Our Event Was A Success!

Thanks to all of your support and donations, we surpassed our fundraising goal and succeeded in raising awareness of this very important issue of  students' mental health.

• Thanks to Victoria Lorient- Faibish for her great talk on "Find Your "Self Culture". We are confident the people who attended will pass on what they learned.

• Thanks to  Honourable Soo Wong for taking time to come to our event and speak.

• Thanks to Christine Cooper the Executive Director of F.A.M.E for collaborating with us and coming to speak about your organization.
• Thanks to the Head of Counselling service at Humber College, Andrew Poulos, for coming and speaking at our event. We hope that Humber students will continue to use Humber Counselling services.

• We also want to thank LAMP, Store Front Seniors and Healthy Minds for providing pamphlets and being there for questions.
• Our bake sale and silent auctions were very successful. Thanks again for all the donations and to our volunteers.

We hope that you continue to follow this blog. Our mental health is very important and it is never to late to ask and receive help. It happens so you don't need to be afraid to talk about it!!
Sandy Sullivan, Sarah Persaud, Elira Gjata, Aferdita Beqiri, Rochelle Edwards are students who organized this important event. 

Help support this great cause !

Students from the Settlement Counselor Program

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Humber College – Lakeshore Campus 

Would like to invite you to our fundraiser !!!

  

When: Wednesday, December 4^th, 2013 from 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Where: Humber College (Lake Shore Campus L1017) “The Community Room”

Speakers:     

Victoria Lorient-Faibish MEd, CCC, BCPP, RPE

                        Holistic Psychotherapist – Topic: Find Your “Self Culture”: Get in the Right                                 Relationship with Yourself, Move Past Anxiety and Neutralize Your Inner                                              Bully – Followed by a 10 minutes Question and Answer Session

                        

Honourable Soo Wong, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of                                Training, Colleges and Universities

                        

Christine Cooper, Executive Director of F.A.M.E - Family Association for                           Mental Health Everywhere (FAME)

Auction, Bake Sale, Snacks, and Music


Donate: To make an on-line donation please click on the DONATE button on the F.A.M.E website.
 Please list your donation as an in-honour tribute gift to Humber College. Tax receipts will be emailed immediately for donations. 

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