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CTC Program Changing Lives

Photo (from left to right): Donna Litwin-Makey (Executive Director of the Children’s Treatment Centre), Joey Demars (Life Links Participant), Rick Nicholls (MPP for Chatham-Essex), Christian Picard (Past Life Links client and current advocate).
Photo (from left to right): Donna Litwin-Makey (Executive Director of the Children’s Treatment Centre), Joey Demars (Life Links Participant), Rick Nicholls (MPP for Chatham-Essex), Christian Picard (Past Life Links client and current advocate).

The Chatham-Kent Children’s Treatment Centre is getting more than $280,000 to expand its Life Links program, courtesy of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

The initiative was set up in a pilot format and aims to help people transition from teenagers into adult hood.

Cristian Picard says the program is life changing.”How’s helped me?  How hasn’t it?  that’s the better question.  The answer is there is no way in which it hasn’t helped me,” Picard says. “When I was a kid I had no drive, no ambition.”

 

No Pickard is a comedian, an advocate and a speaker on behalf of the treatment centre.