Resilience Rising: A CFS Counselling + Wellbeing & United Way Simcoe Muskoka Podcast

Guest: Mina Fayez-Bahgat – General Manager, Social & Community Services Division, County of Simcoe

As the World Health Organization says: When communities adopt empowerment processes, their people – e…

Guest: Jenna Wickens – MatureMinds Coordinator, CFS Counselling + Wellbeing

More than 9,000 older adults in Simcoe County are living in poverty – with those living alone more vulnerable than those liv…

Guest: Tracy Johnson – Director of Services, Simcoe Muskoka Family Connexions 

There are about 12,000 young people in the care of Ontario’s Children’s Aid Societies. Youth leaving care are more likely…

Guest: Chenoa LaCaille – Registered Social Worker, F.A.C.T.S.

On today’s episode, we travel to the heart of Indigenous resilience, exploring the ongoing journey of reclaiming dignity and self-determin…

Guest: Laura LaChappelle – Program Director, Making Change

Statistics Canada reports 1 in 9 Canadians live in poverty, with racialized groups experiencing higher and longer-lasting rates of poverty th…

Guest: Sophie Grogan – Child and Youth Worker. My Friend’s House Crisis Centre

The Ontario Association of Interval & Transitional Houses has a vision for a province that is safe, equitable and just, f…

Guest: Wil Fuentes – PAR Program Manager, CFS Counselling + Wellbeing

In 2023, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario recognized that gender-based/ intimate-partner violence is an epidemic in On…

Guest: Irena Pozgaj Jones – Director, Child, Youth & Family Coalition of Simcoe County

Intersectionality has become the buzz word describing relative privilege and oppression across the many social id…

Today, we talk to two people who work at organizations that champion collaboration. One heads up a very new grassroots non-profit whose members first came together on Facebook to create a safe and su…

Those experiencing poverty have as much right to quality health care as any other member of our local communities. Two Simcoe County organizations – one in Barrie and the other in Orillia – are worki…

Sometimes we think about poverty strictly in terms of income, without thinking about the impact of not being able to access the necessities of a healthy existence, or the complexities that create bar…

When people talk about the recent pandemic, it tends to be all about the very real medical impact of COVID-19. The silent pandemic that started about 20 years before COVID and began escalating throug…

On this episode, we talk to Noor Siddiqui about her personal story of immigration to Canada and how, after settling in Barrie, she turned her hard-won knowledge about the process into a profession to…

Today, we’re talking to Sarah Tilley of The Gilbert Centre, who works on the front lines of harm reduction among our region’s most vulnerable citizens. Together, we’ll do some myth-busting as we disc…

We’ve all heard about the housing crisis, but is it really more complex than high prices and a lack of inventory? What does it mean to the people who live in our community? What caused the crisis? Is…

If we want to do a podcast about local poverty, we better start by defining what we mean by that simple but complex term. Our guests will share their insights on the impact poverty has on local indiv…

Join CFS Counselling + Wellbeing's Amanda Fellows and United Way Simcoe Muskoka's Brian Shelley for "Resilience Rising," the podcast that shatters poverty myths, sparks optimism and fuels innovative …