ART Rx: Here’s why the Mississauga Arts Council wants to start a ‘social prescription’ pilot in Peel
From depression and concussion recovery to MS, arts have helped Mississauga residents take back their lives Published on The Mississauga News website on October 7, 2021. When Christine Long learned she had multiple sclerosis, it hit very suddenly while she was walking across a parking lot. “It felt like something was tearing inside my brain,” she said, explaining she quickly ended up in hospital unable to use the right side of her body, unable to focus her eyes, sick to her stomach, speechless. “It was pretty frightening,” she said, remembering the long hospital stay and rehabilitation. When released from hospital,… Read More »ART Rx: Here’s why the Mississauga Arts Council wants to start a ‘social prescription’ pilot in Peel