The Counselling Centre of East Algoma offers a variety of professional services for:
Funded by the Ministry of Community and Social Services, this program provides advocacy and support to women who have been victims of abuse within their partner relationships. Abuse can be physical, emotional, sexual, and/or financial. The goal of this program is to make our community safer for women and children, while fostering change initiated at the clients pace.
Violence Against Women
Programs available include:
Individual Counselling:
Available to women aged 16+ who are living in, or have lived with abuse within an intimate relationship.
Group Counselling:
“Women For Change” is a 10 week group for women who have experienced abuse within an intimate relationship. Group focuses on education re: abuse as well as hoping to increase the natural supports for participants (co facilitated with staff from Maplegate).
“Creating Connections” is the child witness to domestic violence group and is a partnership between FLC, AFS, Maplegate, CAS & Missauga Women’s Shelter. Our portion of this program is focused on the delivery of the women’s group.
“PAR” is a 16 week group program for men who have been convicted of assault within a partner relationship. Some men are referred as an “Early Intervention” strategy, but must first have plead guilty to the offense in question. The goal of PAR is to ensure the safety of women and children.
Partner Contact:
One of our workers provides the partner contact component of the PAR program, which is intended to reach out to women who have experienced abuse and provide information, referral, safety planning and counselling as accepted by the woman.
Community Lectures:
We are building our capacity to deliver the Neighbours, Friends and Families campaign throughout East Algoma and will begin actively marketing this throughout our area in hopes of delivering as many presentations as possible. This effort is in partnership with Maplegate.
Our VAW counsellor will be offering educational presentations on a regular basis to residents of Maplegate (details yet to be finalized).
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