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Imagine telling your children on their 19th birthdays that they must leave the family home, will receive no more financial or emotional support, and are on their own to figure out how to make money or go to school. That is the reality for 700 youths every year in B.C. — foster children raised by the Ministry for Children and Families who, on their 19th birthdays, lose all the supports on which they had come to rely.

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“I was actively trying to figure out how to help him,” said Heather Thompson of her son’s tragic battle with schizophrenia, a day after the SIU cleared Toronto police in his death.”

His name was Ian Pryce. Before schizophrenia took hold — making him deeply suspicious of his family and police, sending him to psychiatric institutions and eventually, the street — Pryce was a sensitive young man who loved music and played hockey.  Read the rest of this story at The Toronto Star…

It’s 9 a.m. on a Tuesday morning at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and 10 medical students sit around a conference table covered by coffee cups and clipboards. Preparing to start their morning rounds, the students chat about what they watched on television the night before. “Jerry’s girlfriend doesn’t like George,” third-year student Marlene Wang says, referring to the iconic 1990s sitcom “Seinfeld.” “And he just couldn’t live with the idea of this person not liking him.”  Read the rest of this story at NJ.com…

TORONTO — As a yoga devotee and founder of her own studio, Linda Malone is sharing her passion for the practice through a special program dedicated to helping people living with mental illness. Malone is the director of the Blu Matter Project, a not-for-profit organization acting as a bridge between its ambassador yoga studios and individuals living with depression and/or bipolar disorder.  Read the rest of this story at CTV News…