In the News

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

This year Aunt Leah’s hopes to boost their revenue by opening two new tree lots: one in Coquitlam and one in North Vancouver. In addition, they are launching Vancouver’s first online tree lot (auntleahsplace.gostorego.com), where customers can purchase their trees online and have them delivered to their doors or ready for pickup at one of the four locations in the lower mainland. 100 percent of the profits from Aunt Leah’s Christmas Tree Lots go to pay for housing and programs to support vulnerable new moms and other youths who are aging out of the foster-care system.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Graduates and participants from Aunt Leah’s three pre-employment training programs celebrated their achievements on April 6th. Certificates were presented for trainees from the Food Services, Retail and Landscape Maintenance Training Programs. Friends and family of the graduates enjoyed the presentations during dinner. Some of our program funders were present as well—Yves Trudel from United Way of the Lower Mainland and some of our individual donors as well.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

This past year we have incorporated a new program at Aunt Leah’s. LINK Program is a program that enables our part time Transition worker, Joanne Orbeck, to work with all of Aunt Leah’s past youth and moms. Her role with the youth is to assist them with goals that they want to complete since they have aged out of care.