WOMEN AND FAMILIES PROGRAM

The goal of the Women and Families Program is to enhance the well-being of families and to provide specific services that are unique to women and families in particular. 

The program provides services that are geared to the family as a unit and targets families with information, programs, and services such as public education on healthy and active living, parenting, cultural sharing and self-empowerment, income security, conflict resolution, etc.

The program provides:

• Interactive group sessions for individual and group cultural sharing, mutual
• support and encouragement, knowledge exchange, and transfer.
• Mutual support and encouragement opportunities.
• Parenting programs.
• Referrals to community resources such as child care, income security,
• employment, and health services.
• Interactive activities such as field trips and community barbeques, physical
• activities, winter clothing drives, etc.
• Volunteer and community engagement opportunities.

The goal of the program is to reduce the incidence of violence and abuse in the African Canadian community. The program provides the following services:

• VAW information, supportive counselling, and referrals to clients experiencing or at risk of abuse.
• Public education workshops on violence and abuse 

Program activities include:

• Drop-in daily one on one supportive counselling, information, and referrals
• to community resources.
• Promotion and targeted outreach to isolated seniors, women, and families.
• Monthly workshops and group sessions.
• Weekly meetings in support groups such as Woman to Woman, Teen
• Moms, and Cool Mums Support Groups.
• Field trips and weekly recreational activities

Clients include women, youth, seniors, men as victims or perpetrators, and children who witness abuse in their homes.