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It's Gone.....
In less than two days, the old Day Treatment building has been reduced to a pile of rubble. You will be pleased to know that a large portion of the old building will be recycled. Many of the windows and doors were removed by Mennonites, to be used elsewhere, and the steel beams, siding and other items were being recycled instead of being sent to the dump. Now the cleanup is underway to make way for the new building.
Children's Mental Health Week
As part of this year's awareness building efforts for the Children's
 Mental Health week, kidsLINK and Lutherwood teamed up to put on a barbecue and prepare two radio spots in collaboration with Student Support Leadership Initiative.
Sofia Hostetler and Bekah Dueck provided writing and two of the voices featured in the spots. Dramatic direction was provided by Allan Rudy-Froese. Chris Sellers of Lutherwood played the husband, Jacob Rudy-Froese played the child and Andrea Shrpe played the third youth. They are airing three times a day on CHYM FM, KIX FM, and 570 NEWS.
Listen to the ads! Radio ad 1 Radio ad 2
Gourmet Trail 2010 - A Great Success!
 Tickets for our annual Gourmet Trail, featuring Waterloo Region's best Restaurants were gobbled up by participants eager to taste the wonderful dishes these restaurants had to offer. A special thank you to all of our sponsors for their support, and to the many volunteers who helped make the event a great success.
Check out the photos and a list of our sponsors and restaurants.
Student Internship Program Recessed for One Year
Over the years, kidsLINK has offered a multidisciplinary student education program through student placements and internships. This program has grown significantly nearly doubling the number of students served per year. We continue to receive numerous requests, locally and internationally, which indicate that the kidsLINK program is a meaningful resource in the students' educational experience.
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A cause for jubilation....
kidsLINK has received $750,000 in provincial and federal funding. The money will help pay for the demolition and rebuilding of a new centre to house the Day Treatment Program.
The total cost of the project is 1.25 million dollars.
kidsLINK CEO Sonya Pouyat calls the announcement "a cause for jubilation...."
The new building will allow kidslINK to better serve children in a safer, more environmentally friendly setting.
kidsLINK a sponsoring organization of the 3rd Annual Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise
 Delegates from across the country representing sectors as diverse as private business, non-profit, government and foundations converged in Toronto to learn more about social enterprise. As a founding member of the Social Enterprise Council of Canada, kidsLINK was proud to be a sponsoring organization of the conference and to bringing more awareness to Social Enterprise.
As part of the conference kidsLINK was proud to host a special event with former Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Read more here about the conference.
Click here to read about the Policy Forums held on day two and three.
Please help the children and families who urgently seek kidsLINK's help!
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See and Hear Our Past Year's Accomplishments
See and hear our staff talk about our accomplishments, in our electronic annual report.
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