Many people in our community live with mental illness or acquired brain injury but do not qualify for specific government programs for assistance. We, therefore, strive to fill that void by providing a welcoming, inclusive, and safe environment free of judgment or stigma, where everyone can enjoy a sense of belonging and are supported and treated with kindness and respect. Participants are free to talk openly about feelings and challenges and to seek advice and mutual support in a small group setting that offers understanding and encouragement, knowing that everything is held in confidence and care. Listowel Helping Hands believes that in such a setting, participants can learn skills necessary for healthy, independent living and grow in self-esteem and self-worth.

Listowel Helping Hands is a community effort, relying upon the support of businesses and private individuals for funding. Pease consider supporting this community project through the various church congregations that are hosting our gatherings

Lauren founded Listowel Helping Hands in 2016 with the hopes of providing care and support to those in need. Her passion and drive for this ministry is dear to her heart in so many ways becasue she herself has has dealt with learing dissabilities early on in her life, experienced mental health struggles and has suffered bain injuries in 2006 and again in 2009.
Having lost friends to suicide and seen others in their strugles, Lauren funded Listowel Helping hands out of her own pocket in these first two years and now, with your support, is sucessfully branching out into different communities.