Thank you for having me. When Marilyn asked me if I would talk, I was infinitely honored and thrilled and terrified. And usually I get to hide behind a set of slides and a microphone and a stand and…
Please send any messages to sam@thedoorway.ca to be placed into Marilyn’s celebration guest book.
2019 has been a powerful and impactful year for our Doorway community. We have witnessed young people wrestling with a myriad of issues, including addiction. We have listened to others who have escaped street culture, are going back to…
Do kids in the child welfare system get more than their basic needs met while in professional care? What is considered as a basic need? Is it food and shelter? What about psychological needs, education, and feeling a sense…
When we listen to how young people at The Doorway speak to each other – we hear how they want to be spoken to.
Children Learn What They Live by Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D. If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If children…
22% accessed a substance abuse health service… within 30 days… Then what happened? Did they fall thru the cracks of our health care system? Were there not enough services? Were they not fast enough? Were the services not right?…
When asked ‘what do you want to make Calgarians aware of?’ for International Overdose Awareness Day 2017, our young people shared this video and this poem and we began to understand: many suffering from opioid addiction are also suffering…
Trolley 5, Higher Ground, Original Joes, Hyden Block, AH Designs and Brag Wear, you ensured Steps off the Street 2018 was a huge success. Thank you for your support!
“My transition from the street is more apparent on the inside, rather than, as some would assume, on the outside.” – Anonymous The Olympics are different things to different folks. Let us consider here that if the Olympics are…