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At Educate and Thrive our mission is to prioritize physical and mental health while helping individuals unlock their full potential by creating accessible learning and living for those in the community.
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The co-founders have experienced a multitude of different barriers when it comes to education. From missing deadlines because of paralyzing anxiety and missing classes because they were often ill to leaving school and being unemployable. Leaving school due to an injury that makes it hard to stand for long hours and having so few human rights jobs in Cornwall that they can't get hired the two decided it was time to take action. Combining their life, school, and work experience they created Educate and Thrive.
Our Staff has volunteered with the Special Olympics and Autism Ontario, completed a coop at the Sexual Assualt Support Service Center (SASS), has been doing some form of respite since age 14, began the Access Carleton Disability Club, worked for Carleton Disability Awareness Center, and is in the process of completing a bachelor of arts in human rights with a double minor in women and gender studies and law with Carleton University
One of our founders has trained with Powell School of Dance (PSOD) since age five, joining the competition team at age 12, completing both the assistant and teaching program with the Associated Dance Arts for Professional Teachers (ADAPT), was a volunteer for the Ballerina Dreams Program at PSOD, has been an assistant and was a teacher at PSOD and will be working on completing her bachelor of fine arts in dance with a specialization in choreography and performance with York University.
The two met at CCVS when they were 12 and quickly became friends and by the end of grade 12 were voted best gal pals. Their friendship stayed strong throughout university despite living in different cities. That was until they moved in together due to personal circumstances and during job searches, they both had shared the thought that they could use their skills to create a business. They then began discussing what they could each bring to the table and what values they hold.
The co-founders have experienced their share of inaccessiblitites, and have had experience with disabilities throughout their lives. This is one of the many things that encouraged them to found Educate and Thrive. A big help in this process is their families who either have done or still do a lot of freelance work, Learning and bouncing ideas off of them to put together what we created today.
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