The HeroWork Society helps non-profits renovate community infrastructure at a fraction of the normal cost and time—with modern-day versions of an old-fashioned barn-raising
When Victoria’s Threshold Housing Society received the donation of a $725,000 four-unit apartment building to help house homeless youth, they turned to renovations phenom Paul Latour and his ground-breaking HeroWork initiative for help. The building, located on Davie Street in the South Jubilee neighbourhood, could house up to 8 youth, but needed to be brought up to code, furnished and made user-ready.
After two decades of helping clients battle addiction, Mike Pond, a successful therapist, succumbs to one himself. He loses everything and ends up destitute in a rundown recovery home populated by a cast of characters straight out of Dickens.
“There’s no doubt people are becoming increasingly passionate about buying local, in-season food and locally produced goods,” says Elizabeth Quinn, executive director at the 
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In Canada, one-in-five people experience a mental illness in their lifetime. However, it is young Canadians that suffer the most, with 75% of mental health problems and illnesses beginning prior to the age of 25, and more than 50% beginning between the ages of 11 and 25.