COLTYN LIU NAMED COURAGE TO COME BACK AWARD RECIPIENT Look at him now and you’d never believe his story: hit by a steel vendor’s cart in a shopping mall food court as a toddler, slammed aside like a rag doll, suffering traumatic brain injury which left him having to learn to talk, to walk, to […]
TOM TERANISHI NAMED COURAGE TO COME BACK AWARD RECIPIENT by Gerald Haslam Tom was born in 1942 at a wartime internment camp for Japanese-Canadians. He had significant vision issues from birth, which later developed into retinopathy and macular degeneration, undergoing bilateral cataract and corneal transplant surgeries. Today he has about five per cent functional vision
by Gerald Haslam – founding member of Coast Mental Health Foundation, author, past member of The Courage To Come Back Executive Committee Jerome Bouvier received the 2011 Courage To Come Back award in the Addiction category because his friend Ted Kuntz wrote a letter. No, that’s not the whole story, not by a long shot, but
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by Sandra Yuen MacKay, 2013 Courage To Come Back Award Recipient How the Courage To Come Back Mental Health Award Award changed my life Hello my name is Sandra Yuen MacKay. I received the Courage To Come Back award in 2012 in the mental health category. I struggled with mental illness for many years. Tormented
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