Hey Everyone,

This is Robyn, one of the summer students at the Human Development Council. Adrienne and I are into our third week with HDC now and still having a great time! Due to the ongoing inclimate weather we have been having, we spend most our days couped up in the ole boardroom drinking tea and eating candy. The few sunny days that we have seen we have been able to travel around to meetings for different organizations such as The Canadian Mental Health Association, Coverdale Centre and The United Way. Also, on Thursday of last week Adrienne and I travelled the uptown area passing out pamphlets and posters titled "Surviving the Streets". These provide contact information for many services for example shelters, mental health services, legal services, clothing and food services, addiction services and many more. These pamphlets and posters were distributed all over the uptown area and hopefully will be of use to many people! I really enjoy working with this organization because they do such great work and provide a great service with their online community service database. I think Adrienne and I should spend some time this summer on really getting the public aware of this online database and that it is available to them for FREE!! I really enjoy working with a non-profit organization and it is giving me great experience for a future career. I hope to someday work in the area of addiction services so this job is helping me become familiar with the different organizations that focus on addiction and the people within those organizations. Well it's almost time to go home for the day and I guess I have said enough for now. Thanks for reading our blog and we will keep you updated as our time here at HDC flies by!


Ciao!
~Robyn~