{"id":3273282,"date":"2024-02-15T15:54:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3273282"},"modified":"2024-02-15T15:54:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:54:41","slug":"the-lunchbox-interview-mary-mersereau-larche-fredericton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-interview-mary-mersereau-larche-fredericton","title":{"rendered":"The Lunchbox Interview: Mary Mersereau (L&#8217;Arche Fredericton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"3273284\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-interview-mary-mersereau-larche-fredericton\/attachment\/lunchbox2024larchefredericton\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024LArcheFredericton.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lunchbox2024LArcheFredericton\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024LArcheFredericton-800x800.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024LArcheFredericton-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3273284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024LArcheFredericton-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024LArcheFredericton-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024LArcheFredericton-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024LArcheFredericton-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024LArcheFredericton.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Everyone needs a place to fit in, and there are people looking to create those places.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My guest is <strong>Mary Mersereau<\/strong>, the President and Chair of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larchefredericton.org\/\">L&#8217;Arche Fredericton<\/a><\/strong>, and organization dedicated to providing support and opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities to flourish through friendship, growing a sense of belonging and matching up roles and responsibilities they can take on to contribute to the lives around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary joined me to talk about how this chapter of an international organization came to be in Fredericton, and some of the ways they have been helping their clients and the community work together.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2224\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-02-01%20Mary%20Mersereau%20-%20LArche%20Fredericton.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2224','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-02-01%20Mary%20Mersereau%20-%20LArche%20Fredericton.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a 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My guest is Mary Mersereau, the President and Chair of L&#8217;Arche Fredericton, and organization dedicated to providing support and opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities to flourish through friendship, growing a sense of belonging and matching up roles and<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-interview-mary-mersereau-larche-fredericton\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2226\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-02-01%20Mary%20Mersereau%20-%20LArche%20Fredericton.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2226','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-02-01%20Mary%20Mersereau%20-%20LArche%20Fredericton.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-02-01%20Mary%20Mersereau%20-%20LArche%20Fredericton.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3273282-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-02-01%20Mary%20Mersereau%20-%20LArche%20Fredericton.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2024-02-01%20Mary%20Mersereau%20-%20LArche%20Fredericton.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3273284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[491,567,13373],"class_list":["post-3273282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lunchbox","tag-interview","tag-local","tag-not-for-profit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024LArcheFredericton.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273285,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273282\/revisions\/3273285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3273284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}