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New Leaf team members Laura Sygrove and Rochelle Miller join Teaching Tomorrow Podcast host, Celeste Kirsh, to discuss how we might create a community of care in our schools through mindfulness practices. They speak in this episode about New Leaf’s Curriculum Toolkit, how to orient ourselves in the chaos that is this school year, changing the […]

In a recent survey, New Leaf put out to young people in the Greater Toronto Area, 89% listed “school” as one of their top stressors. With youth spending most of their waking hours in classrooms, this finding hit us hard. After studying the impacts of stress for many years, here’s what we know is true: Students

We’re very proud to announce that New Leaf Foundation is a recent recipient of the Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation! This important funding is designed to help community organizations rebuild and recover from the impacts of COVID-19. Out of the hardship of the past year, our team created some exciting new initiatives

What a year. As I’m sure you’ve all felt in some shape or form, this has been one like no other, and we’ve each been called upon to adapt, sit with the unknown, and tap into our inner reserves of patience and fortitude. Within New Leaf, we have faced pandemic-related challenges that include a significant decrease

May is Mental Health Awareness Month!⠀ ⠀ High levels of stress, trauma and grief are mental health issues being experienced by so many right now. We’re living through a global pandemic, more isolated from loved ones and experiencing loss, grief and loneliness that often comes with that. We’re witnessing systemic violence and injustice in our communities

It’s officially spring, and we are officially inspired. Our theme this season is community. It takes a community to support youth. It takes a community to build a strong organization. And it takes a community to gather the resources to make all of this happen. Read on about exciting initiatives that are underway! Supporting communities to

New Leaf has recently launched a mindfulness-based curriculum toolkit aimed to support schools during the pandemic and beyond, and we’re excited to share more details with you! The last year has created isolation, stress and the need to adapt. It’s not been easy. Like so many, New Leaf has been challenged to re-imagine how we can

As 2020 draws to a close, I wish to extend my heartfelt gratitude for  your ongoing support of New Leaf Foundation. This has been a year of unprecedented challenge and adjustment as we have all been faced with navigating the uncharted waters of a global pandemic.  Nonetheless, we have never been more committed to our mission. Due to

We hope you are keeping as well as can be as we approach these last days of October. Despite a year marked with challenges, including the on-going potential of staff strikes at schools and an emerging pandemic, New Leaf saw some big accomplishments over the last year. From September 2019 to August 2020, we ran 29