Stephanie L. Bowser Social Service Worker IPD

08/30/2026

School-wide strategies to support students with school attendance challenges.
https://sac.ymhc.ngo

08/30/2026

08/30/2026

08/30/2026

Thank You RAAM and Bancroft Family Health Team for hosting a fun game of Baseball to bring Awareness to Overdose Prevention. Yes I did hit the ball and made it around the bases…. Without eating the dirt

04/21/2026

This photo feels like the most honest representation of my life.The river is moving fast, but it’s doing so through ice, snow, and resistance. Nothing here is easy or gentle — yet the water continues forward anyway.Much of my life has looked like this: moving through conditions that were cold, restrictive, and unforgiving, while still having to keep going. Progress didn’t always look neat or calm. Sometimes it meant breaking through, sometimes it meant reshaping what was in the way.The ice and snow matter to this story. They represent long periods of survival — times when things were frozen, delayed, or held in place by systems, circumstances, and expectations that were not designed for care or healing. Change didn’t come all at once. It came slowly, unevenly, and with force where it had to.What you see now is motion, not arrival. The water hasn’t reached calm yet — but it’s no longer stuck. That reflects where I am today. I carry lived experience not as something behind me, but as something that actively shapes how I support others.The exposed rock tells another part of the story. Foundations don’t disappear just because water moves over them. My values — safety, dignity, harm reduction, and peer‑led care — were shaped by what I had to move through. They’re solid, earned, and non‑negotiable.This is why I meet people where they are. I know what it’s like to thaw at your own pace, to move only when the conditions allow, and to need space rather than pressure. I don’t see people as resistant — I see them as surviving until it’s safe to move again.This image reminds me that survival is not passive. It’s active, directional, and deeply intelligent. That’s the perspective I bring with me into this work and into this space.

12/20/2025

www.PSSEO.ca Virtual and Community Peer Support Available see website for more information and self referrals. Peer Support is non clinical lived experience individuals who meet you where you are. We are on the same level. People who just want to chat and have some support during any form of mental health or addiction journey. Let’s walk together and learn from one another. Have an amazing Christmas and Holiday Season