Everyone wears glasses. These aren’t reading glasses, or bifocals, or Ray Bans that I’m talking about. I mean the glasses through which we view the world. Sometimes they’re rose coloured. Sometimes bleak and grey. Sometimes...
This month we have a guest post by one of our volunteers, Bernadette Gerrish. Bea has written about her experience helping out with Redwood Park Communities. I am a volunteer for Redwood Park Communities and I also donate my time to The Salvation Army at the...
Have you ever heard of the broken window effect? There’s this theoretical neighbourhood–it’s clean and pretty and everyone’s friendly. But then, through some accident, a window gets broken. It’s just a little crack,...
Written by Rhonda Kent. Photo credit May Borchert. Each November for the last few years, Dani Strong has put on a concert to benefit Redwood Park Communities. And at each concert she has asked me to stand up and say a few words about what it is that we do at Redwood....
This month we have a guest post by our very own placement student, Mae Baird. Mae is currently in the Social Service Worker program at Georgian College, and today she’s sharing what she’s learning while helping out at Redwood. Violence affects women...
We do a lot of different things at Redwood Park Communities. Supporting a community of friends is a big job for a diverse team. But there’s one thing we do that is more important than all the rest, and it might not be what you think. We do paperwork....
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