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Catholic Family Services Peel-Dufferin (CFSPD) is a multi-service counselling agency that has been providing services in the region of Peel since1981.Our mandate is to strengthen families and help stop family violence.We are an accredited organization with Family Services Ontario and a member agency of Catholic Charities. Agency services are available to individuals who are struggling with problems such as depression, anxiety, grief and other life stressors; families who are experiencing marital difficulties, parent-child conflict, developmental transitions and cultural adjustments.

PLASP Child Care Services has built a solid reputation as an excellent provider of Before and After School programs as well as Early Learning and Child Care. A not-for-profit, community based, charitable organization, PLASP provides care and early learning to more than 10,000 children from 7,300 families annually.

Patrick was born in about 385 A.D. in Roman Britain. His father was a Roman official.His name was Calpornius, and Patrick's mother's name was Concessa.Patrick was taken from his home by pirates and sold as a slave to Miliucc, who put him to work tending the sheep and swine on Slemish mountain in County Down, Ireland.Six years later he escaped to France and thence to Italy.He studied and was ordained as a priest, and in 432 A.D. he arrived back in Ireland as a bishop.Over the course of the next 29 years, he traveled the country, confronting kings and druids, and converting the people of Ireland to Christianity.When he died on March 17, 461 A.D., he had succeeded in his mission. The conversion of the people of Ireland was one of the most peaceful missions of the Catholic church. There were no martyrs (they came later). The church that he established there was to survive to this day, through much suffering and persecution.Many missionaries have gone out from Ireland over the