Life Coaching: Abbotsford Mission Recycling Program Offers a Supportive Workplace
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
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
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
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...