{"id":41415,"date":"2024-11-25T15:12:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T20:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/?p=41415"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:07:48","slug":"simple-plan-foundation-20000-for-portage-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/simple-plan-foundation-20000-for-portage-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Plan Foundation: $20,000 for Portage youth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p class=\"lead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simpleplanfoundation.org\/home\">The Simple Plan Foundation<\/a> held a press conference on November 22<sup>nd<\/sup> to announce the amounts donated to various organizations supporting at-risk youth, including the Portage Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the band members for their generous $20,000 donation, which will allow us to continue the music program-an enrichment activity vital to the therapeutic process for teenagers and young adults struggling with addiction. Thanks to the Simple Plan Foundation&#8217;s support over the past 15 years, we have been able to enhance our services by introducing an art therapy component to our residential centres in <a href=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/quebec\/english-adolescent-program\/\">Lac \u00c9cho<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/quebec\/french-adolescent-program-east\/\">Saint-Malachie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To better understand the program&#8217;s impact on young people, here is a testimonial from one teenager: &#8220;When I visited the centre, the music room is what convinced me to come here. The music program gave me long-term goals and renewed my desire to live and achieve them. I discovered a passion that helps me channel my emotions. Music is now part of my life and plays a crucial role in my sobriety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<p>Share the article:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/?p=41415&#038;fl_builder&#038;title=Simple+Plan+Foundation%3A+%2420%2C000+for+Portage+youth\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on Facebook\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&#038;url=https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/?p=41415&#038;fl_builder&#038;title=Simple+Plan+Foundation%3A+%2420%2C000+for+Portage+youth\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on Linkedin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Simple Plan Foundation held a press conference on November 22nd to announce the amounts donated to various organizations supporting at-risk youth, including the Portage Foundation. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the band members for their generous $20,000 donation, which will allow us to continue the music program-an enrichment activity vital&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/simple-plan-foundation-20000-for-portage-youth\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Simple Plan Foundation: $20,000 for Portage youth\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":41413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-quebec-foundation-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42327,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41415\/revisions\/42327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}