different songs, some are doing a poem, I’m doing Christmas jokes with my class, some are spreading messages. Just whatever way that we can bring joy to the residents.”