The Plain Truth

Paula Sheppard returned this week as host of The Plain Truth. She started the show by thanking Sarah Parsons, who hosted The Plain Truth for the month of January.Febuary in this province is considered Violence Prevention Month. This week's guest is Allison Caines, Violence Prevention Coordinator with the Corner Brook Status of Women's Council.

"Content Warning", for any of our listeners, this episode we will be discussing Mental Health particularly Suicide, we will be debunking some myths that are out there and also touching on The Assist Program and some resources that are in Corner Brook to help those in need. https://nl.bridgethegapp.ca/

This week host Sarah Parsons, (board member with The Corner Brook Status of Woman's Council) speaks with Corner Brook's own Mark Strickland who's started up an advocacy group called "Recovering Out Loud Newfounland".

On this first edition of " The Plain Truth" in 2025 new host Sarah Parsons (Board member with the Corner Brook Status of Woman's Council) speaks with a couple of guests from Xavier House, Clinical Director, Heather Jenkins and Executive Director and long time advocate Donna Luther who also is a recent recipient of the NL Confederation 75th Medal. On this episode the topic of conversation is the important service provided in the community by Xavier House.

This week's guests are Peter Parsons, Mental Health Promotions Coordinator with Community Mental Health Initiative and Lydia Bennett, a Criminlology student completing her placement with Community Mental Health Initiative. On today's show they talk about some common areas of stress this time of year.

"TRIGGER WARNING"

We are in the middle of the 16 days of activism against gender based violence. Today's show is going to discuss intimate partner violence and brain injuries. So we are issuing a content warning for anyone who might find these topics triggering for someone who has experienced violence or who has been exposed to traumatic events, we want you to take this as an opportunity to either better prepare yourself to engage with this topic or to engage in self care because we know these topics can be difficult.

This Week host Paula Sheppard speaks with Allison Cains, Violence Prevention and SARA Project Coordinator with The Corner Brook Status of Woman Council. On this episode Paula and Allison talk about the 16 Days of Activism.

Friday November 22 is National Housing Day. Host Paula Sheppard's guests this week are a couple of members of the Community Coalition on Housing and Homelessness who are going to help us understand some of the issues related to housing, homelessness and how we bring awareness to some of these issues. Jade Kearley is Inter-Agency Coordinator with Community Mental Health Initiative and Co-Chair for the Community Coalition on Housing and Homelessness and Travis Hulan who is The Manager of Housing with Qalipu First Nation.

This week host Paula Sheppard speaks with Quinn Jesso in her new role as Program Facilitator with Trans Support NL. Internationally Wednesday November 20 is recognized as the Trans-Gender Day of Remembrance.

Movember is a campaign that happens each year at this time, Host Paula Sheppard's guest this week is Todd Minorson, Country Director at Movember Canada. Movember is into it's 19th year in Canada, it the world's largest movement supporting the issues of men's Health.