Depression is not new. Itās an ailment that can be traced back to Mesopotamian time when it was called āmelancholia.ā Itās an illness that affects a large portion of the population ā all ages ā in some form or another. Similar to the way someone could suffer...
St. Mary's College in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario was the 3rd consecutive unveiling in as many weeks for The Lucas Fiorella Friendship Bench as we enter our second scholastic year attempting to paint the country yellow for student mental health awareness. . St....
Here at The Lucas Fiorella Friendship Bench, together with our partner schools, weāve been working hard to connect students suffering from stress, anxiety, and/or depression with available on- and off-campus mental health resources. We know that too many students are...
This week our team visited Fletcher's Meadow Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario to officially unveil The Lucas Fiorella Friendship Bench and our #YellowIsForHello campaign. The school's principal, Dana Sheahan, Siobahn Catalano, and the student mental health...
THERE IS GOOD IN PEOPLE, despite what we're seeing through today's media/political lens. We're not all afraid of our neighbours; we do have compassion for fellow human beings. And it seems that now - more than ever - we need to re-connect with this concept and remind...
"Amazon Contributes to Stigma Surrounding Mental Health" Itās the opposite headline from that which we would expect to be seeing about a large corporation today; with so many organizations like Bell Canada going out of their way to help reduce the stigma...
On the occasion of his 8th birthday, young Lucas continued his annual "give back" effort. This year, he asked his family and friends to donate money to the Yellow Is For Hello mental health awareness campaign so that more Friendship Benches and their associated...