Green Wood Coalition
  • Home
  • About
    • Contact
    • Mission and Values
    • 2021 Annual Report
    • What We Do
    • Leadership Team
    • Get Involved >
      • Member Opportunities
      • Employment Opportunities
      • Student Placement
    • History >
      • 2021 Annual Report
      • 2020 Annual Report
      • 2019 Annual Report
    • Videos
    • Photos >
      • Making a Difference Series
    • Media
  • Upcoming Events
    • Community 101
  • Donate
    • THANK YOU
  • NEWSLETTER
    • Resources
​GREEN WOOD COALITION​
uses a radically inclusive, community model of caring to 
walk alongside people living with  poverty,  mental or
physical illness, drug dependency, or disability
in Northumberland County. 
By focusing on what's strong, not what's wrong, we work for
positive change that leaves no one behind.



​Green Wood Coalition is supported by ​our generous individual donors,
as well as Cameco Corporation and the Municipality of Port Hope.
​Registered Canadian Charity: 835935263RR0001










Making a Difference

12/23/2018

 
Picture

​Making a Difference is a new series of personal stories by members of the Green Wood Coalition community.Thank you to Victoria Hepburn for sharing her story, and to filmmaker, Rob Quartly, for capturing it so artfully.


Click here to watch the video.
—— 
By meeting a person where they are, Green Wood’s free, inclusive, Art Hive makes a difference in a life by offering studio time that supports art, healing and social connections. 
—--
You can make a difference by donating to support Green Wood’s work in Northumberland County. Click on the Donate tab above.
​

Making a Difference

12/16/2018

 
Picture

​I don’t really think of myself as being a great artist even though I’ve liked art since I was a kid. Maybe growing up I fell out of it because I didn’t think I was any good, so I got discouraged and had a bit of low self-esteem.

But one of the things about the Art Group is that it introduced me to the idea that there’s an artistic part of you – and it doesn’t really matter if you’re a Picasso or a Da Vinci or whatever great artist you think of, you can just engage with it, and it allows you to see things in a different way or to bring things to light you didn’t know were there. Maybe it’s just a nice distraction if you’re having a rough day or if you just want to have a little fun.

Art is freeing because you can express yourself without having to care so much about the rules and what other people think in society where there are always so many rules to follow. You can just explore, experiment and sort of free yourself.

​At first I guess it was a bit of challenge to go to the art group because, having social anxiety, being in a social setting can make me anxious and nervous. So that, for me, was the barrier to cross. But, like most things, the more you do it the easier it becomes. 
--Jordan Appleman
----
Making a Difference is a new series of personal stories by members of the Green Wood Coalition community. Green Wood's weekly Art Hive makes a difference in a life through using the varied languages of the arts to act as a safe bridge out of isolation, to connection.
----
You can make a difference by donating to Support Green Wood’s work in Northumberland County. Click on the Donate tab above.
📷: Jeannette Breward Photography

Making a Difference

12/8/2018

 
Picture
​
When I was 10, I looked at my ‘Poppa’ and said, things have to change today. I want to be better than this. I want to make a difference. And my Poppa looked up at the sky and said, Well, kiddo, I have something to tell you, there’s your limit. The sky’s the limit, and don’t forget it. I thought, OK, I can do this. I can make a difference in life and try to make somebody else’s days better, even if I’m having a shitty day. And then it was the drugs, so then it was back to being shitty. I didn’t think I’d ever do it, but I was 28, and I said, enough’s enough. I went back to school to get my Grade 12. I don’t know how I got it. I don’t have a clue. I told all the teachers, listen, if I don’t graduate by the time I’m 30, I’m done. Finished. The way I see it, the way I rose above the bullshit, from growing up with violence in the house, the way I said I never wanted to treat people like my family treated me, That was the 'pre' girl. Where I’m at now is in the middle. I want to become a developmental social worker to work with the developmentally challenged because they have a right to reach out and know the sky’s the limit. I’ve been judged my whole life, and I feel like people judge them. A few times at the Green Wood dinner, I’ve sat at the back table and just watched. There could be somebody that gets all nicely dressed, they could be homeless. We don’t know. They could be in hard core addiction. We don’t know. We don’t know their story. 
--Cheryl Scott
---

Making a Difference is a new series of personal stories by members of the Green Wood Coalition community. By meeting a person where they are and building community through weekly Community Dinners, Green Wood makes a difference in a life. 
---
You can make a difference by donating to Support Green Wood’s work in Northumberland County. Click here: Donate to Green Wood

📷: Jeannette Breward

Community Hive Opens

12/2/2018

 
Picture

Kaye Torrie, Chair of Green Wood Coalition Board, cuts the ribbon, this afternoon, to officially open our new Community Hive in Port Hope. As we begin a new chapter, we have immense gratitude for everyone who has carried us this far. If you didn’t make it out today, we’d be happy to arrange a tour. 
[L-R Nicole Whitmore, Celia McBride, Victoria Hepburn, David Sheffield, Graeme Lawson, Kaye Torrie] 
📷 credit: Nicole Beatty 

Making a Difference

12/1/2018

 
Picture

​Thank you to Graeme Lawson for sharing his story, and to filmmaker, Rob Quartly, for capturing it so artfully.Click here: Graeme's Story
—— 
Making a Difference is a new series of personal stories by members of the Green Wood Coalition community. Green Wood’s free, inclusive, Art Hive makes a difference in a life by offering studio time that supports art, healing and social connections. 
—--
You can make a difference by donating to Support Green Wood’s work in Northumberland County. Click here: Donate to Green Wood
📷: Jeannette Breward

    Archives

    November 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • About
    • Contact
    • Mission and Values
    • 2021 Annual Report
    • What We Do
    • Leadership Team
    • Get Involved >
      • Member Opportunities
      • Employment Opportunities
      • Student Placement
    • History >
      • 2021 Annual Report
      • 2020 Annual Report
      • 2019 Annual Report
    • Videos
    • Photos >
      • Making a Difference Series
    • Media
  • Upcoming Events
    • Community 101
  • Donate
    • THANK YOU
  • NEWSLETTER
    • Resources