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...
Food as the Ultimate Community Builder
Addressing access to food is the driving vision at the Archway Food Bank. Along with food hampers, the Food Bank also provides access to baby supplies, menstruation products, dental care, Christmas gifts, and food delivery services for adults 60+ and who have mobility...