Un mode de vie sain et actif pour les jeunes au centre de Portage, à Prévost

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About Portage

Grâce au soutien financier du Regroupement Courant-Nord de Québec en Forme, Portage a pu mettre en place un programme en trois volets pour inculquer de saines habitudes de vie à ses résidants adolescents. Depuis l’automne dernier, les usagers profitent d’une programmation qui vise l’alimentation saine, le conditionnement physique et la réduction du tabagisme. Le projet… Read more »

Encouraging the youth at Portage lac Écho to have a healthy and active lifestyle

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About Portage

With the financial support of the Regroupement Courant-Nord de Québec en Forme, Portage has been able to establish a three-part healthy lifestyle program for its adolescent community at Portage Prévost. Since last fall, the program has been teaching residents about physical fitness, healthy eating, and tobacco reduction. The project encourages the youth to take responsibility… Read more »

Portage residents walk for mental health

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About Portage

On Sunday October 14, 2012, over a hundred Portage residents and staff members got together for a mental health awareness walk through the streets of downtown Montréal, organised by several local mental health organisations and presided over by Ms. Margaret Trudeau. Residents and staff members from Portage Beaconsfield, Portage Prévost, and from Portage’s Mother and… Read more »

Portage Beaconsfield residents give back to the community

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At the beginning of October, several Portage Beaconsfield residents and staff members joined a group of volunteers to help revitalise a park in a low-income neighbourhood. This grassroots community project to give the children of Little Burgundy a safe and stimulating playground inspired donations and overwhelming community support. “I did not expect to see this… Read more »

D’ex-toxicomanes sur le marché du travail

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About Portage

TVA Nouvelles Reprendre goût à la vie D’ex-toxicomanes sur le marché du travail Depuis maintenant 25 ans, les ex-toxicomanes peuvent compter sur les conseils de professionnels du programme d’aide à l’emploi du centre Portage à Québec afin de réintégrer le marché du travail. «Avec les années, on a noté que plus le délai est long,… Read more »

Portage to join the Ontario Telemedicine Network

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About Portage

Portage Ontario is among the addiction agencies recently selected to receive new telemedicine equipment and support to link into the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN). This is part of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care’s initiative to address narcotics abuse and to make specialised addiction and mental health services more accessible to people… Read more »

Dear Portage, you helped get Dave back on track

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About Portage

Portage recently received the following letter of appreciation from a foster father who had taken in a graduate from the Portage drug rehabilitation program in Elora a few years ago. It is a heartwarming story that, as he says, “illustrates the underlying strength of the Portage treatment program.” The letter was addressed to Portage Elora’s… Read more »

An inside look into Portage Elora’s social reintegration program

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About Portage

Whether in Guelph, Port Elgin, Ottawa, Kitchener, Toronto, or anywhere else in Ontario, Christy Kolb travels on a weekly basis to meet with the youth who are in Portage Elora’s Continuing Care Program. As a reintegration counsellor, Christy supports graduates of the residential drug rehabilitation program for an eighteen month period, as they transition back… Read more »