A lot is happening for MSTH in the province of Quebec!

Since the beginning of September, we now have a Francophone Facebook group to connect with our French-speaking families. We also worked hard to get some of the MSTH website pages translated, so French-speakers who are not comfortable with English can easily access the information on our site, join the organization and become advocates. We had two Zoom meetings with some of our families, in order to exchange and to get to know each other better. Some families who have lost a loved one, some families with someone suffering with Substance Use Disorder. The conversations did a lot of good for many of us, since we now feel that we are connected, feel less isolated and are there for one another. This will eventually become our Healing Hearts and Holding Hope support groups. As for now, we are keeping it quite informal, since we only have 155 members and only a dozen or so who participated in the Zoom. However, we will continue to recruit members and will search for good group leaders who are willing to get involved in leading our support groups.

Our next tasks will be:

to recruit new members from the province,
to have advocates from everywhere in the province joining in our mission,
to help with the national petition to the MPs,
to network with families from outside of the Montreal Metro area,
to continue with the translation of the website (we found two wonderful and amazing translators from Rhizome Translation who are doing an amazing job!),
to support our other board members from western Canada and Ontario in their respective tasks,
to research and list the different resources for treatment and for families and condense them into a resources guide,
to hold a white crosses photoshoot in the spring of 2021.

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Voilà! We are evolving and becoming stronger together, d’un océan à l’autre!