On Wednesday, June 14, we held our virtual Annual General Meeting and are pleased to announce our new Board of Directors for the 2023-2024 fiscal year: President Kelso Kennedy Past President Peter Buxton Vice President Kristy Hayter Treasurer Jackie Marchand Director Stephanie Smith Director Wayne Cousins Director Tara Sudbury Director Chef Andrew George Director Mark […]
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Celebrating Pride Month 2023
June is Pride Month and at Dan’s Legacy, we celebrate diversity, inclusion and love every day of the year! Approximately 30% of our clients identify with the LGBTQ2S+ community and we’re seeing more and more trans youth clients in our programs in the past couple of years. Some of the ways we’ve provided specialized programming […]
National Indigenous Peoples Day 2023
Today is National Indigenous Peoples Day and at Dan’s Legacy this is a day to celebrate with our Indigenous friends and family but also a day to pause for reflection. Photo Credit: Kent Danielson Approximately 40% of our youth clients are Indigenous, and many have grown up in foster care with non-Indigenous families, completely disconnected […]
Celebrating Earth Month at Dan’s Legacy
April is Earth Month and Dan’s Legacy is committed to environmental sustainability, as is seen through our surplus food collection program that diverts thousands of kilos of edible food away from local landfills. We have been collecting recovered food for years, and repurpose it into healthy meals and fully stocked grocery hampers for our youth […]
KPU Psychiatric Nursing Students Create Project Proposal for Dan’s Legacy Triage
Kwantlen Polytechnic University psychiatric nursing students Umika Vassa and Thanatchaya Tumphet approached Dan’s Legacy for their research project with the aim to differentiate the risk levels of clients at Dan’s Legacy in order to triage the youth for counselling services based on needs. The project goals included: To research the partner sites that have referred […]
National Volunteer Week 2023 – Salvatore & Lorrie Story
April 16 to April 22 is National Volunteer Week in Canada and this year’s focus is “Volunteering Weaves Us Together”. At Dan’s Legacy, we can’t think of a more appropriate theme that truly reflects how we feel about our volunteers as well as defines the impact they have on our cause. The COVID-19 pandemic separated us […]
Dan’s Legacy to Benefit from $1.7M Grant to New Westminster through “Building Safer Communities Fund”
On Friday, February 24, MP Parm Bains (Steveston-Richmond East) announced a grant of up to $1.7M to the City of New Westminster through Public Safety Canada’s “Building Safer Communities” fund, designed to prevent gun and gang violence. Dan’s Legacy has been contracted to provide trauma informed counselling and work experience opportunities through its new “Dan’s […]
Child & Youth Mental Health and Substance Use (CYMHSU) Conference
On Friday, May 13, 2022, Dan’s Legacy had the opportunity to bring our Program Director, Tom Littlewood to speak at the 7th Annual CYMHSU Conference in Vancouver. The audience was comprised of family physicians, specialists, pediatricians, representatives from the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) and the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, as […]