The non-profit organization has been providing free or low-cost programming to members of the community, assisting with family support. Stephanie Barnes has been the program co-ordinator since last September, but she was far from a stranger to the family centre’s programs when she took the job. She was a board member for two years, and she started taking her kids to the centre when her family moved to Oxbow four years ago. “It’s a place where parents can bring their kids. It’s a place where you can come and feel welcome if you’re having a good day or a bad day. It’s a good place to meet people. It’s just a good place to interact. It helps prepare you, give ideas for parenting or schooling, or other things to do with kids,” said Barnes.
Stephanie Barnes from the Expressway Family Centre has once again come up with an extraordinary idea to help the residents of the Bow Valley Villa feel less isolated in this world where isolation . . .