Lethbridge Family Services receives $18,000 from Bell Canada
LETHBRIDGE – Bell Canada’s “Let’s Talk Community Fund” is donating $18,000 to Lethbridge Family Services, for two programs aimed at helping girls mainly between the ages of 13 and 17 who have experienced mental health issues, and sexual or emotional abuse.
“These groups will help young teens and young women to come together, to heal from their wounds and just to even explore what mental health is, what is trauma, those kinds of things,” says LFS Director of Counselling, Outreach and Education, Lisa Lewis.
Lewis says the first therapy group session, which will begin next week, is called “Take Back your World.”
“It’s for teens from 13 to 17 who’ve experienced abuse. That could be sexual abuse, physical abuse, financial abuse, emotional abuse from a family member or a friend, or bullying at school – and who also have a mental health issue.”