Meet Megumi, Our Research and Evaluation Volunteer Rockstar
Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got involved with Stella’s Place. I used to work for a clinical research project in a pharmaceutical company in Japan. I visited hospitals and worked in data quality assurance by monitoring patient...
Meet Michael, Our Marketing Volunteer Rockstar
You’ve got a lot of experience helping brands, including other charities, leverage their marketing efforts! Tell us a bit about yourself and your professional background. After graduating with a degree in Political Science, I got my first job...
Five Questions with Miriam, Stella’s Place Clinician, in Support of Brain Awareness Week
Tell us a bit about your role at Stella’s Place and the many ways you support young adults. In my role as a Clinician, I provide support to young adults, primarily through facilitating groups such as DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), SFSL...
This Is What You Can Expect from Our Intake and Orientation Session
  The first thing I noticed when I walked into Stella’s Place was how busy and full of activity it was. I have been involved with Stella’s Place for a long time and it is...
Meet Lisa, Our New Dedicated Stella’s Place YMCA Employment Counsellor
Lisa Baker Looking for a job or searching for direction in career planning can be an exhausting and isolating experience. It's not something we're taught extensively in school, but somehow it's something we are expected to know how to do. It's monotonous, lonely,...
Fitness Workshop for Mental Health: SWAT Health x lululemon
As a community, we are coming together to work towards reducing the stigma around living with mental health challenges. Removing this stigma is a massive step forward to zone in on the undercover struggles that people deal with daily. Thankfully, the world is...
Spreading Love and Mental Health Awareness on Valentine’s Day
This February, the Schulich Charity Association (SCA) hosted its third annual Spread the Love event, in support of Stella’s Place, an organization focused on young adult mental health. We have continuously supported this organization for the...
Arts-Based Programming Has Been Booming at Stella’s Place!
Stella’s Studio, our longest-running service provision program, continues to grow. Responsiveness was a key value for the Studio in 2018. Studio has been filling up and late in the year, we had to implement a token system to prevent...
Let’s talk about the future of mental health
Small Actions. Big Impact. Every year, on January 30th, Bell Let's Talk raises money towards mental health initiatives in Canada. For 2019, we asked four of our program staff to describe what makes our delivery of care at Stella’s Place...
Million dollar investment in the Community Healing Project
2018 ended on a high note. On December 20, Mayor John Tory, Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction Bill Blair, and Chief of Police Mark Saunders announced a new investment in Stella's Place as part of the Community Healing...
