NEWS RELEASE
PORCHLIGHT COUNSELLING AND ADDICTION SERVICES
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Porchlight Counselling and Addiction Services is moving from its office on Walnut Street this week, where the charity has been based for over 20 years, and reopening at a new, fully accessible, and larger office on Bishop Street in Cambridge.
Porchlight is a charity which has served Cambridge and North Dumfries by providing accessible counselling, addiction, and other mental health services since it was founded in 1940. Last year, it provided services to over 3000 individuals in Cambridge and North Dumfries, with the need for its services only growing.
“Earlier this year, we were able to move Ancora House, our women’s addiction recovery home, into a new, larger, house within the community, allowing us to expand from 6 to 10 beds. Now we are excited to move into our new counselling centre on Bishop Street, where we will more than double the number of rooms we have available for counselling,” said Cameron Dearlove, Porchlight’s Executive Director.
Dearlove continued, “More people have been reaching out for help than we could accommodate in our old spaces, especially since the pandemic. Expanded services are desperately needed, and we plan to continue growing to meet our community’s mental health and addictions needs.”
Porchlight’s services are funded by various levels of government, public and private grants, and generous donations from corporations and individual donors.
“We are so fortunate to receive the trust and support of our community. We know more needs to be done, and we hope the community will come along with us as we work towards a community where mental health and addiction supports are available, accessible, and destigmatized,” Dearlove said.
Porchlight’s legacy office, at 18 Walnut Street, will close for the last time on Wednesday June 19th . Its new office, at 203-1315 Bishop Stress North, will open on June 24th . Programs taking place in other spaces will not be impacted. Porchlight is holding an open house, which the public is invited to, at its new office on June 26th, with details available on their website at www.porchlightcnd.org.
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