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    Youth Mind highlights youth initiatives: Philemon Wright High School’s Peer Support Group

    Featuring Academic Counsellor Katie Clow and Philemon Wright High School’s Peer Support Group A message from Katie Clow on Philemon Wright High School’s Peer Support Group My name is Katie Clow and I am an Academic Counsellor at Philemon Wright High School, in Gatineau, Quebec. At the beginning of the school year, students were invited to participate in a Stone Circle through Mindshift. During these conversations with youth from across North America, my students identified a common theme: having a space to come together and support each other. And thus, our Peer Support Group was born.  In partnership with Connexions Resource Center, a local non-profit that links the Anglophone community…