Entries by Grace Fontes

Community Groups Are Seriously Underfunded In Quebec

This week, community groups like Face à Face have planned actions across Quebec to bring attention to the chronic underfunding we receive and to highlight how important and necessary our organisations are to the communities in which we work. “We […] want the government to reinvest in public services and social programs, and to recognize the […]

Face à Face’s Annual Benefit Gala – Press Release

Face à Face Listening and Intervention Centre is holding its second Annual Gala on the 28th of October at Zibo! Restaurant in Griffintown, Montreal from 5pm to 8pm where popular bluegrass and folk band trio Old Time Honey will be performing live! On the heels of our last successful Gala, we are striving to make […]

When Stress Takes Over

We have all experienced times when the worst scenarios have formed in our heads. My god is tomorrow already the day of the exam? I have not studied enough, I’ll fail my school year, I’m sure my girlfriend is angry with me, she’ll leave me, or I have a lump on my neck, it could […]

What Do You Want To Do When You Grow Up?

How many of us can say that we knew from a young age what it is that we wanted to grow up to be? How many of us have wanted to become lawyers at 14 years of age and actually became lawyers by 25? Some of us, yes, but for most of us it doesn’t always […]

Community Involvement and Development

What is community development and how can we make our community stronger? Community development is based on a group of people in a community who are willing to initiate social action in order to bring about the desired change that they wish to see happen. Without community development we cannot implement change within our communities. […]

How Volunteering Helped Me Get into Master’s

Some people are born knowing what they want to do when they grow up. I however, was not one of them. I had no idea what I wanted, all I knew was that I had a desire to help people. When I graduated CEGEP, I applied and got accepted into a Bachelor of Psychology. I […]