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Meet one of the families you’ll help through Steps for Life

Meet one of the families you’ll help through Steps for Life

Compassion can change lives. With registration open now for Steps for Life 2024, it’s compassion for Canadian families that is driving walkers, fundraisers, sponsors and donors to get involved. For all the reasons so many people participate in Steps for Life (fun, exercise, networking, prevention), compassion is at the core. We’d like you to meet one of the families you’ll be helping.

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Volunteer Profile: Anton Voronin

Volunteer Profile: Anton Voronin

Community engagement – what does that mean? How does one step into a volunteer role of this nature? Anton Voronin is a Community Engagement Volunteer with Threads of Life, in addition to being one of the Steps for Life planning committee members in Winnipeg. Anton began volunteering with Threads of Life in 2022 and took on the dual roles of planning committee member and Community Engagement Volunteer when he learned more about the organization and the families served, through an invitation from a professional colleague and his own research.

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A mother’s story

A mother’s story

“Larger than life”. That is how most of Colton’s friends andfamily have described him since he unexpectedly left this world. He lived his short life to the fullest and is remembered most for his kind andloyal heart, gentle and dedicated spirit, his fierce love of friends and family, and his larger-than-life attitude and presence.

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Write Me a River – Upcoming workshop with Heidi Hunter

Write Me a River – Upcoming workshop with Heidi Hunter

I extend a warm invitation to a 90-minute workshop, Write Me A River which holds the promise of opening the door to gentle transformation. In this quiet space, we’ll explore the power of constraint, limiting our answers to easy ones. Using playful and curious prompts, we’ll allow currents of sensory writing to flow onto the page. Then we’ll use words as “seeds” for insight.

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Twenty years of hope, healing… and more

Twenty years of hope, healing… and more

by Threads of Life founders Shirley Hickman, Executive Director and Sharon Freeman, Coordinator
When Tim Hickman died in 1996 and Amanda Peat in 2000, there was no support system for our families. Sha-ron and Shirley were connected to each other through the common need to prevent other family members from having to live in similar situations. The seeds of Threads of Life were started while we worked with various government agencies and community organizations. Since then, we’ve come a long way. Where will we be 20 years from now?

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With gratitude

With gratitude

2002 was a chaotic year. I was tossed like a raggedy doll into a world of mayhem and loss when my husband died in a workplace tragedy. My first contact in this unfamiliar world was the supervisor from the Ministry of Labour. Michael walked me through the logistics of the investigation, the court proceedings, and the inquest. He recognized how isolated I felt and invited me to reach out to Shirley Hickman, who was, at the time, working towards establishing an organization that would support victims of workplace tragedies.

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