National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Events in the Fraser Valley

Events, Indigenous, News

The events listed below took place in 2021. To see the list of 2022 events for the 2nd annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation please click here. National Aboriginal Day Awareness event held in 2014 at UFV. University of the Fraser Valley, CC BY 2.0, via...

Life Coaching: Abbotsford Mission Recycling Program Offers a Supportive Workplace

Recycling, Stories

In addition to employment support programs, Archway employs over 400 people in part-time and full-time positions. More than 50 of these employees work at the Abbotsford Mission Recycling Program.  Recycling director Laura Midan spends her days working alongside her...

How Senior Services are Going the Extra Mile to Connect with Vulnerable Older Adults

Seniors, Stories

Social Prescribing Program  When Helen was denied entry across the border from Seattle to Abbotsford due to COVID-19 restrictions, she couldn’t imagine how she could continue to assist her 92-year-old mother Vera with a variety of essential tasks as she advanced in...

How the Opioid Agonist Treatment Centre is Tackling the Opioid Crisis in Abbotsford

Addiction, Stories

THE OAT CLINIC HAS MOVED TO: 102-32463 Simon Ave 604-851-3752 “Like gasoline on an open fire,” is how the team at the Archway Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT) Centre describes the effects of COVID on the opiate crisis. “We have become much busier since COVID began. Our...

It Takes a Village – Parenting Through a Pandemic, PSTD and Cancer

Family & Children, Stories

When Jenelle was seven months pregnant with her first child, her husband, Dave, went on medical leave due to post-traumatic stress disorder. He withdrew as he worked through the trauma he had experienced working as a 911 dispatcher.   “It was really, really hard on...