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Employee profile: Katherine Bouchard, Director of Communications and Financing

The Foundation totals four employees, all women. They mix youth and wisdom, spontaneity and reflection in the development of a new kind of therapy. That is, wilderness therapy.
Read on the other three employees: Héléna, Joanne and Annick.
Katherine is the latest addition to the previous three. Friend and volunteer of the On the Tip of Toes […]

08 July 2007 | Katherine Bouchard § Foundation ‡ Comments (0)

Employee profile: Joanne Tremblay, Administrative Assistant

The Foundation comprises four employees, all women. They are a mix of youth and wisdom, spontaneity and perseverance towards the development of a new perception of therapy, that of therapeutic adventure.
Read about the other three employees: Annick, Héléna and Katherine.
Joanne joined the ranks of the Foundation in 2004, after many years as an Executive Secretary […]

03 July 2007 | Katherine Bouchard § Foundation ‡ Comments (0)

Employee profile: Annick Dufresne, Director

The Foundation comprises four employees, all women. They are a mix of youth and wisdom, spontaneity and perseverance towards the development of a new perception of therapy, that of therapeutic adventure.
Read about the other three employees: Héléna, Joanne and Katherine.
Cofounder of the Foundation, the Montreal-born 32 year old is one of the first generation of […]

03 July 2007 | Katherine Bouchard § Foundation ‡ Comments (0)

Employee profile: Héléna Longpré, Operations Director

The Foundation comprises four employees, all women. They are a mix of youth and wisdom, spontaneity and perseverance towards the development of a new perception of therapy, that of therapeutic adventure.
Read about the other three employees: Annick, Joanne and Katherine.
HĂ©lĂ©na joined the Foundation in 2003, when the organization was having a growth spurt. Having graduated […]

03 July 2007 | Katherine Bouchard § Foundation ‡ Comments (0)

Five Years of Cancer Remission Is…

Émilie receives bone marrow from an anonymous donor in 2002 at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

This month, she returned to see Doctor Mitchell at the Montreal’s Children to celebrate five years since her bone marrow transplant.
Émilie Van Winden was diagnosed with leukemia in 1999. A seven year battle ensues: multiple chemos, in 2002 her cancer comes […]

26 June 2007 | Kim Gjerstad § Yukon 2007 ‡ Comments (0)

Meet the Man Who Started the Shave-O-Thon

Dominique and RĂ©jean, in front of their house in Saguenay, who’s daughter went on an expedition with the Foundation On The Tips of the Toes in 2000.
My father, Ole Gjerstad, directed “Larger than Life”, a documentary that followed one of the Foundation’s expeditions in 2000. In it, we meet a few of the teenagers, notably […]

10 May 2007 | Kim Gjerstad § Shave-O-Thon ‡ Comments (0)

Marjolaine Changes Her Hair Colour to Raise Money for the Shave-O-Thon

Marjolaine’s campaign poster. She has already surpassed her objective of $5000 and… has pink hair.
Marjolaine Doucet from Dolbeau-Mistassini runs a colourful campaign. For every $1000 she raises, she changes her hair colour.
Her campaign is so successful that she even skipped a colour. “I went from 2000 to 3000 overnight!” A blessing since she suffered from […]

26 April 2007 | Kim Gjerstad § Shave-O-Thon ‡ Comments (0)

Yukon 2007: video presentation of team members

On the 8th of March, I asked the dozen young men and women from the expedition to present themselves. Here they are in French and English for souvenir’s sake.
Their names (not in order of video presentation):
Anthony (MontrĂ©al), Maryo-Alexandre (MontrĂ©al), Delson (Laurentides), Émilie (Ottawa), Paul (MontrĂ©al), Camille (St-RĂ©dempteur), Keven (St-Marc-des-Carrières), Marika (St-Basile), Dominic (Belcourt-Abitibi), Hilary (Monction), […]

13 March 2007 | Kim Gjerstad § Yukon 2007 § Video ‡ Comments (0)

Dominic & Anthony: happy birthday!

Dominic from Abitibi (Québec) and Anthony from Montreal both celebrated their birthdays with us yesterday. The former turns 22, the latter 17.
Cheese cake was served in a yurt in the middle of nowhere. I ate three pieces myself: two for desert, one for breakfast.

11 March 2007 | Kim Gjerstad § Yukon 2007 ‡ Comments (0)

The Older Folks That Will Take Part in the Yukon Expedition

Here are the fine adults that will be part of the trip.
Left to right:
Martin, docteur - Montréal
Héléna, coordonnatrice de projets - Chicoutimi
Annick, directrice générale - Montréal-Chicoutimi
Kim, photo/blog - Montréal
Bertrand, psychoéducateur - Montréal
Louise aka Loulou*, conseil d’administration - Montréal

24 February 2007 | Kim Gjerstad § Yukon 2007 ‡ Comments (0)

Yukon Expedition 2007 Team Members

Preparation meeting with some of the team members at Montreal’s Children Hospital last February 9th.
Gauche Ă droite - Left to right:
Anthony - Montréal
Maryo-Alexandre - Montréal
Alexandre (will not come)
Delson - Montréal
Émilie - Montréal
Paul - Montréal
Camille - Québec
Kevin (QuĂ©bec), Marika (MontrĂ©al), Dominic (MontrĂ©al), Hilary (Nouveau-Brunswick), Kaitlin (Nouvelle-Écosse) et Serge (Pembrooke) are not present in the […]

24 February 2007 | Kim Gjerstad § Yukon 2007 ‡ Comments (0)

Kim Gjerstad, The Editor of This Blog

Kim with mom, longtime ago.
Let’s begin with an introduction so you know who is behind this blog. Born in California from a Norwegian father and a French Canadian mother, I’m now 28 years old. Starting last week, I’m the editor of this blog. And quite happy about the position because working with the Foundation is, […]

23 February 2007 | Kim Gjerstad § ‡ Comments (0)