August 23, 2014 - Leave a commentThose familiar with The Kellan Group know that we are not just a small business but in fact we are family firm. We always have been.Founded by Sandra Hoskins and supported by her daughter Shirley Robert, we have continued for over 20 years to be a Project Management firm that provided quality and customer driven Project Management solutions. We have always been supported by family as we worked together to a common goal and count among our achievements helping to set the Masters of Project Management curriculum at the University of Wisconsin, developing courses for Red River College in Winnipeg and the countless number of customers we have helped along the way to succeed in their goals.Of course one of the downsides of being a family firm is when a crisis happens within the family it affects all of us. We experienced a situation like this when in July 2012 we lost one of our biggest supporters, Sandra's mother, and thus Shirley's grandmother, Grace Young.It's what we would in the project management world would term a showstopper
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Turning Leaf (Inc.) is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to providing crisis and treatment services to those experiencing intellectual challenge and mental illness.These services are made up of caring, skilled community members.These Turning Leaf community members are dedicated to helping those experiencing intellectual challenge and mental illness. They are also deeply committed to working with the participant in addressing the seemingly insurmountable obstacles that those experiencing intellectual challenge and/or mental illness face every day: discrimination, poverty, stigm,a isolation, loneliness.Introducing the Fallen Leaf FundThe Fallen Leaf Fund is a fund established by Turning Leaf (Inc.) in 2012 designed to raise money to ensure critical services – crisis counselling, safe housing for women at risk, and addictions treatment – can be provided to those living with mental illness and intellectual challenge. The recipients of these services are often those who have fallen through the cracks in our system.Donovan is a perfect example of someone falling through the cracks.Donovan was born in Winkler, Manitoba to proud parents
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