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Paula Weaver had to take a moment to let a substantial blessing sink in. The 1988 social work<\/a> graduate of Eastern Mennonite University had just heard that her agency was the winner of the top award from a local organization called 100 Women Who Care<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Weaver\u2019s non-profit organization, called Archway Counselling Association<\/a>, received $17,300 during the awards event in Truro, Nova Scotia, on Dec. 2. Weaver is a therapist there and her husband, Brian Schrock, also a 1988 EMU social work graduate, is the executive director.<\/p>\n

More than 400 women from Truro and the surrounding Colchester County heard Weaver describe the work of her agency, which offers professional counseling for families, couples and individuals at reduced and affordable prices. It also offers a drop-in center for youth, called Slate.<\/p>\n

The agency, founded by local citizens 21 years ago, now employs eight people and has two satellite offices. They receive referrals from physicians, schools, clergy, the government\u2019s Victim Services and Children\u2019s Aid, and others. Weaver and Schrock were hired to help with the start up.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of us go through life unfazed,\u201d Weaver told the women. \u201cWe all have or will have to deal with something. Often, these moments catch us off guard. To have a safe place to land is almost always imperative in surviving and in regaining our solid footing.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of her speech, Weaver read from a letter her agency received the day before: \u201cWithout Archway and the option of reduced rates, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to get the help I needed. You have given me life skills that I needed and the confidence to lead a fuller, happier life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weaver and Schrock dated their senior year at EMU but went their separate ways after graduation. Schrock and a friend rode their bicycles all the way home to Colorado. Weaver and a friend drove to Boston to find jobs in social work.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first job was doing child-protection work in a tough part of the city,\u201d said Weaver. \u201cThat experience was life-changing, both professionally and personally. While I was overwhelmed at times in the new culture, I felt confident in my abilities and my EMU training.\u201d<\/p>\n

After two years, Weaver went to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, to earn a master\u2019s degree in clinical social work. After graduation, she and Schrock married and moved to Philadelphia. Schrock enrolled in a master of social work program at Bryn Mawr College, and Weaver took a job at Philadelphia Hospital as director of a drug and alcohol program.<\/p>\n

When Schrock finished his master\u2019s degree, the couple decided to take a volunteer assignment somewhere in the world. Mennonite Central Committee had an opening in Nova Scotia, where a board had been organized to establish a counseling center that would be affordable and accessible to all. They were looking for therapists and a director.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m embarrassed to say that we had to look up Nova Scotia on the map,\u201d Weaver said, \u201cto confirm where we thought it was \u2013 above Maine, in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple helped get the center up and running. When their two-year MCC term ended, they extended it for six months and then another six months. \u201cWe joke that this was our Gilligan\u2019s Island,\u201d Weaver said, referring to a TV comedy that appeared in the late 1960s. Two decades after their first two-year stint, they are still on the island-like peninsula of Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n

Weaver and Schrock sometimes talk about returning to the United States. \u201cI look up real estate listings in our home states of Colorado and Pennsylvania,\u201d Weaver said. Meanwhile they have three children \u2013 ages 15, 13, 11 \u2013 who consider themselves Canadian. When the family watches the Olympics or World Cup soccer, the parents cheer for the United States and the children for Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cNova Scotia is beautiful, and I have become quite attached to the sight and sound of the ocean, along with the wonderful landscape of trees and rocks,\u201d said Weaver. \u201cI take for granted whale and moose sightings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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