Affirmative Homes Affordable Housing Building Lives for 28 Years One Home, One Job, One Friend at a time Website: https://affirmativeventures.ca Contact: lori@affirmativeventures.ca "Having a mental illness is something you don't wish on anyone else. I had seen visual pictures in televisions that weren't there, and I said I must be crazy. Then the doctors in Windsor, Nova Scotia had said we're going to put him in Dartmouth, We're going to give him a psychiatric evaluation. They kept me at the hospital for about 2 weeks in detox." This testimonial video gives a glimpse into the life of an Affirmative Homes tenant, Daniel Mcphee, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and got involved with Affirmative Ventures through his contacts at the Hospital in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Music By: Music_Beauty and Jay Mayne

Affirmative House Affordable Housing Building Lives for 27 Years One Home, One Job, One Friend at a time "Anxiety attacks were the worst. I had them several times a day at school and it just felt like I was in this endless cycle of... Anxiety. It felt like there was no escaping from it. I couldn't get it under control. I couldn't do anything for myself, I couldn't even make an appointment for myself to go to the doctors." -- Amey This testimonial video gives a glimpse into the life of an Affirmative House tenant, Amey, who was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and got involved with Affirmative Ventures through her contacts at the IWK. To view some of Amey's artwork visit: https://twitter.com/ameycake For more info on Affirmative House visit: http://affirmativeventures.ca/homes Music by: Ashot Danielyan

"Having my life long dream being taken away... I started to become very violent, you know, mad... I was placed under arrest and put into the mental health institution for evaluation and later found out about my diagnosis of being bi-polar"... This promotional video gives a glimpse into the life of a former Affirmative House tenant, Reid Seitz, who got involved with Affirmative Ventures through his contacts at Capital Health. For more information on Affirmative House http://affirmativeventures.ca/homes Building Lives for 25 Years One Home, One Job, One Friend at a time

The return of Yarnell Arsenault By Sherri Borden Colley for CBC News Video/Photo Editing by Robert Short (CBC) Published on August 2nd, 2018 CBC story available at http://cbc.ca/1.4771037 NSCC story available at https://bit.ly/2C5iEAp Visit Hope Cottage at http://hopecottage.ca