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…
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“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…
The Listening Project is the growth of years of community planting seeds of attention and listening to young people to learn how they experience our society. We believe 2017 is the right timing to create, welcome, support, and energize…