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LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Congratulations! September 2011 A Message from the Premier As Premier of the Province of British Columbia, I am pleased to congratulate everyone involved with The Kettle Friendship Society as you celebrate the 35 th Anniversary of supporting people living with mental illnesses. Here’s to 35 years of making a difference. PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Shane Simpson, MLA Vancouver-Hastings www.shanesimpson.ca I understand the organization started off with a small group of concerned individuals and now your mission and your work is supported by a much larger group of people, including a Board of Directors, staff, volunteers and citizens who work together to ensure social, recreational and life skills programs are in place to help people with mental illnesses lead healthier lives. I commend you for your efforts and dedication and wish you all the best in the years ahead. Sincerely, Christy Clark Premier The Kele shows its appreciaon to its funders at the 2011 Making a Dierence Luncheon Province of British Columbia Office of the Premier www.gov.bc.ca PO Box 9041 Stn Prov Gov Victoria BC V8W 9E1
November 18, 2011 Dear Friends at the Kele Friendship Society, Happy 35th Anniversary! For over 3 decades, I’ve known of the excellent work of The Kele and think that it is an ideal community agency. Time and again, The Kele has demonstrated its leadership in building community capacity. It has comprehensive knowledge of the challenges of mental illness and empowers consumers to cope with them. It builds up self -esteem, and supports people in their journey. The Kele has helped many individuals and their families over the past 35 years and in so doing has made our community profoundly beer o. The experse, dedicaon and commitment of The Kele has enriched, and transformed, lives and created a stronger community by helping to remove the sgma around mental illness. Thank you to all the sta, volunteers, parcipants and partners of The Kele for their valuable work, and I wish you all the best for connued success. Sincerely, Libby Libby Davies, MP (Vancouver East) 2412 Main Street Vancouver, BC V5T 3E2 Phone: 604 775 5800 Fax: 604 775 5811 Email: daviel.c1@parl.gc.ca Web: www.libbydavies.ca The Kele has had a long and strong relaonship with Vancouver Community Mental Health Services (VCMHS), formally Greater Vancouver Mental Health Services. Looking back, what stands out is that The Kele was the original "Lile Agency That Could", one of the mainstays among the smaller agencies contracted with VCMHS (previously GVMHS) since the 1980s. They worked out of an old storefront on Commercial Drive, oering services to anyone in need, giving help to people with major challenges. Oen a last resort for some people, helping those whom other agencies turned away, the Kele was always about the basics – helping feed people, giving them support and housing, and advocang for their rights. Over the years The Kele has grown in size, but has never lost its focus on the individual. Always exceponally strong advocates for the needs of women, it was The Kele’s persistence that resulted in funding being made available fourteen years ago for Peggy's Place – the only transional house focused on housing women who have mental health issues and are oen refused by other transion houses. The Kele pioneered a program allowing medicaon delivery and monitoring to mental health clients who want to live in their own homes. This remains the only program of its type in VCH, helping people maintain their individuality in their own community rather than facing hospitalizaon. The Kele oers two other programs: a Resources Centre ( the original service), where people can go for food, showers and engagement in a range of acvies which build a sense of community and cizenship, and an advocacy program which helps people access entlements such as nancial benets to housing and to problem solve through mulple daily issues from debt to childcare. The Kele’s Leadership Team provides strong leadership, vision, and dedicaon to the people it serves as well as to the maintenance of The Kele and its programs Congrats on your 35th Anniversary! On behalf of all the people who have received service, thank you! Lorna Howes and Kim Calsaferri Vancouver Coastal Health
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Page 38: My Rebellion I march to my own beat
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